The sale of 23andMe’s DNA database underscores the need to ban the transaction of Americans’ genetic data as a corporate asset. In March, 23andMe, once heralded as a revolutionary consumer genetics company,…
Attackers in cyberspace have long held system-wide advantages. Fighting back requires measuring progress. On June 6, President Trump signed an executive order to “reprioritize cybersecurity efforts to protect America,” outlining a rough agenda “to…
Data reveals AI researchers in US, UK and EU all have China as their strongest collaborator China is outstripping the rest of the world in artificial intelligence research at a time when…
Copyright law—a byzantine world in which millions ride on whether ‘Ice Ice Baby’ sounds too much like ‘Under Pressure’—rarely has much to say about geopolitics. But two pivotal AI copyright court decisions last week,…
A 1955 congressional report on automation offers a blueprint for AI governance: Focus on economic growth, human development, and adaptation. In October 1955, as the American economy hummed with postwar prosperity and factories across…
U.S. adversaries are exploiting technology to expose FBI operations, revealing the Bureau’s failure to respond to a networked world. In 2011 Hezbollah apprehended a group of CIA informants based in Beirut. After obtaining access…
AI experts face security risks as geopolitical targets. It’s time to consider protection programs similar to witness security to safeguard critical talent. Editor’s Note: This article was informed by participation in the AI…
You wake up in the morning and, first thing, you open your weather app. You close that pesky ad that opens first and check the forecast. You like your weather app, which…
Some unusual witnesses helped convict Alex Murdaugh of the murders of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul. The first was Bubba, Maggie’s yellow Labrador retriever. Prosecutors used a recording of Bubba to…
A new handbook from the University of Vaasa, Finland, offers a user-friendly resource to enhance cybersecurity resilience in the energy sector Inconsistent cybersecurity practices in organisations pose a threat to the energy…
