Riotta is a journalist based in Washington, D.C. He earned his master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he served as 2021 class president. His reporting has appeared in NBC News, Nextgov/FCW, Newsweek Magazine, The Independent and more.
The U.S. Department of Treasury published final regulations Monday for investors planting dollars abroad that aims to restrict investments from the United States into sensitive technologies developed by foreign adversaries while continuing to ensure open investments practices remain intact.
The U.S. Department of Justice is drafting new guidelines for law enforcement on the use of artificial intelligence and facial recognition tools to enhance public safety while safeguarding civil rights and ensuring ethical deployment, a senior official said Wednesday.
A group of leading organizations across industries and technology giants is calling on lawmakers in the United States to develop focused regulations around artificial intelligence that limit the risks associated with emerging technologies while allowing innovation to flourish.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced a series of law enforcement actions targeting companies the commission said is using deceptive artificial intelligence practices to defraud consumers, from promising "AI lawyers" to generating countless fake reviews.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency told Information Security Media Group it is in the process of carrying out its most expansive national effort to secure election infrastructure across the country ahead of the upcoming November election.
The chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee warned Wednesday that leading social media platforms, generative artificial intelligence vendors and tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Meta and OpenAI are failing to adequately combat deceptive AI use in the 2024 national elections.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announced Thursday the appointment of Lisa Einstein to serve as the agency's first-ever chief artificial intelligence officer, saying the role will help "institutionalize our ongoing efforts to responsibly govern our own uses of AI."
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency found in a new pilot that federally available artificial intelligence cybersecurity tools require substantial training and resources but are only providing government agencies with "negligible" improvements in risk detection.
A North Korean hacking group notorious for carrying out large-scale cyberattacks against government institutions and critical infrastructure and developing ransomware, is expanding operations to target the healthcare, energy and financial sectors, warn threat intelligence researchers at Mandiant.
An official from the U.S. Department of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office said Thursday the department is testing generative AI tools to help streamline its contracting and management operations and free up time for federal employees.
An apparent hacktivist group known as NullBulge claimed to have released a major data trove of sensitive information from Disney’s third-party digital workplace collaboration platform, Slack, after reportedly targeting the tech giant for its use of artists' work in training advanced AI systems.
Experts warned in congressional testimony to the Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday that the absence of a comprehensive privacy bill in the United States is hindering economic competition for technology companies and jeopardizing the privacy of the American public.
The Senate Armed Services Committee's fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act includes a significant focus on military cyber preparedness, with plans to develop capabilities to prevent threats from drones, as well as investments in quantum and artificial intelligence research.
The Federal Risk Authorization Management Program unveiled a new framework designed to help agencies increasingly adopt emerging technologies that maintain rigorous security standards and that can be implemented into new and existing federal systems, according to a recent blog post.
The U.S. Treasury Department is proposing a new rule that would restrict Americans from investing in technology companies developing quantum information technology, semiconductors and certain AI systems in countries the White House previously identified as posing potential national security risks.
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