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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 13:02

The Commerce Department has been pushing for years to ensure every corner of the nation has broadband. One way is through its Broadband Equity Access and Deployment, or BEAD program. Administered by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Now the NTIA is working on guidance for states and territories planning to pay for widening broadband. For more on BEAD and the guidance, we turn to program director Evan Feinman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Commerce puts the bead on getting broadband established everywhere

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 13:47

The Commerce Department has been pushing for years to ensure every corner of the nation has broadband. One way is through its Broadband Equity Access and Deployment, or BEAD program. Administered by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Now the NTIA is working on guidance for states and territories planning to pay for widening broadband. For more on BEAD and the guidance, we turn to program director Evan Feinman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The broadband program that's become a political fight

POLITICO Dispatch

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 17:06

Government internet programs aren't usually at the center of political attacks. But the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program, or BEAD, has become a Republican target amid Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign for president. On POLITICO Tech, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Alan Davidson, who heads the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, joins host Steven Overly to discuss the agency's latest broadband investments in Florida and Alabama, and to refute GOP critics who say the program is behind schedule. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Kevin Bankston: The Value of Open AI Models

The Road to Accountable AI

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 39:10 Transcription Available

This week, Professor Werbach is joined by Kevin Bankston, Senior Advisor on AI Governance for the Center for Democracy & Technology, to discuss the benefits and risks of open weight frontier AI models. They discuss the meaning of open foundation models, how they relate to open source software, how such models could accelerate technological advancement, and the debate over their risks and need for restrictions. Bankston discusses the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's recent recommendations on open weight models, and CDT's response to the request for comments. Bankston also shares insights based on his prior work as AI Policy Director at Meta, and discusses national security concerns around China's ability to exploit open AI models. Kevin Bankston is Senior Advisor on AI Governance for the Center for Democracy & Technology, supporting CDT's AI Governance Lab. In addition to a prior term as Director of CDT's Free Expression Project, he has worked on internet privacy and related policy issues at the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Open Technology Institute, and Meta Platfrms. He was named by Washingtonian magazine as one of DC's 100 top tech leaders of 2017. Kevin serves as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches on the emerging law and policy around generative AI. CDT Comments to NTIA on Open Foundation Models by Kevin Bankston CDT Submits Comment on AISI's Draft Guidance, "Managing Misuse Risk for Dual-Use Foundation Models" Want to learn more? Engage live with Professor Werbach and other Wharton faculty experts in Wharton's new Strategies for Accountable AI online executive education program. It's perfect for managers, entrepreneurs, and advisors looking to harness AI's power while addressing its risks.

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The Broadband Dilemma (with Janice Hauge and Mark Jamison)

Explain to Shane

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2024 32:51

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, passed by Congress three years ago, set out to close the digital divide by bringing broadband to unserved and underserved communities. Yet despite the ambitious goal of getting all Americans online, progress has been slow. As of September 17, serious delays continue to plague the initiative, with 13 states still waiting for the NTIA to approve their initial proposals. These delays jeopardize the program's effectiveness and risk leaving millions of Americans without access to essential digital infrastructure.Here to sort through the mess are two members of AEI's Broadband Barometer Project, Janice Hauge and Mark Jamison. Janice is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of North Texas, where she works on broadband policy and regulation in the telecommunications and broadband industry. Mark is a nonresident senior fellow at AEI where he focuses on technology's impact on the economy, telecommunications, and Federal Communications Commission issues. He is concurrently the director and Gunter Professor of the Public Utility Research Center at the University of Florida's Warrington College of Business.

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The small federal office with a big task in the digital divide

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2024 12:32

A small but persistent office in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration ... part of the Commerce Department ... has been working over the years to bridge one valley in the digital divide. The campuses of history black colleges and universities ... as well as other tribal and minority serving institutions. We get an update now from the acting director of the Office of Minority Broadband Initiatives, Dominique Harrison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The small federal office with a big task in the digital divide

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2024 13:17

A small but persistent office in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration ... part of the Commerce Department ... has been working over the years to bridge one valley in the digital divide. The campuses of history black colleges and universities ... as well as other tribal and minority serving institutions. We get an update now from the acting director of the Office of Minority Broadband Initiatives, Dominique Harrison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

‘Cautious yet optimistic': Commerce Dept. weighs in on open AI models

POLITICO Dispatch

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2024 13:39

There's an ongoing debate over powerful AI models: open v. closed. The Biden administration has been grappling for months with where it stands on this issue and, in a report released on Tuesday, came out in support of open models — at least for now. On POLITICO Tech, host Steven Overly sits down with Assistant Commerce Secretary Alan Davidson, the head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, to discuss the new position and why the government still worries about risks.

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Pentagon IG to assess replicator initiative; Commerce recommends monitoring AI models

The Daily Scoop Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2024 5:27

The Department of Defense's inspector general has launched a new evaluation of the Replicator program, which aims to field and deploy thousands of autonomous drones by 2025 to contend with China. A memorandum issued Monday solidifies plans for the review. An OIG spokesperson stated that the evaluation will determine the effectiveness of the Services and Defense Innovation Unit in selecting capabilities for the Replicator Initiative to meet U.S. Indo-Pacific Command's operational needs. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks launched Replicator last summer to accelerate the adoption of “attritable autonomous systems” within 18 to 24 months. The Pentagon has secured $500 million for fiscal 2024 and is requesting an additional $500 million for fiscal 2025. Initial systems include kamikaze drones, unmanned surface vessels, and counter-drone systems. The OIG may revise or expand the objective as the assessment proceeds, and a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed full cooperation to ensure accountability. In other news, the Department of Commerce and its National Telecommunications and Information Administration issued a new report recommending that the U.S. government monitor risks from open AI foundation models and be prepared to act if those risks intensify. The report, shared with FedScoop ahead of its official publication, analyzes the risks and benefits of dual-use foundation models with widely available model weights. While NTIA highlighted benefits such as diversifying AI research and decentralizing control of the AI market, it also noted potential risks to national security, privacy, and civil rights. The report concludes that there is not enough evidence to warrant restrictions on open-weight models at this time but recommends collecting and evaluating evidence to inform future actions. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo emphasized that the report provides a roadmap for responsible AI innovation and American leadership. The report suggests that the government may need to develop benchmarks, maintain federal expert capabilities, and potentially restrict access to models if necessary, but stresses that monitoring and evaluation should come first. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Monday-Friday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify and YouTube.

Biden's AI Executive Order milestones; USAID's new digital policy

The Daily Scoop Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2024 5:25

The White House marked nine months since the signing of President Biden's executive order on artificial intelligence with a new voluntary safety commitment from Apple and several new completed actions on the technology across the government. Apple's agreement to safety, testing, and transparency measures outlined by the Biden administration brings the total number of AI companies that have signed on to the commitments to 16. These commitments were initially announced last year and include companies such as Meta, OpenAI, IBM, and Adobe. Federal agencies have completed a number of actions required within 270 days of the executive order's issuance, including the first technical guidelines from the AI Safety Institute, initial guidance for agencies on AI training data, and a national security memo on AI. The national security memo was sent to the president, with non-classified portions to be made available later. Another expected report from the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration will address the risks and benefits of dual-use foundation models. Previous actions under the order included using the Defense Production Act for safety measures, setting up a National AI Research Resource, and launching an AI Talent Surge initiative. In other news, USAID has released a 10-year digital policy aimed at guiding the international development agency's approach to emerging technologies in partner countries, from boosting internet access to embracing artificial intelligence. Administrator Samantha Power emphasized the need for U.S. leadership in promoting global internet connectivity and countering the misuse of technology by authoritarian governments. USAID plans to double its investment in its technology team and is promoting its new site, digitaldevelopment.org, which features ongoing work on digital ecosystem assessments. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Monday-Friday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify and YouTube.

Faster, Please! â€” The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2024 25:31

While AI doomers proselytize their catastrophic message, many politicians are recognizing that the loss of America's competitive edge poses a much more real threat than the supposed “existential risk” of AI. Today on Faster, Please!—The Podcast, I talk with Adam Thierer about the current state of the AI policy landscape and the accompanying fierce regulatory debate.Thierer is a senior fellow at the R Street Institute, where he promotes greater freedom for innovation and entrepreneurship. Prior to R Street, he worked as a senior fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, president of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, and at the Adam Smith Institute, Heritage Foundation, and Cato Institute.In This Episode* A changing approach (1:09)* The global AI race (7:26)* The political economy of AI (10:24)* Regulatory risk (16:10)* AI policy under Trump (22:29)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversationA changing approach (1:09)Pethokoukis: Let's start out with just trying to figure out the state of play when it comes to AI regulation. Now I remember we had people calling for the AI Pause, and then we had a Biden executive order. They're passing some sort of act in Europe on AI, and now recently a senate working group in AI put out a list of guidelines or recommendations on AI. Given where we started, which was “shut it down,” to where we're at now, has that path been what you might've expected, given where we were when we were at full panic?Thierer: No, I think we've moved into a better place, I think. Let's look back just one year ago this week: In the Senate Judiciary Committee, there was a hearing where Sam Altman of OpenAI testified along with Gary Marcus, who's a well-known AI worrywart, and the lawmakers were falling all over themselves to praise Sam and Gary for basically calling for a variety of really extreme forms of AI regulation and controls, including not just national but international regulatory bodies, new general purpose licensing systems for AI, a variety of different types of liability schemes, transparency mandates, disclosure as so-called “AI nutritional labels,” I could go on down the list of all the types of regulations that were being proposed that day. And of course this followed, as you said, Jim, a call for an AI Pause, without any details about exactly how that would work, but it got a lot of signatories, including people like Elon Musk, which is very strange considering he was at the same time deploying one of the biggest AI systems in history. But enough about Elon.The bottom line is that those were dark days, and I think the tenor of the debate and the proposals on the table today, one year after that hearing, have improved significantly. That's the good news. The bad news is that there's still a lot of problematic regulatory proposals percolating throughout the United States. As of this morning, as we're taping the show, we are looking at 738 different AI bills pending in the United States according to multistate.ai, an AI tracking service. One hundred and—I think—eleven of those are federal bills. The vast majority of it is state. But that count does not include all of the municipal regulatory proposals that are pending for AI systems, including some that have already passed in cities like New York City that already has a very important AI regulation governing algorithmic hiring practices. So the bottom line, Jim, is it's the best of times, it's the worst of times. Things have both gotten better and worse.Well—just because the most recent thing that happened—I know with this the senate working group, and they were having all kinds of technologists and economists come in and testify. So that report, is it really calling for anything specific to happen? What's in there other than just kicking it back to all the committees? If you just read that report, what does it want to happen?A crucial thing about this report, and let's be clear what this is, because it was an important report because senator Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was in charge of this, along with a bipartisan group of other major senators, and this started the idea of, so-called “AI insight forums” last year, and it seemed to be pulling some authority away from committees and taking it to the highest levels of the Senate to say, “Hey, we're going to dictate AI policy and we're really scared.” And so that did not look good. I think in the process, just politically speaking—That, in itself, is a good example. That really represents the level of concern that was going around, that we need to do something different and special to address this existential risk.And this was the leader of the Senate doing it and taking away power, in theory, from his committee members—which did not go over well with said committee members, I should add. And so a whole bunch of hearings took place, but they were not really formal hearings, they were just these AI insight forum working groups where a lot of people sat around and said the same things they always say on a daily basis, and positive and negatives of AI. And the bottom line is, just last week, a report came out from this AI senate bipartisan AI working group that was important because, again, it did not adopt the recommendations that were on the table a year ago when the process got started last June. It did not have overarching general-purpose licensing of artificial intelligence, no new call for a brand new Federal Computer Commission for America, no sweeping calls for liability schemes like some senators want, or other sorts of mandates.Instead, it recommended a variety of more generic policy reforms and then kicked a lot of the authority back to those committee members to say, “You fill out the details, for better for worse.” And it also included a lot of spending. One thing that seemingly everybody agrees on in this debate is that, well, the government should spend a lot more money and so another $30 billion was on the table of sort of high-tech pork for AI-related stuff, but it really did signal a pretty important shift in approach, enough that it agitated the groups on the more pro-regulatory side of this debate who said, “Oh, this isn't enough! We were expecting Schumer to go for broke and swing for the fences with really aggressive regulation, and he's really let us down!” To which I can only say, “Well, thank God he did,” because we're in a better place right now because we're taking a more wait-and-see approach on at least some of these issues.A big, big part of the change in this narrative is an acknowledgement of what I like to call the realpolitik of AI policy and specifically the realpolitik of geopoliticsThe global AI race (7:26)I'm going to ask you in a minute what stuff in those recommendations worries you, but before I do, what happened? How did we get from where we were a year ago to where we've landed today?A big, big part of the change in this narrative is an acknowledgement of what I like to call the realpolitik of AI policy and specifically the realpolitik of geopolitics. We face major adversaries, but specifically China, who has said in documents that the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] has published that they want to be the global leader in algorithmic and computational technologies by 2030, and they're spending a lot of money putting a lot of state resources into it. Now, I don't necessarily believe that means they're going to automatically win, of course, but they're taking it seriously. But it's not just China. We have seen in the past year massive state investments and important innovations take place across the globe.I'm always reminding people that people talk a big game about America's foundational models are large scale systems, including things like Meta's Llama, which was the biggest open source system in the world a year ago, and then two months after Meta launched Llama, their open source platform, the government of the UAE came out with Falcon 180B, an open source AI model that was two-and-a-half times larger than Facebook's model. That meant America's AI supremacy and open source foundational models lasted for two months. And that's not China, that's the government of the UAE, which has piled massive resources into being a global leader in computation. Meanwhile, China's launched their biggest super—I'm sorry, Russia's launched their biggest supercomputer system ever; you've got Europe applying a lot of resources into it, and so on and so forth. A lot of folks in the Senate have come to realize that problem is real: that if we shoot ourselves in the foot as a nation, they could race ahead and gain competitive advantage in geopolitical strategic advantages over the United States if it hobbles our technology base. I think that's the first fundamental thing that's changed.I think the other thing that changed, Jim, is just a little bit of existential-risk exhaustion. The rhetoric in this debate, as you've written about eloquently in your columns, has just been crazy. I mean, I've never really seen anything like it in all the years we've been covering technology and economic policy. You and I have both written, this is really an unprecedented level of hysteria. And I think, at some point, the Chicken-Littleism just got to be too much, and I think some saner minds prevailed and said, “Okay, well wait a minute. We don't really need to pause the entire history of computation to address these hypothetical worst-case scenarios. Maybe there's a better plan than that.” And so we're starting to pull back from the abyss, if you will, a little bit, and the adults are reentering the conversation—a little bit, at least. So I think those are the two things that really changed more, although there were other things, but those were two big ones.The political economy of AI (10:24)To what extent do you think we saw the retreat from the more apocalyptic thinking—how much that was due from what businesses were saying, venture capitalists, maybe other tech . . . ? What do you think were the key voices Congress started listening to a little bit more?That's a great question. The political economy of AI policy and tech policy is something that is terrifically interesting to me. There are so many players and voices involved in AI policy because AI is the most important general-purpose technology of our time, and as a widespread broad base—Do you have any doubt about that? (Let me cut you off.) Do you have any doubt about that?I don't. I think it's unambiguous, and we live in a world of “combinatorial innovation,” as Hal Varian calls it, where technologies build on top of the other, one after another, but the thing is they all lead to greater computational capacity, and therefore, algorithmic and machine learning systems come out of those—if we allow it. And the state of data science in this country has gotten to the point where it's so sophisticated because of our rich base of diverse types of digital technologies and computational technologies that finally we're going to break out of the endless cycle of AI booms and busts, and springs and winters, and we're going to have a summer. I think we're having it right now. And so that is going to come to affect every single segment and sector of our economy, including the government itself. I think industry has been very, very scrambled and sort of atomistic in their approach to AI policy, and some of them have been downright opportunistic, trying to throw each other's competitors under the busNow let me let you go return to the political economy, what I was asking you about, what were the voices, sorry, but I wanted to get that in there.Well, I think there are so many voices, I can't name them all today, obviously, but obviously we're going to start with one that's a quiet voice behind the scenes, but a huge one, which is, I think, the National Security community. I think clearly going back to our point about China and geopolitical security, I think a lot of people behind the scenes who care about these issues, including people in the Pentagon, I think they had conversations with certain members of Congress and said, “You know what? China exists. And if we're shooting ourselves in the foot, we begin this race for geopolitical strategic supremacy in an important new general-purpose technology arena, we're really hurting our underlying security as a nation. I think that that thinking is there. So that's an important voice.Secondly, I think industry has been very, very scrambled and sort of atomistic in their approach to AI policy, and some of them have been downright opportunistic, trying to throw each other's competitors under the bus, unfortunately, and that includes OpenAI trying to screw over other companies and technologies, which is dangerous, but the bottom line is: More and more of them are coming to realize, as they saw the actual details of regulation and thinking through the compliance costs, that “Hell no, we won't go, we're not going to do that. We need a better approach.” And it was always easier in the old days to respond to the existential risk route, like, “Oh yeah, sure, regulation is fine, we'll go along with it!” But then when you see the devilish details, you think twice and you realize, “This will completely undermine our competitive advantage in the space as a company or our investment or whatever else.” All you need to do is look at Exhibit A, which is Europe, and say, if you always run with worst-case scenario thinking and Chicken-Littleism is the basis of your technology policy, guess what? People respond to incentives and they flee.Hatred of big tech is like the one great bipartisan, unifying theme of this Congress, if anything. But at the end of the day, I think everyone is thankful that those companies are headquartered in the United States and not Beijing, Brussels, or anywhere else. It's interesting, the national security aspect, my little amateurish thought experiment would be, what would be our reaction, and what would be the reaction in Washington if, in November, 2022, instead of it being a company, an American company with a big investment from another American company having rolled out ChatGPT, what if it would've been Tencent, or Alibaba, or some other Chinese company that had rolled this out, something that's obviously a leap forward, and they had been ahead, even if they said, “Oh, we're two or three years ahead of America,” it would've been bigger than Sputnik, I think.People are probably tired of hearing about AI—hopefully not, I hope they'll also listen to this podcast—but that would all we would be talking about. We wouldn't be talking about job loss, and we wouldn't be talking about ‘The Terminator,' we'd be talking about the pure geopolitical terms that the US has suffered a massive, massive defeat here and who's to blame? What are we going to do? And anybody at that moment who would've said, “We need to launch cruise missile strikes on our own data centers” for fear. . . I mean! And I think you're right, the national security component, extremely important here.In fact, I stole your little line about “Sputnik moment,” Jim, when I testified in front of the House Oversight Committee last month and I said, “Look, it would've been a true ‘Sputnik moment,' and instead it's those other countries that are left having the Sputnik moment, right? They're wondering, ‘How is it that, once again, the United States has gotten out ahead on digital and computational-based technologies?'” But thank God we did! And as I pointed out in the committee room that day, there's a lot of people who have problems with technology companies in Congress today. Hatred of big tech is like the one great bipartisan, unifying theme of this Congress, if anything. But at the end of the day, I think everyone is thankful that those companies are headquartered in the United States and not Beijing, Brussels, or anywhere else. That's just a unifying theme. Everybody in the committee room that day nodded their head, “Yes, yes, absolutely. We still hate them, but we're thankful that they're here.” And that then extends to AI: Can the next generation of companies that they want to bring to Congress and bash and pull money from for their elections, can they once again exist in the United States?Regulatory risk (16:10)So whether it's that working group report, or what else you see in Congress, what are a couple, three areas where you're concerned, where there still seems to be some sort of regulatory momentum?Let's divide it into a couple of chunks here. First of all, at the federal level, Congress is so damn dysfunctional that I'm not too worried that even if they have bad ideas, they're going to pursue them because they're just such a mess, they can't get any basic things done on things like baseline privacy legislation, or driverless car legislation, or even, hell, the budget and the border! They can't get basics done!I think it's a big positive that one, while they're engaging in dysfunction, the technology is evolving. And I hope, if it's as important as I think you and I think, more money will be invested, we'll see more use cases, it'll be obvious—the downsides of screwing up the regulation I think will be more obvious, and I think that's a tailwind for this technology.We're in violent agreement on that, Jim, and of course this goes by the name of “the pacing problem,” the idea that technology is outpacing law in many ways, and one man's pacing problem is another man's pacing benefit, in my opinion. There's a chance for technology to prove itself a little bit. That being said, we don't live in a legislative or regulatory vacuum. We already have in the United States 439 government agencies and sub-agencies, 2.2 million employees just at the federal level. So many agencies are active right now trying to get their paws on artificial intelligence, and some of them already have it. You look at the FDA [Food and Drug Administration], the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration], NHTSA [National Highway Traffic Safety Administration], I could go all through the alphabet soup of regulatory agencies that are already trying to regulate or overregulating AI right now.Then you have the Biden administration, who's gone out and done a lot of cheerleading in favor of more aggressive unilateral regulation, regardless of what Congress says and basically says, “To hell with all that stuff about Chevron Doctrine and major questions, we're just going to go do it! We're at least going to jawbone a lot and try to threaten regulation, and we're going to do it in the name of ‘algorithmic fairness,'” which is what their 100-plus-page executive order and their AI Bill of Rights says they're all about, as opposed to talking about AI opportunity and benefits—it's all misery. And it's like, “Look at how AI is just a massive tool of discrimination and bias, and we have to do something about it preemptively through a precautionary principle approach.” So if Congress isn't going to act, unfortunately the Biden administration already is and nobody's stopping them.But that's not even the biggest problem. The biggest problem, going back to the point that there are 730-plus bills pending in the US right now, the vast majority of them are state and local. And just last Friday, governor Jared Polis of Colorado signed into law the first major AI regulatory measure in Colorado, and there's a bigger and badder bill pending right now in California, there's 80 different bills pending in New York alone, and any half of them would be a disaster.I could go on down the list of troubling state patchwork problems that are going to develop for AI and ML [Machine Learning] systems, but the bottom line is this: This would be a complete and utter reversal of the winning formula that Congress and the Clinton administration gave us in the 1990s, which was a national—a global framework for global electronic commerce. It was very intentionally saying, “We're going to break with the Analog Era disaster, we're going to have a national framework that's pro-freedom to innovate, and we're going to make sure that these meddlesome barriers do not develop to online speech and commerce.” And yet, here with AI, we are witnessing a reversal of that. States are in the lead, and again, like I said, localities too, and Congress is sitting there and is the dysfunctional soup that it is saying, “Oh, maybe we should do something to spend a little bit more money to promote AI.” Well, we can spend all the money we want, but we can end up like Europe who spends tons of money on techno-industrial policies and gets nothing for it because they can't get their innovation culture right, because they're regulating the living hell out of digital technology.So you want Congress to take this away from the states?I do. I do, but it's really, really hard. I think what we need to do is follow the model that we had in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the Internet Tax Freedom Act of 1998. We've also had moratoriums, not only through the Internet Tax Freedom Act, but through the Commercial Space Amendments having to do with space commercial travel and other bills. Congress has handled the question of preemption before and put moratoria in place to say, “Let's have a learning period before we go do stupid things on a new technology sector that is fast moving and hard to understand.” I think that would be a reasonable response, but again, I have to go back to what we just talked about, Jim, which is that there's no chance of us probably getting it. There's no appetite in it. Not any of the 111 bills pending in Congress right now says a damn thing about state and local regulation of technology!Is the thrust of those federal bills, is it the kinds of stuff that you're generally worried about?Mostly, but not entirely. Some of it is narrower. A lot of these bills are like, “Let's take a look at AI and. . . fill in the blank: elections, AI and jobs, AI and whatever.” And some of them, on the merits, not terrible, others, I have concerns, but it's certainly better that we take a targeted sectoral approach to AI policy and regulation than having the broad-based, general-purpose stuff. Now, there are broad-based, general-purpose measures, and here's what they do, Jim: They basically say, “Look, instead of having a whole cloth new regulatory approach, let's build on the existing types of approaches being utilized in the Department of Commerce, namely through our NIST [National Institute of Standards and Technology], and NTIA [National Telecommunications and Information Administration] sub-agencies there. NIST is the National Standards Body, and basically they develop best practices through something called the AI Risk Management Framework for artificial intelligence development—and they're good! It's multi-stakeholder, it's bottom up, it's driven by the same principles that motivated the Clinton administration to do multi-stakeholder processes for the internet. Good model. It is non-regulatory, however. It is a consensus-based, multi-stakeholder, voluntary approach to developing consensus-based standards for best practices regarding various types of algorithmic services. These bills in Congress—and there's at least five of them that I count, that I've written about recently—say, “Let's take that existing infrastructure and give it some enforcement teeth. Let's basically say, ‘This policy infrastructure will be converted into a quasi-regulatory system,'” and there begins the dangerous path towards backdoor regulation of artificial intelligence in this country, and I think that's the most likely model we'll get. Like I said, five models, legislative models in the Senate alone that would do that to varying degrees.AI policy under Trump (22:29)Do you have any feel for what a Trump administration would want to do on this?I do, because a month before the Trump administration left office, they issued a report through the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and it basically laid out for agencies a set of principles for how it should evaluate artificial intelligence systems, both that are used by the government or that they regulate in the private sector, and it was an excellent set of principles. It was a restatement of the importance of policy, forbearance and humility. It was a restatement of a belief in cost-benefit analysis and identifying not only existing regulatory capacity to address these problems, but also non-regulatory mechanisms or best practices or standards that could address some of these things. It was a really good memo. I praised it in a piece that I wrote just before the Trump administration left. Now, of course, the Trump administration may change.Yes, and also, the technology has changed. I mean, that was 2020 and a lot has happened, and I don't know where. . . . I'm not sure where all the Republicans are. I think some people get it. . .I think the problem, Jim, is that, for the Republican Party, and Trumpian conservatives, in particular, they face a time of choosing. And what I mean by this is that they have spent the last four to six years—and Trump egged this on—engaging in nonstop quote-unquote “big tech bashing” and making technology companies in the media out to be, as Trumps calls them, “the enemy of the American people.” And so many hearings now are just parading tech executives and others up there to be beaten with a stick in front of the public, and this is the new thing. And then there's just a flood of bills that would regulate traditional digital technologies, repeal things like Section 230, which is liability protection for the tech sector, and so on, child safety regulations.Meanwhile, that same Republican Party and Mr. Trump go around hating on Joe Biden in China. If it's one thing they can't stand more than big tech, it's Joe and China! And so, in a sense, they've got to choose, because their own policy proposals on technology could essentially kneecap America's technology base in a way that would open up the door to whether it's what they fear in the “woke DEI policies” of Biden or the CCP's preferred policy agenda for controlling computation in the world today. Choose two, you don't get all three. And I think this is going to be an interesting thing to watch if Mr. Trump comes back into office, do they pick up where that OMB memo left off, or do they go right back to beating that “We've got to kill big tech by any means necessary in a seek-and-destroy mission, to hell with the consequences.” And I don't know yet.Faster, Please! is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fasterplease.substack.com/subscribe

