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Late last March, OpenAI announced a “small-scale preview” of an AI service, Voice Engine, that the company claimed could clone a person’s voice with just 15 seconds of speech. Roughly a year later, the tool remains in preview, and OpenAI has given no indication as to when it might launch — or whether it’ll launch at all. The company’s reluctance to roll out the service widely may point to fears of misuse, but it could also reflect an effort to avoid inviting regulatory scrutiny. OpenAI has historically been accused of prioritizing “shiny products” at the expense of safety, and of…

On February 18, 2022, six days before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, then-United States President Joe Biden said he was “convinced” that Moscow had decided to invade Ukraine. When asked how he knew this, Biden said, “We have a significant intelligence capability.” At the time, Ukraine’s government under President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was unsure about Biden’s prognosis, insisting that a full-scale invasion was unlikely. Biden was right, Ukraine was wrong. Since the war broke out, the US has — in addition to billions of dollars in sophisticated weaponry — shared intelligence with Ukraine using its vast spying capabilities, helping Kyiv both defensively…

AI agents are marching across the world of IT, and on Thursday a startup called Crogl is debuting its contribution to the field: an autonomous assistant that helps cybersecurity researchers analyze daily network alerts to find and fix security incidents. The assistant — described by Crogl’s CEO and co-founder Monzy Merza as an “Iron Man suit” for researchers — has been in deployment already with a number of large enterprises and organizations. Alongside launching the product out of private beta today, the startup also said that it has raised $30 million in funding.  The funding is coming in two tranches:…

Trump administration cuts to teacher training grants are putting a strain on rural school systems, which have relied on the money to help address teacher shortages. In an overhaul at an agency President Donald Trump has described as being infiltrated by “ radicals, zealots and Marxists,” the Education Department last month cut $600 million in grants to the training programs, which it characterized as supporting divisive ideologies. Trump has said he wants to close the department, and new Education Secretary Linda McMahon has laid out how it could be dismantled.Federal money makes up a significant portion of budgets in some…

6 ChatGPT prompts to write winning proposals getty Most people write proposals in a panic. They rush through templates, recycling old content and hoping something sticks. No wonder conversion rates stay low. When you’re up against a busy schedule and high stakes, quality drops and deals slip away. Between 35% and 50% of sales are won by the vendor who responds first. Speed stuns. Growing your business involves making a process for winning proposals and never delaying with sending one over. ChatGPT can help you stand out, connect deeply and win more business without spending more time writing proposals. But…

A Nigerian national appeared in a US court on Wednesday facing computer intrusion, wire fraud, government money theft, identity theft, and money laundering charges related to the hacking into the networks of US tax preparation companies. The man, Matthew Akande, 36, a resident of Mexico, was arrested in the UK in October 2024, and extradited to the US on March 5, 2025. He was charged in 2022, but the indictment was unsealed only after his arrest. Together with Kehinde H. Oyetunji, 33, a Nigerian national living in North Dakota, and other co-conspirators, Akande allegedly filed fraudulent tax returns for roughly…

A group of financial organizations sent an open letter to the US cybersecurity agency CISA, urging it to rescind and reissue the proposed implementation of the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA). CIRCIA, which was signed into law in March 2022, requires covered entities to report any major cybersecurity incident within 72 hours, and to report ransomware payments within 24 hours of making the payment. Last year, CISA asked for public comment on a proposed rulemaking, saying that CIRCIA would lead to better understanding of cyber threats and that the cyber incident reporting rule would likely…

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — The latest addition to the list of amenities available to athletes at the bobsled and skeleton world championships is a room inside a lodge just down the hill from the finish line. There are some stuffed animals, tons of toys, Mickey Mouse coloring books and big boxes of crayons.This is the family space. These days, it’s a needed part of the sliding circuit.There are four mothers expected to compete in the world championships that got officially underway Thursday in Lake Placid — U.S. skeleton athlete Kelly Curtis, Swiss bobsledder Nadja Pasternack, and U.S. bobsledders Elana…

A second iteration of the BadBox botnet has been partially disrupted after impacting over one million Android devices worldwide, bot and fraud protection firm Human Security reports. First discovered in 2023, the BadBox botnet consisted of low-cost Android devices that came to the shelves with backdoored firmware. These devices, including smartphones, CTV boxes, and tablets, were made by at least one Chinese manufacturer, and some of them were used in public schools in the US. In December 2024, Germany sinkholed the communication between over 30,000 BadBox-infected media devices and their command-and-control (C&C) servers, but a larger BadBox botnet consisting of…

NEW YORK (AP) — Much like all the upheaval shaking the world, the huge swings rocking Wall Street may feel far from normal. But, for investing at least, all this is typical.Sharp moves for the U.S. stock market, like its recent 6% drop in just a couple of weeks, happen regularly. Stomaching them is the price investors have to pay for the bigger returns that stocks can offer over other investments in the long term. This time doesn’t look much different, experts say. Here’s a glimpse at what’s behind the market’s wild moves and what experts are advising investors young…