In the News

• Verizon employee compromises personal data of 63,000 colleagues
  2/7/2024 – CS Online
• States Crack Down on Social Media for Teens: ‘There Are No Guardrails’
  2/7/2024 – The Wall Street Journal
• Crypto ransom attack payments hit record $1 billion in 2023 - Chainalysis
  2/7/2024 – Reuters
• Biden administration names a director of the new AI Safety Institute
  2/7/2024 – AP News
• Texas Company Was Behind Voter Robocalls That Impersonated Biden, N.H. Says
  2/6/2024 – The New York Times
• ‘A privacy nightmare’: the $400m surveillance package inside the US immigration bill
  2/6/2024 – The Guardian
• White House renews calls on Congress to extend internet subsidy program
  2/6/2024 – AP News
• Britain, France lead 35 nation agreement on controlling spyware, mercenary hackers
  2/6/2024 – Reuters
• Meta to Detect and Label More AI-Created Posts as Elections Loom
  2/6/2024 – Bloomberg
• Dutch Intelligence Blames Chinese State for Cyber Espionage in the Netherlands
  2/6/2024 – Bloomberg
• Google calls out spyware firms and advocates for tighter regulation
  2/6/2024 – Reuters
• Meta to start labeling AI-generated images from companies like OpenAI, Google
  2/6/2024 – Reuters
• Zuckerberg’s Secret Weapon for AI Is Your Facebook Data
  2/6/2024 – Bloomberg
• Meta Calls for Industry Effort to Label A.I.-Generated Content
  2/6/2024 – The New York Times
• Biden Audio Deepfake Prior to New Hampshire Primary Traced to Texas
  2/6/2024 – Bloomberg
• Meta pushes to label all AI images on Instagram and Facebook in crackdown on deceptive content
  2/6/2024 – The Guardian
• AI helps students skip right to the good stuff in this intro programming course
  2/6/2024 – The Conversation
• Designing Chips Is Getting Harder. These Engineers Say Chatbots and AI Can Help.
  2/6/2024 – The Wall Street Journal
• Clorox and Johnson Controls Reveal $76m Cyber-Attack Bill
  2/5/2024 – Info Security Magazine
• US rolls out visa restriction policy on people who abuse spyware to target journalists, activists
  2/5/2024 – AP News
• Fulton County tech troubles continue, expert believes it's a ransomware attack
  2/5/2024 – Fox News Atlanta
• Cyberattack on Pennsylvania courts didn’t appear to compromise data, officials say
  2/5/2024 – AP News
• Facebook rules allow altered video casting Biden as paedophile, says board
  2/5/2024 – The Guardian
• Social media algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’
  2/5/2024 – The Guardian
• US announces new restrictions to curb global spyware industry
  2/5/2024 – The Guardian