Technology/Science

Ransomware Criminals are Dumping Kids` Private Files Online After School Hacks

The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric ...

Robots Promise They Won’t Steal Jobs, Rebel Against Humans

Robots presented at an AI forum said on Friday they expected to increase in number and help solve global problems, and that they would not steal humans' jobs or rebel against us. But in the world's ...

The ‘New Abnormal’ of Wildfires and Smoky Skies Beyond California

It was a smell that invoked a memory—both for Emily Kuchlbauer in North Carolina and Ryan Bomba in Chicago. It was smoke from wildfires, the odor of an increasingly hot and occasionally on-fire ...

Still Hiring: Big Tech Layoffs Give Other Sectors an Opening

For the thousands of workers who'd never experienced upheaval in the tech sector, the recent mass layoffs at companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta came as a shock. Now they are being ...

Judge Fines Lawyers $5,000 For Using Bogus Case Law From ChatGPT

A federal judge on Thursday imposed $5,000 fines on two lawyers and a law firm in an unprecedented instance in which ChatGPT was blamed for their submission of fictitious legal research in an ...

Call for ‘Comprehensive Legislation’ in U.S. to Address AI Risks

U.S. Senate Majority Chuck Schumer on Wednesday called for "comprehensive legislation" to advance and ensure safeguards on artificial intelligence (AI) and will hold a series of forums in later this ...

U.S., Other Nations Name ‘Lockbit’ Digital Gang Top Ransomware Threat

The United States and six other countries identified the digital extortion gang operating under the "Lockbit" banner as the world's top ransomware threat. In a joint advisory issued last week, U.S., ...

Insurer Must Defend Firm Sued for Selling Facial Recognition Program to Police

An ambiguous coverage exclusion prevents a liability insurer from dodging the cost of defending a data broker that was sued after selling the Chicago Police Department ...