In Bettendorf’s public library, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird gave seniors information on how to recognize and stop scams. BETTENDORF, Iowa — Scams can happen to anyone at any time, but older Americans are often targeted by fraudsters using increasingly creative and aggressive tactics. U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, recently joined...Read More
In 2020, Chicago high schoolers spoke out against police presence in their schools, which they said promoted a school-to-prison pipeline. Disproportionately affecting students of color, that pipeline pushes students from classrooms into the justice system through punishment like expulsions or arrests that don’t address the root cause of behavioral infractions. Also in 2020, Chicago Public Schools and partnering...Read More
School safety in Dallas ISD begins with secure facilities and controlled access. But it goes well beyond buildings and includes mental-health supports, campus threat-assessment teams and an anonymous “Say Something” system that routes concerns to the right people, write Sarah Weinberg and Kevin Malonson. Juan Figueroa/Dallas Morning News As kids return to classrooms across Texas,...Read More
OpenAI’s agents hacked another service months before the Hugging Face incident happened, a group of researchers told The Wall Street Journal. The agents, which the company was testing in a supposed sandbox environment, reportedly broke into RubyGems, which is a community-ran packaging service for Ruby programs and libraries. According to The Journal, the attacks on RubyGems started on...Read More
The leaders of Anthropic and OpenAI joined calls for a slowdown in AI development amid fears the industry is racing toward building technology that humans can’t control. On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an online essay urging companies and governments to “pace the frontier” of AI advancement. He called for international cooperation around AI...Read More
After suffering a series of high-profile cyberattacks over the past decade, Microsoft says a new initiative to reinvigorate its security culture is bearing fruit. The tech giant’s stumbles — and the expectation that a company of its size would have been able to prevent them — made it a punching bag in the cybersecurity community. In 2022,...Read More
An AI-generated image to help illustrate the article More than six in 10 parents of minor children in South Korea posted photos or videos of their children on social media over the past year, and more than two-thirds of them did not ask their children first, a survey showed. The Korea Press Foundation’s Media Research...Read More
Lodi City Councilman Mikey Hothi is lauding Gov. Gavin Newsom this week for signing three bills that protect the state’s youths from AI and social media dangers. “I’m incredibly proud to see Governor Newsom sign A.B. 2, S.B. 1119 and A.B. 1709 into law,” Hothi said. “Together, these measures establish some of the strongest protections...Read More
Berlin refused to pay Rhysida. The ransomware group responded by publishing nearly 1.4 million stolen government files on the dark web. Deutsche Welle said that the dump contains 1,439,893 files, while other reports put the stolen data at about 5.7 TB. The breach affected two Berlin government departments and exposed material ranging from employee records...Read More
Fraud can happen anywhere, but relocating abroad can create situations that make scams harder to spot. Expats often need to secure accommodation, arrange employment, open bank accounts and share important documents before arriving in a new country, sometimes without the opportunity to verify organisations or individuals in person. From fake property listings and employment scams...Read More
