Under the order, Trump directed the National Security Agency to set up a classified benchmarking process to determine the threshold for designating an AI model as a “covered frontier model.” The NSA must also collaborate with the US Treasury Department and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to establish a “cybersecurity clearinghouse” to scan and patch vulnerabilities at scale, as well as a voluntary framework for AI developers to submit models for safety testing. Critics have pointed out, however, that the text of the EO makes it clear how unprepared the government is
Trump plan to test AI models has a problem—US security teams were gutted by DOGE… He concluded that the EO “may yield short-term cybersecurity benefits,” but the “long-term effect” remains “unclear.” Nguyen suggested the EO takes necessary steps to create “classified cyber benchmarking, voluntary prerelease evaluation, and coordinated vulnerability scanning” that “the national s… …
… When conducting tests, CAISI frequently gains access to models with “reduced or removed safeguards,” which CAISI said allowed them to more “thoroughly evaluate national security-related capabilities and risks.” Through the evaluations, the government will also gain a better understanding of model c… …
… Trump’s next moves on AI safety in the US won’t just be closely watched by officials within his administration concerned about national security risks—which apparently includes Vice President JD Vance, who said on Wednesday that the administration was prioritizing “protecting people’s data” and “pe… …
… The hackers reported their exploit failing against any accounts that had enabled multifactor authentication MFA , including the “least robust form of MFA that Instagram offers” in the form of one-time codes sent through SMS, according to KrebsOnSecurity . …
… Mary Edly-Allen, another co-sponsor, said her goal was to put “minimal guardrails in place” to ensure AI can be a “powerful tool for good.” By passing the law, Edly-Allen suggested that Illinois was creating a “roadmap for responsible innovation to prevent catastrophic risks” rather than an obstacl… …
… VPNs themselves can create privacy and security problems. “The VPNs that children are incentivized to use pose privacy and security risks. …
… Barnacle, Jr., assistant director in charge of the New York FBI field office, confirmed that his agents would continue investigating similar cases. “This predatory conduct represents a disturbing abuse of technology that inflicts emotional harm on victims, violating their privacy, dignity, and secu… …
… Likely, officials in Taiwan are having “complex conversations” about “how to placate Trump,” Schiffer said, while coming to terms with the “new world” in which the US can’t afford to defend Taiwan’s “Silicon Shield” forever. “Obviously Taipei wants to maintain market share,” Schiffer said. “But Tai… …
… XFRA nodes spread across suburbia could become more vulnerable to certain data security threats than centralized data centers. “Many side-channel attacks require physical proximity to the machine, which data centers can guard against,” Lee said. “Distributed GPUs in individual homes are much more d… …
… Also raising red flags for the FCC were Musk’s demands that journalists get access to internal systems for the “Twitter Files” as well as a text from Musk insisting that an executive assistant gain access to systems “immediately,” threatening that “anybody standing in the way” would “be fired.” In … …
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