Tokyo University professor calls for blanket ban on AI use by young people
Kuniyoshi Sakai, a language brain scientist, says students are submitting AI-written work without guilt and that classroom AI amounts to a reckless human experiment.
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SoftBank chief apologizes as IDC Frontier breach ran just seven minutes
Junichi Miyagawa said the attack exploited a flaw in open-source software the company had never checked, and that stopping services to cut off intruders now takes priority.
SoftBank's Miyakawa says he is 'honestly exhausted' as cyberattacks hit 700 million a month
The telecom group raised its full-year forecast on a record first half, then turned its earnings briefing to the AI-driven attacks it says are growing every week.
Japan's firms are 'data drunks,' privacy law expert says, as leaks mount
Hiroshi Miyashita of Chuo University says companies collect personal data they do not need and will not delete, and that keeping less would be the best defense against cyberattacks.
Japan's AI 'resurrected dead' market stays small as China races ahead
A cultural anthropologist studying services that recreate the dead with generative AI says Chinese use spread fast under early rules, while Japanese users treat the technology as a kind of altar.
Calligraphers in Hokkaido welcome UNESCO listing, vow to protect the hand-written art
Practitioners say recognition for shodo comes as the number of enthusiasts falls and AI reshapes how writing is made.
Japan unveils emergency cyber measures, pledges bigger police and SDF response units
A cabinet meeting on Nov 6 approved a package to tighten corporate basics and strengthen "proactive cyber defense," after a run of breaches blamed on weak systems and misconfigured websites.
Japan to set up cyberattack 'rescue body' as known flaws go unfixed
The government will announce emergency measures on Nov. 6, including a push to close vulnerabilities firms already knew about and defenses built on high-performance AI.
Japan panel charts a smaller, still-affluent future as population falls
The first meeting of a 14-member expert council set the goal of a society that keeps both growth and security even as the population shrinks, with the strategy due by the end of the year.
AI replicas of the dead spread with no rules, ethicist warns
Keisuke Sato of Sophia University says services that recreate lost relatives raise questions about consent, dignity and who profits — and Japan is answering none of them.
Nikkei slips below 60,000 as AI trade wobbles after US midterms
A 9% drop in Nvidia led a selloff that erased the Dow's gains, and a Democratic sweep has investors rethinking data-center bets.
Japan names 28 products and technologies as priorities in growth plan
Semiconductors, dual-use technology and physical AI are among the items the government will treat as priorities in a growth strategy it aims to finish by the end of the year.
Japan government warns website and app operators after repeated data leaks
The National Cybersecurity Office says it found multiple cases where basic safeguards were missing, and that AI is likely helping attackers find weak systems at scale.
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