AI-generated fake news and disinformation is a threat to democracy, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has said at the Summit for Democracy. A number of the attendant countries have accused China and Russia of executing campaigns designed to destabilize
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EU passes landmark AI act, paving the way for greater AI regulation
The European Parliament has passed its long awaited AI act that it hopes will provide the legal infrastructure for regulating artificial intelligence. While AI has contributed massively to increases in productivity and has resulted in major innovations in critical industries
Google restricts Gemini AI in answering election-based questions
Google has announced that its Gemini AI platform will be restricted in answering certain questions to do with elections. The restrictions have already been implemented in the US and India where the populations are already in the midst of election
Google’s new Security Command Center Enterprise puts you at the helm of your multicloud environment, with AI SecOps to back you up
Google has announced the launch of Security Command Center Enterprise (SCC Enterprise), a new cloud risk management solution offering what it says is an industry-first combination of cloud security and enterprise security operations. And to wrap it all up, this
Tech giants sign pledge to develop AI “for the good of humanity”, so that’s totally fine
A number of leading tech companies, including OpenAI and Salesforce, have signed a pledge on their “collective responsibility” to “maximize AI’s benefits and mitigate the risks” that the technology poses to the world. Some experts believe that AI is moving
Researchers create AI “worms” able to spread between systems — stealing private data as they go
A team of researchers have created a self-replicating computer worm that wriggles through the web to target Gemini Pro, ChatGPT 4.0, and LLaVA AI powered apps. The researchers developed the worm to demonstrate the risks and vulnerabilities of AI enabled
Windows 11 Enterprise enhancements are here – and the AI enhanced Windows Autopatch is a gamechanger
The latest Windows 11 updates are here, and it’s big news for enterprise customers worrying about dealing with countless confusing patch updates. Microsoft has introduced a new unified update solution by combining Windows Update for Business with Autopatch, and unsurprisingly,
Microsoft is using AI to help block more scam calls
Microsoft is introducing AI to the telecommunications industry to help protect people from spam and scams. Announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, Azure Operator Call Protection is now available on public preview. The AI tool requires
Github Copilot Enterprise AI coding assistant for businesses hits general availability, but it’ll cost you
Github’s code assistant is finally here as part of Copilot Enterprise, with a price tag of $39 per month. The code assistant will act as a chatbot that can reference a business’s internal code repository to provide recommendations on code
Facebook users are being suspended by hackers with fake Oculus accounts — it sounds crazy, but it’s true
Thousands of Facebook users are being wrongfully suspended after their accounts are compromised by hackers using a sneaky Oculus backdoor. The hackers have been creating Meta accounts linked to the Oculus platform and then linking them to their victims accounts,