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Russia turns to spam tactics in online war on Ukraine: Meta
Feb 23, 2023 (AFP)
Tactics have included deploying thousands of fake accounts to hijack online conversations about the war and setting up bogus versions of legitimate news outlet ...
'Watched my father die': Tech firms face ire over legal shield
Feb 19, 2023 (AFP)
The US Supreme Court will this week hear high-stakes cases that will determine the fate of Section 230, a decades-old legal provision that shields platforms fro...
Turkey quake fuels conspiracy posts on US antenna station
Feb 18, 2023 (AFP)
Scientists have for years been refuting claims that the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), with its Alaska facility boasting 180 radio ante...
Spain court backs Briton's extradition over Biden hack
Feb 17, 2023 (AFP)
Police arrested Joseph James O'Connor in July 2021 in the southern city of Estepona which is home to a large number of Britons. He faces multiple charges in con...
TikTokers jailed as Iraq targets 'decadent content'
Feb 16, 2023 (AFP)
The young Iraqi woman using that pseudonym was sentenced early this month to half a year behind bars for the light-hearted video clips that show her in tight-fi...
Conspiracy theories on '15-minute cities' flourish
Feb 15, 2023 (AFP)
The 15-minute city premise is simple -- all amenities such as parks and grocery stores must be accessible within a quarter of an hour walk or bike ride from a p...
Dutch forum takes aim at 'worrying' AI uses in war
Feb 15, 2023 (AFP)
The two-day meet in The Hague aimed at taking a first step towards international rules in regulating the use of AI on the battlefield in an agreement similar to...
Canada stops funding sensitive research with hostile foreign actors
Feb 15, 2023 (AFP)
"Canada's advanced research ecosystem is at the forefront of global discovery, but it can also be an attractive target for foreign state actors that pose a risk...
Australia removes Chinese-made cameras from politicians' offices
Feb 14, 2023 (AFP)
At least 913 Chinese-made security cameras have been installed across more than 250 Australian government buildings, including the Department of Defence's facil...
Hong Kong mandates national security law promotion on free TV, radio
Feb 14, 2023 (AFP)
The stipulations come as Beijing works to remould the territory, cracking down on a protest movement that had championed a Hong Kong identity that was distinct ...
Australia to remove Chinese-made cameras from defence sites
Feb 09, 2023 (AFP)
It follows similar moves in the United States and Britain, which have taken measures to stop government departments installing Chinese-made cameras at sensitive...
Spies, hackers, informants: how China snoops on the US
Feb 08, 2023 (AFP)
FBI Director Christopher Wray said in 2020 that Chinese spying poses "the greatest long-term threat to our nation's information and intellectual property, and t...
Deepfake 'news anchors' in pro-China footage: research
Feb 08, 2023 (AFP)
The fake anchors -- for a fictious news outlet called Wolf News -- were created by artificial intelligence software and appeared in footage on social media that...
Senior UK MP warns users off Chinese-run TikTok app
Feb 05, 2023 (AFP)
"There is a reason why China has this app...," Conservative deputy Alicia Kearns, who chairs parliament's foreign affairs committee, told Sky News television. "...
TAU establishes the first satellite observatory for quantum optical communication
Feb 03, 2023 (SPX)
"The ground station is designed for observing satellites, which are small bodies 400-500 kilometers high that move at about 30,000 kilometers an hour," says Pro...
Seeing is believing? Global scramble to tackle deepfakes
Feb 02, 2023 (AFP)
Artificial Intelligence is redefining the proverb "seeing is believing," with a deluge of images created out of thin air and people shown mouthing things they n...
Thales Alenia Space and partners sign contract with ESA for TeQuantS quantum project
Jan 31, 2023 (SPX)
The TeQuantS project intends to develop quantum technologies for cybersecurity applications and future quantum information networks. These technologies will ena...
TikTok CEO to testify before US Congress in March
Jan 30, 2023 (AFP)
TikTok, whose parent company ByteDance is Chinese, is fighting for its survival in the United States with rising calls from mainly Republican lawmakers that the...
Madison Square Garden's facial recognition blacklisting sparks outcry
Jan 27, 2023 (AFP)
The operator of the arena, where Joe Frazier defeated Muhammad Ali in 1971's "Fight of the Century," is under fire for using the software to identify and eject ...
Chinese engineer gets eight year sentence in US for spying
Jan 25, 2023 (AFP)
Ji Chaoqun, who came to the US on a student visa in 2013 and later enlisted in the army reserves, was accused of identifying American scientists and engineers t...
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