Ryan Lovelace

Meta’s Zuckerberg apologizes to families traumatized by social media

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized to the families of children who suffered from their experiences on social media, including trouble with eating disorders, bullies and sexual predators.

January 31, 2024

‘You have blood on your hands’: Senators rage at social media CEOs

Senators' anger at social media executives boiled over on Wednesday as they struggled to contain their fury at the harm faced by children on tech platforms.

January 31, 2024

AI on the Hill: Lawmakers ponder how hot new technology can help

The House of Representatives is exploring its own generative AI model for internal use, as Congress looks for ways to use new tech tools to overhaul its work.

January 30, 2024

TikTok seen as serious threat to homeland; Congress to query its Chinese CEO

China may inflict more damage on the U.S. through TikTok than it can accomplish through its military arsenal, according to the House Republican who has emerged as a leading voice on Capitol Hill on the growing challenge posed by Beijing.

January 29, 2024

Microsoft warns that Russian hackers’ target list wider than previously known

Software giant Microsoft said it discovered that the Russian hackers who breached its executives' emails have also targeted other organizations, revealing more potential victims were in the cyberattackers' crosshairs than previously understood.

January 26, 2024

Washington eyes giving new spy powers to Commerce Department

Efforts to transform the Commerce Department into America's "19th intelligence agency" are quietly getting new focus in Washington, as lawmakers and Biden administration officials struggle to find new tools to stop the loss of strategic technology and intellectual property to China and other adversaries. But not everyone is on board with the idea or the department's ability to carry it out.

January 26, 2024

Lt. Gen. Haugh to take over NSA in February

Air Force Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh will take control of the National Security Agency next Friday, more than six weeks after the Senate confirmed him to take the helm of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command.

January 26, 2024

Lawmakers scale back scope of AI legislation push, negotiator says

The Senate plans to pursue a slew of more limited artificial intelligence-focused bills instead of one major bill, according to a key Republican negotiator in the process, indicating that Congress will be taking a bottom-up approach as it scrambles to set new rules for the emerging technology.

January 24, 2024

Microsoft says Russians hacked emails to learn what company execs knew about cyberattackers

Microsoft researchers said they discovered Russian hackers breaching executives' emails to learn what the Big Tech company knew about the hackers, in a tailored cyber espionage campaign looking for a peek behind the curtain surrounding digital investigators' work.

January 23, 2024

Congress probes government funding for U.S.-based AI researcher now working for China

Lawmakers are rushing to try to understand how tens of millions of federal dollars were awarded to a top U.S.-based artificial intelligence scientist who subsequently returned home to China to conduct research for the communist government.

January 22, 2024

Laying down the law: World’s legislatures embrace AI — with reservations

Artificial intelligence is infiltrating the political world, as legislatures around the world work to adopt new tech tools and ensure lawmakers are in charge of the machines rather than the other way around.

January 18, 2024

Senators consider giving cyber investigators extraordinary new authority to fight hackers

The next stage of the Biden administration's collaboration with cyber firms could involve giving certain tech executives special investigatory powers, depending on congressional action.

January 17, 2024

Market leader OpenAI rewrites rules to allow work with U.S. military on AI projects

OpenAI rewrote its rules to allow its work with the Department of Defense to proceed amid confusion about whether the company's artificial intelligence projects violated the company's guidelines, The Washington Times has learned.

January 16, 2024

Drone soccer flies into Las Vegas with global ambitions

Drone soccer took over Las Vegas this week, with ball-shaped drones soaring through the Venetian Resort as the futuristic sport born in South Korea looks to expand its reach.

January 11, 2024

House China panel head questions AI firm’s links to Beijing intelligence, military

A key House Republican is pushing the Biden administration to investigate the artificial intelligence company G42 over its possible links to China's military, warning that the United Arab Emirates-based company may put American tech in the hands of those running the communist regime's surveillance apparatus.

January 10, 2024

Reverse-engineering hack of iPhones, Kaspersky says attack reveals decades-old security problem

The Russia-based cyber firm Kaspersky is working to reverse-engineer a hack of iPhones and said it has discovered a vulnerability in Apple's work that has existed since the 1990s, sparking new questions about the identity of the cyberattacker.

January 9, 2024

Markets welcome new Nvidia AI chips, tools even as China warns on export sales

Nvidia's stock surged to a new record on Monday as it unveiled tools and readied new artificial intelligence chips designed for the China market, despite a warning from Beijing that the U.S. was squandering its market opportunities in China.

January 8, 2024

Tech titans ready new AI tools to gain an edge in 2024

After a breakthrough year, Big Tech titans are betting big on new artificial intelligence offerings to fuel success in 2024. Microsoft is adding an AI button to its computer keyboard, tech mogul Jeff Bezos is funding an AI startup to compete with Google's search, and rumors are flying that Apple is preparing to unveil new generative AI features as well.

January 5, 2024

Ransomware theft in 2023 ‘as bad as it has ever been’: Report

The scourge of ransomware in the U.S. is "as bad as it has ever been," with 2,207 governments, hospitals, and schools victimized by hackers in 2023, according to a new survey by the cybersecurity company Emsisoft.

January 3, 2024

Big Tech, U.S. cyber officials brace for AI threats as fraught 2024 elections loom

The high-tech industry, national security officials and lawmakers on Capitol Hill are bracing for the potential for artificial intelligence applications to upend the 2024 elections, presenting unprecedented challenges for voters, candidates and election officials nationwide.

January 3, 2024