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Microsoft has dealt a significant blow to a sprawling cybercrime network, collaborating with Japan's National Police Agency to dismantle Chinese-language criminal app stores including the YAM Store and CoGUI. These platforms were linked to over a billion malicious messages targeting victims across more than one hundred fifty countries.
Closer to home, Library and Archives Canada is drawing a firm line around AI-generated content, updating its ISBN policy to restrict book numbers being assigned to literary works created using artificial intelligence. The move signals growing institutional concern about copyright integrity and what actually counts as human authorship in the publishing world.
And on the AI frontier, a research team has released Carbon-X, an open fourteen-billion parameter language model built specifically to understand and generate DNA sequences. Published through HuggingFace's biology division, it represents a meaningful step toward using large language models not for text, but for the code of life itself.
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