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How Public AI Can Strengthen Democracy

Schneier on Security

Both challenges must be addressed for the sake of democratic governance and public protection. Just three Big Tech firms (Microsoft, Google, and Amazon) control about two-thirds of the global market for the cloud computing resources used to train and deploy AI models. presidential election, we know that democracy has an AI problem.

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GUEST ESSAY: NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework update extends best practices to supply chain, AI

The Last Watchdog

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has updated their widely used Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) — a free respected landmark guidance document for reducing cybersecurity risk. It also introduces a new focus on governance, highlighting cybersecurity as a critical enterprise risk with many dependencies. The CSF 2.0

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GUEST ESSAY: A primer on Biden’s moves to protect U.S. water facilities from cyber attacks

The Last Watchdog

As the US federal government begins to put its eye on securing more of its infrastructure against the rising risk of large-scale cybersecurity attacks, a late January statement from the White House has put its eye on securing water facilities. The goal is to protect water resources by improving cybersecurity across the water sector.

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Open-Source LLMs

Schneier on Security

And their results have been immediate, innovative, and an indication of how the future of this technology is going to play out. And their results have been immediate, innovative, and an indication of how the future of this technology is going to play out. This opens the door to more efficient, accessible, and resource-friendly LLMs.

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In the News | State Governments Can Boost K-12 Cybersecurity

Security Boulevard

This article was originally published on Government Technology on 3.11.24 From new laws to the K-12 “SIX Essentials Series,” the NIST framework and assessments from the Department of Homeland Security, schools have state backup and abundant resources at their disposal to combat cyber threats.

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Govt. Services Firm Tyler Technologies Hit in Apparent Ransomware Attack

Krebs on Security

Tyler Technologies , a Texas-based company that bills itself as the largest provider of software and technology services to the United States public sector, is battling a network intrusion that has disrupted its operations. Tyler Technologies declined to say how the intrusion is affecting its customers.

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News alert: ACM TechBrief lays out risks, policy implications of generative AI technologies

The Last Watchdog

It is the latest in the quarterly ACM TechBriefs series of short technical bulletins that present scientifically grounded perspectives on the impact and policy implications of specific technological developments in computing. We see this ACM TechBrief as a first step in that direction.”