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A bipartisan group of US senators introduced a bill Tuesday that would criminalize the spread of nonconsensual, sexualized images generated by artificial intelligence. The measure comes in direct response to the proliferation of pornographic AI-made images of Taylor Swift on X, formerly Twitter, in recent days. The measure would allow victims depicted in nude or sexually explicit "digital forgeries" to seek a civil penalty against "individuals who produced or possessed the forgery with intent to distribute it" or anyone who received the material knowing it was not made with consent. Dick Durbin, the US Senate majority whip, and senators Lindsey Graham, Amy Klobuchar and Josh Hawley are behind the bill, known as the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act of 2024, or the "Defiance Act." "This month, fake, sexually-explicit images of Taylor Swift that were generated by artificial intelligence swept across social media platforms. Although the imagery may be fake, the harm to the victims from the distribution of sexually-explicit'deepfakes' is very real," Durbin said in a press release.

Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin apologizes to Sen. Tim Scott for the remark on the Republican police reform plan. Fox Nation host David Webb on Thursday blasted Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin for calling Sen. Tim Scott's role in crafting the GOP-led police reform bill a "token approach." "I don't know what's in Dick Durbin's heart," Webb told "Fox & Friends." "But it's the hypocrisy that if anyone had used that word'token,' which is a legitimate word in the English language, in any way, pointed toward blacks from the right, they [the left] would have gone crazy. They would have been protesting. They would have been claiming the egregious nature of its use."

But to thrive in the new era, organizations need to reduce the risks posed by AI and make the most of the opportunities it offers. This is the conclusion of a new report from the Information Security Forum aimed at helping business and security leaders to better understand what AI is, identify the information risks posed and how to mitigate them, and explore opportunities around using AI in defense. "AI is creating a new frontier in information security. Systems that independently learn, reason and act will increasingly replicate human behavior -- and like humans they will be flawed, but also capable of achieving great things. AI poses new information risks and makes some existing ones more dangerous," says Steve Durbin, managing director of the ISF.

The question of whether you should let Facebook save your face is gaining in urgency as Facebook makes moves to expand its deployment of facial recognition. It faces a lawsuit by Illinois residents over the technology. SAN FRANCISCO -- Of all the information Facebook collects about you, nothing is more personal than your face. With 2.2 billion users uploading hundreds of millions of photos a day, the giant social network has developed one of the single-largest databases of faces and -- with so many images to train its facial recognition software -- one of the most accurate. The question of whether you should let Facebook save your face is gaining in urgency as it moves to expand its deployment of facial recognition, rolling it out in Europe, where it was scrapped in 2012 over privacy concerns and scanning and identifying more people in photos. At the same time, the giant social network is attempting to quash efforts to restrict the use of facial recognitionin the U.S., from legislation to litigation.

What is Cryptojacking and Why Is It a Cybersecurity Risk? Artificial intelligence is already redefining cybersecurity, exposing sophisticated attacks and adding a level of Terminator-style relentlessness to threat detection tools and anti-malware software. AI is even being used by a startup to scou...

Artificial intelligence is already redefining cybersecurity, exposing sophisticated attacks and adding a level of Terminator-style relentlessness to threat detection tools and anti-malware software. AI is even being used by a startup to scour the dark web for evidence that its customers have been hacked and their sensitive data is being peddled on illicit marketplaces. But what does the future hold for AI in cybersecurity? Here's what they had to say. "The future will see self-healing and self-defending networks, which can leverage AI to take steps to fight and defend the network," said Tom McAndrew, COO of Coalfire, a provider of cyber risk management and compliance services.