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Government Matters: Budget Cuts and Hiring Cyber Talent
A new administration continues to present challenges to government agencies.
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Lawmakers target disappearing records
Two bills before the House Oversight committee deal with the problem of electronic records being altered or lost.
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Facebook Is Making Life Absurdly Difficult in German Court
The German government is threatening the social media giant with hefty fines if it doesn’t deal with fake news and hate speech.
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‘Worst to First’: How the U.S. Postal Service Cleaned Up Employee Discrimination Complaints
USPS tackled its backlog of complaints and now provides that service to more than two dozen other agencies.
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5 technology priorities for President Trump
The Obama administration improved government technology, but the Trump team must push it further forward.
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Iraq Agreed to Share More Information With US to Avoid Travel Ban
Other countries will have a harder time pulling the same trick.
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Russia’s Spear Phishing Tactics in the 2016 Election Are Boring Compared to Its 2008 Hack of the US Military
Long before the world knew the contents of Hillary Clinton staffers’ inboxes thanks to Russian hackers, the country went after an even bigger US target.
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The Cyberwar Information Gap
Unlike a conventional military strike, state-on-state cyberattacks can go unreported for years.
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Trump’s Braintrust Just Won an Immigration Battle with Silicon Valley They Have Been Fighting for Years
The H-1B visa is favored by US tech companies, as it allows them to source specially-skilled STEM workers from abroad.
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White House Selects Deputy CTO From Peter Thiel’s Rolodex
Choosing someone with a background in venture capital breaks from the technology company and long-time government executives the Obama administration preferred since creating a CTO role in 2009.
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Is It Wise to Foil North Korea’s Nuclear Tests With Cyberattacks?
“This could set off very serious alarm bells in Beijing and Moscow.”
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Can IGs and agencies agree to a code of conduct?
Steve Kelman argues "The Art of the Deal" offers a possible path to more constructive oversight.
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Kickstarter Is Teaching the Tech World the Meaning of Gender Equity and Fair Pay
Most companies say they’re striving for a balance of genders and a fair showing of ethnic and other minority groups on staff. Most are failing.
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The Government’s Secret Wiki for Intelligence
Analysts reportedly tucked classified information about Russian hacking inside Intellipedia for safekeeping.
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Lawmakers Bump NASA Bill and Increase Several Agencies' Cyber Responsibilities
The House scheduled a vote on NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017 for Monday under suspension of rules, but dropped it off the schedule.
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Video: How to Put a Shutdown Timer on Your Computer
Let your computer handle though pesky updates without waiting around.
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2017 defense bill advances
The House Appropriations Committee has introduced the final $578 billion defense spending bill for the remainder of FY2017. It's an $11 billion increase over 2016, but far short of what defense hawks say is needed going forward.
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This Speck of DNA Contains a Movie, a Computer Virus, and an Amazon Gift Card
Meet the storage format that never goes obsolete.
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