US bipartisan group publishes laundry list of AI policy requests
Chair Jay Obernolte urges Congress to act – whether it will is another matter
AI + ML19 Dec 2024 | 9
Federal government of the United States
US reportedly mulls TP-Link router ban over national security risk
updated It could end up like Huawei -Trump's gonna get ya, get ya, get ya
Security18 Dec 2024 | 55
US airspace closures, lack of answers deepen East Coast drone mystery
Analysis Feds insist they still don't know what's happening – but note sightings cluster around airport flight paths
Offbeat17 Dec 2024 | 96
China gorging on silicon before Uncle Sam slams the door
Chip imports up more than 14% this year in anticipation of fresh restrictions
Systems11 Dec 2024 | 3
Elon Musk tops US political donor list with $270M+ for Team Trump
Plus, xAI scores another $6B to fuel Tesla tycoon's war on OpenAI
Public Sector07 Dec 2024 | 127
US senators propose law to require bare minimum security standards
In case anyone forgot about Change Healthcare
Security26 Nov 2024 | 15
Prepare for an AI policy upending under Trump, say experts
Analysis Biden executive orders are as good as dead, and the industry will probably have more say in what comes next
Public Sector21 Nov 2024 | 27
Congress ponders underwater alien civilizations, human hybrids, and other unexplained stuff
Video Because life's not weird enough in the United States these days
Science14 Nov 2024 | 48
All bark, no bite? Musk's DOGE unlikely to have any real power
Comment 'Department of Government Efficiency' expected to do little more than suggest changes, Congress will still decide
Public Sector14 Nov 2024 | 194
Flanked by Palantir and AWS, Anthropic's Claude marches into US defense intelligence
An emotionally manipulable AI in the hands of the Pentagon and CIA? Cool
AI + ML07 Nov 2024 | 4
Meta gives nod to weaponizing Llama – but only for the good guys
Change of mind follows discovery China was playing with it uninvited?
AI + ML06 Nov 2024 | 9
We know what Musk will probably dress up as this year: A victim
Updated Mr X ordered to show at Halloween hearing over election lottery as his lawyers file docs to dodge it
Offbeat31 Oct 2024 | 152
US lawmakers push DoJ to prosecute tax prep firms for leaking taxpayer data to big tech
TaxSlayer, H&R Block, TaxAct, and Ramsey Solutions accused of sharing info with Meta and Google
Security22 Oct 2024 | 6
US leans on Japan to curb sales of chipmaking equipment to China
Tokyo between a rock and a hard place as Beijing threatens to retaliate
Systems22 Oct 2024 | 5
GSA plows ahead with face matching tech despite its own reliability concerns
A week after saying remote ID verification tech is unreliable, the GSA is expanding access to other agencies
Software10 Oct 2024 | 3
DoE awards next-gen nuclear fuel contracts backwards
'Deconversion' can begin now, but initial enrichment, transportation and storage to processors is still TBD
Science08 Oct 2024 | 5
Remote ID verification tech is often biased, bungling, and no good on its own
Only 2 out of 5 tested products were equitable across demographics
Public Sector30 Sep 2024 | 10
Ancient US air traffic control systems won't get a tech refresh before 2030
Updated If they don't crash first, say government auditors
Off-Prem24 Sep 2024 | 41
AI giants pinky swear (again) not to help make deepfake smut
Oh look, another voluntary, non-binding agreement to do better
AI + ML13 Sep 2024 | 17
FTC urged to stop tech makers downgrading devices after you've bought them
Some brick devices they'd rather not support, kill apps that drive functions, or add post-sale subscriptions
Personal Tech06 Sep 2024 | 174
Trump taps Musk to lead 'government efficiency' task force
Surely this duty will be executed without bias toward NHTSA, FAA, DOJ, NLRB
Offbeat06 Sep 2024 | 146
White House’s new fix for cyber job gaps: Serve the nation in infosec
Now do your patriotic duty and fill one of those 500k open roles, please?
Security05 Sep 2024 | 21
House to grill CrowdStrike exec on epic IT meltdown... no, not the CEO
VP Adam Meyers to testify about that faulty software update which ruined July and some of August
Software02 Sep 2024 | 21
Zuckerberg admits Biden administration pressured Meta to police COVID posts
'The government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,' says Facebook founder
Personal Tech27 Aug 2024 | 182
Canceled meeting between US and UAE throws fresh scrutiny on Microsoft-G42 deal
All a simple misunderstanding, we're told
AI + ML31 Jul 2024 | 9
Kamala Harris's $7M support from LinkedIn founder comes with a request: Fire Lina Khan
FTC boss must be doing something right if folks will pay to get her binned
Public Sector26 Jul 2024 | 109
Oak Ridge casts nets in search of Frontier supercomputer's heir
US national lab expects Discovery to deliver 'three to five times more computational throughput'
HPC24 Jul 2024 | 9
Data pilfered from Pentagon IT supplier Leidos
Updated With numerous US government agency customers, any leak could be serious
Cyber-crime24 Jul 2024 | 2
Kamala Harris has a long history with Silicon Valley that could help – or hurt
Analysis The presumptive Democratic nominee has gone back and forth with Big Tech
Public Sector23 Jul 2024 | 51
Net neutrality in danger again: US appeals court puts FCC's resurrected rule on hold
'Likelihood of success is even clearer,' thanks to those Supremes
Networks15 Jul 2024 | 17
Engineers risk blasting US missile defense to smithereens, say auditors
Now the 2028 deadline is at risk
Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 20
US mayors urge Congress to ditch red-tape-slaying broadband expansion bill
What's the matter, you want China to win, huh?
