Cyber – AI risks

China allows driverless taxis; first permits issued
China has given the go-head to driverless taxis on open roads
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Sydney University in robotics tie-up
Reach Robotics and the University of Sydney’s School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering (AMME) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
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US seeks to tidy up space debris
With the Earth’s orbit growing more crowded with satellites, a US government agency is to begin revising decades-old rules on getting rid of space debris
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Are you unnerved yet?
Is it just me? Are things starting to become really unnerving?
As we write this week, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has said that the situation at Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant, occupied Zaporizhzhia, “is completely out of control” and is getting more dangerous each day
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Germany’s Semikron hit by ransomware attack
German electronics manufacturer Semikron has disclosed that it was hit by a ransomware attack that partially encrypted the company’s network
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InsurTech funding recovers in Q2
Global investment in the InsurTech sector of well over $2 billion in Q2 2022 was 8% greater than the total in Q1, but still 50% below 2021’s record-breaking second quarter, according to analysis by Gallagher Re
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