However, there’s always been a sense of uncertainty in the industry: as with all young tech creations that don’t fit into traditional regulatory frameworks, the countdown started early for when the Chinese government would step in. Since 2017, China has maintained a hard stance against crypto unparalleled around the world. The Chinese financial and cyber […]

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 We need to prepare for the war in Ukraine to last indefinitely It’s been eight weeks since the invasion, with no sign of a conclusion to the conflict. (Foreign Affairs)+ Ukraine is concerned that Chinese-made drones are sabotaging its […]

Wong has built a reputation for always being right. Journalists cite her work in articles, crediting her scoops. “Initially, people would question, ‘Who is she? How does she have this information?’” she says. “But I built trust over time. You have to prove your information is valid.”  It’s gotten to the point where companies create […]

But few people had enough mastery of the language to manually transcribe the audio. Inspired by voice assistants like Siri, Mahelona began looking into natural-language processing. “Teaching the computer to speak Māori became absolutely necessary,” Jones says. But Te Hiku faced a chicken-and-egg problem. To build a te reo speech recognition model, it needed an […]

Cemvita’s fuel could approach being carbon neutral because the microbes are consuming carbon dioxide, says Moji Karimi, Cemvita’s CEO. The fuel would still produce emissions when burned, but they would be partially offset by the carbon that was captured to make it. As for the light the microbes require, Cemvita will likely be using artificial […]

“OPC UA is used everywhere in the industrial world as a connector between systems,” says Keuper. “It’s such a central component of typical industrial networks, and we can bypass authentication normally required to read or change anything. That’s why people found it to be the most important and interesting. It took just a couple of […]

“Ransomware groups have been able to recruit new talent and to use the resources from their ransomware operations and from the insane amounts of revenue they’re pulling in in order to focus on what was once the domain of state-sponsored [hacking] groups,” says James Sadowski, a researcher with Mandiant. Zero-days are typically bought and sold […]