Networks25 Jun 2024 | 17
From network security to nyet work in perpetuity: What's up with the Kaspersky US ban?
Kettle It's been a long time coming. Now our journos speak their brains
Security22 Jun 2024 | 44
US senators propose guardrails for government AI purchases and operations
Bill proposes appointment of chief AI officers, privacy safeguards, and lots of testing
Public Sector13 Jun 2024 | 2
Snowflake tells customers to enable MFA as investigations continue
infosec in brief Also, industry begs Uncle Sam for infosec reg harmony, dueling container-compromise campaigns, and crit vulns
Security10 Jun 2024 | 2
Brit tech tycoon Mike Lynch cleared of all charges in US Autonomy fraud trial
Jury in San Francisco finds founder plus finance VP not guilty
Software06 Jun 2024 | 131
Pentagon 'doubling down' on Microsoft despite 'massive hack,' senators complain
Meanwhile Mr Smith goes to Washington to testify before Congress
Public Sector04 Jun 2024 | 5
How's Uncle Sam getting on with Biden's AI exec order? Pretty good, we're told
Interview Former Pentagon deputy CIO Rob Carey tells us guardrails should steer Feds away from bad ML
Public Sector27 May 2024 | 7
US senators' AI roadmap aims for $32B in R&D spending
'Reads like it was written by Sam Altman and Big Tech lobbyists,' say critics
AI + ML15 May 2024 | 4
Senate AI roadmap's piecemeal legislation is ideal, says former FTC tech chief
interview Smaller bills mean more fine-grained control over vastly different AI products
AI + ML15 May 2024 | 2
Biden admin shells out $120M to return chip startup to US ownership
Korean-controlled silicon slinger could be coming back to the fold
Systems13 May 2024 | 7
Ex-White House election threat hunter weighs in on what to expect in November
Interview Spoiler alert: We're gonna talk about AI
Public Sector09 May 2024 | 36
MITRE promises a cute little 17-PFLOPS AI super for the rest of Uncle Sam's agencies
No child process left behind
HPC08 May 2024 | 1
Three years on from Biden infosec EO, and we're still trying to check all the boxes
interview It's taking time, but isn't a dead issue, US Government Accountability Office security director Marisol Cruz Cain says
Public Sector06 May 2024 |
Lights about to go out on US Affordable Connectivity Program
A partial benefit in May then subsidy gets unplugged once and for all
Networks02 May 2024 | 17
State-by-state is the best approach for right to repair, says advocacy leader
Interview Gay Gordon-Byrne of the Repair Association says US at least is nearing a tipping point
Personal Tech27 Apr 2024 | 41
Jensen Huang and Sam Altman among tech chiefs invited to federal AI Safety Board
Stacking the deck – we've heard of it
AI + ML26 Apr 2024 | 5
TikTok ban could escalate US-China trade war, ex-White House CIO tells The Reg
interview Doing business in Beijing? 'You need to do a what-if scenario'
Personal Tech26 Apr 2024 | 167
FCC votes 3-2 to bring net neutrality back from the dead
Law responds again to pings
Networks25 Apr 2024 | 16
Shouldn't Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking
Doctorow: 'The most amazing part is that this isn't already the way it's done'
Public Sector24 Apr 2024 | 29
Senate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell off TikTok – or face a US ban
Updated Somewhere in Beijing, someone's screaming: Mother, PFACAA!
Personal Tech24 Apr 2024 | 88
White House tweaks HIPAA to shield medical files of those seeking reproductive care
In theory, this should make it harder for states to compel data-sharing to enforce anti-abortion laws
Personal Tech24 Apr 2024 | 22
US House passes fresh TikTok ban proposal to Senate
Sadly no push to end stupid TikTok dances, but ByteDance would have year to offload app stateside
Security22 Apr 2024 | 37
Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director
Interview With little competition at the goverment level, Windows giant has no incentive to make its systems safer
Public Sector21 Apr 2024 | 121
Uncle Sam earmarks $54M of CHIPS funding for small-biz semiconductor boffinry
Up to 24 outfits to bag taxpayer cash for projects 'developing a viable product or service' for US chip industry
Public Sector17 Apr 2024 | 1
America may end up with paid-for 5G fast lanes under net neutrality anyway
Damn you, network virtualization
Networks17 Apr 2024 | 22
FCC to reinstate net neutrality in the US until someone decides to scrap it again
Pendulum returns to the Obama era – don't be surprised if it swings right back
Networks03 Apr 2024 | 19
US House of Reps tells staff: No Microsoft Copilot for you!
At least not until Redmond's government edition is ready to roll
Public Sector01 Apr 2024 | 10
Ex-White House CIO tells The Reg: TikTok ban may be diplomatic disaster
Interview Theresa Payton on why US needs a national privacy law
Public Sector01 Apr 2024 | 63
Congress votes unanimously to ban brokers selling American data to enemies
At least we can all agree on something
Security21 Mar 2024 | 19
US CHIPS Act set to electrify semiconductor scene with billions
National Strategy focuses on four goals for silicon heaven
Systems18 Mar 2024 | 9
Bernie Sanders clocks in with 4-day workweek bill thanks to AI and productivity tech
Don't start planning your long weekend yet – proposal is likely to be a hard sell in work-obsessed America
Offbeat15 Mar 2024 | 91
Biting the hand that feeds IT
