ChatGPT | Healthcare | Medical

ChatGPT has many uses. Experts explore what this means for healthcare and medical research

Cybersecurity

Top 5 emerging cybersecurity challenges

Cybersecurity

Top 5 cybersecurity challenges for 2023

Healthcare

Australian hospitals are under constant cyber attack. The consequences could be deadly

Cybersecurity

Zero-trust security: Assume that everyone and everything on the internet is out to get you – and maybe already has

IoT | Surveillance

Not Big Brother, but close: a surveillance expert explains some of the ways we’re all being watched, all the time

Cybersecurity

Lethal autonomous weapons and World War III: it’s not too late to stop the rise of ‘killer robots’

Cyberwarfare

Cyberspace and outer space are new frontiers for national security, according to an expert report

Cybercrime | Scams

Australians lost more than $3bn to scammers in 2022. Here are 5 emerging scams to look out for

AI | ChatGPT

If ChatGPT wrote it, who owns the copyright? It depends on where you live, but in Australia it’s complicated

AI | Military | Military Drones | Warfare

The defence review fails to address the third revolution in warfare: artificial intelligence

AI

AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton says AI is a new form of intelligence unlike our own. Have we been getting it wrong this whole time?

Australia | Quantum Computing

Australia has a National Quantum Strategy. What does that mean?

Cyberespionage | Russia

It’s being called Russia’s most sophisticated cyber espionage tool. What is Snake, and why is it so dangerous?

AI | Cybersecurity | Social Media | Social Networks

Banning TikTok could weaken personal cybersecurity

AI | Ethics

Will AI ever reach human-level intelligence? We asked 5 experts

OSINT

Beyond spy balloons: here are 7 kinds of intelligence spies want, and how they get it

AI | Deepfake

Watermarking ChatGPT, DALL-E and other generative AIs could help protect against fraud and misinformation

Cybersecurity

What are passkeys? A cybersecurity researcher explains how you can use your phone to make passwords a thing of the past

Cyberwar | Russia

Russia’s shadow war: Vulkan files leak show how Putin’s regime weaponises cyberspace

ChatGPT

Don’t fret about students using ChatGPT to cheat – AI is a bigger threat to educational equality

Tik Tok

Why was TikTok banned on government devices? An expert on why the security concerns make sense

AI | ChatGPT

Has GPT-4 really passed the startling threshold of human-level artificial intelligence? Well, it depends

AI | ChatGPT

I used to work at Google and now I’m an AI researcher. Here’s why slowing down AI development is wise

AI

Calls to regulate AI are growing louder. But how exactly do you regulate a technology like this?

App Security

Popular fertility apps are engaging in widespread misuse of data, including on sex, periods and pregnancy

Vishing

Scammers can slip fake texts into legitimate SMS threads. Will a government crackdown stop them?

AI

AI tools are generating convincing misinformation. Engaging with them means being on high alert

AI | Deepfake | Phishing | Scams | Vishing

Voice deepfakes are calling – here’s what they are and how to avoid getting scammed

Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrencies are in crisis, but they are not going to disappear

Automobiles | Forensics | Vehicles

Six parts of your car that gather data on you

AUKUS | Military | Warfare

Progress in detection tech could render submarines useless by the 2050s. What does it mean for the AUKUS pact?

Physics

What are the best conditions for life? Exploring the multiverse can help us find out

Australia | Cybersecurity | Government

Australia has a new cybersecurity agenda. Two key questions lie at its heart

Energy | Science

Electricity from thin air: an enzyme from bacteria can extract energy from hydrogen in the atmosphere

Phishing | Scams

How to avoid falling victim to an online scam – research says slow down

Phishing | Pretexting | Scams

What kinds of people ‘catfish’? Study finds they have higher psychopathy, sadism, and narcissism

Scams | Vishing

Tax returns: scams are rising rapidly – how to spot a fake phone call and avoid falling victim

Espionage

Amid warnings of ‘spy hives’, why isn’t Australia using its tough counter-espionage laws more?

AI

A survey of over 17,000 people indicates only half of us are willing to trust AI at work

AI | ChatGPT | Midjourney

How to perfect your prompt writing for ChatGPT, Midjourney and other AI generators

Future

Longtermism – why the million-year philosophy can’t be ignored

AI | ChatGPT

ChatGPT is confronting, but humans have always adapted to new technology – ask the Mesopotamians, who invented writing

AI

Scams, deepfake porn and romance bots: advanced AI is exciting, but incredibly dangerous in criminals’ hands

AI | ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare. If you’ve ever posted online, you ought to be concerned

AI

Bard, Bing and Baidu: how big tech’s AI race will transform search – and all of computing

AI

ChatGPT threatens language diversity. More needs to be done to protect our differences in the age of AI

Programming | Software

Nonprogrammers are building more of the world’s software – a computer scientist explains ‘no-code’

Cryptocurrency

Cryptojacking spreads across the web

Big Data | Healthcare

The best way to protect personal biomedical data from hackers could be to treat the problem like a game

AI | Cybersecurity

How AI is shaping the cybersecurity arms race

Pretexting | Social Engineering

Your digital footprints are more than a privacy risk – they could help hackers infiltrate computer networks

Cyberattack | Cybersecurity | Cyberwar

Improving cybersecurity means understanding how cyberattacks affect both governments and civilians

App Security | Software

Hackathons should be renamed to avoid negative connotations

Pretexting | Social Engineering | Social Media | Social Networks

Dozens of US schools, universities move to ban TikTok

Fraud

How cybercriminals turn paper checks stolen from mailboxes into bitcoin

Cyberattack | Cybersecurity | Hacking

The Sunburst hack was massive and devastating – 5 observations from a cybersecurity expert

Cyberinsurance | Ransomware

Deal with ransomware the way police deal with hostage situations

Cybersecurity

The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and the SolarWinds hack were all but inevitable – why national cyber defense is a ‘wicked’ problem

Cyberattack

Cyber attacks can shut down critical infrastructure. It’s time to make cyber security compulsory

Cybercrime | Phishing | Scams

5 big trends in Australians getting scammed

Darknet

Darknet markets generate millions in revenue selling stolen personal data, supply chain study finds

Malware

How to spot a cyberbot – five tips to keep your device safe

AI

Not everything we call AI is actually ‘artificial intelligence’. Here’s what you need to know

AI

AI might be seemingly everywhere, but there are still plenty of things it can’t do – for now

AI

AI and the future of work: 5 experts on what ChatGPT, DALL-E and other AI tools mean for artists and knowledge workers

Quantum Computing

Physicists have used entanglement to ‘stretch’ the uncertainty principle, improving quantum measurements

AI

Philosophers have studied ‘counterfactuals’ for decades. Will they help us unlock the mysteries of AI?