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A profile of Jarod Koopman, who leads IRS Criminal Investigation's cybercrime unit, which has returned $12B+ to victims and the US Treasury in the past 10 years (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-2

Neo-Nazis are creating AI videos of Hitler making English versions of his speeches and to rebrand him as “misunderstood” via TikTok, X, Instagram, and YouTube (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-28 AI YouTube Instagram

Meta will also block sharing of Ken Klippenstein's newsletter and other sources with the JD Vance dossier, citing foreign meddling and hacked materials policies (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-28

US intelligence officials say Russia, Iran, and China are using AI tools to boost US election influence efforts, with Russia's efforts being the most aggressive (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-24 Russia China AI Iran Intelligence

Analysis: major crypto companies, executives, and investors have spent $38M+ recently to help Ohio Republican Bernie Moreno's campaign for the US Senate (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-24 Republican Senate

Inside Equinix's 114,300-square-foot data center in Northern Virginia, a region that is home to the largest concentration of data centers in the world (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-22 Virginia

Researchers: GPT-4 generating a 100-word email uses 1,468ml of water at its Washington data center, 925ml in Arizona, 464ml in Illinois, and 235ml in Texas (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-18 Texas

How Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are fighting an Ohio power company's proposal to increase the upfront energy costs they'll pay for their data centers (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-16 Google Amazon Microsoft Energy

Apple files to drop its NSO suit, citing Israeli government's alleged seizure of NSO files, and saying Apple's court disclosures may aid NSO and other hackers (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-14 Israel Apple

An analysis finds 40+ examples of Facebook removing emergency-related posts during 20+ US wildfires since June 2024; Facebook says it is investigating the issue (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-11 Facebook

Election officials across the US say false election rumors spread by Elon Musk to his 197M+ followers often coincide with calls by locals to purge voter rolls (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-11 Elon Musk

Testing the Apple Intelligence beta shows the pre-release software still has a long way to go, with hallucinations, marking spam emails as priority, and more (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-10 Apple Intelligence

The DOJ's case against Google's ad business may benefit major news organizations that pay Google to broker their website ads and have faced financial struggles (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-9 Google

YouTube takes down Tenet Media and four other channels after the DOJ alleged that Russia was paying right-wing influencers in the US to produce content (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-7 Russia YouTube

Leaked documents show an AI upgrade led to an incident where Alexa seemed to favor Kamala Harris over Donald Trump; Amazon says the error was fixed (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-6 Trump Amazon AI

People who got access to OpenAI's SearchGPT say it struggles with some shopping and local queries, and sometimes presents untrue or hallucinated information (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-6

New Mexico's AG sues Snapchat, alleging it is a “breeding ground” for predators seeking to collect sexually explicit images of children and extort them (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-5 Mexico Snapchat

People who got access to OpenAI's SearchGPT say it struggled with some shopping and local queries, and sometimes presented untrue or hallucinated information (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-4

Some Big Tech critics worry that Kamala Harris' deep ties to tech companies could prompt her to abandon Democrats' recent aggressive stance toward the sector (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-3 Democrat

Fidelity's latest valuation of X, 72% lower than when Musk took over, would mean top investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud is down $1.4B and Ellison $720M (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-2

Sources: China-linked hackers penetrated deep into two big US ISPs and several smaller ones in recent months, using a zero-day flaw in Versa Networks software (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-8-28 China

Sources: China-linked hackers recently penetrated deep into two big US ISPs and several smaller ones, using a 0-day flaw in Versa Networks software (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-8-28 China

Docs: Amazon plans to launch its delayed overhaul of Alexa in October for as much as $10/month, with AI-generated news summaries, a chatbot for kids, and more (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-8-27 Amazon AI chatbot

The unsealed list of X Holdings shareholders names nearly 100 entities, including 8VC, Italy-based UnipolSai S.P.A., and a fund linked with Sean “Diddy” Combs (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-8-22 Italy

The FBI, ODNI, and CISA say they are “confident” that Iran was responsible for recent attempted hacks into the Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-8-20 Trump FBI Iran

Girls In Tech, Women Who Code, and other groups that aimed to diversify Silicon Valley are closing or rebranding to stay afloat, as critics attack DEI efforts (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-8-19

A US appeals court largely upholds a ruling blocking the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, finding parts of the law likely violate the First Amendment (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-8-17 California

Google says it will remove Showcase.apk from Pixel devices “out of an abundance of precaution”, after iVerify said hackers could use the dormant app to spy (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-8-15 Google

Access Now and Citizen Lab: Russian spy agencies are using deep knowledge about opponents, reporters, and human rights groups to target them via phishing emails (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-8-14 Russia

The FBI is investigating an alleged Trump campaign hack; sources: it's probing suspected hacking attempts by Iran targeting the Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-8-13 Trump FBI Iran

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