BOSTON (Reuters) - The annual Def Con hacking convention has asked the federal government to stay away this year for the first time in its 21-year history, saying Edward Snowden's revelations have ...

BOSTON — White House officials concerned by AI chatbots' potential for societal harm and the Silicon Valley powerhouses rushing them to market are heavily invested in a three-day competition ending ...

“This is why we need thousands of people," said Rumman Chowdhury, a coordinator of the mass hacking event planned for this summer's DEF CON hacker convention in Las Vegas that's expected to draw ...

The Defcon convention, which recently wrapped up in Las Vegas, is a neutral field where customary adversaries -- feds vs. digital mavericks -- are supposed to share ideas about making the Internet a ...