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Tim Starks

Tim Starks is senior reporter at CyberScoop. His previous stops include working at The Washington Post, POLITICO and Congressional Quarterly. An Evansville, Ind. native, he’s covered cybersecurity since 2003. Email Tim here: tim.starks@cyberscoop.com.

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The concept of such a list, known as a “software bill of materials (SBOM),” is to know everything that goes into a particular piece of software so that any supply chain risks are easier to identify. (Getty Images)

Major world economies spell out key elements of AI ‘ingredients list’

AI

Google has been ramping up the new feature, Intrusion Logging, since last year, and has now begun rolling it out on Pixel devices. (Getty Images)

Google and Amnesty International teamed up to make it harder for spyware vendors to hide

Privacy

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., leaves after a meeting on AI at the Kennedy Caucus Room at Russell Senate Office Building on Nov. 1, 2023 on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Sen. Schumer seeks DHS plan on AI cyber coordination with state, local governments

Threats

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Trump officials are steering a cybersecurity scholarship program toward AI

Government

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., arrives to the U.S. Capitol for the last votes of the week on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

One House Democrat is pressing Commerce on the government’s spyware use

Government

Tammy Barbour, acting chief of application management at CISA, left, and Lauren Wind, acting deputy chief technology officer at CISA, speak at the UiPath FUSION Public Sector event hosted by Scoop News Group, on Tuesday, May 5 2026. (Photo by Sergey Kolupaev/EPNAC)

CISA boasts AI automation improvements to threat analysis, mission support

Government

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks at a press conference with other members of Senate Republican leadership following a policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on April 21, 2026. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Congress kicks the can down the road on surveillance law (again)

Government

In this handout provided by Amazon, a technician works at an Amazon Web Services AI data center in New Carlisle, Indiana on Oct. 2, 2025. (Photo by Noah Berger/Getty Images via Amazon Web Services)

Congress, industry ponder government posture for protecting data centers

Government

Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-ll., speaks during an oversight forum with Democratic members of the House Homeland Security Committee at the U.S. Capitol Building on July 22, 2025. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Rep. Delia Ramirez takes over as top House cybersecurity Dem

Government