Health Industry Associations Complain That Proposed Cyber Mandates Are 'Staggering' Seven major healthcare industry groups are urging the Trump administration to rescind a proposed update to the HIPAA Security Rule issued at the end of the Biden administration. The costs and regulatory burden to comply would be "staggering" to the healthcare sector, they said.
Trump's Procurement Tracking Directive Could Expose Vast Government Data to Threats The White House is mandating federal agencies to track and justify every procurement, a move aimed at transparency but one that experts warn could expose troves of sensitive financial data to hacking, nation-state cyberthreats and potential supply chain vulnerabilities across government systems.
Approach Aims to Scale AI Models by Making Them Smarter Instead of Bigger Scaling AI models in size has hit a plateau. One possible solution is test-time compute, which dynamically allocates extra computational resources during inference - or the thinking phase - to refine answers. Test-time compute lets AI models allocate resources based on the problem's complexity.
Series A Investment Expands AI-Driven Cybersecurity and Threat Detection Mimic got $50 million in Series A funding to expand its ransomware defense solutions. Backed by Google Ventures and Menlo Ventures, the company will enhance AI-driven threat detection, automate security for proprietary apps and grow internationally to protect enterprises from ransomware attacks.
A newly discovered global cyber threat is rapidly expanding, infecting tens of thousands of internet-connected devices to launch powerful cyberattacks. Nokia Deepfield’s Emergency Response Team (ERT) has identified a new botnet, tracked as Eleven11bot, which they estimated has compromised over 30,000 devices, primarily security cameras and network video recorders (NVRs).