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Biden issues sweeping executive order that touches AI risk, deepfakes, privacy

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 53 with On Monday, President Joe Biden issued an executive order on AI that outlines the federal government’s first comprehensive regulations on generative AI systems. The order includes testing mandates for advanced AI models to ensure they can’t be used for creating weapons, suggestions for watermarking AI-generated media,… Read More: Biden issues sweeping executive order that touches AI risk, deepfakes,… »

Private AI summit with senators, titans of tech garners controversy

Enlarge / Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrive to the Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023. Getty Images reader comments 58 with On Wednesday, US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) hosted an “AI Insight Forum” in the Senate’s office building about… Read More: Private AI summit with senators, titans of tech garners controversy »

AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling for action

reader comments 159 with On Wednesday, American attorneys general from all 50 states and four territories sent a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to establish an expert commission to study how generative AI can be used to exploit children through child sexual abuse material (CSAM). They also call for expanding existing laws against CSAM to… Read More: AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling… »

US federal agency fails to respond to reports it has been backdoored

reader comments 5 with 5 posters participating, including story author Share this story A US federal agency has been hosting a backdoor that can provide total visibility into and complete control over the agency network, and the researchers who discovered it have been unable to engage with the administrators responsible, security firm Avast said on… Read More: US federal agency fails to respond to reports it has… »

The State Department and 3 other US agencies earn a D for cybersecurity

reader comments 47 with 35 posters participating Share this story Cybersecurity at eight federal agencies is so poor that four of them earned grades of D, three got Cs, and only one received a B in a report issued Tuesday by a US Senate Committee. “It is clear that the data entrusted to these eight… Read More: The State Department and 3 other US agencies earn a… »

~18,000 organizations downloaded backdoor planted by Cozy Bear hackers

reader comments 90 with 51 posters participating Share this story About 18,000 organizations around the world downloaded network management tools that contained a backdoor that a nation state used to install malware in organizations the used the software, the tools provider, SolarWinds, said on Monday. The disclosure from Austin, Texas-based SolarWinds, came a day after… Read More: ~18,000 organizations downloaded backdoor planted by Cozy Bear hackers »