The Trump administration issued a revised executive order Tuesday focused on artificial intelligence, offering a significantly pared-back vision for the federal government’s role vetting AI systems compared to a draft version that was spiked weeks ago. The order keeps in place the administration’s largely voluntary framework for companies to engage with the federal government around…
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U.S. to Award Quantum-Computing Firms $2 Billion and Take Equity Stakes
The Trump administration hopes to spur “a new era of American innovation,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says.
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U.S. to Award Quantum Computing Firms $2 Billion and Take Equity Stakes
The Trump administration hopes to spur ‘a new era of American innovation,’ Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says.
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Biotech Investors Are Tuning Out the MAHA Chaos
The Food and Drug Administration is still in turmoil, but Wall Street no longer cares.
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DOJ releases legal rationale for nationwide voter data collection
The Trump administration released a legal opinion outlining the legal rationale behind its nationwide voter data collection efforts, justifying an aggressive federal role in vetting voter eligibility, a position courts have repeatedly rejected in related litigation. The memo, released Tuesday by the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, concedes that while election administration is…
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Trump officials are steering a cybersecurity scholarship program toward AI
The Trump administration is redirecting a cybersecurity scholarship program that requires recipients to work in government service toward artificial intelligence, leaving some current program scholars dismayed and bewildered. In an email to participating school program coordinators obtained by CyberScoop, the Office of Personnel Management and National Science Foundation said the CyberCorps Scholarship For Service program…
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Fake SSA Emails Drive Venomous#Helper Phishing Campaign
Venomous#Helper attackers impersonate the US Social Security Administration to deploy signed RMM software and maintain persistent access across US networks
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Anthropic Mythos spurs White House to weigh pre-release reviews for high-risk AI models
The Trump administration is in early discussions about whether advanced AI models should be vetted before public release, according to reporting from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Axios. The conversations center on systems capable of facilitating cyberattacks, particularly models that could help users identify and exploit software vulnerabilities. Officials are considering…
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Stronger Cybersecurity, Stronger Business: NIST Celebrates 2026 National Small Business Week
Happy National Small Business Week! For over 60 years, the U.S. Small Business Administration has led this initiative to acknowledge the critical contributions of America’s entrepreneurs and small business owners. Part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, NIST’s mission is to drive U.S. innovation and global competitiveness, and the small business community is central to…
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White House Opposes Anthropic’s Plan to Expand Access to Mythos Model
The relationship between the administration and the company is still complicated despite efforts from both sides to ease tensions.
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NASA Employees Duped in Chinese Phishing Scheme Targeting U.S. Defense Software
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has revealed how a Chinese national posed as a U.S. researcher as part of a spear-phishing campaign to obtain sensitive information from the space agency, as well as from government entities, universities, and private companies, in violation of export control…
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Washington Rewrites the Rules of Funding Technological Innovation
For decades, the federal government supported basic scientific research. The Trump administration is trying to change that.
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At David Sacks’s Behest, White House Barrels Forward on Industry-Friendly AI Policy
In the runup to the midterms, the Trump administration is planning to emphasize AI’s economic benefits , but some allies are warning of political blowback.
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Wyden warns Social Security chief: Trump’s voter database is ‘blatant voter suppression’
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., warned Social Security Administration chief Frank Bisignano that any follow-through on President Donald Trump’s executive order creating a new database of U.S. voters using agency data would be viewed by Democrats as a conscious choice on the part of SSA officials to participate in “blatant voter suppression.” “Facilitating Donald Trump’s directive…
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SystemRescue 13 updates its kernel to Linux 6.18 LTS, adds new recovery tools
Bootable Linux recovery environments occupy a specific niche in the systems administration and incident response toolkit. SystemRescue, an Arch-based live distribution built for repairing unbootable systems and recovering data from damaged drives, has shipped version 13.00 with a new long-term supported kernel, updated storage tools, and several additions to its command-line toolset. Kernel and storage…
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Trump’s federal AI policy framework aims to undercut state laws
US President Donald Trump’s administration today released its National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence: Legislative Recommendations, a document that reads less like the AI safety blueprints that states are increasingly adopting and more like a playbook for asserting federal control over AI governance. It is part of a coordinated push with congressional allies, most notably…
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Entro Security AGA brings governance and control to enterprise AI agents and access
Entro Security has launched its Agentic Governance & Administration (AGA), a new pillar of the Entro platform designed to help security and identity teams govern AI agents and AI access across enterprise systems. Applied to the new realities of AI-driven access, AGA brings governance back to fundamentals of inventory, ownership, least privilege, auditability, and enforcement…
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Trump administration isn’t pushing companies to conduct cyber offense, national cyber director says
National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said Tuesday that the Trump administration isn’t aspiring to enlist the private sector to conduct offensive cyber operations, but instead to help the government by keeping them abreast of the threats they’re facing. The recently-released national cyber strategy talks about incentivizing companies to disrupt the networks of adversaries. “I’m not…
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Nvidia-Backed AI Startup to Spend Billions on Korea Data Center to Combat China
The Trump administration is using AI chips and models as a tool for diplomacy and boosting U.S. allies.