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Ron DeSantis mobilizes rescue flights to Haiti, Religious liberty in the Cuban crosshairs, Mike Pence: “I've forgiven the President [Trump] in my heart”

The WorldView in 5 Minutes

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2024

It's Wednesday, March 20th, A.D. 2024. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Jonathan Clark Religious liberty in the Cuban crosshairs Religious groups in Cuba faced 622 cases of religious freedom violations last year. The number is only slightly down from 657 cases in 2022. Christian Solidarity Worldwide documented the cases in a recent report, entitled, “Repression and resistance — a return to hardline tactics.” Since 2021, Cuba's communist government has increasingly targeted religious groups, including Protestants, with surveillance, interrogations, and threats. The Caribbean country is ranked 22nd on the Open Doors' World Watch List of nations where it is most difficult to be a Christian. Russian President Vladimir Putin won fifth term On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin won his fifth term as the country's president in a landslide victory. However, thousand of people protested against Putin. They were inspired by Alexei Navalny, an opposition leader who died in a Russian prison last month. Putin rose to power in 1999. If he finishes his new six-year term, he will become the country's longest-serving leader in over 200 years. Ron DeSantis mobilizes rescue flights to Haiti American missionaries in Haiti are trying to evacuate as gang violence continues to destabilize the country. Last week, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis said he has authorized rescue flights for missionary groups in the Caribbean country. Listen to his comments in an interview on Fox News with host Sean Hannity. DESANTIS: “So, I've authorized rescue flights like we did in Israel after the October 7. Because we've got a lot of folks who are part of Christian missionary groups and they do things to try to actually help a very troubled country. So, they really are doing good work. They need to get out.” Psalm 82:3-4 says, “Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” Mike Pence: “I've forgiven the President [Trump] in my heart” As The Worldview reported on March 18th, former Vice President Mike Pence, who served under President Donald Trump, announced on Friday on Fox News that he would not be endorsing Trump in the upcoming race for the presidency. He reiterated that assertion on CBS' Face the Nation on Sunday. PENCE: “The President and I have profound differences. Many people think it's just over January 6th. And frankly, the fact that the President continues to insist that, that I had the right to overturn the election that day, is a fundamental difference. “But I want to be clear that I've forgiven the president in my heart for what happened that day. As a Christian, I'm required to do that. I have prayed for him in that regard. But the issue of fealty to the Constitution is not a small matter. But it's not just that. “The reason that I cannot, in good conscience, endorse Donald Trump this year also has to do with the fact that he is walking away, not just from keeping faith with the Constitution on that day, but also, Margaret, with a commitment to fiscal responsibility, a commitment to the sanctity of life, a commitment to American leadership in the world. “I mean, the President's reversal, just in the last week, on Tik Tok, following an administration where we literally changed the national consensus on China, is the reason why, after a lot of reflection, I just concluded I cannot endorse the agenda that Donald Trump is carrying into this national debate.” Psalm 146:3, 5 reminds us, “Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. … Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God.” One million U.S. abortions last year The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute reports there were over one million abortions last year, up 10% from 2020. The increase was driven in part by the rise of chemical abortions. Such abortions accounted for 63% percent of all abortions in 2023, up from 53% in 2020. Chemical abortions accounted for the murder of over 600,000 unborn babies last year. 12.9 million barrels of U.S. crude oil per day The U.S. energy Information Administration reports the U.S. produced more crude oil last year than any country ever. The U.S. set a world record in 2023, averaging 12.9 million barrels of oil per day. This was well ahead of other top producers like Russia and Saudi Arabia. U.S. oil production has surged since Russia invaded Ukraine. Since then, many European countries started sourcing their crude from the U.S. instead of Russia. American marriages rebounding And finally, marriages are rebounding since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of marriages in the U.S. surpassed two million in 2022 for the first time since 2019. The marriage rate also reached 6.2 per 1,000 people, the highest since 2018. Also, the divorce rate and the number of divorces dropped slightly in 2022 compared with 2021. Close And that's The Worldview in 5 Minutes on this Wednesday, March 20th in the year of our Lord 2024. Subscribe by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Or get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.

The hot commodity behind AI-powered tech: spectrum

POLITICO Dispatch

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2024 17:25

The growing number of connected devices, many of them now equipped with AI, is putting new demands on the U.S. supply of spectrum. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is implementing a new strategy to prevent a potential crunch. On POLITICO Tech, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Alan Davidson tells host Steven Overly how NTIA is tackling issues related to spectrum and AI accountability.

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Finding the right frequency.

Foundations of Amateur Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2023 15:25

Foundations of Amateur Radio Today I'm going to spend a little longer with you than usual, but then, I think this is important and it's good to end the year on a bang. Have you ever attempted to make contact with a specific DXCC entity and spent some time exploring the band plan to discover what the best frequency might be to achieve that? If you got right into it, you might have gone so far as to attempt to locate the band plan that applies to your particular target. If you have, what I'm about to discuss will not come as a surprise. If not, strap yourself in. When you get your license you're hopefully presented with a current band plan that is relevant to your license conditions. It shows what frequencies are available to you, which modes you can use where, and what power levels and bandwidth are permitted. It should also show you if you're the primary user or not on a particular band. If you're not sure what that means, some frequency ranges are allocated to multiple users and amateur radio as one such user is expected to share. If you're a primary user you have priority, but if you're not, you need to give way to other traffic. It should come as no surprise that this is heavily regulated but as a surprise to some, it changes regularly. Across the world, frequency allocation is coordinated by the International Telecommunications Union, the ITU, and specifically for amateur radio, by the International Amateur Radio Union, the IARU. It coordinates frequencies with each peak amateur radio body. The ITU divides the world into three regions, Region 1, 2 and 3, each with its own band plan. Within each region, a country has the ability to allocate frequencies as it sees fit - presumably as long as it complies with the ITU requirements. As a result, there's not one single picture of how frequencies are allocated. And this is where the fun starts. In Australia there's an official legislated band plan, cunningly titled F2021L00617. It contains the frequencies for all the radio spectrum users as well as a column for each ITU region. The document is 200 pages long, and comes with an astounding array of footnotes and exclusions. It's dated 21 May 2021. There's a simplified version published by the Wireless Institute of Australia, which comes as a 32 page PDF. It was last updated in September 2020. When I say "simplified", I'm of course kidding. It doesn't include the 60m band which according to the regulator is actually an amateur band today. The 13cm band according to the WIA shows a gap between 2302 and 2400, where the regulator shows it as a continuous allocation between 2300 and 2450 MHz. The point being, who's right? What can you actually use? Oh, the WIA does have a different page that shows that 6m "has had some additions", but they haven't bothered to update their actual band plan. To make life easier, the regulator includes helpful footnotes like "AUS87". This is particularly useful if you want to search their PDF to determine what this actually says, since it only appears 156 times and it's not a link within the document. In case you're curious, it's related to three radio astronomy facilities operated by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, better known as the CSIRO, two by the University of Tasmania and one by the Canberra Deep Space Network. Interestingly the Australian Square Kilometer Array and the Murchison Widefield Array don't feature in those particular exclusions, they're covered by footnote AUS103. If that wasn't enough. The regulator has no time for specific amateur use. You can find the word Amateur 204 times but there's no differentiation between the different classes of license which means that you need to go back to the WIA document to figure out which license class is allowed where, which of course means that you end up in no-mans land if you want to discover who is permitted to transmit on 2350 MHz. If we look further afield, in the USA the ARRL publishes half a dozen different versions, each with different colours, since black and white, grey scale, colour and web-colour are all important attributes to differentiate an official document. Of course, those versions are now all six years out of date, having been revised on the 22nd of September 2017. The most recent version, in a completely different format, only in one colour, has all the relevant information. It shows a revised date of 10 February 2023, that or, 2 October 2023 because of course nobody outside the US is ever going to want to refer to that document - seeing as there's only amateurs in the USA, well at least according to the ARRL. Interestingly the US Department of Commerce, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Office of Spectrum Management publishes a colourful chart showing the radio spectrum between 3 kHz and 300 GHz. You can't use it as a technical document, but it's pretty on a wall to amaze your non-amateur friends. The FCC has a band plan page, but I couldn't discover how to actually get amateur relevant information from it. If you think that's bad, you haven't seen anything yet. The British are special. The RSGB publishes a variety of versions, each worse than the next. It appears that their system creates a single HTML page for each band, their 32 page PDF is a print out of that and their interactive viewer wraps all that into some proprietary system that makes using it an abysmal experience. Fortunately, they also link to a band plan made by the regulator, presented as a five page PDF which is much more concise and has the helpful heading: "The following band plan is largely based on that agreed at IARU Region 1 General Conferences, with some local differences on frequencies above 430MHz." Unfortunately it doesn't specify which particular General Conferences apply, but it does helpfully tell us that it's effective from the first of January 2023, unless otherwise shown. That said, 2023 only appears in the headers and footers and 2024 doesn't appear, so who knows what date exceptions exist. One point of difference is that the RSGB also publishes their band plan as an Excel Workbook. This might start your heart beating a little faster with visions of data entry, sorting, filtering and other such goodies, like figuring out which frequency to use for a particular mode. Unfortunately the authors have used Excel as a tool for making tables like you'd see in a word processing document. Start and Stop frequencies in the same cell, random use of MHz, spacing between bandwidth and frequencies and descriptions intermingled. In other words, this is not an Excel Workbook and it does not contain information in any usable form, unless you want to do some free text searching across the 32 worksheets - what is it with 32 anyway? Perhaps this is their authoring tool and they save as HTML from within Excel or print to PDF. Who knows? One point that the British do get right is version control. You can see specifically what change was introduced when. For example, on the 6th of March 2009 the 17m QRP frequency was corrected to 18086 kHz. Mind you, there's several pages of updates, helpfully scattered across multiple worksheets. Yes, they're really using Excel as a word processor. Before I dig into any other countries, I should mention the United Nations Amateur Radio peak body, the IARU, presumably a model that countries should aspire to. The IARU has links to three different sets of band plans. Region 1 breaks the band plan into HF and higher frequencies and the higher frequencies are broken into notional bands, each with their own PDF. Regions 2 and 3 each provide a single PDF, but the Region 3 document is hosted on the Region 2 website. Region 1 documents contain a revision and an active date as well as an author. Region 2 and 3 documents contain a date and are formatted completely differently. In Germany the DARC attempts to link to the IARU-Region 1 band plan, but the link is pointing at a non-existent page. In the Netherlands, VERON points at a 2016 edition of the IARU-Region 1 HF band plan and the current Region 1 mixed band plan for higher frequencies. In Canada the RAC points at a HTML page for each band and presents all the HF frequencies as a single image, yes an image. All the other bands are essentially text describing how to use a particular band. The HF image states that it applies from the first of June 2023, the rest of the pages carry various dates that conflict with each other. For example, the 2m band states on the landing page that it was updated on the 23rd of September 1995, but the page itself refers to a new 2m band plan that was approved in October of 2020. The linked band plan contains all the credit, who is responsible for the plan, naming the entire committee, adding notes and requesting donations, straight from the RAC newsletter, page 36 and 37 of the November / December 2020 edition, rather than providing a stand-alone technical document. Let's hop back across the Atlantic and see what else we can learn. In Switzerland things are a little different. Its regulator publishes a frequency allocation plan that is a thing of beauty. It presents as a table on a web page, but it has a search box you can use to filter the frequencies that you're interested in. So if you use the word "amateur", you end up seeing the whole amateur radio spectrum as it exists within the borders of Switzerland. You can also set frequency ranges and as a bonus, if you type in 1 MHz and change the unit to kHz, it actually changes the number to 1000. As I said, a thing of beauty. Oh, and the footnotes? Yeah, they're links and they open a new window with the relevant information, and you can keep clicking deeper and deeper until you get to the actual legislation driving that particular entry. If that's not fancy enough for you, from within the search, you can download an offline HTML copy, you can pick services, rather than use search terms, and the PDF version, because of course there is one, actually has the same active links to footnotes. That said, it has some idiosyncrasies. It specifies when amateur radio is the primary or the secondary user of a band, except when it doesn't. I presume that this is a regulatory thing and that it's a shared resource, but as an outsider I'm not familiar with Swiss law, but if I was inclined, I could become familiar, since the documents are all written in multiple languages, including English. Another oddity is that some frequencies show no text at all, but I presume that's a bug, rather than by design. Speaking of bugs, or features, depending on your perspective. Consider the frequency 2300 MHz. Every single document I looked at mixes up how this is shown. Some have a space between the number and the unit, some don't. Some countries put a space between the 2 and the 3, some a dot, some a comma, the Swiss use an apostrophe. Just so we're clear, these are technical documents we're talking about. They're not literary works, there are standards for how to do this, but it seems that the people writing these documents are blissfully unaware of any such references. Even the IARU cannot agree on how to represent the same number, let alone use the same formatting for the same band plan in each of its three regions. At this point you might come to the conclusion that this is all an abhorrent mess and I'd agree with you. In my opinion, it goes directly to how important our hobby is in the scheme of things and just how little funding is allocated to our activities. It also shows that there are contradictory sources of truth and not a single unified view on how to present this information to the global amateur community. In case you're wondering why that matters, electromagnetism doesn't stop at the political boundaries of the location where we might find ourselves and if that doesn't matter to you, consider again how you'd best talk to an amateur of any given DXCC entity and on what particular frequency you might achieve that. So, aside from whinging about it, what can you do about this? I have started a project, of course I have, that attempts to document two things, well, three. First of all I use the WIA version of the DXCC list - since the ARRL doesn't actually publish that for free anywhere - and use that to track a list of hopefully official frequency allocation documents. I'm also in the process of capturing the content of each of those documents into a database, so we can all figure out what the best frequency is to talk to another country. I'm still in the design stages for the database, for example, do we want to store a frequency in Hertz, in kHz, or pick a magnitude and store a number? Each of these choices has long term implications for using the tool. Then there's things like discovering which band plan applies to Scarborough Reef, the San Felix Islands and Pratas Island to name a few, since I've really only scratched the surface with the plans I've explored. I had visions of putting this on GitHub, but perhaps this should be part of the Wikipedia collection and it should live there. I'm still considering the best plan of attack. In the meantime, you can help. Please send an email to cq@vk6flab.com with the official band plan link for your own DXCC entity, and if you have thoughts on how best to structure the database or where this project should live, let me know. For example, should the database include just band plans, or should we also include things like modes. For example, the official VK calling frequency for 40m is 7.093 MHz. Should that be in the database and should we include the preferred Olivia calling frequency? While looking at that, consider the band labels we use. Australia doesn't have a 75m band, but others do. Some countries refer to the 4mm band, others refer to it by frequency. So, over to you. Let me know what you think. I'll leave you with a quote by Daren 2E0LXY: "It is not the class of licence the Amateur holds but the class of the Amateur that holds the licence." I'm Onno VK6FLAB

