Technology

Twelve Norwegian government ministries have been hit by a cyber attack, the Norwegian government said on Monday, the latest attack to hit the public sector of Europe’s largest gas supplier and NATO’s northernmost member. “We identified a weakness in the platform of one of our suppliers. That weakness has now Read more…

Forbes’ senior writer on cybersecurity writes on the “warrantless monitoring of citizens en masse” in the United States. Here’s how county police armed with a “powerful new AI tool” identified the suspicious driving pattern of a grey Chevy owned by David Zayas: Searching through a database of 1.6 billion license Read more…

Editor/publisher Neil Clarke “said he recently had to temporarily shutter the online submission form for his science fiction and fantasy magazine, Clarkesworld,” reports CNN, “after his team was inundated with a deluge of ‘consistently bad’ AI-generated submissions.” “They’re some of the worst stories we’ve seen, actually,” Clarke said of the Read more…

T-Mobile has started charging customers who pay phone bills in-store a new $5 “Payment Support Charge,” plus tax. The new fee went into effect on July 19th, though prepaid customers will be charged the fee later on. From a report: In a flier shared with The Mobile Report announcing the Read more…

Amazon has announced that its palm-scanning payment technology, called Amazon One, will roll out to all 500-plus Whole Foods locations by the end of 2023. Amazon first introduced the contactless Amazon One payment system in 2020, but its expansion by the end of 2023 will be its largest to date. Read more…

Apple is quietly working on artificial intelligence tools that could challenge those of OpenAI, Alphabet’s Google and others, but the company has yet to devise a clear strategy for releasing the technology to consumers. From a report: The iPhone maker has built its own framework to create large language models Read more…