How Estonia Became a Model for Digital Democracy | Chinese creators use Midjourney's AI to generate retro urban "photography" | US indicts nine alleged members of Russian cybercrime gang that targeted hospitals | CNN Politics

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You Might Like � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium How Estonia Became a Model for Digital Democracy - Bloomberg    What if there were a country where politics had yet to be polarized by social media? One where most people not only choose to vote online, but freely provide their personal information to the government? A country that serves as a possible model for how digitalization can be used for something other than misinformation and cyberattacks? Such a place arguably exists, and its name is Estonia. From government services to taxes and education, the Baltic nation set about transforming itself into a 21st century model for digital democracy soon after the fall of the Soviet Union. On the first episode of the Bloomberg Originals series Exponentially With Azeem Azhar, Azhar sits down with Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, who shares how her government has sought to strengthen Estonian democracy by embracing technology. Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Chinese creators use Midjourney's AI to generate retro urban "photography" - MIT Technology Review    A recent update enabled the program to make better hands, more realistic Asian faces, and convincing vintage photographs. If you saw these images pop up on your timeline, would you be able to tell if they were real photographs of the southwestern city of Chongqing in the 1990s? In fact, none of them are real. Zhang Haijun, a street photographer in Chongqing, generated these images with Midjourney, an image-making artificial-intelligence program.  Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � US indicts nine alleged members of Russian cybercrime gang that targeted hospitals | CNN Politics - CNN    The US Justice Department on Thursday announced indictments against nine men for working for a notorious cybercriminal network with alleged ties to Russian intelligence and which held US hospitals for ransom and reaped over $100 million in payments. It's the culmination of a years-long FBI investigation into a ransomware gang that pledged allegiance to Russia as it launched its assault on Ukraine last year, and whose members have allegedly discussed hacking a journalist investigating the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny. The nine men - eight Russians and a Ukrainian, according to the charging documents - remain at large, but US officials are hoping a multimillion-dollar rewards program run by the State Department can lead to tips on the men's whereabouts if and when they leave Russia. Continued here

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