Stefanie Schappert

1 day ago | cybernews.com | Stefanie Schappert

The Trump administration on Friday releases an upgraded cybersecurity executive with nearly a dozen directives aiming to beef up national security, from the adoption of AI and post-quantum cryptology to IoT labeling and defending against nation-state threats.

1 day ago | cybernews.com | Stefanie Schappert

Calling out the increased use of AI tools to argue legal cases, London’s High Court on Friday ruled that lawyers caught citing non-existent cases can be held in contempt – or even face criminal charges. It's the latest example of generative artificial intelligence leading lawyers astray, say legal experts.

2 days ago | cybernews.com | Stefanie Schappert

The lovefest between Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump appears to have soured after the tech mogul ordered SpaceX to "immediately" decommission one of its rockets – the partially reusable Dragon spacecraft – after Trump vows to cancel all Musk's federal contracts. The former Doge envoyposted the announcement on his social media platform on Thursday afternoon, leaving NASA's space program in the lurch.

2 days ago | cybernews.com | Stefanie Schappert

Japanese company ispace said it has not been able to establish communication with its uncrewed moon lander following its lunar touchdown attempt on Friday, two years after its failed inaugural mission. The craft, “Resilience,” is ispace's second lunar lander mission in a bid to become the first company outside the United States to achieve a moon landing. It was launched into orbit on January 15th. Its target?

2 days ago | cybernews.com | Stefanie Schappert

In its latest crackdown on North Korean IT worker schemes, the US Justice Department seizes over $7.74 million in cryptocurrency – all tied to one North Korean bank executive accused of laundering the funds for the communist regime. DoJ officials say the millions in crypto were frozen in connection with a North Korean Foreign Trade Bank (FTB) representative, Sim Hyon Sop (Sim), charged back in April 2023 for facilitating two separate IT worker scams.