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PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1291

This Week in Amateur Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2023

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1291 Release Date: November 25, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Michael LaMontain, KE2AWY, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 2:01:22 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1291 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. HACK: High Altitude Balloon To Fly During Solar Eclipse / NASA Recruiting Ham Citizen Science 2. AMSAT: 2023 AMSAT Space Symposium & Annual General Meeting Proceedings Now Available 3. AMSAT: SpaceX Launches Ninth Rideshare Mission / Over 100 Satellites Deployed With Falcon 9 4. AMSAT: AMSAT-EA's HADES-D Satellite Awaiting Deployment From ION Orbital Transfer Vehicle 5. AMSAT: ROM-3 Romanian High School Team's Satellite Soars To Success In Latest SpaceX Launch 6. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 7. WIA: HD Radio Passes 100 Million Car Mark 8. ARRL: Florida Hams Make Contact 100 Miles Apart Via 10 Meter Repeater... In Switzerland. 9. ARRL: ARRL Announces The Results Of The 2023 ARRL Division Elections 10. ARRL: 2023 Fall Section Manager Election Results 11. ARRL: Giving Thanks In The Year Of The Volunteers 12. ARRL: Giving Tuesday: The Future Of Amateur Radio Needs You 13. ARRL: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Will Hold An Online Mini-Digital Communications Conference 14. University of Scranton New Amateur Radio Tower Helps Station Prepare For Upcoming Eclipse 15. Well Known Amateur And Chicago Broadcaster Orrin Brand, K9KEK, SK 16. West Bengal Amateurs Reunite Missing Father With His Family After 24 Years 17. Celebrating Growing Accessibility For Disabled Amateurs 18. The IEEE Says Radio Waves Can Diagnose Climate Issues 19. How About A QSO With The Winners Of The Krenkel Medal 20. Slovakian CubeSat Is Named After Businessman's Daughter..And It's Pink 21. World Radiocommunications Conference 2023 begins in Dubai 22. ARRL: Former Illinois Section Manager Tom Ciciora, KA9QPN, SK 23. ARRL: Clubs In Colorado To Host Santa On The Air 24. ARRL: ARRL hails FCC action to remove symbol rate restrictions 25. ARRL: The University of Scranton Amateur Radio Club, W3USR, gets a facelift 26. ARRL: The 16th annual santa net will be on the air between Thanksgiving and Christmas 27. U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration targets five bands for expanded spectrum use Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte W6TWT will take a look at dark fiber, and why he thinks bits should be free... * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, says we have failed to simulate. * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill starts a series on the history of amateur radio repeaters. * Courtesy of The Rain Report, we'll travel back in time for a talk from Radio historian Scott Childers - W9CHI as he relates a short history of "The Big 89", in Chicago, WLS. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net X: @twiar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. You can air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. 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From The Think Tank: AI Am Here To Help - Part Three

Severed Conscience

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2023 38:43

In the previous episode O and Zee described how news organizations are using an AI application called Jasper to generate “interesting takes” to assist journalists with writing their articles and opinion pieces. The topic of AI hallucinations was discussed, a condition where AI suddenly makes up facts that are so authoritative that they are accepted as truth. We seem eager to turn our crucial medical decisions over to software.In Part Three, O and Zee discuss O's article “It's Not Science, It's DATA!”. In that article O traced the history of online data collection, and the culture of contributing personal data so readily to government agencies which has conditioned us to yielding our right to privacy. In 2009 the ADA pooled the resources of the US Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications & Information Administration and of course the Economics & Statistics Administration when surveying access to the internet. Today we do not question how the Internet has affected our mental health in adverse and tragic ways. The greater question is why?The sources in this episode are located at our website, a link is provided in the description below. We have been manipulated. Severed Conscience is a prison of the mind.To access our documentary, join our community on https://severedconscience.com.Sources for this episode:O's article "It's Not Science, It's DATA!" - https://www.studiohumanzee.com/2023/08/08/its-not-science-its-data/https://www.studiohumanzee.com/2023/08/07/show-notes-ai-am-to-help/Full video: https://rumble.com/v35g4ea-oz-fest-morning-mission-chat-gpt-and-severed-conscience..html

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The techUK Podcast - Reflecting on the DSIT International Telecoms Summit

The techUK Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2023 30:13

In this episode, techUK's Head of Telecoms and Spectrum Policy Sophie James talks to The Rt Hon Sir John Whittingdale OBE MP, Minister for Data and Digital Infrastructure from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Brian Larkin from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration in the US, and Mavenir's John Baker. Our guests share their reflections on the recent International Telecoms Summit, held at techUK, as part of London Tech Week, some of the key topics and themes that were explored, and the importance of international collaboration in the global telecoms sector. To learn more visit www.techUK.org

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AIIM position on AI Accountability

AIIM On Air

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2023 12:17

Tori Miller-Liu, CEO of AIIM International, discusses AI accountability. AIIM recently released a position statement on AI Accountability; a formal response to a request for comment from the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Tori summarizes some of the positions in the response, the notion that not all AI is equal and public policy should reflect different levels of risk, and why it is important that the NTIA makes the distinction between “Trustworthiness” of AI and “Accuracy.” Host, Kevin Craine

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Oregon to receive nearly $700 million for broadband access

Think Out Loud

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2023 20:34

Oregon will receive a whopping $688 million from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to help provide broadband in areas of the state that lack high-speed connection. The funding is part of the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal. Oregon’s Broadband Office will craft a five-year action plan and has been holding community meetings across the state to hear what Oregonians are experiencing in terms of internet access. Nick Bats is the director of the office. He joins us to share what he heard at these meetings and what the timeline looks like for broadening internet access in Oregon.

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Episode 56: Moving A.I. Forward in a Responsible Way

Global in the Granite State

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2023 30:57

In this month's episode we explore the challenges surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the need for global cooperation to minimize potential negative outcomes. By speaking with Ben Porter of Prometheus Endeavor, a technology think-tank, the conversation provides a balanced viewpoint of the challenges and opportunities surrounding the development of AI, from the robot overlords of the Matrix to the lifesaving programs identifying cancer cells, there are a lot of potential programs that can be used for good and evil. In response to a National Telecommunications and Information Administration request for comment, Prometheus Endeavour has outlined some guidelines that governments should adopt to protect everyday citizens from the potential harms of uncontrolled AI development. Recognizing the global competition between countries like the United States and China to lead AI innovation, we stress the need for coherent and consistent regulations worldwide. There is a strong need to highlight the importance of transparency, accountability, and adherence to privacy and copyright laws in AI development. While many people are calling for the slowing down or ending of AI development, it remains critical to many national development plans and simply needs positive oversight to ensure a reduction of harms to the end users. Join us as we dive beyond the headlines and provide you with the right insights to help you sleep better at night, without a robot overlord watching over you.Ben Porter - Ben porter is a consultant and educator focusing on innovative use of technology. He has created, built and managed world leading management consulting companies focusing on the strategic use of information technology, as well as led Fortune 500 companies through the development of IT Vision, Strategy, and delivery of strategic business value. He holds a BS in Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MS in Industrial Administration from Purdue.Over his more than 40 years of consulting and decade plus of teaching, he is passionate about finding ways for organizations to creatively use technology to achieve their business and organizational visions. He has developed careers for scores of consultants and students in the fields of Information Technology, Data Science and Analytics.Prometheus Endeavor - "At Prometheus Endeavor, we challenge conventional wisdom. We research, make observations, ask questions about endeavors and publish our ideas. We apply our knowledge, management experience, frameworks and models to separate issues and good ideas from traps and blind alleys. We uncover unknowns, identify scenarios, set priorities and plans, calibrate adjustments and measure progress."

daily304 - Episode 06.30.2023

daily304's podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2023 3:26

Welcome to the daily304 – your window into Wonderful, Almost Heaven, West Virginia.  Today is Friday, June 30 A $25 million grant will help expand broadband in WV…It's a food-o-rama in the Kanawha Valley, with a new restaurant opening and loads of food trucks setting up for Regatta…and the owner of Sutton's Bigfoot Museum says folks have made him a believer…on today's daily304. #1 – From METRO NEWS – With a $25 million grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Appalachian Power will be able to expand its fiber optic data network and make broadband access available to thousands of more households in southern West Virginia. The NTIA grant will go towards constructing 658 miles of new “middle mile” fiber optic cable. It was also to utilize fiber strands along another 297 miles of the company's existing fiber in parts of McDowell, Mercer, Raleigh, Summers, and Wyoming counties. Phil Moye, Appalachian Power Corporate Communications Manager, says the middle mile infrastructure will reach 22,000 unserved residents. Read more: https://wvmetronews.com/2023/06/25/ntia-grant-for-appalachian-power-will-expand-broadband-access-to-more-rural-households/ #2 – From WV FOOD GUY – If you're heading into Charleston this weekend, you'll find some new dining options. Dem 2 Brothers and a Grill has opened its new location in downtown Charleston, adding another option for diners craving the restaurant's mouthwatering barbecue, homestyle sides and desserts. The restaurant is located at 189 Summers Street in the storefront that formerly housed Nosh. Live music, carnival rides, cold drinks and more aren't the only things to enjoy at the Charleston Sternwheel Regatta along Kanawha Boulevard downtown this Friday through July 4. The annual river festival also offers quite the food-a-palooza with a whopping 40 food trucks and vendors serving up tasty treats. There's also a Low Country Boil coming up at Gritt's Farm in Buffalo and a women's farm-to-table dinner at J.Q. Dickinson Salt-works in Malden. Check it out! Read more: https://www.wvfoodguy.com/post/dem-2-brothers-and-a-grill-opens-new-location-downtown #3 – From WV EXPLORER – Locals know there's a Bigfoot, or several of the creatures, living in the forests of central West Virginia, according to the curator of the West Virginia Bigfoot Museum in Sutton. David Petolicchio says that when he established the museum in the town's historic district in 2021, he had only a vague idea of how residents of the Elk River Valley might feel about tales of the monster. But soon after it opened, he found out. “There are farmers and hunters who will tell you that they believe in Bigfoot and that they've seen it or heard it or have seen signs of it,” Petolicchio said, “and I believe them. These are not crazy people. These are serious people and respected members of the community.” Inspired by tales of a Bigfoot that had haunted the region since the 1940s (in which it was referred to as a “wild man”), David and his mother, Laurel, opened the museum in 2021 alongside their downtown shop, Mountain Laurel Country Store, which carries home decor, health and beauty products, apparel, games, and toys. Read more: https://wvexplorer.com/2023/06/21/west-virginia-bigfoot-museum-now-a-believer/ Find these stories and more at wv.gov/daily304. The daily304 curated news and information is brought to you by the West Virginia Department of Commerce: Sharing the wealth, beauty and opportunity in West Virginia with the world. Follow the daily304 on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @daily304. Or find us online at wv.gov and just click the daily304 logo. That's all for now. Take care. Be safe. Get outside and enjoy all the opportunity West Virginia has to offer.

RFD Today June 30, 2023

RFD Today

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2023 53:01

National Telecommunications & Information Administration's BEAD Program Director Evan Feinman discusses $1-billion in High Speed Internet funding coming to Illinois. Livestock exhibitor Justin Hardin highlights the importance of county fairs. He was interviewed at the Henry County Fair. Karen Boyd, nurse navigator at OSF Moeller Cancer Center in Alton talks skin cancer screening, detection, and awareness.

50. 2023 Mid-year Update

5G Guys I Tech Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2023 31:37

Now that we're right in the middle of 2023, it's a great time to look at how our pre-2023 predictions are holding up as well as what big events and announcements occurred in the US wireless and broadband industries. In this episode, Wayne and Dan revisit their predictions for 2023 they made in January to see what's holding up and where they were off the mark. Topics include the continued progress of AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon on their 5G buildouts, as well as their general market conditions. Plus a look into Verizon and T-Mobile's continued attention on fixed wireless access (FWA). There's also big news around C-band 5G and aviation ground radar interference concerns, multi-billion dollar grants by the federal government to subsidize fixing the digital divide, and Dish Wireless' entrance on the scene as the newest nationwide 5G carrier. So check out this episode to check in on all the happenings year-to-date in wireless telecommunications and broadband. For more on some of the topics covered in the episode, check out the links below. Links to Episode Topics: · Pete Buttigieg Warns of Flight Delays as 5G Deadline Looms - WSJ · White House Announces $42 Billion to Expand Broadband Across US - CNET · Is AT&T's RTO Mandate a Mass Layoff in Disguise? (msn.com) · Biden-Harris Administration Announces State Allocations for $42.45 Billion High-Speed Internet Grant Program as Part of Investing in America Agenda | National Telecommunications and Information Administration (ntia.gov) Connect With Our Sponsor: · Website: www.vertex-us.com Website: · Website: https://5gguys.com Social: · Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/5Gguys · LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12515882 · Twitter: https://twitter.com/5gGuys Submit Your Ideas or Feedback: · https://5gguys.com/contact-2 Episode Minute By Minute: 0:00 Starting off with a sneak peek, welcome note, and sponsor acknowledgment. 1:18 Welcome back and show overview 2:10 Update on Big 3 cellular status for AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon 6:30 Is there reason to be concerned about the market economics? 6:48 Will 5G C-Band interference cause flight delays staring July 1 like Pete Buttigieg claims? 10:10 Big news about Dish Wireless launching the newest 5G network! 14:06 Fixed Wireless Access status for Verizon and T-Mobile 15:00 Big news about Federal release of $42Billion for broadband! 18:50 Elon Musk and Starlink updates 21:39 Amazon rumors as a player in wireless service offers? 23:58 Review of some of our favorite episodes so far in 2023 24:07 Paradigm shift from download to upload speed demands 25:04 New talk about 6G 25:30 AT&T's drones and robot dogs 25:48 Qualcomm enabling AI on the phone 26:10 Apple announcements anything to pay attention to? 28:08 The new world of education enabled by digital twins 29:24 What are digital twins and how is Microsoft enabling this?

