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The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services’ Task Force on Artificial Intelligence is considering how to prevent AI from perpetuating old forms of discrimination or introducing new ones.

The FCC’s latest round of broadband funding numbers are out, but advocates are clamoring for more.

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A new paper published by Microsoft's research department proposes to tackle piracy with a blockchain-based bounty system titled "Argus."

); //]]>//--> By John K. Higgins Aug 3, 2021 2:08 PM PT The U.S. government is moving quickly and aggressively to address cybersecurity vulnerabilities affecting both the federal government and the private sector. In a sweeping executive order (EO), President Joseph Biden has directed federal agencies to set up multiple programs designed to mitigate the kinds of recent cybersecurity attacks that have gained national attention. The information technology sector, including companies that are dire...

Updated Presented by With Daniel Lippman PHARMACEUTICAL COALITION HITS PINGREE, GOLDEN IN ESCALATING E-LABELING FIGHT: A coalition of drugmakers announced a new ad buy today as the lobbying battle about an obscure FDA spending rider moves to the House floor. The Alliance to Modernize Prescribing Information, whose members include AbbVie, AmerisourceBergen, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Bristol Myers Squibb, Viatris, Pfizer and Teva, announced a 30-second ad targeting Maine Democrats Jared Golde...

Published July 22, 2021, 8:00 AM New public sector investments in national infrastructure call for the private sector to commit to design with licensed, cyber secure software – and shed decades old habit of using unlicensed software products. BSA The Software Alliance (BSA) is planning to conduct outreach to 20,000 engineering and design firms across the Southeast Asia region, including 5,000 private sector engineering and design firms in the Philippines as part of its campaign to fight the u...

BSA pushing for licensed software published : 21 Jul 2021 at 04:00 Tarun Sawney, senior director of BSA | The Software Alliance. The upsurge in unlicensed software usage is attributed to the rise of remote work and megastructure project development, according to BSA | The Software Alliance, a global software advocate, and the polices Economic Crime Suppression Division (ECD). In the first half of this year, losses from the use of unlicensed ...

NIST Defines ‘Critical Software,’ Implications to Follow The National Institute of Standards and Technology broke with tradition to define critical software based on what it does, not how it’s used by agencies. The vendor community should take notes. July 08, 2021 •  Shutterstock/PIYAWAT WONGOPASS The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released an official definition of what the federal government will regard as “critic...