To improve cybersecurity, open source software should not be completely exempt from software liability. A key and occasionally fiery thread of the debate around software liability has been the role of open source software. Most modern…
Federal courts may eliminate Fourth Amendment protections for cell phone data based on dubious claims about Google’s Location History. On May 20, 2019, Okello Chatrie robbed a bank in Midlothian, Virginia. Wearing…
A group with ties to the Ukrainian government is breaching the email accounts of Russian military officers, politicians, and civilians. The Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, has led to…
The recent cybersecurity catastrophe that wasn’t reveals an untenable situation, one being exploited by malicious actors. Last week, the internet dodged a major nation-state attack that would have had catastrophic cybersecurity repercussions…
Have you ever wondered how an email sent from New York arrives in Sydney in mere seconds, or how you can video chat with someone on the other side of the globe…
Volt Typhoon is a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group. The United States government and its primary global intelligence partners, known as the Five Eyes, issued a warning on March 19, 2024, about the…
The idea for Fawn Ngo’s latest research came from a television interview. Ngo, a University of South Florida criminologist, had spoken with a Vietnamese language network in California about her interest in…
The immaturity of the AI measurement and evaluation ecosystem is a significant roadblock to the implementation of the Biden administration’s AI procurement priorities. Government procurement and deployment isn’t the most headline-grabbing policy…
Compute governance is a particularly important approach to AI governance because it is feasible. Computing power—compute, for short—is a key driver of artificial intelligence (AI) progress. Over the past 13 years, the…
Disinformation is only a symptom of a much larger problem. Democracies around the world are encountering unique challenges with the rise of new technologies. Experts continue to debate how social media has…