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#45 - Hacker History: SolarWinds

The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2023 20:14

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we recount some hacker history, and with the help of John Bambenek, tell the story of one of the largest and most complicated supply chain attacks in history: SolarWinds On December 13, 2020, The Washington Post reported that multiple government agencies were breached through SolarWinds's Orion software.Victims of this attack include the cybersecurity firm FireEye, the US Treasury Department, the US Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration, as well as the US Department of Homeland Security.Prominent international SolarWinds customers investigating whether they were impacted include the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Parliament, UK Government Communications Headquarters, the UK Ministry of Defence, the UK National Health Service (NHS), the UK Home Office, and AstraZeneca. FireEye reported the hackers inserted "malicious code into legitimate software updates for the Orion software that allow an attacker remote access into the victim's environment" and that they have found "indications of compromise dating back to the spring of 2020". FireEye named the malware SUNBURST. Microsoft called it Solorigate.The attack used a backdoor in a SolarWinds library; when an update to SolarWinds occurred, the malicious attack would go unnoticed due to the trusted certificate.The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast: a show about cybersecurity and the people that defend the internet.

Artificial Intelligence Accountability: Jake Morabito Explores NTIA's AI Accountability Policy

Across the States

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2023 6:01

Jake Morabito, ALEC Communications and Technology Task Force Director, sat down with Lars Dalseide to discuss comments ALEC submitted to the National Telecommunications & Information Administration's (NTIA) proposed Artificial Intelligence (AI) Accountability Policy RFC. Special Guest: Jake Morabito.

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LW - Anthropic | Charting a Path to AI Accountability by Gabriel Mukobi

The Nonlinear Library

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2023 6:12

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Anthropic | Charting a Path to AI Accountability, published by Gabriel Mukobi on June 14, 2023 on LessWrong. Below is the text copied from the linked post (since it's short). I'm not affiliated with Anthropic but wanted to link-post this here for discussion. This week, Anthropic submitted a response to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Request for Comment on AI Accountability. Today, we want to share our recommendations as they capture some of Anthropic's core AI policy proposals. There is currently no robust and comprehensive process for evaluating today's advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems, let alone the more capable systems of the future. Our submission presents our perspective on the processes and infrastructure needed to ensure AI accountability. Our recommendations consider the NTIA's potential role as a coordinating body that sets standards in collaboration with other government agencies like the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In our recommendations, we focus on accountability mechanisms suitable for highly capable and general-purpose AI models. Specifically, we recommend: Fund research to build better evaluations Increase funding for AI model evaluation research. Developing rigorous, standardized evaluations is difficult and time-consuming work that requires significant resources. Increased funding, especially from government agencies, could help drive progress in this critical area. Require companies in the near-term to disclose evaluation methods and results. Companies deploying AI systems should be mandated to satisfy some disclosure requirements with regard to their evaluations, though these requirements need not be made public if doing so would compromise intellectual property (IP) or confidential information. This transparency could help researchers and policymakers better understand where existing evaluations may be lacking. Develop in the long term a set of industry evaluation standards and best practices. Government agencies like NIST could work to establish standards and benchmarks for evaluating AI models' capabilities, limitations, and risks that companies would comply with. Create risk-responsive assessments based on model capabilities Develop standard capabilities evaluations for AI systems. Governments should fund and participate in the development of rigorous capability and safety evaluations targeted at critical risks from advanced AI, such as deception and autonomy. These evaluations can provide an evidence-based foundation for proportionate, risk-responsive regulation. Develop a risk threshold through more research and funding into safety evaluations. Once a risk threshold has been established, we can mandate evaluations for all models against this threshold. If a model falls below this risk threshold, existing safety standards are likely sufficient. Verify compliance and deploy. If a model exceeds the risk threshold and safety assessments and mitigations are insufficient, halt deployment, significantly strengthen oversight, and notify regulators. Determine appropriate safeguards before allowing deployment. Establish pre-registration for large AI training runs Establish a process for AI developers to report large training runs ensuring that regulators are aware of potential risks. This involves determining the appropriate recipient, required information, and appropriate cybersecurity, confidentiality, IP, and privacy safeguards. Establish a confidential registry for AI developers conducting large training runs to pre-register model details with their home country's national government (e.g., model specifications, model type, compute infrastructure, intended training completion date, and safety plans) before training commences. Aggregated registry data should be protect...

LW - Anthropic | Charting a Path to AI Accountability by Gabriel Mukobi

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2023 6:12

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Anthropic | Charting a Path to AI Accountability, published by Gabriel Mukobi on June 14, 2023 on LessWrong. Below is the text copied from the linked post (since it's short). I'm not affiliated with Anthropic but wanted to link-post this here for discussion. This week, Anthropic submitted a response to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Request for Comment on AI Accountability. Today, we want to share our recommendations as they capture some of Anthropic's core AI policy proposals. There is currently no robust and comprehensive process for evaluating today's advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems, let alone the more capable systems of the future. Our submission presents our perspective on the processes and infrastructure needed to ensure AI accountability. Our recommendations consider the NTIA's potential role as a coordinating body that sets standards in collaboration with other government agencies like the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In our recommendations, we focus on accountability mechanisms suitable for highly capable and general-purpose AI models. Specifically, we recommend: Fund research to build better evaluations Increase funding for AI model evaluation research. Developing rigorous, standardized evaluations is difficult and time-consuming work that requires significant resources. Increased funding, especially from government agencies, could help drive progress in this critical area. Require companies in the near-term to disclose evaluation methods and results. Companies deploying AI systems should be mandated to satisfy some disclosure requirements with regard to their evaluations, though these requirements need not be made public if doing so would compromise intellectual property (IP) or confidential information. This transparency could help researchers and policymakers better understand where existing evaluations may be lacking. Develop in the long term a set of industry evaluation standards and best practices. Government agencies like NIST could work to establish standards and benchmarks for evaluating AI models' capabilities, limitations, and risks that companies would comply with. Create risk-responsive assessments based on model capabilities Develop standard capabilities evaluations for AI systems. Governments should fund and participate in the development of rigorous capability and safety evaluations targeted at critical risks from advanced AI, such as deception and autonomy. These evaluations can provide an evidence-based foundation for proportionate, risk-responsive regulation. Develop a risk threshold through more research and funding into safety evaluations. Once a risk threshold has been established, we can mandate evaluations for all models against this threshold. If a model falls below this risk threshold, existing safety standards are likely sufficient. Verify compliance and deploy. If a model exceeds the risk threshold and safety assessments and mitigations are insufficient, halt deployment, significantly strengthen oversight, and notify regulators. Determine appropriate safeguards before allowing deployment. Establish pre-registration for large AI training runs Establish a process for AI developers to report large training runs ensuring that regulators are aware of potential risks. This involves determining the appropriate recipient, required information, and appropriate cybersecurity, confidentiality, IP, and privacy safeguards. Establish a confidential registry for AI developers conducting large training runs to pre-register model details with their home country's national government (e.g., model specifications, model type, compute infrastructure, intended training completion date, and safety plans) before training commences. Aggregated registry data should be protect...

The Power of Knowledge - Junk Fee Edition

Woman Power Zone

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2023 15:42

In this episode, Ariel talks about Junk Fees, which are ways that companies take money right out of your pocket – and at a time of high inflation, you definitely need to know this information. KEY TAKEAWAYS Companies are charging lots of extra fees because they're trying to milk you for money. A lot is going on politically with this and actions have been taken by the Biden/Harris Administration as part of the Fourth Meeting of the President's Competition Council which announced two different actions they would take: working with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to slash excessive credit card late fees from $30 to $8, saving consumers as much as $9 billion, which is crazy. Then, the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration is releasing a report assessing areas of competition in mobile app stores because they have extra fees hidden in them. The Junk Fee Prevention Act is out there to provide consumers with the transparency that they deserve before making a purchase. It hasn't passed in Congress, but the fact that they're talking about this is huge. Before you purchase concert tickets, for example, make sure that the concert ticket provider is not a third-party provider. A lot of times it's really hard to tell. Their administration fees are often a lot of money. You have a choice: You don't have to buy those tickets if you don't want to, or you could buy them through a different service. If you are buying real estate and you see terms like ‘regulatory compliance cost', ‘transaction fee', ‘broker fee', or ‘technology fee' you need to know about them. Real estate brokerages usually charge real estate agents a desk fee in order to be able to use their back end, legal support, their office, and bunch of things they use to work out of that office, or they have to give up a certain amount of commission (especially if they're new to that business). Sometimes the real estate brokerages will add this fee onto a transaction meaning the client pays that instead of the agent. BEST MOMENTS ‘My own rent has gone up over $600 in two years. A $7,200 increase in two years, that's unbelievable!'‘Airline travel, concert going, common purchases, seemingly almost everywhere, consumers are compelled to pay excessive charges.'‘I don't know what your grocery bills are doing, but mine went from $600 a month to $1,000 a month in less than two years, and my teenager is only here part of the time.'‘Real estate junk fees are called a lot of things, but it should really be called a BS fee!' ABOUT THE HOST Ariel is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Registered Clinical Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master, Empath and Psychic who has been involved in holistic healing since 1988. She is also an educator, speaker, author and mentor for empaths, spiritual seekers and medical professionals. To reach Ariel, go to www.arielhubbard.com, where you will be able to contact her directly. Please let her know you heard her on the podcast and the assistance you need or question you have. Website: www.arielhubbard.com Podcast: Woman Power Zone on all major platforms LinkedIn: @arielhubbardIG: @arielhubbardFacebook: @HubbardEducationGroupYT: @arielhubbardCH: @arielhubbard Pinterest: https://pin.it/6Z6RozS Pre-order form for Ariel's educational, hilarious and spicy dating book: The Empowered Woman's Guide to Online Dating: Set Your BS Tolerance to Zerohttps://eworder.replynow.ontraport.net/ Access to the Mindset Reset Club: https://mindsetreset.members-only.onlineSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio #1261

This Week in Amateur Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2023

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1261 Release Date: April 29, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, William Savacool, K2SAV, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:57:02 Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1261 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: 1. FCC Warns Portland Church To Shut Down Pirate FM Operating Under Its Steeple 2. FCC Adopts New Rules For Satellite System Spectrum Sharing 3. AMSAT Fox-Plus Progress Report - PART ONE 4. AMSAT Fox-Plus Progress Report - PART TWO 5. Houston AMSAT Net Tops 1500 Sessions 6. Youth On the Air Camp For The Americas Announced 7. Look What I Found! - Parts Of The Failed Space X Launch Wash Up On Shore 8. FCC Chief Rosenworcel Says 6G Is Coming Sooner Than You Think 9. NASA's International Space Station Communications Disrupted By Argentinian Taxi Driver Radio 10. ARRL Advocates For Radio Amateurs As FCC Proposes Changes To The 60 Meter Band 11. New STEM Trailer For All Things Amateur Radio Association 12. International Marconi Day: National Parks Director Makes QSO 13. Former Section Manager Of ARRL Northern Florida Section SK 14. Arizona Club Makes Significant Donation To Local Medical Center In Memory Of Club Member 15. The ARRL Invites Member Comments On Proposed Dues Increase 16. Researchers In India Develop A Micro-Supercapacitor 17. Astronaut From The United Arab Emirates New Educational Program Has First QSO 18. World Amateur Radio Day Is Celebrated Around The World 19. New Book Written By NW6V CHris Rutkowski Call The CW Way Of Life 20. ARRL Field Day supplies are now available 21. Upcoming HamFests, Contests and Conventions of interest 22. National Radio Astronomy Observatory Program Looking for Students 18-20 Years Old to Learn About Spectrum 23. Tucson Amateur Packet Radio and AMSAT HamVention Banquet To Be Held May 19th 24. Amateur Radio Digital Communications Is Hiring A Communications Manager 25. HamStudy Dot Org Presents Fast and Easy Testing For Amateur Radio Licensing and Upgrades 26. National Telecommunications and Information Administration on WRC-23 Says Use It Or Lose It 27. ARDC Issues A Grant To Youth On The Air Americas To Expand YOTA Camp Expansion 28. Homeowner/Amateur Enthusiast Argues With His HOA and Refuses To Take Down Antennas, Instead Adds More 29. National Council of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators Release New General Class Question Pool Errata Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT, will talk about a recent publication put out by the Oregon FBI office covering recommendations for networking your IOT (Internet of Things) devices. * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, presents part three of his four part series on successfully writing and getting a public service announcement on local broadcast radio to promote your clubs hamfest or special event. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will try to answer the question "Why Is Radio Regulated?" * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. Bill returns to begin his series, The Ancient Amateur Archives, this week, Bill takes us back to the early 1950's when the FCC first proposed the Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service, and when RACES got confirmed as a temporary authority in 1952. And it's still with us... * Courtesy of RAIN and Eric Guth 4Z1UG, we will have Part One of a Two Part interview with Rich Moseson, W2VU, who is the current editor of CQ Magazine. ----- Website: https://www.twiar.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twiari/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/twiar RSS News: https://twiar.net/?feed=rss2 Automated: https://twiar.net/TWIARHAM.mp3 (Static file, changed weekly) ----- Visit our website at www.twiar.net for program audio, and daily for the latest amateur radio and technology news. Air This Week in Amateur Radio on your repeater! Built in identification breaks every 10 minutes or less. This Week in Amateur Radio is heard on the air on nets and repeaters as a bulletin service all across North America, and all around the world on amateur radio repeater systems, weekends on WA0RCR on 1860 (160 Meters), and more. This Week in Amateur Radio is portable too! The bulletin/news service is available and built for air on local repeaters (check with your local clubs to see if their repeater is carrying the news service) and can be downloaded for air as a weekly podcast to your digital device from just about everywhere. This Week in Amateur Radio is also carried on a number of LPFM stations, so check the low power FM stations in your area. You can also stream the program to your favorite digital device by visiting our web site www.twiar.net. Or, just ask Siri, Alexa, or your Google Nest to play This Week in Amateur Radio! This Week in Amateur Radio is produced by Community Video Associates in upstate New York, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you would like to volunteer with us as a news anchor or special segment producer please get in touch with our Executive Producer, George, via email at w2xbs77@gmail.com. Also, please feel free to follow us by joining our popular group on Facebook, and follow our feed on Twitter! Thanks to FortifiedNet.net for the server space! Thanks to Archive.org for the audio space.

Evening Edition: Democrats Look To Regulate Artificial Intelligence

The FOX News Rundown

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2023 13:47

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is leading the charge for Democrats who want to craft legislation aimed at regulating Artificial Intelligence. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is advising the Biden Administration on possible regulations as as many tech industry leaders are suggesting everyone should slow down their development of A.I. FOX's Eben Brown spoke with Grady Trimble, DC correspondent for FOX Business Network, about balancing safeguards and censorship while regulating the technology. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Evening Edition: Democrats Look To Regulate Artificial Intelligence

From Washington – FOX News Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2023 13:47

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is leading the charge for Democrats who want to craft legislation aimed at regulating Artificial Intelligence. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is advising the Biden Administration on possible regulations as as many tech industry leaders are suggesting everyone should slow down their development of A.I. FOX's Eben Brown spoke with Grady Trimble, DC correspondent for FOX Business Network, about balancing safeguards and censorship while regulating the technology. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Evening Edition: Democrats Look To Regulate Artificial Intelligence

Fox News Rundown Evening Edition

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2023 13:47

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is leading the charge for Democrats who want to craft legislation aimed at regulating Artificial Intelligence. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is advising the Biden Administration on possible regulations as as many tech industry leaders are suggesting everyone should slow down their development of A.I. FOX's Eben Brown spoke with Grady Trimble, DC correspondent for FOX Business Network, about balancing safeguards and censorship while regulating the technology. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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ACP Funding and Its Future, Part 1

Wavelengths

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2023 29:20

Broadband infrastructure is an integral part of society as it ensures that access to networks is possible, and that necessary cables are available to provide high-quality connectivity. Broadband was given priority when the Biden administration introduced a bill in 2021 to address and solve broadband connectivity issues, particularly in rural and disadvantaged areas. The two programs that came out of it were: the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program and the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). The multibillion-dollar bill provides funding to help increase access to the internet, and allow more customers to purchase and save on affordable internet plans. How have these programs and funding been implemented? The Wavelengths podcast recently explored this. Host Daniel Litwin interviewed Ben Elkins, the CEO of AireBeam, an Arizona-based fiber internet service provider. The two discussed how funding is being dispersed between states and how the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) work, in conjunction with states, is ensuring that broadband goals are met.Litwin and Elkins further discussed …1. BEAD and its necessity for rural and underserved areas 2. Why the FCC's broadband map is very detailed in pointing out areas in need of broadband infrastructure3. How the NTIA's crafty work with BEAD is already more impactful than previous programs, such as RDOF, in making sure funding is properly allocated“The NTIA and BEAD, you actually have them working together, and this is perfect — you have states and government working together, which a lot of times doesn't happen in our society, so this is really, really good. And NTIA was really smart to give each state upfront money to create two things: they got them to have office space and then get personnel and what this allowed them to do was … create directors of broadband in different folks to go out and meet the communities, meet the ISPs, and really get to know them and figure out where the needs were and where the real problem areas and how we can help different states, different counties, different communities; then figure out firsthand, ‘Okay. What ISPs could really be qualified to do this, and then what communities could be matching up well with them,' so, really smart,” said Elkins.Ben Elkins is the CEO of AireBeam. He has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications field and is a graduate of Arizona State University.

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ACP Funding and Its Future, Part 1

Wavelengths

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2023 29:33

Broadband infrastructure is an integral part of society as it ensures that access to networks is possible, and that necessary cables are available to provide high-quality connectivity. Broadband was given priority when the Biden administration introduced a bill in 2021 to address and solve broadband connectivity issues, particularly in rural and disadvantaged areas. The two programs that came out of it were: the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program and the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). The multibillion-dollar bill provides funding to help increase access to the internet, and allow more customers to purchase and save on affordable internet plans. How have these programs and funding been implemented? The Wavelengths podcast recently explored this. Host Daniel Litwin interviewed Ben Elkins, the CEO of AireBeam, an Arizona-based fiber internet service provider. The two discussed how funding is being dispersed between states and how the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) work, in conjunction with states, is ensuring that broadband goals are met.Litwin and Elkins further discussed …1. BEAD and its necessity for rural and underserved areas 2. Why the FCC's broadband map is very detailed in pointing out areas in need of broadband infrastructure3. How the NTIA's crafty work with BEAD is already more impactful than previous programs, such as RDOF, in making sure funding is properly allocated“The NTIA and BEAD, you actually have them working together, and this is perfect — you have states and government working together, which a lot of times doesn't happen in our society, so this is really, really good. And NTIA was really smart to give each state upfront money to create two things: they got them to have office space and then get personnel and what this allowed them to do was … create directors of broadband in different folks to go out and meet the communities, meet the ISPs, and really get to know them and figure out where the needs were and where the real problem areas and how we can help different states, different counties, different communities; then figure out firsthand, ‘Okay. What ISPs could really be qualified to do this, and then what communities could be matching up well with them,' so, really smart,” said Elkins.Ben Elkins is the CEO of AireBeam. He has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications field and is a graduate of Arizona State University.

