Washington: The White House is urging federal agencies to refrain from laying off their cybersecurity teams, as they scramble to comply with a Thursday deadline to submit mass layoff plans to slash their budgets, according to an email seen by Reuters. Greg Barbaccia, the United States federal chief information officer, sent the message on Wednesday, … Read more
2025 may not be a great year for pay hikes—consulting firms expect salary revisions in corporate India to be lower than what companies offered last year. Why have Indian firms turned cautious in doling out annual raises this year? Mint explains: What raise can you expect this year? Consulting firm Aon estimates corporate employers to … Read more
Delhi HC observed on Wednesday that artificial intelligence is a “dangerous tool in anybody’s hand, whether it is Chinese or American, it does not make any difference”. Its remark came while hearing a PIL seeking a direction to the Centre to block access to DeepSeek, an AI chatbot recently developed by Chinese entities, in all … Read more
WASHINGTON — The U.S., U.K. and Australia on Tuesday sanctioned a Russian web-hosting services provider and two Russian men who administer the service in support of Russian ransomware syndicate LockBit. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and its U.K. and Australian counterparts sanctioned Zservers, a Russia-based bulletproof hosting services provider — which is … Read more
South Korea‘s spy agency has accused Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek of excessive personal data collection and biased responses on cultural issues, as concerns mount globally over Chinese AI applications’ data practices.The National Intelligence Service (NIS) warned government agencies last week about security risks associated with DeepSeek, citing the app’s unusual data collection practices, including keyboard … Read more
DeepSeek’s dataset might have suffered public exposure, claimed a cybersecurity research firm. As per a report, a publicly accessible ClickHouse database belonging to DeepSeek was discovered which allowed full control over its database operations. Additionally, the exposure is also said to contain a large volume of sensitive information including chat history, secret keys, log times, … Read more
Washington: Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz says it has found a trove of sensitive data from the Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek inadvertently exposed to the open internet. In a blog post published Wednesday, Wiz said that scans of DeepSeek’s infrastructure showed that the company had accidentally left more than a million lines of data available … Read more