The Chinese government appears to be operating fake social media accounts impersonating U.S. voters and polling followers about their views on domestic political issues, according to a new report from Microsoft. “The Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) has observed a small yet steady increase of additional sockpuppet accounts that we assess with moderate confidence are … Read more
A “cascade of security failures” at Microsoft allowed a state-backed Chinese hacking group to access the email accounts of senior U.S. government officials last year, according to a blistering report from a cybersecurity review board released Wednesday. The report from the U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board, created in 2021 by U.S. President Joe Biden, describes … Read more
Microsoft could have stopped Chinese hackers from accessing email accounts linked to U.S. government officials, a Biden-appointed review board said in a scathing report released Tuesday. The report, conducted by the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB), found “operational and strategic decisions” led to hackers in China breaching the officials’ emails last July. The report outlined … Read more
Russian hackers have been attempting to breach Microsoft’s systems in recent weeks, using stolen information they acquired in an earlier hack, the company said Friday. The hackers, which Microsoft identified as a Russian state-sponsored group known as Midnight Blizzard, have been “using information initially exfiltrated from our corporate email systems to gain, or attempt to … Read more
Elon Musk sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Thursday, accusing the ChatGPT maker of breach of contract for failing to adhere to its original mission to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of humanity. Musk, who co-founded the AI company, alleged that Altman and OpenAI set the company’s founding agreement “aflame” in … Read more
Sony is cutting 900 jobs from its PlayStation division, the gaming company announced Tuesday, becoming the latest tech giant to lay off part of its workforce. CEO and Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) President Jim Ryan announced the layoffs in a Tuesday email to PlayStation workers, saying they represent an 8 percent reduction across the company’s … Read more
Major technology companies have cut thousands of jobs since the start of 2024 as the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and interest rates upend the tech sector. While the U.S. job market remains remarkably strong on the whole, tech companies have cut nearly 40,000 jobs in the first two months of 2024, according to Layoffs.fyi. … Read more
Gina Raimondo, the US secretary of commerce, spoke at Intelâs event today and compared the US governmentâs current focus on revitalizing its chip industry to the space race of the 1960s. âThe fact that we are so overly dependent on a couple of countries in Asia that we need for life-saving medical equipment, cars, every … Read more
Several major technology companies — including Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Snap, TikTok and X — signed an accord Friday pledging to combat the use of deceptive artificial intelligence (AI) in this year’s elections. The 20 participating companies pledged to “work collaboratively on tools to detect and address online distribution” of AI-generated content … Read more
Nvidia eclipsed Google-parent Alphabet as the third most valuable U.S. company on Wednesday, just after overtaking Amazon and as investors looked to the dominant AI chipmaker’s upcoming quarterly report. The Santa Clara, California company’s stock rose 2.46%, putting its value at $1.825 trillion, while Alphabet’s stock climbed 0.55%, leaving it with a value of $1.821 … Read more
