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A gunman attempted to enter the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, DC, last weekend, while President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other administration officials were in attendance.
Key facts
- A gunman attempted to enter the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, DC, last weekend, while President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other administration officials
- Media reports and Trump himself quickly identified the suspected shooter as 31-year-old engineer and computer scientist Cole Tomas Allen
- Bloomberg News and Axios reported this week that the NSA was among the agencies and companies granted early access to Mythos, which has been limited to 40 organizations so far, according to Axios
- The Walt Disney Company announced this week that visitors to its Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park will have the option to “choose” to enter the park through a lane that’s equipped
Summary
The authentication standards body known as the FIDO Alliance announced working groups this week along with Google and Mastercard to develop technical guardrails for validating and protecting transactions initiated by an AI agent. New research this week shed light on an incident in which 90,000 screenshots pulled from a European celebrity's phone were exposed online —underscoring the risks of commercially available spyware both as an invasion of personal privacy and a threat for widespread data breaches and abuse. Each week, they round up the security and privacy news they didn’t cover in depth ourselves. The Happiest Place on Earth got a bit creepier. The company says these numerical values will be deleted after 30 days, “except in cases where data must be maintained for legal or fraud-prevention purposes.”