Opinion

The whole world could do with an early iPhone

On the surface, it’s just a smartphone — little more than a very slick, rather pricey, well-built gadget. But the iPhone is much more than that, and this year the world could do with having one released just a little earlier than usual. That’s because the global smartphone market i...

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TikTok is the new front in election misinformation

He’s the son of a brutal dictator, fudged his own educational credentials, and his family owes up to $3.6 billion in estate taxes, yet he still won a landslide election to become the Philippines’s next president. When Bongbong Marcos gets sworn in Thursday, the 64-year-old might want to ...

Opinion

The next cybersecurity crisis: Poisoned AI

For the past decade, artificial intelligence has been used to recognize faces, rate creditworthiness and predict the weather. At the same time, increasingly sophisticated hacks using stealthier methods have escalated. The combination of AI and cybersecurity was inevitable as both fields sought bette...

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They may be kids, but they’re giants of hacking

In a house in Oxford, England, a 16-year-old living with his mother has been wreaking havoc on the other side of the world. Believed to be a male, he’s hacked victims from Microsoft Corp. to Okta Inc. and blazed a trail of mayhem along the way.His apparent youth isn’t the only thing that...