In the News

• School’s Out. Time for a Social Media Reset.
  7/17/24 – The New York Times
• Damaged Internet Subsea Cables Repaired in Red Sea Amid Militant Attacks on Ships
  7/17/24 – Bloomberg
• Hacker Says They First Didn’t See Any Value in Stolen AT&T Data
  7/17/24 – Bloomberg
• Elon Musk Wants His AI Bot to Deliver the News. It Is Struggling With the Job
  7/17/24 – The Wall Street Journal
• Robot umpire challenge system could be tested next spring training, 2026 regular-season use possible
  7/16/24 – AP News
• An Australian computer scientist who claimed to invent bitcoin referred to prosecutors for perjury
  7/16/24 – AP News
• Social media and political violence – how to break the cycle
  7/16/24 – The Conversation
• Hong Kong is testing out its own ChatGPT-style tool as OpenAI planned extra steps to block access
  7/16/24 – AP News
• Disney investigating massive leak of internal messages
  7/16/24 – BBC News
• Amazon Prime Day is a big event for scammers, experts warn
  7/16/24 – AP News
• Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs to wind down US operations
  7/16/24 – Reuters
• Russian cyber firm Kaspersky to shut down US operations after ban
  7/15/24 – CNN
• Internal Disney Communications Leaked Online After Hack
  7/15/24 – The Wall Street Journal
• PayPal fined $27.3 mln by Polish watchdog for ambiguous clauses
  7/15/24 – Reuters
• North Korean hackers sent stolen crypto to wallet used by Asian payment firm
  7/15/24 – Reuters
• 7 ways to avoid becoming a misinformation superspreader when the news is shocking
  7/15/24 – The Conversation
• Rite Aid Customer Data Accessed in June Cybersecurity Breach
  7/15/24 – The Wall Street Journal
• Quarantining the Conspiracy Swamps
  7/14/24 – The Wall Street Journal
• What’s worse than thieves hacking into your bank account? When they steal your phone number, too
  7/14/24 – AP News
• One Tech Tip: Protecting yourself against SIM swapping
  7/14/24 – AP News
• Instagram influencer jailed for trafficking and slavery
  7/14/24 – BBC News
• Online manipulation expert Renée DiResta: ‘Conspiracy theories shape our politics in extremely mainstream ways’
  7/14/24 – The Guardian
• AI’s ‘Oppenheimer moment’: autonomous weapons enter the battlefield
  7/14/24 – The Guardian
• US financial watchdog urged to investigate NDAs at OpenAI
  7/14/24 – The Guardian
• How conspiracy theories and hate dominated social feeds after assassination attempt on Trump
  7/14/24 – BBC News