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President Donald Trump answers questions while departing the White House on July 11, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump pulls US out of international cyber orgs

Among the 66 international organizations the administration withdrew from are a handful that work on cybersecurity topics.
NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 5: Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are seen in handcuffs after landing at a Manhattan helipad, escorted by heavily armed Federal agents as they make their way into an armored car en route to a Federal courthouse in Manhattan on January 5, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by XNY/Star Max/GC Images)

AI, voting machine conspiracies fill information vacuum around Venezuela operation 

After the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro, fake AI-driven media quickly flooded the internet, while Trump allies revived debunked theories of rigged voting machines.  
The MIT Museum’s exhibit “AI: Mind the Gap” looks at deepfake video technology. An advocacy group calls on OpenAI to address Sora 2’s deepfake risks. (Photo by Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Advocacy group calls on OpenAI to address Sora 2’s deepfake risks

Public Citizen’s letter urges OpenAI to temporarily take Sora 2 offline and work with outside experts to prevent the spread of harmful deepfakes.
Debris of the main entrance of the Evin prison, which is destroyed in Israeli strikes, is pictured in northern Tehran, Iran, on July 1, 2025. A group leveraged dozens of social media accounts and “routinely used” AI-generated imagery and video to stoke unrest among Iran’s population, according to Citizen Lab. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Researchers say Israeli government likely behind AI-generated disinfo campaign in Iran

The group leveraged dozens of social media accounts and “routinely used” AI-generated imagery and video to stoke unrest among Iran’s population, according to Citizen Lab. 
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REST Media has garnered millions of views on social media for its content targeting Moldova’s EU-friendly leadership. Researchers say it’s a pro-Kremlin operation.  (Image via Getty)

Researchers say media outlet targeting Moldova is a Russian cutout

REST Media has garnered millions of views on social media for its content targeting Moldova’s EU-friendly leadership. Researchers say it’s a pro-Kremlin operation. 
House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark Amodei, R-Nev., questions acting FEMA Administrator Cam Hamilton at a hearing on May 7. (Photo by Pete Marovich/Getty Images)

House committee sets CISA budget cut at $135M, not Trump’s $495M

The move indicated at least some resistance to the president’s CISA reduction goal, but Democrats still said that was too steep for the agency’s fiscal 2026 funding…
Chair Katie Britt, R-Ala. (R), and Ranking Member Christopher Murphy, D-Conn., (L) appear as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 8. Noem testified before the Homeland Security Subcommittee about her department’s FY 2026 budget request. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Sen. Murphy: Trump administration has ‘illegally gutted funding for cybersecurity’

He’s the latest Democrat who sits on an appropriations panel to sharply criticize CISA personnel reductions and proposed funding cuts.
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