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News Mar 19 2025
Europol Warns of AI-Driven Crime Threats
Reuters Europol said in a report released Tuesday that organized crime gangs are moving their recruitment, communication, and payment systems online and leveraging AI to scale up their operations across the globe and prevent detection. According to the report, criminals are using AI to produce messages in different languages and create realistic impersonations of individuals, […]
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News Mar 19 2025
Dutch Parliament Calls for End to Dependence on U.S. Software Companies
Reuters The Netherlands’ parliament on Tuesday approved a series of motions calling on the government to reduce its dependence on U.S. software companies. The motions call for the creation of a cloud services platform under Dutch control, re-examination of a decision to use Amazon’s Web services for the Netherlands’ Internet domain hosting, and preferential treatment […]
News Mar 13 2025
Pentagon Shifts Software Buying Process
Reuters The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is changing how it buys software with an eye toward greater access to commercial and non-traditional software. A March 6 memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directs the DoD to prioritize the new software acquisition approach to maximize the “lethality” of the U.S. military. From “Pentagon Shifts Software […]
News Feb 28 2025
EU to Spend Nearly a Billion Euros to Protect Undersea Cables
Reuters The European Commission’s executive vice president in charge of security, Henna Virkkunen, said on Feb. 21 that nearly €1 billion of its budget will be redirected to increasing undersea cable surveillance and assembling a fleet of emergency repair vessels. Said Virkkunen, “We want to make sure Europe is equipped not only to prevent and […]
News Feb 27 2025
China Says Taiwan Seeks to Give Away Chip Industry to U.S.
Reuters China’s Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson Zhu Fenglian said during a regular news conference in Beijing that Taiwan’s ruling party is looking to give away its semiconductor industry to the U.S. as a “souvenir” to garner political support for the island’s independence. Zhu’s comments come as U.S. media reports indicate that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. […]
News Feb 27 2025
Amazon Debuts new Alexa Voice Assistant with AI 0verhaul
Amazon on Wednesday unveiled the first major overhaul of its Alexa voice assistant since its introduction more than a decade ago, embedding it with generative artificial intelligence. The effort carries significant weight at Amazon, which has plowed billions of dollars into Alexa since its launch in 2014 in the hope of putting the service into […]
News Feb 24 2025
Microsoft Says New Chip Shows Quantum Computers Are ‘Years, Not Decades’ Away
Reuters Microsoft said its Majorana 1 chip demonstrates quantum computing is only years, not decades, away. The chip is based on a subatomic particle known as Majorana fermion, which is difficult to find and control but makes the chip less prone to errors than competing chips. The indium arsenide and aluminum chip uses a superconducting […]
News Feb 18 2025
EU Ditches Tech Regulation Plans
Reuters The European Commission on Wednesday said it has scrapped draft rules regulating technology patents, AI, and consumer privacy on messaging apps, saying it did not expect approval from EU lawmakers and countries. One of the rules, the AI Liability Directive proposed in 2022, would have allowed consumers to sue for compensation for harm due […]
News Feb 10 2025
Europol Urges Banks to Prepare for Quantum Computer Risks
Reuters A group led by the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) is urging banks to start preparing now for the risks posed by quantum computers to the encryption of sensitive data. “For the financial industry, the advent of quantum computers poses a risk to customer confidentiality and peer communications, authentication processes, and […]
News Feb 6 2025
Waymo to Test Autonomous Driving Tech in Over 10 New Cities
Reuters Alphabet’s Waymo said its autonomous driving technology will be tested in at least 10 new cities this year, including San Diego and Las Vegas. A company spokesperson said “a limited fleet of vehicles” will be deployed to each city for testing, with trained human autonomous specialists stationed behind the wheel. The firm is under […]
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