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The agency dedicated to protecting new innovations prohibited almost all internal use of GenAI tools, though employees can still participate in controlled experiments.

Donald Trump’s approach to Big Tech has oscillated between calls for stricter regulations for some players and a hands-off approach for others. Here’s how he might steer tech policy in a second term.

A report distributed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that financially motivated cybercriminals are more likely to attack US election infrastructure than state-backed hackers.

Russia, Iran, and China are targeting the U.S. election with an evolving array of influence operations in the last days of campaign season.

In a new copyright lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity, Dow Jones and the New York Post argue that hallucinating fake news and attributing it to real papers is illegal.

Wired GPS jamming in the northern Norway county of Finnmark is so constant that Norwegian authorities decided last month they would no longer log when and where it happens—accepting these disturbance signals as the new normal. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, jamming has dramatically increased across Europe’s eastern edges, with authorities accusing […]

Wired A coalition of human rights groups has launched legal action against the French government over its use of algorithms to detect miscalculated welfare payments, alleging the algorithms discriminate against the disabled and single mothers. The algorithm, used since the 2010s, violates EU privacy rules and French anti-discrimination laws, the groups said. From “Algorithms That […]

Human rights groups have launched a new legal challenge against the use of algorithms to detect error and fraud in France’s welfare system, amid claims that single mothers are disproportionately affected.

The hack exposed the data of 31 million users as the embattled Wayback Machine maker scrambles to stay online and contain the fallout of digital—and legal—attacks