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Brentwood, NY
Police & Fire
'Tis The Season For Scammers: AI Voices Increasingly Used To Victimize New Yorkers
Police are sounding the alarm about a clever new way scammers are targeting New York residents this holiday season. In a warning issued Thursday, Nov. 16, Suffolk County Police on Long Island said scammers are increasingly using fake voices that are generated by artificial intelligence (AI) to dupe victims out of their money. To pull off the “spoofing” scam, criminals use AI tools to clone the voices of people who post on social media and then call their relatives pretending to be them. Police highlighted a recent example in which an 85-year-old Hauppauge man got a call from someone posing…
Elizabeth, NJ
Police & Fire
Westfield Students Made
Ai-g
enerated Nude Images Of Female Classmates: Officials
The Westfield School District said it is investigating after male students made AI-generated nude images of their female classmates. Mary Ann McGann, a spokeswoman for the district, said the incident took place over the summer and was brought to the attention of administrators on Friday, Oct. 20. The Wall Street Journal first reported the story on Thursday, Nov. 2. The administration began an immediate investigation and police were notified, McGann said. All the images have been deleted and are not being circulated, Principal Mary Asfendis said in an e-mail to parents. Citing confide…
Massapequa, NY
News
'Deepfake' Targeted Law Proposed By NY DA
A New York district attorney has unveiled a plan to propose new legislation that would protect citizens in the event that their personal images are digitally manipulated for sexual content. Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly hopes that her proposal, called the “Digital Manipulation Protection Act,” would close any loopholes left open by the current New York State law. The proposal was announced Tuesday, April 18, alongside the news that a 22-year-old Seaford man had been sentenced for stealing and manipulating underage girls’ photos for use on a pornographic website. Earl…
Fairfield, CT
News
Fairfield U’s StartUp Showcase Brings ‘Shark Tank’ Intensity, Possibility To Student Startups
Think of it as "Shark Tank" but on a smaller scale. Five Fairfield University student teams pitched their business ideas to a panel of five business experts before a live audience at Fairfield University’s annual StartUp Showcase on Tuesday, April 18. The celebration of student entrepreneurship and innovation was held at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts in Fairfield and hosted by the Charles F. Dolan School of Business at Fairfield University. “This year we had a great mix of products and big ideas,” said StartUp Program Director Chris Huntley, Ph.D. Several teams spent last seme…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
News
Student In Glen Rock Among Those Receiving Mass Shooting Threat From Upstate NY: Police
A threat of a mass shooting at a middle school in New York State last week somehow made its way to Glen Rock, where authorities said a student received a disturbing message. The Glen Rock High School student went directly to administrators before the day began last Thursday, March 23, to report it, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. The threat involved what the chief called “a potential act of violence” at a middle school nearly 75 miles north, in the Putnam County, NY, town of Carmel. "Hello! Would you like to be a part of a GFMS mass shooting?" sources said a TikTok friend request asked. …
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Lifestyle
NJ's Livvy Dunne Promoting AI For Essay Writing On TikTok Prompts Response From LSU
Officials at Louisiana State University are apparently cautioning students after sensational gymnast and NJ native Livvy Dunne posted a TikTok promoting an educational artificial intelligence tool. Dunne, a Hillsdale native with more than 7.2 million TikTok followers, last month posted the TikTok video promoting Caktus AI. "Need to get my creativity flowing for my essay due at midnight," Dunne says in the clip. By the end of the video, Caktus AI writes an entire essay for her. Caktus markets itself as the "first ever educational artificial intelligence tool. It allows you to automate all o…
Mahopac, NY
Schools
Students At HS In Hudson Valley Impersonated Administrators, Police In Racist Videos, BOE Says
Several students at a high school in the Hudson Valley used artificial intelligence to impersonate both school district administrators and police in racist videos on social media, officials said. The videos were created by students in Putnam County who go to Carmel High School, the Carmel Central School District's Board of Education announced on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 15. Both Carmel Central School District administrators and members of the Putnam County Sheriff's Office were impersonated in the videos, which contained inappropriate and racist content and were posted on TikTok…
Briarcliff, NY
Lifestyle
Book Review: Are Relationships and the World Better Off When Technology Facilitates Change?
Edison in the Hood by Nadia Uddin If you had the opportunity to ask the dearly departed questions, to retract those last words said in anger, to tell them you love them, would you? Can technology solve personal communication problems? Can it solve the social ills of the world? Those questions may seem unrelated, yet they are woven into one story, Nadia Uddin’s first published novel, Edison in the Hood (October 2020). Uddin quite successfully makes the reader care about the siblings with her careful and empathetic prose. The book opens in a future not too far from our own where technology …
Arlington, VA
Business
New Amazon Fresh Store Opens In Arlington
A new Amazon Fresh grocery store has opened in Arlington. It's the first location in Arlington County for the chain and is part of the company's push into Northern Virginia. The newest Amazon Fresh opened in Crystal City — 1550 Crystal Drive — on Thursday, July 7. Amazon announced its plans for the location in May. The 16,000-square-feet is open from 7 a.m. until 10 p.m. The newest location includes the chain's most-talked-about feature — the Just Walk Out system. If you're unfamiliar, Just Walk Out is what it sounds like. Shoppers get their groceries and can skip the check…
Arlington, VA
Business
Amazon Fresh Plans NoVA Store Opening
Shoppers in Crystal City will have more options for their groceries this summer as a new Amazon Fresh is set to open. Company officials told ArlNow they were finishing work on the 1550 Crystal Drive location. Though, exactly when this summer it will open is hazy. “We haven’t confirmed an exact opening date yet, but we can confirm it will open this summer,” a company spokesperson told the website. This will be the first Amazon Fresh store in Arlington County. But another one is planned in Alexandria only a few miles away, the report added. The report also confi…
White Plains, NY
News
Covid-
19: Study Discovers Link Between Virus, Brain Changes Seen In Alzheimer’s
Scientists from across the world will present their findings on how COVID-19 affects the brain this week amid a new study that has identified mechanisms by which COVID can lead to Alzheimer’s disease-like dementia. The scientists are meeting at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference, which gets underway in Denver on Monday, July 26. Research that has been conducted up till now has been concerning. A Cleveland Clinic study discovered a link between infections of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) and brain changes that are commonly seen in those with Alzheim…
Brentwood, NY
Business
Robots May Be Coming After White Collar Jobs Like 'Phil In Accounting,' New Report Says
In the past, when people thought about “computers taking jobs away from real people” most pictured manufacturing processes and call centers becoming robotized. While we have seen that, it’s not the only way robots are replacing people at work. Less visible are the robotics and artificial intelligence taking over white-collar jobs in fields like accounting and human resources, The New York Times just reported in an analysis of the workplace. In some studies, algorithms outperform lawyers and doctors. “The trend — quietly building for years, but accelerating to warp speed since the pan…
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