Should governments really be using AI to remake the state?

The Trump administration wants to streamline the US government, using AI to boost efficiency Greggory DiSalvo/Getty Images What is artificial intelligence? It is a question that scientists have been wrestling with since the dawn of computing in the 1950s, when Alan Turing asked: “Can machines think?” Now that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have…

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9th June – Threat Intelligence Report

For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 9th June, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES American tax company, Optima Tax Relief, has disclosed a ransomware attack that resulted in the theft of 69GB of sensitive data, including corporate records and customer case files containing personal information such…

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Billionaire Lance Gokongwei’s Robinsons Land Sells $536 Million Of Malls To REIT

Contriobutions from Robinsons Land’s shopping malls, along with its hotels helped boost the … More company’s 2023 net profit to record levels. Robinsons Land Philippine billionaire Lance Gokongwei is hiving off about 30.7 billion pesos ($536 million) worth of shopping malls into his family’s RL Commercial REIT that will help the group’s diversified property arm…

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The Discord Invite Loop Hole Hijacked for Attacks

Check Point Research uncovered an active malware campaign exploiting expired and released Discord invite links. Attackers hijacked the links through vanity link registration, allowing them to silently redirect users from trusted sources to malicious servers. The attackers combined the ClickFix phishing technique, multi-stage loaders, and time-based evasions to stealthily deliver AsyncRAT, and a customized Skuld…

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Wild chimpanzees filmed using forest ‘first aid’

Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Watch: wild chimpanzees filmed using forest ‘first aid’ Chimpanzees in Uganda have been observed using medicinal plants – in multiple ways – to treat open wounds and other injuries. University of Oxford scientists, working with a local team in the Budongo Forest, filmed and recorded incidents of the animals…

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