Lawmakers want AI kill switches, but who pulls the trigger, what it shuts off, and when it’s justified remain dangerously unclear. Highly capable artificial intelligence (AI) systems have sparked concerns about catastrophic…
Americans are the targets of covert foreign malign influence. Helping them understand how it works should be part of how we defend the country. Given the federal government’s dismantling of the machinery…
Anyone buying a new smartphone usually wants to transfer their data from their old device quickly and easily. However, moving the digital contents of their phone is often more dangerous than people…
Researchers at POSTECH have developed a fingerprint authentication technology that eliminates the need to digitally store or compare biometric data, potentially reducing the risk of sensitive information being compromised. Using ultrasound and…
Did Ukrainian strikes on Yandex silence Russian bots? The evidence doesn’t show it, and shrinking data access makes it harder to check. A viral story has been circulating on social media over…
The Trump administration’s AI framework not yet been publicly released. This has left many open questions, including about which models it covers, who has access to the framework, and whether it precludes…
From overlapping operations to the IT Army’s internal split, new clues shed light on the Cyber Corps’ ties to the GUR. By the summer of 2024, the Ukrainian military intelligence service (GUR)…
AI may help, but nonprofits still face an uphill battle in allocating resources for extensive investigations into human rights abuses. In September 2022, a hacktivist group known as Guacamaya, which targets “extractive…
When people think about what ChatGPT or other large language models are doing behind the scenes, it’s common to reach for the language of computing. You might assume there is a database,…
Generative AI can increase the quantity and quality of malign foreign influence campaigns. However, questions remain as to whether these campaigns influence public opinion. Iranian state propagandists have been using Claude to…
