The nationwide debate over social media’s impact on our nation’s youth continues at every level. It’s gone from the smallest of homes to the highest courts and could boomerang all the way back. A new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in California looks to regulate how kids interact with…
“Crime prevention begins with strong partnerships between police and the communities they serve,” Additional Inspector General of Police (Crime and Operations) Khondoker Rafiqul Islam told BSS. “Police cannot fight crime alone; community participation is essential to lasting public safety,” he added. According to a recent progress report of the Home…
AI has fundamentally changed what a cyberattack looks like. A Forbes article reports that tools, speed and sophistication that once required nation-state resources are now available to anyone with a credit card and a cloud account. At the same time, the businesses MSPs (managed service providers) and MSSPs (managed security service providers)…
A bizarre and “unsettling” AI-generated trend has been spreading online for weeks now – and it appears to be slowly bleeding into real life. According to Safer Schools, a character reminiscent of Dr Seuss’ Cat in the Hat has been shown in AI-generated clips “threatening to visit people’s homes, or…
Photo caption: Scores of parents and community members attended the latest “Raising the Next Generation in the Age of AI” series discussion, which featured, from left on the stage: Candice Odgers, Yalda Uhls, Melissa Mazmanian, Vani Henderson and Larz May. Photos by Andersen Photography Experts offer parents advice for navigating…
A marketing blunder has left one of the UK’s most popular attractions rushing to fix a listing on its booking platform after social media users spotted a poor choice of words. According to BBC News, Chester Zoo recently gained attention on social media when an online advertisement offered tickets for…
Storage Wars alum Darrell Sheets confronted alleged cyberbullies in the weeks before his death at 67. “I have been hacked by a very evil person,” Sheets wrote via Facebook on March 9. “The clown. [The posts] are not done by me, they are being done by … very evil people….
Even a decade ago, the horror stories behind some of the 13 children’s online protection bills Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Thursday seemed the stuff of fiction. An AI chatbot coaching a teenager to isolate himself from friends and family and ultimately take his own life. Children’s AI-enabled plush…
TALLAHASSEE, FL — After reports of a data breach, the state agency that handles driver licenses, admits it’s been hacked. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said in a Friday news release that it learned of a data breach by an “international cybercriminal ring” a week earlier,…
Nate Soares has been worried about artificial intelligence longer than almost anyone. He’s the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author of the subtly named book, “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All.” He’s watched with a sort of grim vindication, as…
