NIST narrows its National Vulnerability Database priorities to CVEs in CISA's known exploited catalog, to deal with a backlog after its 2024 funding lapse
NIST narrows its National Vulnerability Database priorities to CVEs in CISA's known exploited catalog, to deal with a backlog after its 2024 funding lapse
The National Vulnerability Database will now only analyze vulnerabilities in critical software, systems used in the federal government and those under active exploitation.
Sources: NIST didn't publish an AI safety report and several other AI documents near the end of Biden's term for fear of clashing with the Trump administration
The National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a groundbreaking study on frontier models just before Donald Trump's second term …
A look at US-backed NVD, as its parent org NIST scrambles to hire contractors to help clear a backlog of 25K+ vulnerabilities, ~10x the previous high in 2017
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The US NIST re-releases Dioptra, an open-source web-based tool first unveiled in 2022 for benchmarking, testing, and assessing risks in AI models
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Commerce Department agency that develops and tests tech for the U.S. government …
The US NIST appoints ex-OpenAI researcher Paul Christiano as head of AI safety; Christiano has been criticized for “AI doomer” views and effective altruism ties
Former OpenAI researcher once predicted a 50 percent chance of AI killing all of us.
NIST staff, US officials, congressional aides, and tech executives detail a massive resources gap between NIST, tasked with keeping AI safe, and tech companies
Funding challenges at the National Institute of Standards and Technology could jeopardize the Biden administration AI work X: @fbajak , @vivekchil , @tonyromm , @correadan , @willoremus , @kylebrussel...
OIG report: US officials working on Login.gov, used by dozens of sites, rejected facial recognition to verify users due to algorithmic bias, breaking NIST rules
Khari Johnson / Wired : Tweets: @tobywalsh Tweets: Toby Walsh / @tobywalsh : Is this really true? WIRED claims federal security guidelines require that a person's identity must be confirmable using a...
Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon join the NIST's push to scrap the leap second, which keeps clocks in sync with the Earth's rotation but can cause glitches
so Meta wants to get rid of them Mariella Moon / Engadget : Meta calls for the death of the leap second Ciaran / worthreading : Worth Reading Issue #12 Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : Meta and ot...
An interview with NIST mathematician Dustin Moody on the agency's recently selected “quantum-resistant” encryption algorithms
I got this question from a friend this week: Jenna Inouye / eSecurityPlanet : New Quantum-safe Cryptography Standards Arrive None Too Soon Tweets: Will Cathcart / @wcathcart : Great work to ready cryp...