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Drivers Never Learn the One Lesson of Cicada Season

Brood X always leaves behind a spate of weird stories.

  • By Marina Koren, The Atlantic

NSA: Test Unified Communications Patches Before Installing

Guidance from the National Security Agency aims to protect communications carried over the internet from eavesdropping, denial-of-service attacks and other dangers.

  • By Mariam Baksh

Feds Offer Tips to Better Leverage Agency Data

Making better use of agency data is not as simple as flipping a switch.

  • By Frank Konkel

Survey: Technologists Prefer to Keep Working Remotely

Only 17% of technologists nationwide prefer full-time office work.

  • By Frank Konkel

U.S. Needs Tech Agency to Compete with China, Think Tank Says

The U.S. Innovation and Competition Act is just a first step when it comes to competition with China, according to the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

  • By Mila Jasper

Most Federal Employees Will Receive Friday Off for Juneteenth

President Biden signed a bill Thursday afternoon making the anniversary of the end of slavery a federal holiday, and OPM confirmed that federal workers will have Friday off.

  • By Erich Wagner

HHS Puts Up $80M to Increase Number and Diversity of Health IT Workforce

The four-year effort will focus on improving data collection—especially around race and ethnicity—and training a more diverse health informatics and technology workforce.

  • By Aaron Boyd

Agencies Embrace the Year of Multicloud

By choice or chance, many agencies are already using multiple cloud technologies but that doesn't mean they have a strategy.

  • By Phil Fuster

Officials: Federal Shift to IPv6 Brings New Cybersecurity Options and Risks

Agencies should be planning now to meet new IPv6 requirements by 2025.

  • By Aaron Boyd

Bipartisan Bill Bolsters FCC Motion to Ban Suspect Chinese Telecom Equipment

The Federal Communications Commission is already set to vote on a notice of proposed rulemaking on its equipment authorization program.

  • By Mariam Baksh

Survey: Government Faces Increasing Threat from Stolen Accounts

But agencies may not be taking the right steps to mitigate the account takeovers.

  • By Frank Konkel

Lawmakers Renew Effort to Ban Federal Agencies from Using Facial Recognition Tech

The reintroduced bill would prohibit agencies from using biometric tech and block federal funds for biometric surveillance systems.

  • By Mila Jasper

Extremism Has Spread Into the Mainstream

It is a public-health problem, not a security issue.

  • By Cynthia Miller-Idriss, The Atlantic

Chip Shortage Threatens Modernization—and Everything Else

Initially, the chip shortage mostly affected car manufacturers.

  • By John Breeden II
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DOD's Commercial Virtual Remote Environment Officially Sunsets

The environment for collaboration that supported telework during the pandemic expired.

  • By Mila Jasper

National Lab Recommends Energy Department Test Electric Utility Vendors for Cybersecurity

A broad spectrum of organizations are calling on regulators to improve suppliers instead of simply banning foreign companies.

  • By Mariam Baksh

ICE Is Consolidating IT Systems to a Single Vendor Platform

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for a vendor to help with app development and shifting existing tools to the ServiceNow platform.

  • By Aaron Boyd

GAO: Tech, Automation Improved Decennial Census Productivity

More than half of the Americans self-responded to the decennial census using the internet in 2020.

  • By Frank Konkel

White House Outlines ‘Made in America’ Executive Order Implementation

Agencies must designate a senior official to spearhead efforts to support domestic manufacturing.

  • By Courtney Bublé

White House Calls for Agencies and Tech Companies to Share Info to Combat Domestic Terrorism

A new strategy asks social media and communications companies to enforce their own policies to protect users from those who foment violence.

  • By Mila Jasper

South Korea to Add Robots-on-Rails and AI Surveillance to DMZ Border

The demilitarized zone between North and South Korea will be getting new surveillance technologies in the coming months, Korean news outlets report.

  • By Aaron Boyd