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Apple and Google app stores get thumbs down from White House

レアジョブ英会話 Daily News Article Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2023 2:14

The Biden administration is taking aim at Apple and Google for operating mobile app stores that it says stifle competition. The finding is contained in a Commerce Department report released by the administration as President Joe Biden convened his competition council for an update on efforts to promote competition and lower prices. The report from the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration says the current app store model — dominated by Apple and Google — is “harmful to consumers and developers” by inflating prices and reducing innovation. The firms have a stranglehold on the market that squelches competition, it adds. “The policies that Apple and Google have in place in their own mobile app stores have created unnecessary barriers and costs for app developers, ranging from fees for access to functional restrictions that favor some apps over others,” the report said. In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal in January, Biden called on Democrats and Republicans to rein in large tech firms without mentioning Cupertino, California-based Apple Inc. and Mountain View, California-based Google LLC by name. “When tech platforms get big enough, many find ways to promote their own products while excluding or disadvantaging competitors — or charge competitors a fortune to sell on their platform,” Biden said. “My vision for our economy is one in which everyone — small and midsized businesses, mom-and-pop shops, entrepreneurs — can compete on a level playing field with the biggest companies.” A representative from Apple told The Associated Press that “we respectfully disagree with a number of conclusions reached in the report, which ignore the investments we make in innovation, privacy and security — all of which contribute to why users love iPhone and create a level playing field for small developers to compete on a safe and trusted platform.” And a Google spokesperson said the firm also disagrees with the report, namely “how this report characterizes Android, which enables more choice and competition than any other mobile operating system.” This article was provided by The Associated Press.

Update: The State of Missouri Broadband

Missouri City View

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2022 24:35

In this episode of the MML City View Podcast, we review the state of high-speed broadband access in Missouri and the developments that have happened over the past few months. Spoiler alert: Missourians have until Jan. 13 to file challenges to newly released maps of broadband coverage in time to be considered when determining Missouri's share of federal broadband funding. The Missouri Office of Broadband Development (OBD) is encouraging Missourians to make sure their homes, businesses, and communities are correctly represented on the maps in order to make sure those locations are eligible for future funding and to make sure the state gets its fair share.OBD Director BJ Tanksley joined MML in June to share the challenges Missouri faces with broadband and planned solutions. We encourage you to revisit episode 5 and learn more about how the office of broadband development began. Today solutions are underway to increase this crucial access for Missourians. BJ will share an update along with Amy VanDeVelde, federal program officer for Missouri with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. They will also share an important deadline coming up where you can reach out and help ensure your home, business and community are covered.For more information:Office of Broadband Development: https://ded.mo.gov/content/broadband-developmentConnecting All Missourians: https://ded2.mo.gov/connecting-all-missouriansNational Telecommunications and Information Administration: https://ntia.gov/NTIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/NTIAgovAmy VanDeVelde Twitter: https://twitter.com/amyvandeveldeMissouri Dept. of Economic Development Twitter: https://twitter.com/MoEcoDevoFor more information about BEAD and DEA, visit internetforall.govand broadbandusa.ntia.doc.gov.Be sure to subscribe to Missouri City View and leave us a review in your favorite podcast app! Learn more at www.mocities.com.

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Superhighway Home with Andy Berke

Louisiana Lefty

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2022 31:57

Andy Berke, senior Biden administration official and U.S. special representative for broadband with a mission of internet access and equity, joins host Lynda Woolard to discuss his recent trip to Louisiana. While here, he attended the inaugural Louisiana Internet for All Summit where he announced big digital infrastructure investments for our state and spoke with Louisianans in rural as well as urban areas to find out what issues we've been experiencing with connectivity. Acknowledging that high speed internet is now a part of critical infrastructure, President Biden has made a pledge that every American - including every person in Louisiana - will have access to affordable, reliable high speed internet. To stay in the loop on broadband equity efforts, follow the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on Twitter and Facebook, and follow Andy Berke on Twitter. While many of the new investments in Louisiana's infrastructure are just getting started, there is already an option to visit http://affordableconnectivity.gov to apply for the Affordable Connectivity Program, which helps provide more accessible and affordable internet service to lower income households. Read more about efforts to close Louisiana's digital divide in the Alexandria Town Talk: • Hundreds of millions headed toward expanding high-speed internet across Louisiana • Broadband expansion in Louisiana has companies looking to recruit, train local workers Find more Louisiana Lefty content on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and at LouisianaLefty.Rocks. Thanks to Ben Collinsworth for producing Louisiana Lefty, Jennifer Pack of Black Cat Studios for our Super-Lefty artwork, and Thousand Dollar Car for allowing us to use their swamp pop classic, Security Guard, as the Louisiana Lefty theme song.

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The Challenge of Putting Federal Broadband Funds to Good Use (with Mark Jamison)

Explain to Shane

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2022 22:56

Following the passage of the https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3684/text (Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act) (IIJA), a Department of Commerce branch known as the https://www.ntia.doc.gov/ (National Telecommunications and Information Administration) (NTIA) has been tasked with allocating $42.5 billion of federal broadband infrastructure funding to state and local governments through the https://broadbandusa.ntia.doc.gov/resources/grant-programs/broadband-equity-access-and-deployment-bead-program (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program). This $42.5 billion is part of a larger $65 billion sum that the IIJA puts toward broadband infrastructure. How can NTIA and the states ensure the money is spent effectively and that people are held accountable? How can remaining barriers to broadband adoption be overcome without just throwing money at the issue? On this episode, https://www.aei.org/profile/shane-tews/ (Shane )welcomes AEI Nonresident Senior Fellow https://www.aei.org/profile/mark-jamison-2/ (Mark Jamison) back to the podcast. Dr. Jamison has previously appeared on the show to talk about tech antitrust issues, but is an internet and telecommunications expert by training. In addition to his fellowship at AEI, Dr. Jamison directs the Public Utility Research Center at the University of Florida's Warrington College of Business—where he also teaches. Dr. Jamison previously served on the Federal Communications Commission transition team for President-elect Trump, and as a special adviser to the governor of Florida's internet task force. He is currently working with the Florida state government to help write the state's strategic broadband plan. See https://broadbandusa.ntia.doc.gov/resources/states (here) and https://broadbandusa.ntia.doc.gov/resources/state-broadband-leaders-network-sbln (here) for more information on NTIA's state-level broadband initiatives.

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MSU President Stanley reflects on a busy summer and potential record enrollment for the fall

MSU Today with Russ White

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2022 13:19

You're in Detroit this week to congratulate the inaugural class of graduates of the Apple Developer Academy. Remind us of the academy's evolution and mission.“The academy is a groundbreaking opportunity for individuals in Detroit and all of Michigan. And this is the first Apple Developer Academy in the United States. It's an opportunity for individuals 18 and above to learn how to code and develop apps for the Apple operating system. When students finish, they're well prepared to code for Apple apps and maybe even start their own companies.”Back on campus, we're preparing for the coming academic year already. The MSU Board of Trustees last week laid the financial groundwork for the university's new fiscal year with approval of a $3.2 billion budget that supports goals outlined in our MSU Strategic Plan 2030. What are some areas of the budget you'd like to highlight for Spartans?“Student success remains a critical element. A lot of the spending that we're doing going forward, and new spending particularly, is devoted to student success, particularly economically disadvantaged first-generation students and others to help them successfully matriculate and earn degrees at Michigan State University. Our goal is to keep Michigan State University accessible to excellence.”Talk about the grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration that lets MSU continue our long legacy of service to the people of Michigan by working with Merit Network to expend high speed internet to areas of Michigan with limited or no broadband service.“This grant is going to make a huge difference to people in rural areas who don't have access to internet or have inadequate internet to do the things they need to do. Something we take for granted here in East Lansing is something that many don't have, or they don't have in a way that works as well as it could.” For the second time, MSU has earned a gold rating for sustainability achievements from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. “Our goal is to get to platinum before 2030; that's part of our strategic plan. We don't want to rest on gold. This is an issue that's so important for our students, faculty and staff, and our community. It's one which we take very seriously.”President Stanley welcomes two new leaders to Spartan Athletics in softball coach Sharonda McDonald-Kelly and men's tennis coach Harry Jadun. He shares his reflections on MSU's Juneteenth celebration, too. And he reflects on the passing of former MSU first lady Joanne McPherson. She might best be remembered as the guiding spirit behind the creation of the MSU Safe Place in 1994, the first university-based shelter where students, staff, faculty, and their partners experiencing abusive relationships can find refuge and support.President Stanley, any final thoughts as we settle into summer but already look forward to the fall?“It's going to be exciting this year. Get ready to feel a crowd. We're looking at, perhaps, a record enrollment for this coming year. MSU has been a place that many students want to attend, and we're very happy about that. Vennie Gore is getting ready for the onslaught of the dorms, and the provost is getting the faculty and staff ready. We're adding advisors and more faculty and staff to help deal with the increase in students. And we're going to make sure that the quality of what we're doing is not hurt at all by the number of students. Instead, we'll have more outstanding individuals getting an MSU education and more opportunities for our current students to meet people from around the world and get to know what a great university is first-hand.”You can read the president's June 2022 Spartan Community Letter that we've been discussing by clicking on the communications tab at president.msu.edu, and follow along on Instagram too, @msupresstanley. MSU Today airs Saturdays at 5 p.m. and Sundays at 5 a.m. on WKAR News/Talk and Sundays at 8 p.m. on 760 WJR. Find “MSU Today with Russ White” on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your shows.

This Week: Getting a BEAD on the New Rules for Broadband Infrastructure Funding

The Week with Roger

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2022 13:34

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology. 0:26: The National Telecommunications and Information Administration unveiled its rules for distributing the federal funding for broadband access and what that looks like for providers. 1:47: Roger defines the “Middle Mile” and what it means to the companies and consumers. 3:12: The satisfaction results that Don and Roger run every week - what do consumers prefer? 7:33: The importance of speed in today's broadband market and which delivery methods produce those speeds. 8:43: What Volumetric Video is and why the NTIA should be more technology agnostic. 10:11: When will we be likely to see shovels hit the ground and are there going to be issues with supply chains or staffing that will affect this rollout? Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, NTIA, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, BEAD, broadband access, speed, latency, DSL, fiber, fixed wireless, Altice, Optimum, Volumetric video, Game of Thrones, Star Trek, Star Wars, civil engineering, recession,

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A former Commerce official on the internet policy work yet to be done

Transatlantic Cable Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2022 19:14

The Commerce Department has been dealing with the internet and its implications since at least the mid 1990s. Mainly through an obscure agency known as the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. My next guest worked there for many years, more recently as acting administrator. Evelyn Remaley is now a partner at the law firm Wilkinson Barker Knauer.

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Community Conversations Podcast - episode three

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2021 28:12

Welcome back to the Community Podcasts, a mini-series on the Kaspersky Transatlantic Cable podcast. As always, my co-host for this series is Anastasiya Kazakova, a Senior Public Affairs Manager who coordinates global cyber diplomacy projects at Kaspersky. As a reminder, the Community Podcasts is a short series of podcasts featuring frank cyber diplomacy conversations with cyber-heroes who unite people despite everything – growing fragmentation, confrontation, and cyber threats – there are people who build communities and unite people to work together for the common good. Why are they doing this? And are their efforts working? Our third episode includes a chat with Kate Stewart - co-chair of one of the working groups within of National Telecommunications and Information Administration's cyber-security multi-stakeholder process for Software Component Transparency. NTIA has years of experience in conducting open, multi-stakeholder processes to help make progress on issues such as finding common ground on cyber-security vulnerability disclosure, developing clear policy guidance on the secure update of IoT devices, and providing more transparency about data collected by mobile apps. But today we will focus on this multi-stakeholder process for Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) or software component transparency. During our extended conversation, we discuss a wide array of topics from the need for collaboration between the public/private sector, what working with governments has been like, what the future holds for FIRST and incident respondent in general, how to make sure that they remain neutral in cyber ‘firefighting', and more.

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Drone Law with Kathryn Rattigan

Emerging Litigation Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2021 47:55

It's not a matter of if, but when. Of course, I'm talking about a sky speckled with commercial drones, bringing us our precious products and pharmaceuticals, or performing work in high places humans find dangerous, like inspecting bridges and buildings, monitoring crops and livestock, and keeping an eye on pipelines and oil rigs. What must companies know about deploying a drone fleet? What industries are leading the way? What are the potential legal liabilities? How does one begin to navigate the regulatory labyrinth? If one is flying over my swimming pool taking photos, may I shoot it down? And who in their right minds would ever allow a teenage boy to operate one? Joining me to discuss this emerging area of law is Kathryn M. Rattigan, a member of the Business Litigation Group, the Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team, and the Drone Compliance Team in the Rhode Island office of Robinson Cole. Kathryn advises clients on these matters with expertise in the relevant Federal Aviation Administration regulations. She and her colleagues also advise clients on employee and subcontractor contracts, insurance policies, privacy regulations, state and local laws, and best practices as recommended by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. She handles product defect, personal injury, and property damage litigation, too. Kathryn is a frequent contributor to the excellent Robinson Cole Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider blog. She holds a J.D. from the Roger Williams University School of Law and a B.A. (magna cum laude) from Stonehill College. This podcast is the audio companion to the Journal on Emerging Issues in Litigation, a collaborative project between HB Litigation Conferences and the Fastcase legal research family, which includes Full Court Press, Law Street Media, Docket Alarm and, most recently, Judicata. If you have comments or wish to participate in one our projects, or want to tell me how insightful and informative Kathryn is, please drop me a note at Editor@LitigationConferences.com. This podcast is based on an article she wrote for the forthcoming issues of the Journal. Just to clarify. Kathryn does own a drone, but not a "sheep drone." I regret the error, but wouldn't have it any other way. Thanks to Kathryn for speaking with me about this fascinating area of the law. Tom Hagy

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It’s Time to Drop the SBOM

Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2021 70:09

The first step to solving any problem is gathering as much information as you can. Unfortunately, today we're basically flying blind when it comes to identifying and resolving latent software bugs in our systems. Software today is made up of dozens if not hundreds of distinct components. Like automobiles, these piece parts can come from many different vendors. And even the parts from those vendors are likely themselves made up of many sub-components from yet other vendors. But you can bet that Ford and Toyota have a complete and accurate list of each and every one of the components in their vehicles - knowing who made them, which lot or batch they were from, which revision of the part they have, and so on. Because at the end of the day, the auto maker is responsible for knowing this in case there's a safety issue. This is not true for software makers... yet. Allan Friedman and his team at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA, a part of the Dept. of Commerce) are trying to change that. Allan Friedman is the Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which is part of the US department of Commerce,. There he coordinates cross-sector efforts to address key challenges in the cybersecurity ecosystem. Further Info NTIA's SBOM website: https://www.ntia.gov/sbom Twitter #SBOM: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SBOM Become a Patron! https://www.patreon.com/FirewallsDontStopDragons Would you like me to speak to your group about security and/or privacy? http://bit.ly/Firewalls-SpeakerGenerate secure passphrases! https://d20key.com/#/

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Episode 5: SBOM & Twinkies? Allan Friedman, Dir. of Cybersecurity Initiatives, US Department of Commerce

FIRST Impressions Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2021

Featuring Dr. Allan Friedman, Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives at National Telecommunications and Information Administration in the US Department of Commerce. Disclaimer: The views expressed by the hosts and guests are their own and their participation on the podcast does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent.

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What's an 'SBOM' and what does it have to do with federal cybersecurity?

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2021 24:14

Deep in the Biden administration's executive order on cybersecurity is the idea of software bills of material (SBOMs). The order gave the Commerce Department the task of issuing guidelines for software supply chain security. One detail asked industry to provide comments to the National Telecom and Information Administration regarding SBOM. What is it and what's it got to do with secure software? For some answers, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the open source Linux Foundation. Kate Stewart is the foundation's vice president of dependable embedded systems, and David Wheeler is the foundation's director of open source supply chain security.

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Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2021 5:40

NCAI Participates in White House Announcement of Historic Investment in Broadband for Indian Country June 3, 2021 WASHINGTON D.C. -- Shannon Holsey, Treasurer of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and President of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, delivered opening remarks today as the White House announced Broadband deployment as a key component of President's Biden infrastructure plan, also known as the American Jobs Plan. Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo also delivered remarks from the White House complex and discussed how this investment would be aimed toward tribal communities. Secretary Raimondo announced that the Department of Commerce would make $1 billion in funding available to tribal governments, tribal colleges and universities, and tribal organizations for broadband infrastructure. “Thanks to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris - my community and others like mine are finally being heard, and our longstanding infrastructure issues are addressed. Indian Country is 100 percent behind the Administration and looks forward to working through a strong partnership with the Biden-Harris Administration,” Holsey said. “Expanding broadband to our communities is not just a game changer - it is a life changer to tribal communities like mine and all Tribal Nations across the country.” There are 574 federally recognized Tribal Nations within the United States that are rich in their geographic, political, and cultural diversity. For decades, the federal government has recognized that Indian Country has substandard infrastructure in every sector. According to a 2019 Federal Communications Commission report, individuals residing on tribal lands are nearly 4.5 times less likely to have Broadband internet access as compared to those on non-tribal lands. This chronic underfunding of infrastructure exacerbated the vulnerability of American Indian and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulted in tribal communities having at times the highest rate of COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths per capita in the United States. On April 13, 2021, NCAI and 30 AI/AN organizations, which collectively serve over 580 federally recognized tribal governments, sent a letter to Congress and the White House requesting resources to urgently address neglected and dilapidated infrastructure that requires improvements to meet the health, safety, welfare, and development needs of AI/AN communities. On May 28, 2021, the President released his Fiscal Year 2022 budget request to Congress. This budget proposal includes substantial investments in tribal infrastructure, which Tribal Nations are urging Congress to include in any upcoming budget negotiations. In an effort to address immediate broadband needs today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration released its Notice of Funding Opportunity for tribal governments, tribal colleges and universities, tribal organizations, and Alaska Native Corporations to access approximately $1 billion in funding for broadband infrastructure. The deadline to apply for this funding is September 1, 2021.

