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Its president, Brad Smith, said companies needed to “step up” and governments needed to “move faster” as artificial intelligence progressed.

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “wall of fake images.” (credit: Stable Diffusion) On Thursday, Microsoft President Brad Smith announced that his biggest apprehension about AI revolves around the growing concern for deepfakes and synthetic media designed to deceive, Reuters reports. Smith made his remarks while revealing his “blueprint for public governance of AI”...

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have uncovered malware designed to disrupt electric power transmission and may have been used by the Russian government in training exercises for creating or responding to cyberattacks on electric grids. Known as CosmicEnergy, the malware has capabilities that are comparable to those found in malware known as Industroyer and Industroyer2,...

Enlarge / Worldcoin’s “Orb,” a device that scans your eyeballs to verify that you’re a real human. A company co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has raised $115 million for Worldcoin, a crypto coin project that scans users’ eyeballs in order “to establish an individual’s unique personhood.” In addition to leading the maker of ChatGPT and...

Enlarge / Minnesota’s right-to-repair bill is the first to pass in the US that demands broad access to most electronics’ repair manuals, tools, and diagnostic software. Game consoles, medical devices, and other specific gear, however, are exempted. (credit: Getty Images) It doesn’t cover video game consoles, medical gear, farm or construction equipment, digital security tools,...

Concerned parents have many tools, including free software from Apple and Google, to actively oversee how children use their tech.

To manage its risks, “superintelligent” artificial intelligence should be governed by a body similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the lab’s leadership said in note on its website.

Employees of the Chinese-owned video app have regularly posted user information on a messaging and collaboration tool called Lark, according to internal documents.

What was supposed to be a crowning moment for Mr. Musk’s Twitter turned into a series of technical glitches.

Prosecutors investigating Sam Bankman-Fried, the cryptocurrency exchange’s founder, have accumulated more than six million pages of documents and other records.