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Internal investigators under new management later revealed that the company paid $100,000 to the attackers to delete the ...

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This Opinion column aims to shed light on the often-overlooked difference between two main types of privacy from a control perspective: Privacy between a user and other users, and privacy between a ...

Putting a human in the loop often refers to an artificial intelligence (AI), such as a target acquirer, that requires human authorization to proceed (as in, pull the trigger). However, in learning ...

Demand for computing power—fueled largely by artificial intelligence (AI)—shows no signs of abating. Yet, as AI becomes a ...