Shannon Holsey / National Congress of American Indians, Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2021 4:20

NCAI Participates in White House Announcement of Historic Investment in Broadband for Indian Country June 3, 2021 WASHINGTON D.C. -- Shannon Holsey, Treasurer of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and President of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, delivered opening remarks today as the White House announced Broadband deployment as a key component of President's Biden infrastructure plan, also known as the American Jobs Plan. Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo also delivered remarks from the White House complex and discussed how this investment would be aimed toward tribal communities. Secretary Raimondo announced that the Department of Commerce would make $1 billion in funding available to tribal governments, tribal colleges and universities, and tribal organizations for broadband infrastructure. “Thanks to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris - my community and others like mine are finally being heard, and our longstanding infrastructure issues are addressed. Indian Country is 100 percent behind the Administration and looks forward to working through a strong partnership with the Biden-Harris Administration,” Holsey said. “Expanding broadband to our communities is not just a game changer - it is a life changer to tribal communities like mine and all Tribal Nations across the country.” There are 574 federally recognized Tribal Nations within the United States that are rich in their geographic, political, and cultural diversity. For decades, the federal government has recognized that Indian Country has substandard infrastructure in every sector. According to a 2019 Federal Communications Commission report, individuals residing on tribal lands are nearly 4.5 times less likely to have Broadband internet access as compared to those on non-tribal lands. This chronic underfunding of infrastructure exacerbated the vulnerability of American Indian and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulted in tribal communities having at times the highest rate of COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths per capita in the United States. On April 13, 2021, NCAI and 30 AI/AN organizations, which collectively serve over 580 federally recognized tribal governments, sent a letter to Congress and the White House requesting resources to urgently address neglected and dilapidated infrastructure that requires improvements to meet the health, safety, welfare, and development needs of AI/AN communities. On May 28, 2021, the President released his Fiscal Year 2022 budget request to Congress. This budget proposal includes substantial investments in tribal infrastructure, which Tribal Nations are urging Congress to include in any upcoming budget negotiations. In an effort to address immediate broadband needs today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration released its Notice of Funding Opportunity for tribal governments, tribal colleges and universities, tribal organizations, and Alaska Native Corporations to access approximately $1 billion in funding for broadband infrastructure. The deadline to apply for this funding is September 1, 2021.

Vice President Kamala Harris

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2021 8:41

NCAI Participates in White House Announcement of Historic Investment in Broadband for Indian Country June 3, 2021 WASHINGTON D.C. -- Shannon Holsey, Treasurer of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and President of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, delivered opening remarks today as the White House announced Broadband deployment as a key component of President's Biden infrastructure plan, also known as the American Jobs Plan. Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo also delivered remarks from the White House complex and discussed how this investment would be aimed toward tribal communities. Secretary Raimondo announced that the Department of Commerce would make $1 billion in funding available to tribal governments, tribal colleges and universities, and tribal organizations for broadband infrastructure. “Thanks to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris - my community and others like mine are finally being heard, and our longstanding infrastructure issues are addressed. Indian Country is 100 percent behind the Administration and looks forward to working through a strong partnership with the Biden-Harris Administration,” Holsey said. “Expanding broadband to our communities is not just a game changer - it is a life changer to tribal communities like mine and all Tribal Nations across the country.” There are 574 federally recognized Tribal Nations within the United States that are rich in their geographic, political, and cultural diversity. For decades, the federal government has recognized that Indian Country has substandard infrastructure in every sector. According to a 2019 Federal Communications Commission report, individuals residing on tribal lands are nearly 4.5 times less likely to have Broadband internet access as compared to those on non-tribal lands. This chronic underfunding of infrastructure exacerbated the vulnerability of American Indian and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulted in tribal communities having at times the highest rate of COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths per capita in the United States. On April 13, 2021, NCAI and 30 AI/AN organizations, which collectively serve over 580 federally recognized tribal governments, sent a letter to Congress and the White House requesting resources to urgently address neglected and dilapidated infrastructure that requires improvements to meet the health, safety, welfare, and development needs of AI/AN communities. On May 28, 2021, the President released his Fiscal Year 2022 budget request to Congress. This budget proposal includes substantial investments in tribal infrastructure, which Tribal Nations are urging Congress to include in any upcoming budget negotiations. In an effort to address immediate broadband needs today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration released its Notice of Funding Opportunity for tribal governments, tribal colleges and universities, tribal organizations, and Alaska Native Corporations to access approximately $1 billion in funding for broadband infrastructure. The deadline to apply for this funding is September 1, 2021.

Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2021 7:54

NCAI Participates in White House Announcement of Historic Investment in Broadband for Indian Country June 3, 2021 WASHINGTON D.C. -- Shannon Holsey, Treasurer of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and President of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, delivered opening remarks today as the White House announced Broadband deployment as a key component of President's Biden infrastructure plan, also known as the American Jobs Plan. Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo also delivered remarks from the White House complex and discussed how this investment would be aimed toward tribal communities. Secretary Raimondo announced that the Department of Commerce would make $1 billion in funding available to tribal governments, tribal colleges and universities, and tribal organizations for broadband infrastructure. “Thanks to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris - my community and others like mine are finally being heard, and our longstanding infrastructure issues are addressed. Indian Country is 100 percent behind the Administration and looks forward to working through a strong partnership with the Biden-Harris Administration,” Holsey said. “Expanding broadband to our communities is not just a game changer - it is a life changer to tribal communities like mine and all Tribal Nations across the country.” There are 574 federally recognized Tribal Nations within the United States that are rich in their geographic, political, and cultural diversity. For decades, the federal government has recognized that Indian Country has substandard infrastructure in every sector. According to a 2019 Federal Communications Commission report, individuals residing on tribal lands are nearly 4.5 times less likely to have Broadband internet access as compared to those on non-tribal lands. This chronic underfunding of infrastructure exacerbated the vulnerability of American Indian and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulted in tribal communities having at times the highest rate of COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths per capita in the United States. On April 13, 2021, NCAI and 30 AI/AN organizations, which collectively serve over 580 federally recognized tribal governments, sent a letter to Congress and the White House requesting resources to urgently address neglected and dilapidated infrastructure that requires improvements to meet the health, safety, welfare, and development needs of AI/AN communities. On May 28, 2021, the President released his Fiscal Year 2022 budget request to Congress. This budget proposal includes substantial investments in tribal infrastructure, which Tribal Nations are urging Congress to include in any upcoming budget negotiations. In an effort to address immediate broadband needs today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration released its Notice of Funding Opportunity for tribal governments, tribal colleges and universities, tribal organizations, and Alaska Native Corporations to access approximately $1 billion in funding for broadband infrastructure. The deadline to apply for this funding is September 1, 2021.

ICT Supply Chain Security: A Panel Discussion

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2021 58:30

On February 24, 2021, President Biden signed an executive order (EO) on a whole-of-government strategy to secure supply chains for critical and essential goods. The EO institutes a parallel examination of supply chain vulnerabilities: (1) a 100-day review of four key industries, including semiconductors and (2) a one-year review of a broader range of industries, including information and communications technology (ICT). At the same time, the Biden Administration did not withdraw the ICT supply chain security rule from the Trump Administration that is scheduled to go into effect March 22. Citing security benefits to the ICT supply chain, the Acting Chairwoman of the FCC has teed up a Notice of Inquiry on Open Radio Access Networks (ORAN) for the FCC’s March 17 meeting. The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunication and Information Administration has launched its own Notice of Inquiry on 5G Open Stack Challenge on behalf of the Department of Defense.What do these actions mean for the ICT sector, and the semiconductor industry particularly? Will ORAN result in more secure and trusted 5G networks? Will it be adopted due to perceived long-term cost savings and operational benefits, or will government mandate its adoption? If the ICT supply chain rule goes into effect this month, will there be enough semiconductors to power 5G? Join us for a panel of informed experts to discuss these critical issues.Register here to attend liveFeaturing:Maryam Khan Cope, Director, Government Affairs, Semiconductor Industry AssociationKelsey Guyselman, Deputy Policy Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & TransportationHon. John Kneuer, President and Founder, JKC Consulting LLC; former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, U.S. Department of CommerceGregory Watson, Policy Advisor, Hon. Brendan Carr, Federal Communications CommissionModerator: Patricia Paoletta, Partner, Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP---This Zoom panel is open to public registration. See the above link.

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ICT Supply Chain Security: A Panel Discussion

germany phd policy moscow specialist telecommunications ntia national telecommunications information administration

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2021 58:30

On February 24, 2021, President Biden signed an executive order (EO) on a whole-of-government strategy to secure supply chains for critical and essential goods. The EO institutes a parallel examination of supply chain vulnerabilities: (1) a 100-day review of four key industries, including semiconductors and (2) a one-year review of a broader range of industries, including information and communications technology (ICT). At the same time, the Biden Administration did not withdraw the ICT supply chain security rule from the Trump Administration that is scheduled to go into effect March 22. Citing security benefits to the ICT supply chain, the Acting Chairwoman of the FCC has teed up a Notice of Inquiry on Open Radio Access Networks (ORAN) for the FCC’s March 17 meeting. The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunication and Information Administration has launched its own Notice of Inquiry on 5G Open Stack Challenge on behalf of the Department of Defense.What do these actions mean for the ICT sector, and the semiconductor industry particularly? Will ORAN result in more secure and trusted 5G networks? Will it be adopted due to perceived long-term cost savings and operational benefits, or will government mandate its adoption? If the ICT supply chain rule goes into effect this month, will there be enough semiconductors to power 5G? Join us for a panel of informed experts to discuss these critical issues.Featuring:-- Maryam Khan Cope, Director, Government Affairs, Semiconductor Industry Association-- Kelsey Guyselman, Deputy Policy Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation-- Hon. John Kneuer, President and Founder, JKC Consulting LLC; former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, U.S. Department of Commerce-- Gregory Watson, Policy Advisor, Hon. Brendan Carr, Federal Communications Commission-- Moderator: Patricia Paoletta, Partner, Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP

Dr. Travis Hall: Telecommunications Policy Specialist at NTIA

Careers in Data Privacy

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2021 41:17

Hear about Travis Hall's experiences abroad in Germany and Moscow, his PhD dissertation on biometric tracking, and his current role at The National Telecommunications and Information Administration

2020-032-Dr. Allan Friedman, SBOM, Software Transparency, and how the sausage is made - Part 2

Brakeing Down Security Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2020 57:42

Ms. Berlin: Tabletop D&D exercise Blumira is hiring https://www.blumira.com/career/lead-backend-engineer/ Allan Friedman - Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives, NTIA, US Department of Commerce NTIA.gov - National Telecommunications and Information Administration https://www.ntia.gov/sbom SBOM guidance Healthcare SBOM PoC - https://www.ntia.gov/files/ntia/publications/ntia_sbom_healthcare_poc_report_2019_1001.pdf Allan’s talk at Bsides San Francisco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j1KYLfklMQ Questions (more may be added during the show, depending on answers given) What is NTIA? What is SBOM? Why do we need one? Is it poor communications between vendors? Is there any difference between “Software transparency” and “Software bill of materials”? How do you make an SBOM? What data formats make sharing easier? What does a company do with an SBOM? Where in the development (hardware or software) would you be creating an SBOM? You mention in your BSSF talk about ‘how detailed it should be’. Can you give us an example of a high level SBOM, versus a more detailed one? Does it become a risk/reward effort concerning detail? IoT device creators are working with their 3rd parties, who are working with their 3rd parties. Someone at home with a webcam cannot easily ask for an SBOM, so how do we convince device makers to want to ask for them? How do you get your 3rd party that is a multi-national corporation to supply you with the information you need to ? As we saw with RIPPLE20, many companies don’t know what they have. How would SBOM help keep another RIPPLE20 from happening? Rob Graham’s blog post highlighted that vulns like HeartBleed would not have been stopped. How does this help us track potential vulns? Sharing information Best way to share information about IoT components? Could an information sharing org (ISAC) track these more readily? vendor assessments: Vendor does not have an SBOM, any specific questions we might ask that will allow an org to get more resolution into a potential vendor? Interesting feedback from NTIA’s RFC Other SBOM types (clonedx, openbom, FDA’s CBOM) Companies are out there creating SBOM, other government agencies have SBOM implementations. How do we keep this from being the XKCD “927” issue? https://xkcd.com/927/ non-US implementations of SBOM? How do we get our companies to implement these? SBOM could easily be something that could give hackers a lot of information about your org and depending on the information contained, I could see why you might not want to get super specific… Thoughts? What is a ‘Bill of Materials’? “A bill of materials (BOM) is a comprehensive inventory of the raw materials, assemblies, subassemblies, parts and components, as well as the quantities of each, needed to manufacture a product. In a nutshell, it is the complete list of all the items that are required to build a product.” SBOM - Definition As of November 2019, an estimated 126 different platforms - https://www.postscapes.com/internet-of-things-platforms/ NTIA did an RFC on “promoting the sharing of Supply Chain Security Risk Information” https://www.ntia.gov/federal-register-notice/2020/request-comments-promoting-sharing-supply-chain-security-risk https://www.ntia.gov/federal-register-notice/2020/comments-promoting-sharing-supply-chain-security-risk-information-0 Secure and Trusted Communications Network Act of 2019 (Act) - Calling it “CBOM” Other groups working on similar: FDA https://www.fda.gov/media/119933/download SPDX: LInux Foundation:https://spdx.org/licenses/ OpenBOM https://medium.com/@openbom/friday-discussion-why-boms-are-essential-for-the-iot-platform-e2c4bd397afd https://github.com/CycloneDX/specification https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/digital-health/cybersecurity https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/guidance-content-premarket-submissions-software-contained-medical-devices Medical device IR Playbook: https://www.mitre.org/sites/default/files/publications/pr-18-1550-Medical-Device-Cybersecurity-Playbook.pdf Companies are helping to get “CBOM” for devices: ““It can take anywhere from six months to a year for a new medical device to get its 510(k) clearance from the FDA,” said MedCrypt CEO Mike Kijewski in a news release” https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/medcrypt-acquires-medisao-in-medtech-cybersecurity-deal/ SBOM doesn’t work in DevOps: https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/security-essentials/software-bill-of-materials-sbom-does-it-work-for-devsecops Intoto software development: https://www.intotosystems.com/ 510k process: https://www.drugwatch.com/fda/510k-clearance/ Check out our Store on Teepub! https://brakesec.com/store Join us on our #Slack Channel! Send a request to @brakesec on Twitter or email bds.podcast@gmail.com #AmazonSmile: https://brakesec.com/smile #Brakesec Store!:https://www.teepublic.com/user/bdspodcast #Spotify: https://brakesec.com/spotifyBDS #Pandora: https://pandora.app.link/p9AvwdTpT3 #RSS: https://brakesec.com/BrakesecRSS #Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/BDSPodcast #iTunes Store Link: https://brakesec.com/BDSiTunes #Google Play Store: https://brakesec.com/BDS-GooglePlay Our main site: https://brakesec.com/bdswebsite #iHeartRadio App: https://brakesec.com/iHeartBrakesec #SoundCloud: https://brakesec.com/SoundcloudBrakesec Comments, Questions, Feedback: bds.podcast@gmail.com Support Brakeing Down Security Podcast by using our #Paypal: https://brakesec.com/PaypalBDS OR our #Patreon https://brakesec.com/BDSPatreon #Twitter: @brakesec @boettcherpwned @bryanbrake @infosystir #Player.FM : https://brakesec.com/BDS-PlayerFM #Stitcher Network: https://brakesec.com/BrakeSecStitcher #TuneIn Radio App: https://brakesec.com/TuneInBrakesec

2020-032-Dr. Allan Friedman, SBOM, Software Transparency, and how the sausage is made - Part 2

@BEERISAC: CPS/ICS Security Podcast Playlist

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2020 59:09

Podcast: Brakeing Down Security PodcastEpisode: 2020-032-Dr. Allan Friedman, SBOM, Software Transparency, and how the sausage is made - Part 2Pub date: 2020-08-24Ms. Berlin: Tabletop D&D exercise Blumira is hiring https://www.blumira.com/career/lead-backend-engineer/ Allan Friedman - Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives, NTIA, US Department of Commerce NTIA.gov - National Telecommunications and Information Administration https://www.ntia.gov/sbom SBOM guidance Healthcare SBOM PoC - https://www.ntia.gov/files/ntia/publications/ntia_sbom_healthcare_poc_report_2019_1001.pdf Allan’s talk at Bsides San Francisco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j1KYLfklMQ Questions (more may be added during the show, depending on answers given) What is NTIA? What is SBOM? Why do we need one? Is it poor communications between vendors? Is there any difference between “Software transparency” and “Software bill of materials”? How do you make an SBOM? What data formats make sharing easier? What does a company do with an SBOM? Where in the development (hardware or software) would you be creating an SBOM? You mention in your BSSF talk about ‘how detailed it should be’. Can you give us an example of a high level SBOM, versus a more detailed one? Does it become a risk/reward effort concerning detail? IoT device creators are working with their 3rd parties, who are working with their 3rd parties. Someone at home with a webcam cannot easily ask for an SBOM, so how do we convince device makers to want to ask for them? How do you get your 3rd party that is a multi-national corporation to supply you with the information you need to ? As we saw with RIPPLE20, many companies don’t know what they have. How would SBOM help keep another RIPPLE20 from happening? Rob Graham’s blog post highlighted that vulns like HeartBleed would not have been stopped. How does this help us track potential vulns? Sharing information Best way to share information about IoT components? Could an information sharing org (ISAC) track these more readily? vendor assessments: Vendor does not have an SBOM, any specific questions we might ask that will allow an org to get more resolution into a potential vendor? Interesting feedback from NTIA’s RFC Other SBOM types (clonedx, openbom, FDA’s CBOM) Companies are out there creating SBOM, other government agencies have SBOM implementations. How do we keep this from being the XKCD “927” issue? https://xkcd.com/927/ non-US implementations of SBOM? How do we get our companies to implement these? SBOM could easily be something that could give hackers a lot of information about your org and depending on the information contained, I could see why you might not want to get super specific… Thoughts? What is a ‘Bill of Materials’? “A bill of materials (BOM) is a comprehensive inventory of the raw materials, assemblies, subassemblies, parts and components, as well as the quantities of each, needed to manufacture a product. In a nutshell, it is the complete list of all the items that are required to build a product.” SBOM - Definition As of November 2019, an estimated 126 different platforms - https://www.postscapes.com/internet-of-things-platforms/ NTIA did an RFC on “promoting the sharing of Supply Chain Security Risk Information” https://www.ntia.gov/federal-register-notice/2020/request-comments-promoting-sharing-supply-chain-security-risk https://www.ntia.gov/federal-register-notice/2020/comments-promoting-sharing-supply-chain-security-risk-information-0 Secure and Trusted Communications Network Act of 2019 (Act) - Calling it “CBOM” Other groups working on similar: FDA https://www.fda.gov/media/119933/download SPDX: LInux Foundation:https://spdx.org/licenses/ OpenBOM https://medium.com/@openbom/friday-discussion-why-boms-are-essential-for-the-iot-platform-e2c4bd397afd https://github.com/CycloneDX/specification https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/digital-health/cybersecurity https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/guidance-content-premarket-submissions-software-contained-medical-devices Medical device IR Playbook: https://www.mitre.org/sites/default/files/publications/pr-18-1550-Medical-Device-Cybersecurity-Playbook.pdf Companies are helping to get “CBOM” for devices: ““It can take anywhere from six months to a year for a new medical device to get its 510(k) clearance from the FDA,” said MedCrypt CEO Mike Kijewski in a news release” https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/medcrypt-acquires-medisao-in-medtech-cybersecurity-deal/ SBOM doesn’t work in DevOps: https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/security-essentials/software-bill-of-materials-sbom-does-it-work-for-devsecops Intoto software development: https://www.intotosystems.com/ 510k process: https://www.drugwatch.com/fda/510k-clearance/ Check out our Store on Teepub! https://brakesec.com/store Join us on our #Slack Channel! 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2020-031-Allan Friedman, SBOM, software transparency, and knowing how the sausage is made

