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EU Finds Meta’s ‘Pay or Consent’ Model Violates Digital Markets Act
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The near-term impact of AI on the cyber threat
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Protecting Digital Media: New Global Guidelines for AI-Era Security
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre), alongside the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and international partners, has released new cybersecurity guidance addressing content credentials and the integrity of multimedia in the era of generative artificial intelligence (AI). This collaboration includes: With the rise of AI-generated content, threat actors can easily manipulate media, making it harder to distinguish between authentic and altered content….
