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…
After costly misses on semiconductors and 5G, the United States needs to level up its analysis of long-term technology trends to better anticipate threats and secure its leadership. Just over 50 years…
Review of “Israel and the Cyber Threat: How the Startup Nation Became a Global Cyber Power” by Charles D. Freilich, Matthew S. Cohen, and Gabi Sabonoi. “Israel and the Cyber Threat” is…
