COVID 19 Articles

A BGP hijacking attack exploited weak routing security at hosting provider Hetzner Online and the absence of code signing in Softaculous software updates, allowing attackers to distribute malware across networks.

Criminal hackers published personal data of 8.7 million people from Manchester Airports Group after demanding ransom payment. Affected customers face heightened risk of secondary attacks and fraud.

UK peers are proposing an AI ‘kill switch’ that would allow the government to deactivate powerful AI systems and shut down data centres if they pose a national security threat.

Parliamentary committees are being inundated with AI-generated submissions containing fabricated studies and nonexistent research, prompting federal lawmakers to warn against misinformation entering policymaking processes.

New York City will ban artificial intelligence use for students through eighth grade, with restrictions continuing in high school, as part of a major technology policy overhaul affecting roughly 900,000 students.

Uber drivers from multiple European countries have launched a class action lawsuit alleging the company’s AI algorithm unlawfully sets pay and allocates jobs while breaching data protection laws.

A federal judge declined to order Google to divest parts of its ad tech business, instead imposing behavioral remedies to address the company’s illegal monopoly in publisher ad servers and ad exchanges.

The Trump administration filed a statement supporting OpenAI in The New York Times’ copyright infringement lawsuit, arguing that AI model training constitutes fair use under copyright law.

OpenAI prepares to release its most advanced AI model, Astra, following safety-focused delays. Researchers express concern that the model’s architecture may limit transparency in monitoring its internal reasoning processes.

Amazon introduced a new AI feature enabling customers to verify whether emails, texts, or calls genuinely originate from the company using its Alexa for Shopping assistant.

Password manager 1Password pledged $300,000 to support a Linux distribution created by David Heinemeier Hansson, drawing backlash over his published racist statements calling for deportation of ethnic minorities.

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, a new AI model claiming improved reasoning capabilities. While per-token pricing remains unchanged from its predecessor, the model may ultimately cost users more due to increased token consumption.