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The Conservative Case for Net Neutrality

Even Justice Scalia has endorsed treating Internet-service providers as utilities.

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Spectrum incentives, reseller rules, NOAA hacked and more

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

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Why agencies are drowning in data

An industry-sponsored report suggests that feds could leverage information governance to great effect.

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Keystone State Aims to Kill the Password

The commonwealth's login network could help secure online shopping and other e-commerce services worldwide.

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Why Big Data Needs ‘Dummy Data’

Instead of original data, a structurally similar but obscured version of the data, or “dummy data”, is used for development and testing environments.

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Telework on Trial? House Committees to Probe Patent Office Telework Fraud

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the House Judiciary Committee team up for a joint hearing next week.

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Why Veterans Make Good Cyberwarriors

Putting returning warfighters back to work as cyberdefenders makes sense, advocates say.

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The Broadband Industry’s Plan for Killing Obama's Net Neutrality Plan

The companies may have lost the administration, but there are two more branches of government to turn to.

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What’s at the Root of Your Facebook Addiction? Numbers

The Facebook Demetricator shows we like liking a little too much.

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Relaunched HealthCare.gov Can Handle Twice as Much Traffic as Last Year

The White House is hoping the people turned off by the website's disastrous debut will come back for its second try.

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Republicans React to Obama’s Net Neutrality Proposal: ‘Obamacare for the Internet’

One Republican senator's comment follows President Obama's support of using new regulations to preserve net neutrality.

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How Cyborg Cockroaches Could Aid Disaster-Relief Efforts

Bugs backpacked with microphones could be deployed to disaster zones in the future.

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American Museum of Natural History's First-Ever 24-Hour Hackathon

The results just might actually help the museum.

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Obama Urges ‘Strongest Possible’ Net Neutrality Rules From FCC

The president's statement is a massive blow to Comcast and other Internet providers who fear they will be regulated like utilities.

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Remembering time behind the Berlin Wall

Before he became a procurement expert and management professor, Steve Kelman dabbled in Cold War intrigue. Twenty-five years after the fall of the wall, he recalls the experience.

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Net neutrality, Heartbleed revisited and an aircraft carrier for drones

News and notes from around the federal IT community

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How the Army is approaching its cloud strategy

Archie Mackie became product director of enterprise computing at the Army PEO EIS in June. In a Nov. 7 interview with FCW, he explained why the Army is cautious but hopeful in its adoption of the cloud.

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Senate Republicans Want to Rewrite Communications Act. So What Happens to Net Neutrality?

A GOP plan to overhaul a communications law could get bogged down in a partisan battle.

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Pentagon Casts Wider Net to Avert the Next Ebola Before It Arrives

New two-page EZ application is the first step to DARPA funding for biological technology.