Hackers heat fridges at major French supermarkets, spoiling food
Hackers raised the temperature of refrigerators and freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets to as high as 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) overnight, causing fires…
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Who is Yuki Chen, China’s ‘superstar’ hacker who just joined AI leader Z.ai?
Yuki Chen, a prolific Chinese cybersecurity researcher, has joined leading Chinese artificial intelligence model company Z.ai as the country’s AI sector grapples with the technology’s…
Opinion | US-China AI talks must ensure safety of both tech and business
In New York last month, US-China talks on artificial intelligence opened up a path of cooperation. This was affirmed by the Xi-Trump summit in Washington…
US sanctions 5 Chinese entities over ex-Google engineer’s AI trade secrets theft
The US State Department announced on Monday that it was imposing sweeping sanctions under the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act (PAIPA) on five Chinese entities…
Police urge Apple to fix security after 110 reports of fraud over iPhone Duo
Hong Kong police have raised concerns over Apple’s refusal to activate an additional security protocol to prevent fraud despite repeated calls, as the force received…
Opinion | How could a superintelligence take over the world? Let me count the ways
OpenAI recently announced perhaps its biggest mathematics breakthrough yet: it released novel results on 377 high-profile open problems. Artificial intelligence (AI) casually solved these decades-old…
Blast simulation, university probes, robotics fine, AI spies: 7 US-China relations reads
We have selected seven of the most interesting and important news stories covering US-China relations from the past few weeks. If you would like to…
France supermarkets say cyberattack forced defrosting of refrigerators in over 200 stores
Major French supermarket chains Intermarché and Coopérative U were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to defrost, the two retailers told AFP Monday.…
Opinion | Better protection needed as violent cryptocurrency robberies surge
Cryptocurrency’s promise of financial freedom carries a cost the industry must confront: growing wealth can make its owners more attractive targets for violent criminals. Protecting…
Truth needs a treaty in this age of AI disinformation
Imagine this: one major power launches an operation against another’s ship in a sensitive strategic zone, acting on intelligence that the vessel is carrying sanctioned…
Can ‘neutral’ Malaysia stay above the fray in the US-China tech rivalry?
Despite Malaysia’s insistence that its long-standing non-alignment policy extends to cyberspace, analysts say the country’s reliance on American and Chinese technology could make such a…
China tried 3 times to talk crime families out of scam business in Myanmar: state media
China tried three times to persuade powerful families in northern Myanmar to shut down scam operations before Myanmar police carried out large-scale arrests in 2023,…