SLCERT to introduce National Cyber Security Act within the year

The State Minister for Technology, Mr. Kanaka Herath, announced that the anticipated National Cyber Security Act will be introduced this year, followed by the establishment of the Cyber Security Authority. Additionally, the State Minister underscored the preparations made for the Digital Economy Summit scheduled to take place in Sri Lanka by the end of July. […]

Apple unplugs self-driving electric car project, reports say

Apple has reportedly cancelled its plans to build electric vehicles (EV) a decade after the iPhone maker was rumoured to be working on the project. The firm has never publicly acknowledged the project, which involves around two thousand people. Many employees from the project will be moved to the iPhone maker’s artificial intelligence (AI) division, […]

Don’t dry your iPhone in a bag of rice, says Apple

If your iPhone gets wet don’t dry it in a bag of rice, Apple has advised. Despite the technique’s popularity, experts have long warned against it, with tests suggesting it doesn’t work. And now the tech giant itself has published guidance telling users it could result in small particles of the grain damaging their devices. […]

Character.ai: Young people turning to AI therapist bots

Harry Potter, Elon Musk, Beyoncé, Super Mario and Vladimir Putin. These are just some of the millions of artificial intelligence (AI) personas you can talk to on Character.ai – a popular platform where anyone can create chatbots based on fictional or real people. It uses the same AI tech as the ChatGPT chatbot but, in […]

Facebook and Messenger to automatically encrypt messages

All Facebook and Messenger chats will be encrypted automatically, parent company Meta has announced. Messages and calls protected by end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) can be read only by the sender and recipient. It has been possible to opt in to encrypted messages for years, but now it will become the default position. Critics, including the UK government […]

ChatGPT builder helps create scam and hack campaigns

A ChatGPT feature allowing users to easily build their own artificial-intelligence assistants can be used to create tools for cyber-crime, a BBC News investigation has revealed. OpenAI launched it last month, so users could build customised versions of ChatGPT “for almost anything”. Now, BBC News has used it to create a generative pre-trained transformer that […]

Meta OKs deleting Threads without losing Instagram

Changes are being rolled out to the Threads app that will enable users to delete their account while keeping the linked Instagram account. An Instagram account is required to sign up to the Twitter-like app, but users were frustrated that it was impossible to delete Threads alone. Instagram boss Adam Mosseri revealed the change in […]

Musk says his new AI chatbot has ‘a little humour’

Elon Musk has launched an AI chatbot called Grok on his social media site X, formerly Twitter, but so far it is only available to selected users. “In some important respects, it is the best that currently exists,” he posted on X, before its release. Mr Musk boasted that Grok “loves sarcasm” and would answer […]

Apple sales dip again despite iPhone boost

Apple sales have continued to fall, despite strong demand for its iPhones and services like streaming platform Apple TV+. The tech giant says revenues dipped 1% to $89.5bn (£73.3bn) in the three months to 30 September when compared with the same period last year. Sales of its Mac computers and iPads struggled after a post-lockdown […]