Digital Government
China Wins the Supercomputer Crown
New machine operates almost twice as fast as the top U.S. supercomputer.
Cybersecurity
NSA Leaks and the Pentagon Papers: The Difference Between Edward Snowden and Daniel Ellsberg
How we answer may say more about us than it does about either of them.
Cybersecurity
IG: DHS Does Not Track Security Training of System Administrator Contractors
Department relies on companies to perform work historically done by government employees.
Digital Government
A Supreme Court Loss On Human Gene Patents Is Just What Myriad—and the Biotech Industry—Need
Myriad's stock has gone up dramatically since the Supreme Court ruling.
Digital Government
A Prosthetic Limb, Controlled by an Amputee's Thoughts
Thanks to new DARPA technology, things like picking up a coffee cup could be, literally, within grasp.
Modernization
CIA Gave Amazon a Leg Up on Cloud Deal
Intelligence agency unfairly allowed the company to weaken security requirements, auditor finds.
Digital Government
House Backs IT Buying Overhaul
Reforms added to a major defense policy bill would give agency CIOs authority over all IT spending.
Emerging Tech
How China’s Solar Boom Fizzled and Went Bust
Chinese companies like Suntech rise then fall.
Cybersecurity
Leaker: NSA Has Been Snooping on China Since 2009
'We hack backbones—huge Internet routers, basically' for access to smaller computers, Snowden tells Chinese paper.
Digital Government
Contractor Work on $2 Billion NSA Computer Compounds Is Kept Quiet
Construction crews are speeding toward completion of a mammoth data center in Utah and computing facility in Maryland.
Digital Government
Drone Builders Prepare to Create Immigration Reform’s Lucrative Border Panopticon
Congress is moving toward a more drone-based border system.
Digital Government
Analysis: Government’s Vast Lockers of Data Threaten Basic Individual Freedoms
Freedom is a joke when a life's history resides forever in a vast database.
Emerging Tech
Think That Government Prize Contest Was Fixed? Take It To Court.
GAO lacks jurisdiction over the competitions, agency says.
Digital Government
IT Reform Act Could Hitch a Ride on Major Defense Bill
Sponsors will offer the overhaul as an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act.
Digital Government
Pakistan May Un-Block YouTube—or It May Just Block All of Google
The country's incoming minister for information technology and telecommunications hopes to restore access to YouTube.
Cybersecurity
NSA Leaks Shed Light on China's Complaints About U.S. Hacking
Washington's digital-surveillance systems are more powerful than many thought.
Digital Government
Commerce Seeks Unified Customer Management System
The cloud-based system will replace numerous legacy programs.
Emerging Tech
When Sci-Fi Crime-Prevention Tactics Aren't Actually That Far-Fetched
The Purge seems implausible, but according to criminologists, some sci-fi films' law-enforcement methods could be possible one day—and some are in use right now.
Cybersecurity
Obama's Cyberwar Target List Just Made His Meeting with China Very Difficult
Cyberwar is all-but-officially the new Cold War.
Digital Government