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White House Cyber Strategy Prioritizes Offense
In a seven-page strategy document, the Trump administration signaled a shift to preemption and deterrence to handling cyber threats.
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Sean Cairncross lays out what’s coming next for Trump’s cyber strategy
The Trump administration is plotting an interagency body to confront malign hackers, pilot programs to secure critical infrastructure across states and other steps tied to its freshly-released cyber strategy, National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said Monday. The “interagency cell” will bring together agencies like the Justice Department, the Department of State, the FBI and the…
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New Social Security Scam Emails Use Fake Tax Documents to Hijack PCs
A new phishing campaign is targeting thousands in the US by posing as the Social Security Administration. Learn how scammers use fake 2025/2026 tax statements and Datto RMM software to hijack computers and steal data, as shared with Hackread.com
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New cyber module strengthens risk planning for health organizations
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response’s (ASPR) new cybersecurity module in the Risk Identification and Site Criticality (RISC) 2.0 Toolkit helps organizations identify critical gaps, prioritize investments, and make informed decisions about risk mitigation to reduce disruptions to patient care and strengthen resilience. Healthcare leaders identified cloud-related threats, quantum computing risks, and attacks on…
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Trump administration bans Anthropic, escalating clash over military use of AI
The Trump administration on Friday moved to ban the use of products from artificial intelligence company Anthropic by federal businesses, escalating a high-stakes clash over whether private AI makers can limit how the US military uses their systems. Calling Anthropic “Leftwing nut jobs,” President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post that he was…
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Apple plans to make Mac minis in the US
Illustrating the extent to which it is willing to work with the Trump Administration — and as President Donald J. Trump prepares for tonight’s State of the Union address — Apple now says it will begin to make Mac minis in Houston later this year. The Macs will be made at the same factory where the company now…
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KnowBe4 Launches AIDA Orchestration as the First Fully Autonomous Agent for Human Risk Management
New AI Agent From KnowBe4 Cuts Security Training Administration From Hours to Seconds
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ONCD official says Trump administration aims to bolster AI use for defense without increasing risk
The Trump administration wants to boost the use of artificial intelligence for security in a way that doesn’t increase the number of targets for adversaries to attack, a top official with the Office of the National Cyber Director said Thursday. The administration will “promote the rapid implementation of AI enabled cyber defensive tools to detect,…
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Anthropic Adds New Board Member as It Eyes IPO
The former Microsoft and GM executive Chris Liddell has previously worked for the Trump administration.
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Critics warn America’s ‘move fast’ AI strategy could cost it the global market
The Trump administration has made U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence a national priority, but some critics say a light-touch approach to regulating security and safety in U.S. models is making it harder to promote adoption in other countries. White House officials have said since taking office that Trump intended to move away from predecessor Joe…
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How the EU’s trade ‘bazooka’ could hit the US tech sector
When the Trump Administration threatened tariffs last month against countries looking to block any plan to annex Greenland, European leaders debated responding with the region’s trade “bazooka” – a retaliation mechanism that could target US tech firms selling into the European Union. The anti-coercion instrument, introduced in 2023 and so far unused, is designed to deter…