Relative to the 496 billion Canadian dollars the federal government spent last year, the amounts are small. But this week’s revelations surrounding millions of dollars in potentially fraudulent billings by subcontractors, along with the continuing ArriveCAN app scandal, show what a big mess developing software can be for the government.Even after an extensive investigation, Karen Hogan, the auditor general, said she could not determine exactly what it had cost to create ArriveCAN, which was...
Adobe is collaborating with other companies, especially those working with generative artificial intelligence to develop broad industry standards, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said Tuesday at the launch of its genAI-enabled application called GenStudio for marketers. “Responsible innovation cannot be an afterthought. We are working to combat misinformation by advocating for content credentials as an industry standard to establish trust in digit content,” Narayen, who is also chairman and president...
Court documents and interviews detail the products’ role in alleged exploitation – and how some payments go undetectedWhen police in Pennsylvania arrested 29-year-old Jennifer Louise Whelan in November 2022, they charged her with dozens of counts of serious crimes, including sex trafficking and indecent assault of three young children.One month earlier, police said they had discovered Whelan was using three children as young as six, all in her care, to produce child sex abuse material. She was...
For the past two weeks, unexpected outages have affected Meta's Facebook and Instagram. This week, another downtime has affected users in some parts of the world.
Meta's Facebook, Instagram and Messenger are back online following a three-hour worldwide outage on Thursday. But the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company has yet to acknowledge the incident.
Nevada’s attorney general who escalated a request to the court to ban Meta’s use of encryption for Facebook Messenger users under 18 has faced opposition from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other organisations which argue that children’s privacy must be protected by such measures. The brief, opposing a potential ban, was submitted by the American
EkStep Foundation is a non-profit organization that works closely with the government, providing digital infrastructure primarily in the education sector, including the government-run online education platform DIKSHA.
Meta's Facebook, Instagram and Messenger are down worldwide, leaving user unable to scroll, post and contact friends. The outage appeared around 10:45am ET, hitting the US and UK
– Leading AI and precision biologics innovators to build a diverse set of novel best-in-class obesity treatments – – iBio to use its patented generative AI/Machine Learning platform to discover, engineer and develop obesity-focused therapeutic targets – – Concurrent $15M PIPE financing, announced yesterday, extends cash runway through fiscal year 2025 and provides support for collaboration – – Company to host webcasted conference call today at 8:30 a.m. EDT to discuss AstralBio collaboration –...
WASHINGTON — The federal government entered a partial shutdown early Saturday after Congress failed to pass legislation in time to keep a swath of departments and agencies open. The shutdown is expected to be brief and have little impact, however, as Senate leaders announced they have a deal to vote on a funding package in the early hours of Saturday morning. The House voted Friday morning to pass a $1.2 trillion spending bill funding the departments of State, Defense, Labor, Health and Human...
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas responded to questions on whether President Joe Biden will take executive action on the border to combat the surge at the border that is taking up resources by saying that
The Tech Entrepreneurs Association of Mumbai (TEAM), a collective of Mumbai-based technology companies, has elected Dream Sports cofounder and CEO Harsh Jain and Haptik CEO Aakrit Vaish to chair its eight-member governing council in its inaugural elections starting from April 1 for a two-year term.Other members of the newly elected governing council include Vishal Gondal, cofounder and CEO of GOQii; Dhruvil Sanghvi, founder and CEO of LogiNext; Akanksha Hazari, founder and CEO of LoveLocal;...