Oct 12 Is childproofing the internet constitutional? A legal expert explains By Meg Leta Jones, The Conversation A wave of state laws have recently passed across the U.S. to address a variety of online harms affecting children as a result of alarming revelations about youth experiences with digital technologies. Continue reading
Oct 05 Watch 7:25 Why typewriters are having a renaissance in the digital age By John Yang, Lorna Baldwin In a world dominated by digital technology, a growing number of people are embracing a decidedly analog device: the typewriter. John Yang reports. Continue watching
Sep 04 Regulators turn to math to determine when AI is powerful enough to be dangerous By Matt O'Brien, Associated Press How do you know if an artificial intelligence system is so powerful that it poses a security danger and shouldn’t be unleashed without careful oversight? For regulators, it’s mostly about the arithmetic. Continue reading
Aug 13 In AI race with Apple, Google rolls out Pixel 9 phones earlier than usual By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press Google left little doubt that the Pixel 9 phones are meant to be a vessel for the AI technology that is expected to reshape the way people live and work. Continue reading
Jul 23 Watch 9:58 Developers claim AI can help combat loneliness, but critics say it can't be trusted By Paul Solman, Ryan Connelly Holmes There have been amazing advances in artificial intelligence with software and robots that listen and respond to human conversation with a kind of realism rarely seen before. That's both exciting and disturbing to experts about what it can mean for… Continue watching
Jul 22 CrowdStrike customers and regulators are still waiting for details on what caused meltdown By Associated Press Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says a “significant number” of the millions of computers that crashed on Friday, causing global disruptions, are back in operation. Continue reading
Jul 21 Many small businesses struggle to resume normal operations days after global tech outage By Anne D'Innocenzio, Haleluya Hadero, Associated Press Major customers of Microsoft and CrowdStrike are getting IT support to resolve the issues stemming from a faulty software update that caused technological havoc worldwide on Friday, but smaller businesses whose computers may have received the problematic update are struggling. Continue reading
Jul 20 Faulty CrowdStrike update took down 8.5 million Windows computers around the globe By David Koenig, Isabella O'Malley, Associated Press As the world continues to recover from massive business and travel disruptions caused by a faulty software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, malicious actors are trying to exploit the situation for their own gain. Continue reading
Jul 19 Watch 8:02 How a faulty software update sparked tech disruptions worldwide By William Brangham, Nana Adwoa Antwi-Boasiako A tech outage around the globe halted flights, disrupted emergency services and created headaches for businesses. The underlying problems behind the glitch were fixed by Friday afternoon, but the ripple effects lasted throughout the day and may continue into the… Continue watching
Jul 19 What we know about the massive tech outage causing worldwide disruptions By Associated Press At the heart of the massive disruption is CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm that says the problem occurred when it deployed a faulty update to computers running Microsoft Windows — with the company noting that the issue was not a security… Continue reading