Day: February 22, 2024
Rising Threat: China’s Growing Cyber Espionage and the New Vulnerability
Beijing’s Networks Expanding Hacking Efforts China has spread its hacking reach with new tools that exploit computer vulnerabilities and a network of contracted vendors. The large scale of China’s hacking operations poses a significant threat, with the FBI reporting China’s hacking program to be larger than all major nations combined. The U.S. has tracked consistent […]
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AT&T Restores Service following Nationwide Cellular Outage
AT&T said on Thursday that it had fully restored service to its wireless network after a widespread outage temporarily cut off connections for users across the United States for many hours, the cause of which was still under investigation. The outage, which affected people in cities including Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York, was first […]
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Reddit’s Financial Disclosure Marks Significant Move Toward IPO
Reddit, the message board site, revealed that its revenue rose 20 percent while its losses narrowed last year. The company kicks off a process to the stock market with a value of $10 billion. It is the last of an earlier generation of social media companies to aim for the stock market. Reddit has also […]
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Controversial Images Generated by Google Chatbot’s A.I. Feature People of Color in Nazi-Era Uniforms
Due to recent concerns about AI-generated images showing people of color in German military uniforms from World War II, Google has temporarily suspended the A.I. chatbot’s ability to generate images of people. This move comes as Google works to address inaccuracies in historical depictions created by the Gemini chatbot. The controversy is the latest test […]
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Help! AT&T outage leaves users unable to make calls
Your cell network is down. Maybe it’s AT&T, which went down for many users on Thursday. Or maybe it’s another service a week, a month or a year from now. But you really need to make a call. How do you do it? The short answer: You need a Wi-Fi connection. If you have that, […]
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Obituary: Niklaus Wirth, Renowned Software Architect, Passes Away at 89
In 1999, a rising software engineer in Switzerland was getting ready for a meeting in France. He discovered that the Swiss computer scientist Niklaus Wirth, one of the leaders in the field, was also attending and would be on the same flight. The engineer, Kent Beck, hadn’t met Dr. Wirth before but still asked the […]
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Uncovering China’s Hacker Network: The I-Soon Document Leak Explained
The Chinese government is allegedly collaborating with private hackers to gather private and sensitive information from foreign firms and countries. I-Soon, a security firm, is part of this network, covertly working with Beijing. The Ministry of Public Security in China is said to have been enlisting private contractors to carry out cyberespionage campaigns. I-Soon, in […]
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The Secret World of China’s Cyber Mercenaries: Leaked Files Expose the Underbelly of Online Espionage
Chinese hackers offered a range of services at different prices. Leaked documents revealed that a local government in southwest China paid less than $15,000 for access to the private website of traffic police in Vietnam. Other services such as hacking software to run disinformation campaigns and hack accounts on X were available for $100,000, and […]
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The Unsettling Ascension of Instagram as a News Source
In Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood, Mosheh Oinounou, a former CBS, Bloomberg News, and Fox News producer, flipped through Instagram on a recent Wednesday. He began the day reading newspapers and more than a dozen newsletters, then turned many of the articles into posts on his Instagram account, Mo News. A Wall Street Journal story on aging […]
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