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Read More »Sora, OpenAI’s generative video app, is history. Here’s what that means for the firm’s future
Just six months ago, OpenAI was touting the latest version of its generative AI video model Sora as “the beginning of a completely new era” for creators, one it said would bring “a lot of joy, creativity and connection to the world.” But Sora — a platform that could generate …
Read More »WestJet dealing with ‘cybersecurity incident’ impacting access to internal systems, app
WestJet is alerting its employees and the public about a “cybersecurity incident” involving the Calgary-based airline’s internal systems and app. In a news release on Friday, the airline said several people trying to access its services have faced “restricted access” as a result of the incident. “We have activated specialized internal teams in co-operation …
Read More »Company that worked on ArriveCan app barred from government contracts for 7 years
Ottawa says it has banned the largest contractor that worked on the ArriveCan app from entering into contracts or real property agreements with the government for seven years. Public Services and Procurement Canada has announced that GC Strategies Inc. has been deemed “ineligible” after an assessment of the supplier’s conduct. …
Read More »‘Time for you to abandon the United States’: Asylum seekers who used app being told to leave
Migrants who were temporarily allowed to live in the United States by using an online appointment app have been told to leave the country “immediately,” officials said Monday. It was unclear how many beneficiaries would be affected. More than 900,000 people were allowed in the country using the CBP One …
Read More »What is Signal, the messaging app Trump team used to share war plans?
Top Trump administration officials used messaging app Signal to share war plans and mistakenly included a journalist in the encrypted chat, spurring calls by Democratic lawmakers for a congressional investigation into the security breach. Under U.S. law, it can be a crime to mishandle, misuse or abuse classified information, though …
Read More »Deepseek removed from South Korea’s app stores over privacy concerns
DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, has temporarily paused downloads of its chatbot apps in South Korea while it works with local authorities to address privacy concerns, South Korean officials said Monday. South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission said DeepSeek’s apps were removed from the local versions of Apple’s App …
Read More »A new app is helping to rescue veterans’ stories from fading memories
In July 1944, gunner Walter Chater — serving with the Royal Canadian Artillery in Normandy — learned that one of his four brothers, Eric, had also survived the D-Day invasion and was stationed just a few kilometres away. Chater was a motorcycle dispatch rider, doing the dangerous work of ferrying messages at high speed …
Read More »CBSA plans to use facial recognition app to track deportations: documents – National
The Canada Border Services Agency plans to implement an app that uses facial recognition technology to keep track of people who have been ordered to be deported from the country. The mobile reporting app would use biometrics to confirm a person’s identity and record their location data when they use …
Read More »Crowdsourcing app helps prove endangered snail still on Canada’s mainland
It was thought the Shagreen snail could only be found in Canada on Middle Island and Pelee Island in Lake Erie, but photographs uploaded to a crowdsourcing nature app have proved the endangered snail is on the mainland, just outside of Woodstock, Ont. Scott Gillingwater, species at risk biologist with …
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