YouTube Music contractors form union
A group of YouTube music contractors, some of whom had been on strike, voted 41-0 to create a union. Workers want decent working conditions and a safe voice on the workplace. On Monday, employees at Sega of America revealed their desire to create a union. The majority of unionization initiatives within large software corporations have […]
EU to pass first major AI law this year
According to the EU’s digital regulatory director, Margrethe Vestager, the European Union will draft the world’s first major artificial intelligence (AI) law this year. The European Parliament has achieved a preliminary agreement on the text of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act, and the committee of parliamentarians is scheduled to vote on it on May 11. […]
ChatGPT reinstated in Italy
ChatGPT has been reinstated in Italy following the fulfilment of Garante, Italy’s data protection agency, requirements ahead of the April 30, 2023, compliance date. OpenAI told customers that it filters and eliminates sensitive material such as hate speech, pornographic content, and spam, and that it does not actively seek personal information to train its models. […]
Ransomware tagged cybersecurity industry’s biggest threat
The RSA Conference in San Francisco has tagged ransomware as the biggest threat to the cybersecurity industry. During the RSA event, the perception of ransomware shifted from being an inconvenience to being seen as a persistent and significant danger. In May 2021, after the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, President Biden labeled ransomware as […]
Cyber Security Today, May 1, 2023 – Another Amnesty International branch hacked, the Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas compromised and more
This episode reports on increasingly convincing fake checkout pages being used on compromised e-commerce sites, malware hiding in supposedly free versions of utilities and game
