OpenAI’s chief technology officer Mira Murati says AI may help expand humans’ creativity — but the technology could wipe out some creative jobs as well. On June 19, Dartmouth College’s school of …
WikiLeaks founder Assange welcomed home in Australia a free man after US deal
On Wednesday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was welcomed back to Australia following pleading guilty to violating U.S. espionage law. Assange arrived in Canberra after 7:30 pm on a private jet, …
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Russia starts secret trial for U.S. reporter Gershkovich on spy charges
In the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich went on trial on Wednesday behind closed doors on charges of espionage. The charges carry a sentence of up to 20 years …
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French court upholds warrant for Syria’s Assad over chemical weapons
On Wednesday, a French appeals court upheld an arrest warrant issued for Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian President. The charges against al-Assad were Brough against him over an alleged use of …
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Siemens Sicam Vulnerabilities Could Facilitate Attacks on Energy Sector
In May Siemens informed customers that new updates containing patches for vulnerabilities, one medium-security, and two high-severity flaws. According to Siemens, the vulnerabilities have the …
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Google Disrupts More China-Linked Dragonbridge Influence Operations
In its ongoing battle with the China-linked Dragonbridge threat actor, Google continues to disrupt YouTube and Blogger activity conducted by the threat actor group. The social media activity …
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The EU Targets Russia’s LNG Ghost Fleet With Sanctions as Concern Mounts About Hybrid Attacks
The European Union announced new sanctions on Russia as a result of the war on Ukraine which target Moscow’s shadow tanker fleet. At the meeting in Luxembourg EU foreign ministers agreed to …
Bulgaria to press charges against fugitive cryptocurrency fraudster
On Wednesday, Bulgaria announced it will press charges against Raja Ignatova, a fugitive nicknamed the “Crypto-queen”, that co-founded a cryptocurrency scheme. The cryptocurrency scheme ran …
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Kenya president backs down on tax hikes after deadly unrest
On Wednesday Kenyan President William Ruto withdrew tax hikes due to pressure from protestors who stormed the Kenyan parliament. The storming of the Kenyan parliament resulted in the eruption of …
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Sohu AI chip claimed to run models 20x faster and cheaper than Nvidia H100 GPUs
Etched, a startup that builds transformer-focused chips, just announced Sohu, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that claims to beat Nvidia’s H100 in terms of AI LLM inference. A single …