The Trump administration is recruiting private security firms to conduct federal government-authorized operations, including cyber attacks, against overseas-based criminal organizations that commit hacks on US persons, organizations, or government entities.
In a National Security Presidential Memora...
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MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that the US government has installed along the US-Mexico border.
We found cases of people who walked undetected through areas surveilled by advanced, AI-enabled to...
Earlier this month, the UN announced the planet will tip past 1.5 ˚C of warming, “likely within the next few years,” squashing any lingering hope that nations would cut emissions fast enough to achieve the loftiest goal of the Paris climate agreement.
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Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI disclosed that...