WASHINGTON — In a landmark development for international cybercrime enforcement, a 44-year-old Ukrainian national was sentenced Thursday to four years in federal prison for his instrumental role in the Conti ransomware enterprise. Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko, also known as Alexsey Alexseevich Litvinenko, stood before a U.S. court to face the consequences of a cybercriminal campaign that […]
The Ghost in the Machine: Has 75 Years of AI Research Been a Philosophical Detour?
For three-quarters of a century, the trajectory of artificial intelligence has been steered by the North Star of Alan Turing. His seminal 1950 paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, did more than propose a benchmark for machine thought; it laid the foundation for the modern digital age. However, according to Peter J. Denning, a distinguished computer […]
