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Regulation, antitrust, privacy and the widening negotiation between Washington and the technology industry, from The Silicon Ledger.
The Ratepayer Protection Act passed the House and would compel large data centers to pay for electricity infrastructure improvements, though it still requires Senate approval and state adoption.
The open-source Android fork claims Google is delaying critical platform-level security fixes and new APIs from reaching other device makers, a pattern that raises concerns about competitive fairness in the Android ecosystem.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is pushing policymakers to ground any new AI regulation in established cybersecurity standards rather than hypothetical risks, pointing to real breaches at major labs as evidence of what rules should address.
As artificial intelligence systems handle more business judgment calls, auditors face a widening gap between the data they can verify and the reasoning they cannot see, raising governance concerns across regulated industries.
A legal brief filed this week contends that SB 976, which requires parental consent before teens see algorithmically recommended content, infringes on minors' constitutional protections for speech and access to information.
Organizations moving to post-quantum cryptography can succeed by treating the transition as a staged migration program rather than a technical puzzle, according to security leaders at Daiwa Institute of Research and Deloitte.
Governments worldwide are setting 2030 as a deadline for post-quantum cryptography migration, yet varying regulatory scopes are forcing multinational organizations to navigate multiple compliance paths.
The Swiss bank has launched a hybrid key exchange pilot in its online banking platform, demonstrating how financial institutions can migrate to quantum-safe cryptography without disrupting customer operations.