@BEERISAC: CPS/ICS Security Podcast Playlist

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2020 44:50

Podcast: Brakeing Down Security PodcastEpisode: 2020-031-Allan Friedman, SBOM, software transparency, and knowing how the sausage is madePub date: 2020-08-18 Ms. Berlin: Tabletop D&D exercise Blumira is hiring https://www.blumira.com/career/lead-backend-engineer/ Allan Friedman - Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives, NTIA, US Department of Commerce NTIA.gov - National Telecommunications and Information Administration https://www.ntia.gov/sbom SBOM guidance Healthcare SBOM PoC - https://www.ntia.gov/files/ntia/publications/ntia_sbom_healthcare_poc_report_2019_1001.pdf Allan’s talk at Bsides San Francisco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j1KYLfklMQ Questions (more may be added during the show, depending on answers given) What is NTIA? What is SBOM? Why do we need one? Is it poor communications between vendors? Is there any difference between “Software transparency” and “Software bill of materials”? How do you make an SBOM? What data formats make sharing easier? What does a company do with an SBOM? Where in the development (hardware or software) would you be creating an SBOM? You mention in your BSSF talk about ‘how detailed it should be’. Can you give us an example of a high level SBOM, versus a more detailed one? Does it become a risk/reward effort concerning detail? IoT device creators are working with their 3rd parties, who are working with their 3rd parties. Someone at home with a webcam cannot easily ask for an SBOM, so how do we convince device makers to want to ask for them? How do you get your 3rd party that is a multi-national corporation to supply you with the information you need to ? As we saw with RIPPLE20, many companies don’t know what they have. How would SBOM help keep another RIPPLE20 from happening? Rob Graham’s blog post highlighted that vulns like HeartBleed would not have been stopped. How does this help us track potential vulns? Sharing information Best way to share information about IoT components? Could an information sharing org (ISAC) track these more readily? vendor assessments: Vendor does not have an SBOM, any specific questions we might ask that will allow an org to get more resolution into a potential vendor? Interesting feedback from NTIA’s RFC Other SBOM types (clonedx, openbom, FDA’s CBOM) Companies are out there creating SBOM, other government agencies have SBOM implementations. How do we keep this from being the XKCD “927” issue? https://xkcd.com/927/ non-US implementations of SBOM? How do we get our companies to implement these? SBOM could easily be something that could give hackers a lot of information about your org and depending on the information contained, I could see why you might not want to get super specific… Thoughts? What is a ‘Bill of Materials’? “A bill of materials (BOM) is a comprehensive inventory of the raw materials, assemblies, subassemblies, parts and components, as well as the quantities of each, needed to manufacture a product. In a nutshell, it is the complete list of all the items that are required to build a product.” SBOM - Definition As of November 2019, an estimated 126 different platforms - https://www.postscapes.com/internet-of-things-platforms/ NTIA did an RFC on “promoting the sharing of Supply Chain Security Risk Information” https://www.ntia.gov/federal-register-notice/2020/request-comments-promoting-sharing-supply-chain-security-risk https://www.ntia.gov/federal-register-notice/2020/comments-promoting-sharing-supply-chain-security-risk-information-0 Secure and Trusted Communications Network Act of 2019 (Act) - Calling it “CBOM” Other groups working on similar: FDA https://www.fda.gov/media/119933/download SPDX: LInux Foundation:https://spdx.org/licenses/ OpenBOM https://medium.com/@openbom/friday-discussion-why-boms-are-essential-for-the-iot-platform-e2c4bd397afd https://github.com/CycloneDX/specification https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/digital-health/cybersecurity https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/guidance-content-premarket-submissions-software-contained-medical-devices Medical device IR Playbook: https://www.mitre.org/sites/default/files/publications/pr-18-1550-Medical-Device-Cybersecurity-Playbook.pdf Companies are helping to get “CBOM” for devices: ““It can take anywhere from six months to a year for a new medical device to get its 510(k) clearance from the FDA,” said MedCrypt CEO Mike Kijewski in a news release” https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/medcrypt-acquires-medisao-in-medtech-cybersecurity-deal/ SBOM doesn’t work in DevOps: https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/security-essentials/software-bill-of-materials-sbom-does-it-work-for-devsecops Intoto software development: https://www.intotosystems.com/ 510k process: https://www.drugwatch.com/fda/510k-clearance/The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bryan Brake, Amanda Berlin, Brian Boettcher, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

2020-031-Allan Friedman, SBOM, software transparency, and knowing how the sausage is made

Brakeing Down Security Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2020 44:50

Ms. Berlin: Tabletop D&D exercise Blumira is hiring https://www.blumira.com/career/lead-backend-engineer/ Allan Friedman - Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives, NTIA, US Department of Commerce NTIA.gov - National Telecommunications and Information Administration https://www.ntia.gov/sbom SBOM guidance Healthcare SBOM PoC - https://www.ntia.gov/files/ntia/publications/ntia_sbom_healthcare_poc_report_2019_1001.pdf Allan’s talk at Bsides San Francisco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j1KYLfklMQ Questions (more may be added during the show, depending on answers given) What is NTIA? What is SBOM? Why do we need one? Is it poor communications between vendors? Is there any difference between “Software transparency” and “Software bill of materials”? How do you make an SBOM? What data formats make sharing easier? What does a company do with an SBOM? Where in the development (hardware or software) would you be creating an SBOM? You mention in your BSSF talk about ‘how detailed it should be’. Can you give us an example of a high level SBOM, versus a more detailed one? Does it become a risk/reward effort concerning detail? IoT device creators are working with their 3rd parties, who are working with their 3rd parties. Someone at home with a webcam cannot easily ask for an SBOM, so how do we convince device makers to want to ask for them? How do you get your 3rd party that is a multi-national corporation to supply you with the information you need to ? As we saw with RIPPLE20, many companies don’t know what they have. How would SBOM help keep another RIPPLE20 from happening? Rob Graham’s blog post highlighted that vulns like HeartBleed would not have been stopped. How does this help us track potential vulns? Sharing information Best way to share information about IoT components? Could an information sharing org (ISAC) track these more readily? vendor assessments: Vendor does not have an SBOM, any specific questions we might ask that will allow an org to get more resolution into a potential vendor? Interesting feedback from NTIA’s RFC Other SBOM types (clonedx, openbom, FDA’s CBOM) Companies are out there creating SBOM, other government agencies have SBOM implementations. How do we keep this from being the XKCD “927” issue? https://xkcd.com/927/ non-US implementations of SBOM? How do we get our companies to implement these? SBOM could easily be something that could give hackers a lot of information about your org and depending on the information contained, I could see why you might not want to get super specific… Thoughts? What is a ‘Bill of Materials’? “A bill of materials (BOM) is a comprehensive inventory of the raw materials, assemblies, subassemblies, parts and components, as well as the quantities of each, needed to manufacture a product. In a nutshell, it is the complete list of all the items that are required to build a product.” SBOM - Definition As of November 2019, an estimated 126 different platforms - https://www.postscapes.com/internet-of-things-platforms/ NTIA did an RFC on “promoting the sharing of Supply Chain Security Risk Information” https://www.ntia.gov/federal-register-notice/2020/request-comments-promoting-sharing-supply-chain-security-risk https://www.ntia.gov/federal-register-notice/2020/comments-promoting-sharing-supply-chain-security-risk-information-0 Secure and Trusted Communications Network Act of 2019 (Act) - Calling it “CBOM” Other groups working on similar: FDA https://www.fda.gov/media/119933/download SPDX: LInux Foundation:https://spdx.org/licenses/ OpenBOM https://medium.com/@openbom/friday-discussion-why-boms-are-essential-for-the-iot-platform-e2c4bd397afd https://github.com/CycloneDX/specification https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/digital-health/cybersecurity https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/guidance-content-premarket-submissions-software-contained-medical-devices Medical device IR Playbook: https://www.mitre.org/sites/default/files/publications/pr-18-1550-Medical-Device-Cybersecurity-Playbook.pdf Companies are helping to get “CBOM” for devices: ““It can take anywhere from six months to a year for a new medical device to get its 510(k) clearance from the FDA,” said MedCrypt CEO Mike Kijewski in a news release” https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/medcrypt-acquires-medisao-in-medtech-cybersecurity-deal/ SBOM doesn’t work in DevOps: https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/security-essentials/software-bill-of-materials-sbom-does-it-work-for-devsecops Intoto software development: https://www.intotosystems.com/ 510k process: https://www.drugwatch.com/fda/510k-clearance/

The Importance of "Section 230" in Ensuring Free Online Speech

KCSB

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2020 1:43

President Trump is calling on the Federal Communications Commission to better define an important law that protects free speech on the internet. This week, The Secretary of Commerce filed a petition through the National “Telecommunications and Information Administration.” FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel is calling on her FCC colleagues to reject the petition immediately, if they respect the Constitution. Commissioner Rosenworsell explained the importance of ‘Section 230.” And, she tells KCSB News that the FCC should NOT be the President’s speech police.

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IoT Security Is a Mess. Privacy 'Nutrition' Labels Could Help

WIRED Security: News, Advice, and More

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2020 6:37

Another key aspect of the security and privacy label project is that the information is also encoded to be machine readable. This way, even if different countries or industries develop their own assessment tools, there's still a way to compare and process all the data. The researchers point out that data from the labels could make it easier to search for products by their privacy and security features, creating the potential for these to be mainstream product considerations rather than niche points that are difficult for consumers to research. Ecommerce websites could even offer filters for privacy and security features like they already do for things like price, weight, or screen size. In this way, consumers could make intentional choices about the products they buy, with digital safety as one of the factors.The researchers say that they've had a lot of private-sector and congressional interest in their label. But so far they've only been able to make example labels based on imaginary products or mock up labels for real products based on public data. The researchers are looking for a manufacturer to pilot the labels in a more serious way, with honest information about the products.There is real momentum toward doing these types of tests. Finland, Singapore, and the United Kingdom are all working on national IoT label programs focused on security. And while some IoT security bills have floated around the US Congress, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration within the Department of Commerce is actively working on a similar type of project for software. The idea is to develop a software "bill of materials" that would help the industry keep track of all the different open source and third-party components that go into one single software program or platform."Standardization I think will help, just like the ingredients label on food educates people about how much sugar or sodium they're consuming," says Chris Wysopal, chief technology officer of the software auditing firm Veracode. "Standardizing a software bill of materials would make it more clear to a consumer what they're getting."The researchers are realistic that for their work to have a long-term impact there would either need to be widespread voluntary adoption of the label by manufacturers or a government mandate to do so. But they say that's why they've designed the label with room for manufacturers to explain their choices to consumers."There may be a really good reason that your thermostat has a microphone, but if the company doesn't tell you, then you're shocked," says Lorrie Cranor, director of Carnegie Mellon's usable privacy and security lab. "If they tell you about the microphone up front and explain why that is, then you might say 'Oh, OK, that makes sense.'"Conventional wisdom says that consumers won't typically pay a premium for privacy and security features. The researchers had preliminary findings, though, that an easy-to-read label might help people better understand potential risks and make them more willing to pay more for strong guarantees. It will take more investigation to expand on that finding, and the easiest way to do extensive testing would be for companies to start adopting security and privacy labels on their IoT products. You likely won't be seeing IoT privacy labels on store shelves anytime soon. But the stakes are high enough that something certainly needs to change.

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Al Gore, AOL, Privacy Legislation, and You

You're On Mute

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2020 46:06

In our third episode, we interview privacy and data protection lawyer, Becky Burr to discuss the history and potential future of internet privacy legislation in the US and globally. We are very excited to have Becky on the show as she has spent her career working across the ecosystem to keep our data safe and our privacy protected. Working for the Clinton Administration at the FTC and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Becky worked on some of the first and only federal legislation to protect consumer privacy on the internet and across telecommunication devices. We sit down with her to find out what we should know as consumers to protect ourselves, what the government is doing to protect us, and how COVID-19 may impact the future of privacy law. Stay safe! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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Digital Access: The Haves and Have Nots

Aspen Ideas to Go

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2020 55:03

The Digital Divide is the gap between those who have easy access to computers and the internet, and those who don’t. The problem this gap creates is becoming more acute during the coronavirus pandemic. As schools move to distance learning, workers are displaced from their jobs, and public services move online, the need for an affordable, reliable broadband connection and productivity technology is great. Low-income Americans and communities of color are particularly disadvantaged. Aspen Digital’s Vivian Schiller speaks with Geoffrey Starks, FCC commissioner, Jim Steyer, founder and CEO of Common Sense Media, Gigi Sohn, distinguished fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy, and Larry Irving, former Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. The views and opinions of the speakers in the podcast do not necessarily reflect those of the Aspen Institute.

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The Race to 5G and the World Radio Conference

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2020 51:58

Heard about the “Race to 5G”? Wonder who are the U.S.’ leading rivals, and when and where the “race” is happening? This teleforum will provide answers and cover how outcomes from the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) affect the United States’ spectrum goals and priorities, including Wi-Fi, innovative satellite services, science research, and weather forecasting. Join us for this timely and important discussion with Ambassador Grace Koh, who led the U.S. Delegation to the recently concluded World Radiocommunication Conference, to examine how WRC outcomes position the U.S. in the Race to 5G. Tom Sullivan and Doug Kinkoph will also participate in this discussion, moderated by Patricia Paoletta (Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP). Featuring:-- Doug Kinkoph, Associate Administrator, Office of Telecommunications and Information Applications, performing the non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Department of Commerce-- Amb. Grace Koh, U.S. Representative and Head of Delegation to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) World Radiocommunication Conference 2019-- Thomas Sullivan, Chief, International Bureau, Federal Communications Commission-- Moderator: Patricia Paoletta, Partner, Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP

The Race to 5G and the World Radio Conference

Open Source Security Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2020 51:58

Heard about the “Race to 5G”? Wonder who are the U.S.’ leading rivals, and when and where the “race” is happening? This teleforum will provide answers and cover how outcomes from the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) affect the United States’ spectrum goals and priorities, including Wi-Fi, innovative satellite services, science research, and weather forecasting. Join us for this timely and important discussion with Ambassador Grace Koh, who led the U.S. Delegation to the recently concluded World Radiocommunication Conference, to examine how WRC outcomes position the U.S. in the Race to 5G. Tom Sullivan and Doug Kinkoph will also participate in this discussion, moderated by Patricia Paoletta (Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP). Featuring:-- Doug Kinkoph, Associate Administrator, Office of Telecommunications and Information Applications, performing the non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Department of Commerce-- Amb. Grace Koh, U.S. Representative and Head of Delegation to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) World Radiocommunication Conference 2019-- Thomas Sullivan, Chief, International Bureau, Federal Communications Commission-- Moderator: Patricia Paoletta, Partner, Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP

Episode 162 - SBOM with Allan Friedman

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2019 30:35

Josh and Kurt speak with Allan Friedman of the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration about Software Bill of Materials. Where are we today, where are things going, and how you can help. Show Notes Allan Friedman NTIA NTIA Software Component Transparency

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051 It’s What’s Inside that Counts

Insights & Intelligence

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2019 27:01

Software has traditionally been a black box when it comes to knowing what’s inside. Allan Friedman, director of Cybersecurity Initiatives at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, discusses the Software Component Transparency initiative and efforts to establish a software bill of materials. It’s akin to a list of ingredients associated with a particular piece of software to help stakeholders make better risk-management decisions. What will make this a reality?

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What is an SBOM and Why Should You Care? w/ Allan Friedman

DevSecOps Podcast Series

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2019 33:11

Open-source components and their use within the software supply chain has become ubiquitous within the past few years. Current estimates are that 80-90% of new software applications consist of open-source components and frameworks. Section A9 of the OWASP Top 10 places components with known vulnerabilities as one of the most prevalent and abused parts of the software supply chain, placing it at a security weakness level of three, on a scale from one to three. Quoting from the OWASP description in A9, "Component-heavy development patterns can lead to development teams not even understanding which components they use in their applications or APIs, much less keeping them up to date." In today's episode, I speak with Allan Friedman, Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Our talk focused on the creation of a Software Bill of Materials, or an SBOM. As we begin, Allan describes his role in the project and what they hope to accomplish. About Allan Friedman I'm the Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, or NTIA. We're a tiny part of the US Department of Commerce, and our mission really is about promoting a free, open, and trustworthy internet. Over the past few years, we've engaged in what we call "multistakeholder processes", trying to identify areas where the entire digital ecosystem can come together on things that they care about and make progress. So the government doesn't have a vested interest in the outcome, we just feel that we'll all be better off if the community can find common ground and consensus.

