One expert said they were pleased by the guidance, which touches on open-weight AI models, patching and more.

Brad Blakestad, director of the National Quantum Coordination Office, also said encryption and measuring progress would pose challenges.

The Hugging Face breach shows there is a gap in federal policy. The frameworks to govern autonomous AI already exist—there just needs to be the desire to…

In a Monday filing, the Justice Department said states sued before agencies even decided how the order would work.

The move stems from a Trump executive order as the administration continues to pursue cyber-enabled fraud and other crimes.

With federal PQC deadlines set for 2030 and 2031, CISOs face a multi-year transformation program that most organizations have not yet started. The window for orderly execution…

Provisions setting up federal voter lists for each state and restricting mail ballots through USPS were declared unconstitutional.

A diffuse landscape, fruitful targets, companies not stepping up, AI’s influence and flagging U.S. government efforts all figure into a shifting threat.

The orders accelerate the federal government’s transition to post-quantum encryption and will boost the domestic quantum computing industry. 

A vulnerability that meets all four criteria would need to be fixed within three days, for instance.