Nobel prizes honour pioneers of artificial intelligence
8 Oct 2024
The Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry go to work underpinning modern AI, including neural networks and AlphaFold’s protein structure prediction.
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The Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry go to work underpinning modern AI, including neural networks and AlphaFold’s protein structure prediction.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Salt Typhoon group had penetrated major US telecoms firms, including systems used for court-authorised wiretaps.
A cyber attack on Transport for London disrupts online services for months and exposes data including around 5,000 customers’ bank details.
A defective CrowdStrike Falcon update crashes around 8.5 million Windows devices, grounding flights and disrupting hospitals, banks, and broadcasters.
A ransomware attack on pathology provider Synnovis forces south-east London NHS trusts to postpone thousands of appointments and operations.
Attackers use stolen passwords to access Snowflake cloud accounts at Ticketmaster, AT&T, Santander, and others, stealing data on many millions of people.
A Microsoft engineer spots a deliberately planted backdoor in the xz Utils library, narrowly preventing a major open source supply-chain compromise.
A ransomware attack on UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare cripples claims and prescription processing across the US and exposes data on about 193 million people.
The UK’s National Crime Agency leads Operation Cronos, seizing LockBit’s infrastructure and leak site and turning it against the gang.
Hong Kong police reveal that a finance worker paid out HK$200m after a video call in which every other participant was a deepfake.
OpenAI’s board abruptly fired Sam Altman, saying he had not been consistently candid; he was reinstated days later after staff revolted.
The UK hosted the first global AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, where 28 countries and the EU signed a declaration on frontier AI risks.