Ryan Lovelace

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise warns Chinese humanoid robots threaten Americans’ security

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise is sounding the alarm about the threat of Chinese humanoid robots arriving in America and jeopardizing national security.

June 26, 2024

Federal government’s lead cybersecurity agency reveals it was hacked

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the federal government's premier anti-hacking agency, recently acknowledged that hackers breached its systems earlier this year to access details of its Chemical Security Assessment Tool, which the government uses to collect information from facilities with dangerous chemicals that could be weaponized by terrorists.

June 25, 2024

Biden administration restricts Russia’s Kaspersky; Kremlin cries ‘unfair’

The Biden administration cracked down this week on Russia-based Kaspersky, issuing new restrictions on its U.S. operations that the Kremlin deemed unfair and the cybersecurity company labeled unnecessary.

June 21, 2024

Safety concerns spark changes at the top of one of America’s leading AI companies

Growing fears about the dangers of artificial intelligence have sparked a leadership shake-up at one of America's leading AI companies.

June 21, 2024

Warner sees TikTok-like algorithm emerging within one year if Chinese app is banned

Top technologists believe they can reproduce TikTok's algorithm within a year of a potential U.S. government ban of the wildly popular video-sharing app, according to Sen. Mark R. Warner, Virginia Democrat.

June 18, 2024

Microsoft’s operations in Beijing under congressional scrutiny after China-linked hack

U.S. tech giant Microsoft is defending its extensive presence in Beijing despite a China-linked hack that ripped through the Big Tech company's security last year and exposed sensitive emails of U.S. government officials.

June 17, 2024

Pope urges world leaders to keep ‘human control’ over AI, calls for autonomous weapons ban

Pope Francis encouraged world leaders to keep "human control" over artificial intelligence, to not let such tech make life-and-death decisions and to ban the use of autonomous weapons such as militarized drones.

June 14, 2024

Microsoft warns Americans to prepare for joint cyberattacks from China, Russia

Tech giant Microsoft fears America's adversaries will join up for devastating attacks in cyberspace, forecasting that Chinese and Russian hackers will work together and collaborate with Iran and North Korea when the opportunity exists.

June 13, 2024

U.S. intelligence agencies step up effort to thwart foreign meddling before November vote

The intelligence community is identifying more potential indications of foreign influence efforts than ever before as the November U.S. election approaches, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

June 13, 2024

WATCH: Flood of pro-Hamas deepfakes targeting U.S. audiences

Artificial-intelligence-generated propaganda supporting the Palestinian militant group Hamas is deliberately targeting an American audience, according to a deepfake detection company studying online influence efforts that employ cutting-edge AI technology.

June 13, 2024

Congress puts Microsoft under a microscope, examines tech giant’s hold on government systems

The U.S. government's increasing reliance on Microsoft is facing fresh scrutiny on Capitol Hill despite the Biden administration touting its private sector collaborations as key to its cyber and tech innovation policies.

June 10, 2024

Top AI labs have minimal defense against espionage, researchers say

Some of the nation's top artificial intelligence labs have pitiful security measures in place to protect them from espionage, leaving potentially dangerous AI models exposed to thieves and spies, according to U.S. government-backed researchers.

June 9, 2024

Approving Ukraine’s firing of U.S. weapons into Russia was ‘common sense,’ says Jake Sullivan

President Biden's decision to allow Ukraine to fire U.S.-provided weapons into Russia was not complicated, according to National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.

June 9, 2024

Lawmakers worry energy-thirsty AI could spike consumer utility bills

The energy industry is expecting a large uptick in electricity demand because of growing artificial intelligence usage and lawmakers are looking for ways to protect consumers from higher utility bills.

June 5, 2024

FBI’s tech chief’s ‘scariest’ AI threat: ‘You may not even know that perhaps you were the target’

The most terrifying part of artificial intelligence is an omnipresence that can reach anyone even without them knowing they were targeted, according to one of the FBI's top tech specialists.

June 4, 2024

Retired Gen. Paul Nakasone opposes creation of cyber force as new branch of armed services

Retired Army Gen. Paul Nakasone said he opposes the creation of a new cyber branch of America's armed services as efforts to consider a cyber force gain momentum on Capitol Hill.

June 3, 2024

Fed’s multimillion-dollar poop-picking program is expanding, has international ambitions

The U.S. government is expanding its program to collect poop and thinks picking through the nation's feces is key to ensuring national security.

May 31, 2024

Argentina’s President Javier Milei looking to make a splash in Silicon Valley

Argentina's President Javier Milei is traveling through California's Silicon Valley this week, eager to establish relationships with some of America's top tech leaders and researchers.

May 29, 2024

What would Xi do? Artificial intelligence makes an educated guess

Stanford University's top researchers are attempting to build an artificial intelligence model that can predict the Chinese government's moves at war, as fears grow in Washington that the communist regime may soon invade Taiwan.

May 28, 2024

House lawmakers arrive in Taiwan amid Chinese government’s threats

Six House lawmakers arrived Sunday in Taiwan to meet with the democratically run island's new administration despite threats from China urging the U.S. representatives to stay away.

May 26, 2024