Collaborate Disseminate
Chair Ferguson cited the E.U.’s Digital Service Act and the U.K.’s Online Safety Act as statutes that incentivize U.S. tech companies “to censor speech, including speech outside of Europe.”
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The provisions mentioned by the president, such as banning mail-in voting and voting machines, are viewed by many experts as plainly unconstitutional.
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A district appeals court ruled that the FCC “correctly determined” that telecoms had a duty to protect customer location data that was sold and later misused by third parties.
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The rules, introduced during the Biden administration, would force telecoms to notify customers when their personally identifiable information is exposed in a hack.
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OpenAI and Microsoft have said that GPT-5 is one of their safest and secure models out of the box yet. An AI red-teamer called its performance “terrible.”
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The agency said the cables responsible for powering that data explosion must be protected from acts of foreign sabotage.
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The flaw, disclosed a month after it was patched, provided an attacker with remote code execution privileges by poisoning the data ingested by the model.
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Sen. Alex Padilla and other Democrats say the GOP is pressing inflated concerns about noncitizen voting to justify legal and legislative challenges to eligible voters.
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The findings are part of a growing list of instances where “agentic” AI software has taken actions that are more akin to a malicious hacker than a helpful AI assistant.
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Researchers in California contacted data brokers in their state to exercise their rights under the California Privacy Protection Act. Many didn’t reply, while others threw up barriers.
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