Rather than continue waiting for Congress to act, the executive branch is right to pursue measures targeting some of the lowest-hanging national security risks posed by data brokerage. On Feb. 28, President…
A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is using artificial intelligence to address several critical shortcomings in large-scale malware analysis, making significant advancements in the classification of Microsoft Windows malware and…
Insurers argue that a government backstop would help them cover catastrophic cyberattacks, but it’s not so simple. In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether…
Today Signal makes phone numbers private and rolls out usernames—a historic, overdue step to protect users. On Saturday night, we had dinner with Meredith Whittaker, the president of Signal, an encrypted messaging…
In abandoning long-held tenets of digital trade, Washington is broadly aligning with the EU’s belief in greater room for regulation of Big Tech. When the United States and the European Union began…
By integrating an ensemble of privacy-preserving algorithms, a KAUST research team has developed a machine-learning approach that addresses a significant challenge in medical research: How to use the power of artificial intelligence…
The U.S. has signaled its intent to assert international influence over AI regulation, marking a departure from previous disengagement with data privacy standards. Policymakers around the world took significant steps toward regulating artificial intelligence (AI)…
New survey findings and efforts to identify the most impactful security controls underscore the need for an empirical approach to defining—and promoting—security-by-design. Security-by-design is not a new idea. By some reckoning, it…
As artificial intelligence technology advances, one area lags behind: voice-activated AI. For the more than 80 million people who stutter, voice AI technologies, which are increasingly being used in job hiring practices,…
Forthcoming cybersecurity rules for federal contractors increase not only the requirements contractors have to follow but also the regulatory reach of federal agencies. In October 2023, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council proposed…
