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The Invisible Fence That Keeps Drones Away From the President
Some drones are programmed to avoid restricted airspace—but it’s not hard to ignore the limits and fly there anyway.
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Howard Schmidt, former Obama cyber adviser, dies
Howard Schmidt, a longtime IT leader in both government and industry who served as cybersecurity adviser in the Obama White House, has passed away at the age of 67.
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30 Agencies Pursue Shared Services, Most With IT Modernization in Mind
Aging IT is a looming problem for federal agencies, presenting both performance and security issues.
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US Immigration Asked a Nigerian Software Engineer Test Questions Even Quartz’s Engineers Couldn’t Solve
He was in New York to develop software for First Access, a New York-based fintech startup.
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SEC advances open data rule
Two commissioners of the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to approve a rule change that would require public companies to submit financial statements in a streamlined open data format.
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A Playbook for How Cities Should Share and Protect Data
A detailed guide from Harvard helps governments protect residents’ personal information in open-data initiatives.
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Category Management Continues Efforts to Get Better Deal for Federal Bucks
Category management has saved $2 billion since 2012, but there's more low-hanging fruit to grab.
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The Scary State of Volcano Monitoring in the United States
One of the most volcanically active countries in the world is not ready for a devastating eruption.
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Watchdog: DHS' Biometric Exit Tracking Still Needs Work
DHS’ previous overstay reports, including the one from fiscal 2015, have been incomplete because of “unreliable collection of departure data."
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NASA Engineer Explains Why Trump’s Plan to Cut the Space Agency’s Climate Science Program Is Harder than It Sounds
Cutting the programs could be a logistical nightmare.
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New Genetic Tool Maps How Deadly Viruses Spread Around the World in Real Time
The real-time tracking tool maps how viruses spread, potentially identifying hot zones sooner.
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In the US, Some Criminal Court Judges Now Use Algorithms to Guide Decisions on Bail
To ensure unbiased, scientific decisions, judges use a machine-generated score.
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China’s Twitter Clone Will Soon Have More Users Than Twitter
Weibo doesn't have problems growing.
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27 Separate Federal Programs Protect the Power Grid
And that's just between the Energy Department, the Homeland Security Department and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
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Oak Ridge director to step down
The longtime director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory will leave this summer to take an executive position at the firm that helps run the lab.
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18F: The empire strikes back
Oversight has its place, Steve Kelman writes, but the IG reports focused on 18F almost seem hostile to innovation.
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Hackers Steal Coachella Accounts; Bugs Leak User Data, Passwords
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
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CFPB Wants To Know How 'Alternative Data' Changes Credit Scores
New methods of determining credit scores, which might involve an applicant's web history, could harm consumers.
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