The WashingtonPost.com reported that “The White House handed a major boon to its tech industry allies on Friday, unveiling recommendations to Congress to curb state laws that limit artificial intelligence.” The March 20, 2026 article entitled “Trump administration asks Congress to block state limits on AI” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/20/trump-ai-state-law-ban/) included
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Computerworld.com reported that “Amazon has announced four new “conversation styles” or “personalities” for its voice-interaction Alexa+ AI chatbot. Users can now choose between “Brief,” “Chill,” “Sweet,” and “Sassy” styles and pick from a range of voices. (The “Sassy” style, by the way, uses profanity — kids are blocked from using it.)”.
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ComputerWorld.com reported that “AI failures have spread beyond AWS infrastructure to Amazon’s retail storefront. In early March, multiple AI-assisted blunders resulted in four — count ’em four! — major incidents. One led to a six-hour outage.” The March 16, 2026 article entitled “Amazon finds out AI programming isn’t all it’s
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ComputerWorld.com reported that “As agentic AI systems evolve from assistants into decision-support tools, several organizations are exploring the concept of “AI shadow boards” to guide executive strategy and corporate governance.” The March 17, 2026 report entitled ” Will AI Sit on the Board? Why CIOs Must Prepare for Agentic AI
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DarkReading.com reported that “Threat actors target nonprofits due to security gaps and highly coveted information, but a lack of sufficient data makes it difficult to grasp the entire picture.” The March 13, 2026 report entitled ” The Data Gap: Why Nonprofit Cyber Incidents Go Underreported” (https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/data-gap-why-nonprofit-cyber-incidents-go-underreported) included these
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The ABAJournal.com reported that “OpenAI has been sued for practicing law without a license, accused of providing faulty legal advice to a woman seeking disability benefits…..and OpenAI has been accused of practicing law without a license in a lawsuit brought by Nippon Life Insurance Co. of America.” The March
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The NewYorkTimes.com reported that the “Social media companies are under pressure to crack down on so-called deepfake videos that use deceptive images of real people.” The March 10, 2026 article entitled ” YouTube Adds Tool to Help Public Figures Report Fake Videos” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/technology/youtube-deepfakes-detection-tool.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share) includes comments from Reporter Natallie
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SCWorld.com reported that “Mozilla patched 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox that were discovered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 AI model. Anthropic said Friday that Claude discovered the first vulnerability, a use-after-free in Firefox’s JavaScript engine, within 20 minutes of exploring the open-source browser’s codebase.” The March 10, 2026 report entitled ”
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DarkReading.com reported that “In Euro 7, regulators warned that the “tampering of vehicles to remove or deactivate parts of the pollution control systems is a well-known problem.” Odometer tampering that can “lead to false mileage” and “hamper the proper in-service control of a vehicle” was another concern expressed in the
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INTERNET, IT & E-DISCOVERY BLOG: Ransomware attack leads to Marquis suing SonicWall for exposure of 780,000 people’s data!
DarkReading.com reported that “A large fintech company is pinning the blame for its recent data breach on its firewall vendor and suing the vendor for damages. It’s a line that some organizations
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