Cyber Command touts AI-driven gains in cybersecurity, network monitoring

Executive Director Morgan Adamski said the agency’s use of generative AI tools has reduced the timeframe for analyzing malicious traffic from days and weeks to hours and minutes. 

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Dispersed responsibility, lack of asset inventory is causing gaps in medical device cybersecurity

As medical devices are bought and re-sold on the secondary market, they become harder to find and patch when a new vulnerability is discovered, a doctor told House lawmakers.

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Democratic groups sue to block Trump administration’s elections order

The lawsuit casts much of the order as broadly illegal and outside the scope of the executive branch’s constitutional powers.

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Democratic FTC Commissioners file lawsuit against Trump over attempted firings

The lawsuit asks the court to declare the president’s actions unlawful and affirm Bedoya and Slaughter’s statutory rights to serve out the remainder of their seven-year terms.

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Commerce limits 19 Chinese, Taiwanese companies from buying U.S. tech

The sanctions place the companies under a strict licensing regime meant to limit their access to foundational technology for quantum computing, cloud and AI.

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Trump issues executive order seeking greater federal control of elections 

The order seeks to withhold federal funding from states that don’t comply, sparking a heated backlash from legal and election experts.

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FCC’s Carr alleges Chinese companies are making ‘end run’ around Chinese telecom bans, announces investigation 

The FCC commissioner said letters of inquiry and at least one subpoena have been sent to Chinese-owned companies.

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Trump moves to fire Democratic FTC commissioners

The move, which critics say is unconstitutional, also potentially threatens numerous agency investigations and enforcement around privacy and cybersecurity.

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