A new report has proposed AI and Machine learning as a potential cure to the "Ransomware pandemic" making its way through the healthcare sector. The Institute of Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) recently released a report called "How to Crush the Health Sector's Ransomware Pandemic". James Scott, senior fellow at ICIT and the author of the paper offers a plain solution to the worrying rash of cyber-attack on hospitals and healthcare providers that have held patient safety to ransom. He notes the proliferation of not only dynamic and adaptive malware, but the sheer number of adversaries that can find their way around defences no matter how resilient or well-resourced. But against this gloomy landscape, says Scott in a defiantly optimistic tone, what if healthcare organisations could use machine learning to overcome these threats?

The UK government statistics for 2016 reported that 65% of large firms detected a breach in the previous year, a quarter of which occurred at least once a month. More worryingly, a report by Gartner shows that 80% of all security incidents go undetected by the breached organisations, so the rates of cyber attack are higher than we realise. The costs of cyber attack can be crippling, as highlighted by the media in their coverage of the various incidences that have rocked the IT security world in the past few months. Seemingly robust and industry-leading organisations such as Yahoo have suffered large-scale hacks, while attacks on financial institutions provide very real examples of what customers and businesses stand to lose by being the victim of a cyber attack. When Tesco Bank was hacked in 2016, £2.5 million was stolen from customer accounts, and the recent Lloyds Bank attack saw 20 million customer accounts compromised.

With growing criticism over misinformation in search results, Google is taking a harder look at potentially "upsetting" or "offensive" content. SAN FRANCISCO -- With growing criticism over misinformation in search results, Google is taking a harder look at potentially "upsetting" or "offensive" content, tapping humans to aid its computer algorithms to deliver more factually accurate and less inflammatory results. The humans are Google's 10,000 independent contractors who work as what Google calls quality raters. They are given searches based on real queries to score the results, and they operate based on guidelines provided by Google. On Tuesday they were handed a new one: to hunt for "Upsetting-Offensive" content such as hate or violence against a group of people, racial slurs or offensive terminology, graphic violence including animal cruelty or child abuse or explicit information about harmful activities such as human trafficking, according to guidelines posted by Google. The goal: to steer people with queries such as "did the Holocaust happen" to trustworthy websites and not to websites that engage in falsehoods or hate speech.

National Grid is to examine how artificial intelligence can be used to make the UK's power distribution infrastructure more efficient. The company admitted over the weekend that it is in talks with Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence unit, which it acquired for $400m in January 2014, as well as a number of other AI specialists. "We are in the very early stages of looking at the potential of working with DeepMind and exploring what opportunities they could offer for us," a spokesperson for National Grid told City AM. "There's huge potential for predictive machine learning technology to help energy systems reduce their environmental impact," they added. The news was broken on Saturday when DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis claimed in an interview with the Financial Times. "We're [in] early stages talking to National Grid and other big providers about how we could look at the sorts of problems they have.

Cadillac's flagship 2017 CTS sedan will talk to other cars. If the government gets its way, all cars will talk to each other one day soon. Engineers call the technology vehicle to vehicle communication. General Motors and Uncle Sam call it the future of automotive safety in a country where more than 32,000 people died in collisions last year. Today, V2V might let one Cadillac warn another to a predicament.

Yoshinori Nomura felt like weeping. It was the morning of June 24, Brexit day, and markets were moving against him. It was the hedge fund manager's self-learning computer program that had placed the bet, selling Japanese stock-index futures before a sizable market advance. Nomura had anticipated a rally, but decided not to interfere, and his fund was paying the price. Then, in an instant, everything changed.

The Russian government says that its agents weren't involved in hacking 500 million Yahoo accounts after the US charged two spies two spies over a "state-sponsored" cyber attack. The Kremlin said its FSB domestic intelligence service was not involved in any unlawful activity. It appeared to suggest that no Russian intelligence agents have ever hacked anyone else. This week it emerged that the US Department of Justice would charge two Russian spies with hacking into Yahoo in one of the biggest cyber attacks in history. It said that FSB agents had paid hackers to steal people's email accounts and try and gather information about journalists and politicians.

Nude and private photos of celebrities including Emma Watson and Amanda Seyfried are circulating online, according to reports, leading to fears of a second major hacking attack. As with 2014's famous iCloud attack, the photos appear to have been stolen from people's phones and then traded online. In both cases, the photos appear to be old – suggesting that, like 2014's attack, the pictures have been circulating among collectors for some time. It is likely that the photos were stolen using fairly simple cyber attacks, of the kind that could hit anyone. While the recent spate of cyber attacks have become famous because of who they affected and the nature of the photos, the same techniques could be used to steal the most personal information from anyone.

Editor's note:China concluded the annual two sessions of its national legislature and top political advisory body on Wednesday. From among the thousands of proposals and motions submitted by delegates, the Global Times has chosen eight that we believe may have the greatest impact on the livelihoods of Chinese people. It has been 15 months since China allowed all married couples to have two children to help with its aging population. However, the increase in births has fallen below expectations as young parents are worried about the extra financial burden. He Youlin, the lawmaker and former principal of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Middle School who previously proposed the two-child policy, advised the government to grant subsidies to and reduce the taxes of two-child families.

Certain kinds of autonomous vehicles may not be safe, especially in an emergency situation, according to a new study published by the Lords Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday. With driverless technology, drivers may become over-reliant and complacent. However, with the development in the automotive technology over time, accidents by human error may be significantly reduced -- but they just might increase before they do. The committee also reported people may use driverless cars for shorter distances, as well, causing laziness and may prevent them from "getting exercise by walking." The UK Economic Opportunity split vehicles into levels from 0 to 5. Zero was fully controlled by an individual, and five was completely automated. According to peers on the committee, there was a "very dangerous" problem with vehicles reaching the middle of the scale, BBC News reported.