Cyber exec with lavish lifestyle charged with selling secrets to Russia
05 Nov
Lifestyle

Cyber exec with lavish lifestyle charged with selling secrets to Russia

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Lifestyle Federal prosecutors have charged a former general manager of US government defense contractor L3Harris's cyber arm Trenchant with selling secrets to an unidentified Russian buyer for $1.3 million. According to the Justice Department, Peter Williams stole seven trade secrets belonging to two unnamed companies between April 2022 and June 2025 "knowing and intending those secrets to be sold outside of the United States, and specifically to a buyer based in the Russian Federation." The court documents don't specify what the trade secrets involved, but Williams worked as a director and general manager at L3Harris' Trenchant division, which develops cyber weapons. According to the company's website, it supports "national security operations with end-point intelligence solutions," and is "a world authority on cyber capabilities, operating in the fields of computer network operations and vulnerability...
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Are Sora 2 and other AI video tools risky to use? Here’s what a legal scholar says
05 Nov
Educational Resources

Are Sora 2 and other AI video tools risky to use? Here’s what a legal scholar says

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Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET's key takeawaysAI video tools now raise real legal and ownership risks.OpenAI says Sora supports creativity, but critics aren't so sure.Generative video could democratize art or destroy it entirely.OpenAI's Sora 2 generative AI video creator has been out for about two weeks, and already it's causing an uproar. SpongeBob cooking meth. Ronald McDonald running away from Batman while police cars give chase. You get the idea. This is the inevitable outcome when you give humans the opportunity to create anything they want with very little effort. We are twisted and easily amused people. Also: I tried the new Sora 2 to generate AI videos - and the results were pure sorcery Human nature is like that. First, slightly less mature individuals...
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Who’s behind the Catherine Connolly deepfake video, and why?
05 Nov
Business News

Who’s behind the Catherine Connolly deepfake video, and why?

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Business This week Ireland witnessed its first sophisticated electoral deepfake, when an AI generated video, mimicking RTÉ news, told users of Facebook and YouTube that the election had been cancelled and Heather Humphreys declared the winner, because Catherine Connolly had exited the campaign (this is not true). To understand what happened, and how to respond, we need to also consider why people may have gone to great efforts to get this video in front of us. There are at least four reasons why someone might carry out an act of electoral disinformation. The first is to influence the outcome of an election. Lies about how or when to vote, who is eligible, or as we saw here this week, that an election has been cancelled, can be used to stop certain voters from turning up on...
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The Fraser manifesto: A former prime minister’s plan to replace the Liberal Party
05 Nov
Politics

The Fraser manifesto: A former prime minister’s plan to replace the Liberal Party

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‘Describing these things as left wing reflects the way in which our politics is being twisted.’Former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser (Image: Private Media) We are currently witnessing the death throes of the Liberal Party. To a good chunk of the electorate who voted for the current government, that doesn’t matter… except that it leaves Labor in full power with no meaningful opposition. A decade ago, former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser predicted this moment would come, and he spent his final years working on the answer: a new political party, built on traditional liberal values but without the now-toxic name.Bernard Keane joins the podcast to revisit Fraser’s plan to replace the Liberal Party. The detailed “Renew Australia” manifesto remains remarkably relevant, and takes a surprisingly progressive stance on issues like immigration, our relationship with the...
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