FRANK BAJAK | The Seattle Times

May 23, 2024 at 2:24 am

Takeaways: How intelligence agencies’ are cautiously embracing generative AI

U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to embrace the AI revolution, convinced they’ll otherwise be smothered in data as sensor-generated surveillance tech further blankets the planet.

May 23, 2024 at 2:19 am

US intelligence agencies’ embrace of generative AI is at once wary and urgent

U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to embrace the AI revolution, believing they’ll otherwise be smothered by an avalanche of data as surveillance tech further blankets...

May 20, 2024 at 9:04 am

Insider Q&A: CIA’s chief technologist’s cautious embrace of generative AI

The CIA’s first chief technology officer Nand Mulchandani is marshaling generative AI tools to the intelligence agency.

Business

April 27, 2024 at 10:26 pm

Renowned Peruvian investigative reporter battles criminalized smear campaign — and cancer

One of Latin America’s most storied journalists, Gustavo Gorriti has endured death threats from drug traffickers, survived Peru’s harrowing Shining Path insurgency and a kidnapping...

Nation & World

April 12, 2024 at 2:46 am

US-China competition to field military drone swarms could fuel global arms race

U.S. and Chinese military planners are gearing up for a new kind of warfare in which squadrons of air and sea drones equipped with artificial...

Nation & World

April 12, 2024 at 2:35 am

US-China competition to field military drone swarms could fuel global arms race

U.S. and Chinese military planners are gearing up for a new kind of warfare in which squadrons of air and sea drones equipped with artificial...

Business

The iPhone 15 Pro phones are shown during an announcement of new products on the Apple campus in Cupertino, Calif., Sept. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

March 21, 2024 at 7:33 am

Justice Department sues Apple, alleging it illegally monopolized the smartphone market VIEW

The Justice Department on Thursday announced a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of engineering an illegal monopoly in smartphones that boxes...

Business

March 1, 2024 at 2:33 pm

Georgia’s largest county is still repairing damage from January cyberattack

Georgia's largest county is still repairing damage inflicted on its government offices by a cyberattack a month ago.

A vehicle parked outside the I-Soon office building, also known as Anxun in Mandarin, is pictured in Chengdu in southwestern China’s Sichuan Province on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to China’s top policing agency and other parts of its government. (AP Photo/Dake Kang) XAW301 XAW301

February 21, 2024 at 11:30 am

An online dump of Chinese hacking documents offers a rare window into pervasive state surveillance VIEW

Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to China’s top policing agency and...

Business

February 5, 2024 at 11:36 am

US rolls out visa restriction policy on people who abuse spyware to target journalists, activists

The Biden administration is rolling out a new policy that will allow it to impose visa restrictions on foreign individuals involved in the misuse of...

Business