Apple unveils Siri voice assistant with iPhone 4S
4 Oct 2011
Apple introduced Siri, an ‘intelligent assistant’ built into the iPhone 4S, bringing voice-driven AI to mainstream smartphones.
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Apple introduced Siri, an ‘intelligent assistant’ built into the iPhone 4S, bringing voice-driven AI to mainstream smartphones.
Police arrested 19-year-old Ryan Cleary in Essex after LulzSec claimed a denial-of-service attack on the Serious Organised Crime Agency’s website.
Security firm RSA said attackers had stolen information relating to its SecurID two-factor tokens in an advanced persistent threat attack.
IBM’s Watson computer defeated Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, a landmark for natural language AI.
A new US law narrows the definition of “creditor” under the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule, ending uncertainty for professional service firms.
A group called Gnosis breached Gawker Media and published around 1.3 million user account records, exposing weak password practices.
Anonymous supporters launched denial-of-service attacks on Mastercard, Visa, and PayPal after they stopped processing donations to WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks and five newspapers began publishing US State Department cables from a cache of more than 250,000, causing a diplomatic storm.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found popular Facebook apps, including FarmVille, were sending users’ identifying IDs to advertising and tracking firms.
London police arrested 19 people suspected of using the Zeus trojan to steal around £6m from UK bank accounts in three months.
The Dodd-Frank Act has permanently exempted non-accelerated filers from the Sarbanes-Oxley auditor attestation requirement on internal controls.
The US Bureau of Industry and Security publishes a major rule simplifying encryption export controls and introducing encryption registration.