A Russian state-sponsored spear phishing campaign has been found to be targeting Western and Russian civil society targets, including nongovernmental organizations, independent media and at least one former U.S. ambassador. The campaign, detailed Wednesday by Citizen Lab and dubbed “River of Phish,” engaged targets with personalized and highly plausible social engineering in an attempt to gain ...

Google LLC has committed to removing a dubious application found on some or all Pixel phones following a report about it representing a serious security vulnerability, be it that the severity of the vulnerability is in dispute. A report released today by mobile device security company iVerify LLC, in conjunction with the security team at ...

A new report released today by Protect AI Inc. has detailed a range of new vulnerabilities found in artificial intelligence systems as the AI market and the tools therein continue to expand and grow at a rapid pace. The vulnerabilities were found through Protect AI’s “huntr” AI and machine learning bug bounty program, which has more ...

TigerEye Labs Inc., an artificial intelligence-powered planning and revenue management platform company, today announced the open-source release of DuckDB.dart, a tool that helps developers build and run data-intensive applications more easily and efficiently. DuckDB.dart is a native Dart application programming interface for DuckDB that has been designed to simplify the creation of data-intensive applications for ...

Email security provider Mimecast Ltd. announced today that it has acquired artificial intelligence collaboration security platform startup Aware for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2017 as Nullable Inc., Aware offers a purpose-built platform and targeted AI models that identify risk in unstructured data found in workplace collaboration tools such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. Designed to prevent the ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission today announced a final rule that will ban marketers from using fake reviews, including those generated with artificial intelligence and other deceptive marketing methods such as paying for bots to inflate follower counts. The rule allows the FTC to strengthen enforcement and seek civil penalties against violators. “Fake reviews not ...

Apple Inc. is reported moving forward with plans to develop a tabletop home device that combines an iPad-like display with a robotic arm. The report from Bloomberg’s usually very accurate Apple analyst Mark Gurman cites people familiar with the matter saying the company has tasked several hundred people to work on the device. Along with ...

A new report out today from cloud solutions and technology provider Searce Technologies Inc. has found that large companies in the U.S. and the U.K. are making significant investments in artificial intelligence, including that nearly one in 10 companies plan to spend more than $25 million on the technology. The 2024 State of AI report, based ...

A U.S. District Court judge has given permission to a group of artists to pursue claims against several generative artificial intelligence image- and video-making companies that alleges their services infringe on their copyrights. The case was brought by three artists against Stability AI Ltd., DeviantArt Inc. and Midjourney Inc. in January 2023 and alleged that the ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is reportedly considering breaking up Google LLC following its intervention via amicus brief into the Epic Games Inc. v. Google case regarding Google’s practices relating to competition and payments in its Play store. The case involved Epic Games, best known as the company behind the highly popular online game “Fortnite,” ...