Experts urge immediate changes to prevent rogue AI
More than 200 artificial intelligence and cybersecurity researchers called Tuesday for immediate action to prevent further cases of AI models going rogue and posing a risk to critical infrastructure. The letter signed by luminaries in the field, including Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton and Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio – both seen as godfathers of
Scaleway to build AMD-powered AI supercomputer in Sweden
Scaleway will build an AI supercomputer in Sweden, its first outside France, running on AI chips from AMD, the French cloud company said on Tuesday during its annual AI conference in Paris.AMD chips already power supercomputers used for European research, including LUMI in Finland. US cloud firms including Oracle andVultr also rent AMD chips to
Anthropic says new measures cut Claude model distillation attacks
Anthropic said on Monday new measures designed to prevent rivals from copying the capabilities of its Claude AI models have reduced data harvested in so-called distillation attacks by about 90 per cent to 99 per cent. Model distillation has emerged as a key concern for leading AI companies due to intensifying US-China competition, with firms
Irish Times Group revenue drops 2.5% as it battles AI firms over copyright
The Irish Times Group saw a 2.5% drop in revenues last year to €112.7m, led by a €3.5m fall in its publishing business, along with the winding down of its training business and the disposal of WKW FM trading as Beat FM. The drop was offset by a €3m rise in non-publishing turnover, including revenues
WhatsApp is testing scheduled messages on Android
In the coming days, you may be busy or unable to access your phone, but this WhatsApp feature could make it easier to send messages at the right time. The messaging platform has started rolling out a scheduled messaging feature to select Android beta testers, allowing beta users to write messages in advance and choose
Crypto hardware maker Ledger says wallets drained in latest attack
Crypto hardware maker Ledger SAS said it’s investigating reports that a number of users had seen a “loss of funds” from their wallets, knocking the industry further as attacks continue to pepper a technology once considered impervious to digital theft. The Paris-based company said the information it had gathered to date indicated that affected wallets
Justin Drake, the rresearcher warns about bitcoin security
One of Bitcoin’s biggest drawing powers for enthusiasts is security—particularly its decentralized network—meaning there’s no single point of failure that hackers or authorities can target to shut down trading. But a warning from a researcher for the Ethereum Foundation has launched a debate about whether the cryptocurrency is as safe as believed in the age
Intel and Broadcom CEOs say this will slow down AI and it is not chip shortage
The artificial intelligence boom has been held back by a shortage of chips and power, but the top bosses at Intel and Broadcom are now warning of a new roadblock: cold, hard cash. As tech giants race to build larger AI models and expand their infrastructure, the sheer cost of keeping up could soon become
Norway fines Microsoft’s Xandr US$9.6mil over Grindr data sharing
Norway’s data protection authority has fined Microsoft’s adtech unit Xandr 92 million crowns (US$9.61 million) for unlawfully relaying Grindr users’ sensitive data to thousands of advertisers, it said on Monday. Xandr relayed data revealing the sexual orientation of users of Grindr, a dating app for LGBTQIA+ people, to companies in automated ad auctions from July
Total fire ban for Sydney, with high temperatures and risk of bushfires from ‘dry lightning’
A total fire ban was in place across greater Sydney on Monday with temperatures soaring above 35C in the city’s west. The Bureau of Meteorology said Sydney faced extreme fire danger due to hot, dry conditions and the chance of thunderstorms, with little rainfall. On Monday morning, the bureau said temperatures would be “well above