NAB, NPR and other opponents of the FCC’s authorization of geotargeted radio used Thursday’s comments deadline to take additional shots at the technology, while proponent GeoBroadcast Solutions said the agency should “keep an open mind.” Two broadcast entities, Press Communications and REC Networks, have called for reconsideration of the agency’s order allowing content origination on FM booster stations. Geotargeted radio will “erode public confidence in FM radio broadcasting” and harm stations “baited into employing the technology,” NAB said in docket 20-401.
The Senate Commerce Committee will try again next week to approve funding for the FCC’s affordable connectivity program (see 2405100046), Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., told us Thursday after the scheduled markup was pulled amid tensions with Republicans over amendments.
The Senate Rules Committee on Wednesday voted along party lines to pass two bills aimed at combating AI-driven manipulation of election content such as deep fakes and synthetic audio.
Supplemental coverage from space service will provide a huge backstop to terrestrial networks' coverage, especially when disasters and emergencies strike terrestrial networks. But SCS also will carry significant challenges for pinpointing callers' locations, speakers said Tuesday at an FCBA CLE.
The Biden administration recognizes the federal government’s cybersecurity strategy must factor in all emerging technology, including AI, quantum computing, wireless systems, satellites and cable, Nathaniel Fick, State Department ambassador-cyberspace and digital policy, said Monday. In the past, cybersecurity was narrowly defined, Fick said during an Atlantic Council panel discussion with NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly. The administration is focused on an “affirmative” and “inclusive” vision for cybersecurity that “many people can opt into,” said Fick. The administration’s national cybersecurity strategy (see 2303020051) and the State Department’s U.S. International Cyberspace & Digital Policy Strategy support this vision, he said. Davidson said NTIA is focused on tech issues like building out broadband infrastructure, establishing “good internet governance” and strengthening privacy and AI policies, efforts that will inform U.S. cyber policy. President Joe Biden last week reiterated that AI is the “most consequential technology of our time,” said Davidson: It will affect every aspect of the economy and needs responsible development. Easterly said there’s “promise” for using AI-driven language models for detecting cyber threats to critical infrastructure. CISA is expecting to publish related findings soon, she said. AI should be designed with safety in mind at the start, not on the backend, said Easterly.
A bipartisan group of four House members, including Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, introduced a bill last week that they said would help the Bureau of Industry and Security control exports of artificial intelligence systems and other new national security-related technologies.
Backers of stopgap funding for the FCC’s ailing affordable connectivity program and Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program believe they made progress last week toward their goal of firming up the initiatives even as a bid attaching funds to the FAA reauthorization legislation appeared all but dead. Senate Communications Subcommittee Chairman Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., emerged from the chamber Thursday night touting commitments from leaders to move forward on allocating the proposed money even as the body voted 88-4 to pass the FAA Reauthorization Act (HR-3935) without funding language he and others sought (see 2405070083).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
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