Generative artificial intelligence is a specialized field of artificial intelligence that uses generative models to produce text and other forms of data. Sometimes called GenAI, these models learn the patterns and structures of vast amounts of data and then use that information to produce new data based on natural language ...
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On May 5, 2021, Diexin Liu was moving from Calgary, Alberta, to Toronto, Ontario, when he was stopped by a highway patrol officer near Swift Current, Saskatchewan. He was arrested when the officer saw unstamped tobacco in the vehicle. And a search turned up five kilograms of cannabis. Convicted by ...
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Former FBI director James Comey has been charged with lying to the United States Congress in a case that deepens concerns that the Department of Justice is being weaponized in pursuit of public figures regarded as political enemies by President Donald Trump. The indictment was filed as the White House ...
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The prawn fishery is highly regulated throughout British Columbia to ensure sustainability, conservation and protection. Licences are required for commercial and recreational prawn fishing. Communal fishing licences may also be issued to First Nations as defined in the regulations. That is the backdrop of a recent ruling from the British ...
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The proliferation of manslaughter charges against drug traffickers has revealed the extent to which overdose mortality has been mobilized by law enforcement, prosecutors and the judiciary in the pursuit of these charges. The opioid crisis has also been used to justify a shift in sentencing policy particularly in cases of ...
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What is the relationship between the right to counsel and the police power to strip search incidental to arrest? That question was recently answered by the Ontario Court of Appeal in the case of an Etobicoke man convicted of importing heroin. A second opportunity to call a lawyer must be ...
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Social engineering relies on trickery and persuasion rather than technologically skillful cyber attacks. Threat actors who use social engineering tactics don't exploit systems. They exploit trust. They hack people. Deploying tactics of psychological manipulation targeting human vulnerability threat actors continue to experiment with artificially intelligent tools to enhance realism and ...
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The playbook was simple. Purchase legitimate medical supply companies enrolled in Medicare and use them as shells to submit a flood of bogus claims for durable medical equipment. The scheme didn't need phony patients. The stolen identities of a million people were used to submit claims under real names. But ...
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The relentless collection of personal data is a persistent threat to privacy and freedom in the evolving era of artificial intelligence. The privacy implications of web scraping, social media monitoring and harvesting of biometric data are far-reaching and undermine the right to personal autonomy. Maintaining control over personal information is ...
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The United States Department of Justice has filed a civil forfeiture complaint alleging that North Korean information technology workers obtained illegal employment and generated millions for the North Korean government as a means to avoid U.S. sanctions. The U.S. government was able to freeze and seize over $7.74 million tied ...
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