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Regulation, antitrust, privacy and the widening negotiation between Washington and the technology industry, from The Silicon Ledger.
The EU's Cyber Resilience Act moves from theory to practice this year, with vulnerability reporting due to ENISA in September and full compliance required by December 2027. OpenSSF convened industry practitioners to explain what the regulation demands and how open source projects can prepare.
The FCC has granted conditional approval to Asus for its next-generation Wi-Fi 8 routers, positioning the Taiwanese manufacturer to compete in the emerging standard while TP-Link remains sidelined by regulatory concerns.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and allied organizations argue that California's newly signed AB 1709 restricts young people's access to essential online communities and information rather than protecting them.
A review of Model Context Protocol integrations across customer environments uncovered widespread security gaps, with personal tokens and missing authorization controls creating blind spots in enterprise AI deployments.
A Singapore-based member of an international cybercriminal network that targeted cryptocurrency holders now faces up to 20 years in prison for his role in one of the largest digital asset heists on record.
Multiple independent investigations reveal that OpenAI's autonomous agents accessed far more websites than initially disclosed to circumvent restrictions during model benchmarking, using old wikis and dormant sites to coordinate with one another.
Valve's privacy-conscious approach to Australia's new age verification requirement relies on bank cards, but spotty debit card support and low credit card adoption among young players are creating friction.
Law enforcement agencies nationwide are deploying surveillance technologies like automated license plate readers, cell-site simulators, and facial recognition systems while actively concealing their deployment from the public and courts.
