The Division of Housing and City Improvement (HUD) is shifting out of its headquarters on the huge Weaver workplace constructing in downtown Washington, D.C., and relocating to an workplace constructing in Alexandria, Va., that has been house to the Nationwide Science Basis (NSF), officers introduced Wednesday. “This announcement underscores a cross-government partnership to use federal spaces and taxpayer dollars efficiently, ensuring that all buildings are being properly...

Web connectivity has been restored in Tehran after repeated Israeli battle strikes had taken it out, Iran’s communications minister stated Wednesday. “With conditions returning to normal, the state of communication access has reverted to its previous state,” Sattar Hashemi wrote in a put up on X. “I sincerely apologize to all the people, especially the communications sector and the activists of the country’s digital economy, for this imposed situation,” he added. The restoration comes after...

The Trump administration is shattering norms across the dealing with of People’ private, and generally non-public, info — dismantling boundaries round knowledge within the identify of presidency effectivity and rooting out fraud.  Privateness specialists say the strikes deliver the nation nearer to a surveillance state, improve the federal government’s vulnerability to cyber-attacks and danger pushing folks away from public providers.  The Division of Authorities...

In a check case for the unreal intelligence business, a federal decide has dominated that AI firm Anthropic didn’t break the legislation by coaching its chatbot Claude on thousands and thousands of copyrighted books. However the firm continues to be on the hook and should now go to trial over the way it acquired these books by downloading them from on-line “shadow libraries” of pirated copies. U.S. District Decide William Alsup of San Francisco stated in a ruling filed late Monday that the...

Media Issues for America sued the Federal Commerce Fee (FTC) on Monday to dam the company’s investigation into the progressive media watchdog group, arguing the probe quantities to illegal retaliation.  The group obtained a request from the FTC final month for paperwork and communications associated to a number of promoting and watchdog teams, in addition to its authorized battle with Elon Musk’s social platform X.  “Media Matters faces an ongoing campaign of retribution for exercising its...

The Trump administration is more and more turning to social media as a nationwide safety device to vet immigrants, stoking considerations the transfer may have a chilling impact on political speech within the U.S.  The State Division introduced final week it’s restarting interviews and processing overseas pupil visas, and candidates will now be required to make their social media accounts public for vetting or face potential denial.  The company mentioned it’s in search...

Messaging app WhatsApp has been banned on congressional staffers’ authorities gadgets, the U.S. Home’s chief administrative officer (CAO) confirmed Monday. “Protecting the People’s House is our topmost priority, and we are always monitoring and analyzing for potential cybersecurity risks that could endanger the data of House Members and staff,” mentioned Chief Administrative Officer Catherine Szpindo in an announcement shared with The Hill. “We routinely...

The USA is warning of a “heightened threat environment” after President Trump ordered strikes on three Iranian nuclear websites on Saturday night. The Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) issued a Nationwide Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) bulletin on Sunday, alerting the general public to the potential of cyberattacks carried out by those that help Iran or are affiliated with the Iranian authorities. “The ongoing Iran conflict is causing a heightened threat environment in the United States....

The Senate parliamentarian concluded the controversial push to ban state regulation of synthetic intelligence for the following 10 years can stay in President Trump’s sweeping tax and spending invoice. The choice, introduced by lawmakers over the weekend, adopted weeks of hypothesis from each events over whether or not the supply would overcome the procedural hurdle often known as the Byrd Rule. The parliamentarian’s determination will enable the supply to be voted on within...

Hackers aligned with Iran have claimed accountability for a cyberattack on President Trump’s Fact Social platform, in line with the cyber nonprofit Middle for Web Safety (CIS). The Iran-aligned hacking group 313 Group took credit score for a distributed denial of service (DDos) assault on Fact Social inside hours of U.S. strikes on a number of Iranian nuclear services Saturday, a CIS spokesperson confirmed. Fact Social reportedly noticed a surge in reviews of issues Saturday night time,...

Israel bombed Iran’s Fordow nuclear bunker web site south of Tehran once more Monday, following the U.S.’s strikes on the secretive underground facility over the weekend, based on media shops in Israel and Tehran. “The aggressor attacked the Fordow nuclear site again,” Iran’s Tasnim information company reported, quoting a spokesperson for the disaster administration authority in Qom, the place Fordow is positioned. The Jerusalem Submit additionally reported the...

A knowledge breach reportedly resulted within the leak of 16 billion information containing passwords from main websites akin to Apple, Google and Fb. However how apprehensive do you have to be, and what are you able to do to guard your self? Was this a brand new information breach? The leak has been reported as a brand new information breach, however this wasn’t a brand new case of internet sites being compromised. As a substitute, it seems to be a case during which beforehand stolen...

Meta, the dad or mum firm of Fb and Instagram, is partnering with Oakley to launch new synthetic intelligence (AI) powered glasses, the tech large introduced Friday.  The brand new good glasses, like Meta’s earlier Ray-Ban glasses, are geared up with a built-in digital camera, open-ear audio system and AI capabilities. The Oakley glasses additionally function a longer-lasting battery and a better decision digital camera that may shoot 3K video.   “Oakley Meta glasses are a new product...

The founding father of the moment messaging app Telegram stated he plans to go away his multibillion-dollar fortune to the greater than 100 kids he has fathered both naturally or by sperm donations. Pavel Durov, in an interview revealed Thursday with French political journal Le Level, stated he doesn’t differentiate between the six kids he fathered naturally in three relationships and the handfuls of others he fathered by sperm donations. “They are all my children and will all have the...

Pope Leo XIV sounded the alarm this week over synthetic intelligence (AI)’s potential impression on younger individuals’s mental and neurological improvement, constructing upon one of many major focuses of his papacy. The primary American pope delivered the message to an annual convention on AI and ethics, a part of which came about within the Vatican this week. “All of us, I am sure, are concerned for children and young people, and the possible consequences of the use of...

Aflac mentioned Friday that it skilled a cybersecurity incident final week which will have impacted information containing social safety numbers, well being info and different private info.   The insurance coverage firm first detected suspicious exercise on its community final Thursday and “promptly initiated our cyber incident response protocols and stopped the intrusion within hours,” in accordance with a press launch.  “Importantly, our business remains operational, and our...