Thought Leadership
Announcement via online platform
Linda Yaccarino was head of Elon Musk’s Platform X for just over two years. It is unclear who will succeed her.
Earlier controversy over Musk gesture
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has caused a scandal with anti-Semitic comments. The developer company xAI announced that it was in the process of removing “inappropriate posts” from Grok on the online platform X.
Data leak
In the Islamic Republic, the exile broadcaster “Iran International” is considered a hostile medium. Now there are reports of a major data leak.
DDoS attack
The hours-long IT outage of the Swiss Federal Administration on January 10 had political reasons: Cyber criminals attacked the systems in response to the new ban on veiling.
SafePay ransomware
The IT distributor Ingram Micro has been struggling with outages since Thursday – attackers are said to have penetrated via VPN gateway.
Tech companies protest in vain
Despite massive lobbying from over 100 technology companies, the European Union wants to push through its AI regulation as planned. Alphabet, Meta and others demand a delay – Brussels remains firm.
Second incident
The International Criminal Court in The Hague has once again been the target of a hacker attack. The attack took place almost two years after a similar incident.
No impact on air traffic
The Australian airline Qantas has been the victim of a cyber attack.
"No Adversarial AI Act"
A bipartisan initiative in the US Congress is seeking to ban artificial intelligence (AI) from China, Russia and other countries considered hostile for use in US authorities.
Partly legal, partly illegal
In a landmark ruling, a US federal court in San Francisco has decided that the use of copyrighted books to train an AI model is legal under certain conditions.