OpenAI, the Silicon Valley research firm funded by various tech leaders to better humanity, has taken the step of not releasing research relating to a revolutionary artificial intelligence system. The problem: It’s apparently so good that it can write coherent fake news. The system, GPT-2, is a general-purpose language algorithm that uses machine learning to translate text, answer ...

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has become the first leading U.S. bank to move into digital currency with today’s launch of JPM Coin, a so-called “stablecoin” tied to the U.S. dollar. Designed to facilitate payments between clients, JPM Coin is powered by JPMorgon’s Quorum blockchain, itself a variant of the Ethereum blockchain. Each coin is guaranteed ...

Image-I-Nation Technologies Inc., a technology and hosting partner of major credit reporting agencies, has been hacked and consumer credit data stolen. The company provides services to the likes of Equifax Inc. Experian Inc. and TransUnion Inc., the so-called “big three” U.S. credit agencies. The hack was disclosed via recent regulatory filings in various states. The company ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has issued a new warning ahead of Valentine’s Day about the risk of so-called “romance scams.” Romance scams typically involve dating sites, personal messaging systems and the promise of romance and companionship from online strangers that ultimately leads to the victim being asked for money. According to a blog post Tuesday ...

A former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer was indicted today for assisting the Iranian government in espionage that included hacking U.S. government systems. Monica Elfriede Witt, 39, stands accused of conspiracy to deliver and delivering national defense information to representatives of the Iranian government according to the Department of Justice. Along with assisting Iranian intelligence services in ...

Apple Inc. may be famed for many innovations and occasionally cutting-edge technology, but self-driving cars is not one of them, according to a filing the company made with the State of California. Detailed in a release from California’s Department of Motor Vehicles, Apple’s autonomous vehicles ranked poorly in terms of safety, requiring human intervention nearly every ...

VFEmail, a service that pitches itself as “making email safe for the masses,” has suffered a “catastrophic” hack that destroyed all email and related data stored by the company dating back to 2011. The hack took place Monday with no attempt of extortion or other intent other than the malicious deletion of the data hosted by the ...

Cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. has acquired the software assets of cloud applications management startup Adya Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2016, Adya provides software to help enterprises manage and secure their software-as-a-service applications. The company’s software allows companies to administer their critical SaaS applications from one console, save costs on SaaS licenses, set and ...

Blockchain analysis startup Chainalysis Inc. said today it has raised $30 million in new funding to support strategic product development of new cryptocurrency usage and to open an office in London. The Series B round was led by Accel and included an additional investment from Benchmark Capital, which led the company’s last round in April. Under the deal, Accel’s Philippe Botteri is ...

U.S. drone owners would be required to display registration number markings on the body of their drones under a new Federal Aircraft Administration regulation. The new rules were posted today on a preview website for the Federal Register spotted by Bloomberg and would take effect starting Feb. 23. The FAA is said to be taking ...