On Tuesday, a group of artificial intelligence researchers and policymakers from prominent labs and think tanks in both the United States and Britain released a report that described how rapidly evolving and increasingly affordable AI technologies could be used for malicious purposes.

Cyber criminals continue to launch increasingly sophisticated and devastating attacks on industrial, business and financial organisations around the world – and the damage from such crime could reach $6tn by 2021, according to a report from Cybersecurity Ventures. Join us as we take a look at the different approaches you can take in order to bolster your web security. We find out how to identify and address overlooked web security vulnerabilities, how security controls affect web security assessment results and why web opportunities must be met with appropriate security controls. You forgot to provide an Email Address. This email address doesn't appear to be valid.

LONDON – A man and woman who met on a Muslim dating website have been handed prison sentences for plotting an Islamic State-inspired bomb attack in Britain. Prosecutors say Munir Mohammed, an asylum-seeker from Sudan, and London pharmacist Rowaida El-Hassan met on SingleMuslim.com Last month, a jury at London's Central Criminal Court found them guilty of preparing terrorist acts. On Thursday, judge Michael Topolski sentenced 37-year-old Mohammed to life with no chance of parole for 14 years. El-Hassan, who is 32, was jailed for 12 years, plus five years on probation.

Open data is one of those topics you probably already heard about a few years ago. Like most digital topics, it was blown away by big data, data lakes, and data scientists. Hot on the hype curve today we have machine learning, artificial intelligence, labelled data, blockchain, and much more. What do they all have in common? Data is the heartbeat of the digital economy. Where does this data come from?

The Bank of England's warning that the pace of artificial intelligence development now threatens 15m UK jobs has prompted calls for political intervention. According to scientists and legal experts, responding to the bank's warning this November, there is now an urgent need for the development of intelligent algorithms to be put on the political agenda. This is happening now and across the board and that's the difference. That's why a lot of us need to start talking about this now. The Government needs to pick up on this and put it on the political agenda and look at regulatory issues, said Chrissie Lightfoot, a patent lawyer and author, who debated fears over unemployment caused by AI at London's Science Museum last October.

Unlike other driverless cars, which simply detect obstacles, Huawei's RoadReacher project claims to have turned a Porsche Panamera into a driverless vehicle that does not just see, it "understands" its surroundings. Using the image recognition AI-chip embedded in the Huawei Mate 10, the car can now distinguish between thousands of different objects such as: cat or dog, or, ball or bike, and take the most appropriate action. "Our smartphone is already outstanding at object recognition. We wanted to see if in a short space of time we could teach it to not only drive a car, but to use its AI capabilities to see certain objects, and be taught to avoid them" said Andrew Garrihy, chief marketing officer, Huawei Western Europe. Huawei will be showcasing the RoadReader project and the vehicle's capabilities at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from 26 to 27 February.

Digitization has been influencing our daily lives since more than one decade. In his article "Why Software Is Eating The World", published in 2011 by The Wall Street Journal, Marc Anderseen addressed the dramatic and broad technological shift in which software companies like Google, Apple and Amazon take over major industries. It's hard to imagine that you weren't able to update your friends about the latest match results during the soccer world cup in 2006 hosted in Germany via Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger & Co., as the iOS and Android app stores went live in 2008. Nowadays we start to digitize everything that can be digitized like money, pets and friendships. And now it seems that we even might be able to digitize our human mind!

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A group of 26 international experts has warned that rogue states, criminals and terrorists could use artificial intelligence (AI) in crimes, terror attacks and to manipulate public opinion. The report suggests that unless preparations are made now to prevent the malicious use of the technology, cybercrime will rapidly increase in years to come. Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used positively for applications such as digital assistants, smartphones and autonomous vehicles. But this study, written by dozens of AI, cybersecurity and technology experts and academics, looks forward a decade to the threats AI could pose if certain potential risks are not addressed. Sounding an alarm the authors warn, for example, of a rapid growth in cybercrimes fuelled by the technology.

Now, two years later, at the beginning of 2018, together with Markus Gratzer, the managing director of the Austrian Hotel Association, we presented an update of our study at the Austrian Hotel Congress in Vienna. It is as if an industry, which for centuries built its success on service quality and personal engagement with guests, has been turned upside down. The key competencies, which decide on the build-up or depletion of strategic competitive advantages, have changed fundamentally. The new key competencies for the hotel industry are centered on technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), voice control, and humanoid robots, as well as new forms of management, namely, data management and innovation management. As artificial intelligence enters the mainstream, application is becoming available along the entire value chain.