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Jerry Kang, Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at UCLA

Perspectives

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2019 41:20

A transcript of this episode is available here. On this episode of Perspectives, Goodwin's Chairman David Hashmall interviews Jerry Kang, UCLA's first Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Professor Kang explains the concept of implicit bias and shares his thoughts on ways to improve diversity and inclusion in the legal industry. In addition to his role as the Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Professor Kang is Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, Distinguished Professor of Asian American Studies (by courtesy), and the inaugural Korea Times — Hankook Ilbo Chair in Korean American Studies and Law. Professor Jerry Kang’s teaching and research interests include civil procedure, race, and communications. On race, he has focused on the nexus between implicit bias and the law, with the goal of advancing a “behavioral realism” that imports new scientific findings from the mind sciences into legal discourse and policymaking. He is also an expert on Asian American communities, and has written about hate crimes, affirmative action, the Japanese American internment, and its lessons for the “War on Terror.” He is a co-author of Race, Rights, and Reparation: The Law and the Japanese American Internment (2d ed. Wolters Kluwer 2013). On communications, Professor Kang has published on the topics of privacy, pervasive computing, mass media policy, and cyber-race (the techno-social construction of race in cyberspace). He is also the author of Communications Law & Policy: Cases and Materials (4th edition Foundation 2012), a leading casebook in the field. During law school, Professor Kang was a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review and Special Assistant to Harvard University’s Advisory Committee on Free Speech. After graduation, he clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, then worked at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on cyberspace policy. He joined UCLA in Fall 1995 and has been recognized for his teaching by being elected Professor of the Year in 1998; receiving the law school’s Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2007; and being chosen for the highest university-wide distinction, the University Distinguished Teaching Award (The Eby Award for the Art of Teaching) in 2010. At UCLA, he was founding co-Director of the Concentration for Critical Race Studies, the first program of its kind in American legal education. He is also founding co-Director of PULSE: Program on Understanding Law, Science, and Evidence. During 2003-05, Prof. Kang was Visiting Professor at both Harvard Law School and Georgetown Law Center. During the 2013-14 academic year, he was in residence at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice at NYU School of Law as a Straus Fellow as well as the David M. Friedman Fellow. Prof. Kang is a member of the American Law Institute, has chaired the American Association of Law School’s Section on Defamation and Privacy, has served on the Board of Directors of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and has received numerous awards including the World Technology Award for Law and the Vice President’s “Hammer Award” for Reinventing Government. More information about Prof. Kang is available at http://jerrykang.net

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Commerce and DHS collaborate to raise awareness of botnets, malware dangers

Grounded Reason Podcast - Cord Cutting and Internet Issues

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2018 9:27

Old, reliable botnets continue to plague information networks around the world. They cause denial of service, launch spam and plant malware. Yet tools to mitigate botnets often go unused. To help raise awareness of botnets and offer advice for dealing with them, the Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security did a little collaboration. Evelyn Remaley, deputy associate administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and Adam Sedgewick, senior policy adviser at the National Institute for Standards and Technology, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss further.

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The Future of the Internet and American Leadership

FedSoc Events

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2018 106:54

The Sixth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference is scheduled for Tuesday, April 17 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. and will examine the increase in federal regulatory activity and the legal and practical considerations of regulatory reform. This daylong conference will feature plenary panels, addresses, and breakout panels.Opening Remarks: Hon. Brendan Carr, Commissioner, Federal Communications CommissionOpening Remarks: Hon. David J. Redl, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of CommerceProf. Michelle P. Connolly, Professor of the Practice of Economics, Duke University Mr. Brad Gillen, Executive Vice President, CTIAHon. Chip Pickering, CEO, INCOMPASModerator: Mr. Bryan Tramont, Managing Partner, Wilkinson, Barker, Knauer LLP

The Future of the Internet and American Leadership

FedSoc Events

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2018 106:54

The Sixth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference is scheduled for Tuesday, April 17 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. and will examine the increase in federal regulatory activity and the legal and practical considerations of regulatory reform. This daylong conference will feature plenary panels, addresses, and breakout panels.Opening Remarks: Hon. Brendan Carr, Commissioner, Federal Communications CommissionOpening Remarks: Hon. David J. Redl, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of CommerceProf. Michelle P. Connolly, Professor of the Practice of Economics, Duke University Mr. Brad Gillen, Executive Vice President, CTIAHon. Chip Pickering, CEO, INCOMPASModerator: Mr. Bryan Tramont, Managing Partner, Wilkinson, Barker, Knauer LLP

016: Trump Vs. Clinton - Internet Policy

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2016 88:50

You can find the Grounded Reason Show page on our website at https://www.groundedreason.com/trump-clinton-internet-policy/ Please Subscribe to The Show in iTunes, Stitcher, or your Podcast App. Be sure to visit http://www.groundedreason.com/ for more tech tips and subscribe to the podcast on your favorite player using the links below. Subscribe Free on iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/grounded-reason-podcast/id1140661229?mt=2 Subscribe Free on Android - http://subscribeonandroid.com/groundedreason.libsyn.com/rss Subscribe Free on Stitcher - http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/grounded-reason-podcast Subscribe Free on Google Play - https://play.google.com/music/m/Ijyw42al3inofdsxd3s44v6rxny?t%3DGrounded_Reason_Podcast Please rate and review the show in iTunes. If you want to send us questions or comments please use any of the methods below. For more information on cutting the cord visit - https://www.groundedreason.com Call and leave a question or comment for the show: (650) 825-5477 (TALK-GRP) Grounded Reason Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/GroundedReason/ Email us at podcast@groundedreason.com Show Notes Dennis and Joel have a lengthy discussion about the difference of opinion between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on issues concerning the Internet. Below are various links and information regarding topics discussed on today's episode. Net Neutrality Rules the FCC enacted No Blocking: broadband providers may not block access to legal content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices. No Throttling: broadband providers may not impair or degrade lawful Internet traffic on the basis of content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices. No Paid Prioritization: broadband providers may not favor some lawful Internet traffic over other lawful traffic in exchange for consideration of any kind—in other words, no "fast lanes." This rule also bans ISPs from prioritizing content and services of their affiliates. Trump Trumps Tweet - Obama’s attack on the internet is another top down power grab. Net neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine. Will target conservative media. The Fairness Doctrine--an FCC policy from the late '40s that said broadcasters must present issues in an honest, equitable, and balanced way--was eliminated in 1987. It has nothing to do with Net neutrality. As one pundit noted, "How keeping the Internet accessible to everyone is somehow a power grab, or how it will somehow oppress conservatives, is beyond us. The Fairness Doctrine required equal time for opposing views; Net neutrality allows any idiot to use the Internet however he so chooses, without having to pay extra fees in order for people to actually see it.." Clinton - Co-sponsored a bill in 2007 to attempt to fix the FCC original mistake in 2005 •Broadband service providers shall not interfere with the ability of any person to use a broadband service to access or offer any lawful content via the Internet; •only prioritize content or services based on the type of content or services and the level of service purchased by the user, without charge for such prioritization. Clinton pledged to defend the FCC’s net neutrality rules in court and continue to enforce them. U.S. Internet Transition Plan of ICANN The U.S. U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration has been stewarding the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit entity that controls the critically important Domain Naming System (DNS), which is responsible for coordinating the domain name hierarchy and IP addressing for the entire Internet. The Commerce Department’s June 10, 1998 Statement of Policy stated that the U.S. Government “is committed to a transition that will allow the private sector to take leadership for DNS management.” On October 1st The US Commerce Dept. relinquished its stewardship of ICANN which was really symbolic. ICANN has used a multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance consisting of various engineers, academics, businesses, non-government and government groups from all over the world. This is a standards and protocols body to ensure the proper creation of Internet Names and addresses. To say that the U.S. is giving up control of the internet is ridiculous and shows a complete ignorance of what the internet even is from a technical standpoint. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/us-cuts-cord-internet-oversight-113602357.html Snopes article on the ICANN - http://www.snopes.com/2016/08/19/america-to-hand-off-internet/ SOPA - http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/17/technology/sopa_explained/ Clinton plan https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2016/06/27/hillary-clintons-initiative-on-technology-innovation/

Security Expert Talks About ICANN, Verisign And The Demise of Free Speech On The Internet

DPL-Surveillance-Equipment.com

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2016

Click Here Or On Above Image To Reach Our ExpertsSecurity Expert Talks About ICANN, Verisign And The Demise of Free Speech On The InternetThe U.S. government plans within weeks to end much of its oversight of the California nonprofit that helps run the internet, a move with broad international support. But recent business deals by the nonprofit are threatening to roil those plans.Under the deals, the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, known as Icann, is set to give significant new business to its largest contractor, Verisign Inc., under circumstances that some say show favoritism.One of the deals would give Verisign a no-bid extension on its current contract to run the huge dot-com domain. In the other deal, Verisign emerged as a surprise potential winner of the contract to operate the new dot-web domain by quietly putting $130 million behind another firm's bid in an Icann auction.Icann denies that it has given special treatment to Verisign, saying its focus has been promoting the internet's stability and security. Verisign, which is based in Reston, Va., is widely viewed as a highly competent manager of the domain-name system.The deals open a window into what is a netherworld to most users—the structures and firms that keep the chaotic-seeming internet running smoothly.Icann handles the internet's technical operations, including the crucial domain-name system, under a longstanding arrangement with the U.S. government. Icann also oversees the firms that run many of the internet's top-level domains, such as dot-com. Verisign currently runs the dot-com domain as well as dot-net, and also helps maintain the domain-name system. It makes money by receiving fees paid by people who register websites, while ensuring the registry's operation is smooth, stable and secure.The Obama administration is preparing to end much of its oversight of Icann on Oct. 1. The government hasn't intervened lately in Icann's operations, but its authority to do so has been seen as a backstop should something go wrong.Many high-tech firms view the shift as essential to maintaining international support for the internet's governance, as foreign countries increasingly bridle at the U.S. role. But some conservative critics, who have long worried that Icann could fall under foreign control, are seizing on the recent business deals as they try to block the government's move. They are hoping the deals will raise concerns among congressional Democrats, too.PRO-DTECH II FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Critics including Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) say Icann's recent deals with Verisign show it to be a feckless regulator.“Where there's smoke there's fire,” Rep. Sean Duffy (R., Wis.), who has lined up with Mr. Cruz, said in an interview. The lawmakers have called for a Justice Department investigation.Icann denies favoritism. Regarding accusations that Icann is too cozy with Verisign, Akram Atallah, president of Icann's global domains division, said, “‘Cozy with Verisign' is an oxymoron,” in reference to the firm's reputation as a tough bargainer.Critics face an uphill fight to derail the government's planned transfer.CELLPHONE DETECTOR (PROFESSIONAL)(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Icann has proposed giving Verisign a no-bid extension of its long-running contract to operate the dot-com domain, two years ahead of schedule. Verisign's current contract is set to expire in 2018; the extension would last through 2024. Verisign has had exclusive control of the dot-com registry since 2000. Starting in 2006, Verisign's contract with Icann has had an automatic-renewal clause, meaning no bidding is required so long as Verisign meets basic performance standards. Other domain operators have received similar deals. PRO-DTECH III FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Critics say Verisign's hold on the dot-com domain already has made it an effective monopoly. Mr. Atallah says the contract extension is less significant than it appears, since Verisign would be entitled to automatic renewal in two years anyway.The agency that oversees Icann, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, hasn't yet endorsed the contract extension. Noting that it hasn't yet been approved by the Icann and Verisign boards, an NTIA spokesman said, “We have not been presented with anything to consider at this point.” NTIA would be able to keep price limits in place for the duration of the contract extension.PRO-DTECH III FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)In the second deal, Verisign covertly provided most of the funding for a winning bid in a recent Icann auction for the right to run the potentially lucrative dot-web domain.The Verisign-backed bidder, Nu Dot Co LLC, won the July 27 auction with a bid of $135 million. Then Verisign disclosed that it had put up $130 million of the bid and said it expected Nu Dot Co to hand over the dot-web deal to Verisign. Nu Dot Co didn't respond to a request for comment. Such assignments aren't unusual.In a lawsuit against Icann in federal court in Los Angeles, one losing bidder, Donuts Inc., accused Icann of using its authority “to unfairly benefit” an applicant.Mr. Atallah said Icann and its ombudsman investigated the suspicions ahead of the auction but no action was merited. “Now we have some other evidence that is surfacing, and we are looking again,” Mr. Atallah said. “What happens, I cannot project.”United Nations Might Take Control of InternetWhen the Obama administration announced its plan to give up U.S. protection of the internet, it promised the United Nations would never take control. But because of the administration's naiveté or arrogance, U.N. control is the likely result if the U.S. gives up internet stewardship as planned at midnight on Sept. 30. On Friday Americans for Limited Government received a response to its Freedom of Information Act request for “all records relating to legal and policy analysis . . . concerning antitrust issues for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers” if the U.S. gives up oversight. The administration replied it had “conducted a thorough search for responsive records within its possession and control and found no records responsive to your request.”PRO-DTECH III FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)It's shocking the administration admits it has no plan for how Icann retains its antitrust exemption. The reason Icann can operate the entire World Wide Web root zone is that it has the status of a legal monopolist, stemming from its contract with the Commerce Department that makes Icann an “instrumentality” of government.Antitrust rules don't apply to governments or organizations operating under government control. In a 1999 case, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the monopoly on internet domains because the Commerce Department had set “explicit terms” of the contract relating to the “government's policies regarding the proper administration” of the domain system.Without the U.S. contract, Icann would seek to be overseen by another governmental group so as to keep its antitrust exemption. Authoritarian regimes have already proposed Icann become part of the U.N. to make it easier for them to censor the internet globally. So much for the Obama pledge that the U.S. would never be replaced by a “government-led or an inter-governmental organization solution.”Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government, called it “simply stunning” that the “politically blinded Obama administration missed the obvious point that Icann loses its antitrust shield should the government relinquish control.”The administration might not have considered the antitrust issue, which would have been naive. Or perhaps in its arrogance the administration knew all along Icann would lose its antitrust immunity and look to the U.N. as an alternative. Congress could have voted to give Icann an antitrust exemption, but the internet giveaway plan is too flawed for legislative approval.As the administration spent the past two years preparing to give up the contract with Icann, it also stopped actively overseeing the group. That allowed Icann to abuse its monopoly over internet domains, which earns it hundreds of millions of dollars a year.Earlier this month, an independent review within Icann called the organization “simply not credible” in how it handled the application for the .inc, .llc and .llp domains. The independent review found Icann staffers were “intimately involved” in evaluating their own work. A company called Dot Registry had worked with officials of U.S. states to create a system ensuring anyone using these Web addresses was a legitimate registered company. Icann rejected Dot Registry's application as a community, which would have resulted in lowered fees to Icann.WIRELESS/WIRED HIDDENCAMERA FINDER III(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Delaware's secretary of state objected: “Legitimate policy concerns have been systematically brushed to the curb by Icann staffers well-skilled at manufacturing bureaucratic processes to disguise pre-determined decisions.” Dot Registry's lawyer, Arif Ali of the Dechert firm, told me last week his experience made clear “Icann is not ready to govern itself.”Icann also refuses to award the .gay domain to community groups representing gay people around the world. Icann's ombudsman recently urged his group to “put an end to this long and difficult issue” by granting the domain. Icann prefers to earn larger fees by putting the .gay domain up for auction among for-profit domain companies.And Icann rejects the community application for the .cpa domain made by the American Institute of CPAs, which along with other accounting groups argues consumers should expect the .cpa address only to be used by legitimate accountants, not by the highest bidder. An AICPA spokesman told me he has a pile of paperwork three feet high on the five-year quest for the .cpa domain. The professional group objected in a recent appeal: “The process seems skewed toward a financial outcome that benefits Icann itself.”The only thing worse than a monopoly overseen by the U.S. government is a monopoly overseen by no one—or by a Web-censoring U.N. Congress still has time to extend its ban on the Obama administration giving up protection of the internet. Icann has given it every reason to do so.PRO-DTECH IV FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday delayed for at least a year its plans to give up oversight of a key component of Internet governance.The department said it would renew its contract with the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers for one year. Icann administers the Internet's domain-name system, through contracts with the companies that sell website names and addresses.Commerce Department Renews Contract With The Internet Corp. For Assigned Names And NumbersCommerce has overseen Icann since the organization was created in 1998. Last year, the Obama administration said it planned to transfer Icann oversight to an unspecified group of international stakeholders by September 2015.Critics of the plan have expressed concerns that it may open the door to influence by foreign governments that aren't committed to Western principles of free expression, and may want to impose different rules for administering the Internet in different parts of the world.Wireless Camera Finder(Buy/Rent/Layaway)“It has become increasingly apparent over the last few months that the community needs time to complete its work, have the plan reviewed by the U.S. government and then implement it if it is approved,” Assistant Commerce Secretary Lawrence Strickling wrote in a blog post.Mr. Strickling wrote that the government plans to extend its contract with Icann for one year to Sept. 30 of 2016, with options to extend it another three years. Mr. Strickling said Commerce informed Congress of the plan on Friday.Commerce said the extension will provide time to work out additional details on how a “multistakeholder” governance approach might work.Icann Chief Executive Fadi Chehadé said in May he plans to leave in March 2016 to work in the private sector. Mr. Chehadé has championed greater independence for the group. In 2013, he praised Brazil's call for the U.S. to relinquish oversight of the agency in the wake of disclosures that the National Security Agency monitored Brazil's leaders and businesses online.“This is an important step,” said House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R., Mich.) and Reps. Greg Walden (R., Ore.) and John Shimkus (R., Ill.) in a statement. “The administration is recognizing, as it should, that it is more important to get this issue right than it is to simply get it done.”In June, the House passed legislation to give Congress oversight of the Obama administration's plans to transfer stewardship of Icann.“We appreciate the administration's efforts and look forward to working with them, and the global Internet community, to get this done right,” the Republican legislators said Monday.Tuesday, Icann Senior Adviser Theresa Swinehart said in a statement that the agency is “pleased” by the contract extension. Ms. Swinehart said there has been progress in devising a new governance structure, but “additional time is necessary for the global community to complete its work and for Icann to implement the community's proposals.”MAGNETIC, ELECTRIC, RADIO ANDMICROWAVE DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)The US government has formally approved a plan to transition control of the internet's administrative tasks to the private sector.In an announcement Thursday, the National Telecommunications And Information Administration (NTIA) gave the green light to a plan developed over two years by the internet community to hand control of the critical Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) contract to Californian non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)."Today's announcement marks an important milestone in the US government's 18-year effort to privatize the Internet's domain name system," said Commerce secretary Penny Pritzker. "This transition ensures that the Internet continues to flourish as a platform for innovation, economic growth and free expression."ICANN has run the IANA functions – which cover the highest level of internet: the DNS, IP addresses, and internet protocols – since the day it was incorporated in 1999, but through a contract awarded repeatedly to it by the NTIA.This plan moves the contract into ICANN's hands and so removes the US government from its position of direct control – an important change in an ever more global internet.Following the formal approval, the transition is in line to be completed by the end of the current IANA contract – 30 September 2016.COUNTERSURVEILLANCE PROBE / MONITOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)

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Trillions of Dollars at Stake: The Internet of Things