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Turkey's Increasingly Troubling Efforts to Control the Internet
The country is intercepting popular DNS services, Google and others report.
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DHS Takes a Second Stab at Automating Immigration Casework
InfoZen wins first contract in project's revival, hopes agile software development will make the difference.
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A US Court Just Ruled That Censorship by Search Engines Is a Form of Free Speech
The decision raises some unsettling questions about the world’s dependency on a handful of search engines.
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What a 3.3 Percent Pay Hike Could Mean for IT
The increase could help federal technology salaries better compete with the private sector.
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99 problems but annotating ain't one
GSA has teamed up with social media annotation platform Rap Genius to make government jargon more understandable.
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SEC's MIDAS program highlights how to do big data
Rather than retroactively try to reconstruct the next market anomaly, the SEC launched the Market Information Data Analytics System, which collects more than one billion records per day.
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Don't call it derivative!
Steve Kelman contemplates a new Shanghai restaurant that serves "American-style" Chinese food.
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The Government's Technology Agency Admits It Has Lousy Technology
The FCC's aging technology leaves it vulnerable to attacks.
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U.S. Nuclear Security Agency Has 'Failed,' Advisory Panel Says
Drastic reforms needed to address NNSA's 'systemic' management shortcomings, group says.
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This Electronic Health Record's Cost Has Jumped 2,233 Percent
…and other billion dollar horrors from GAO.
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Electronic Warfare Accounts for 5 Percent of the Defense 2015 Science Budget
Advanced systems are needed to counter threats from adversaries, including China, lawmakers told.
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Obamacare Enrollment Tops 6 Million
The White House clears a major milestone with four days left in the enrollment window.
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In Defense of Google Flu Trends
If the system failed, it did so only in the outsize dreams of Big Data acolytes.
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White House details plans for protecting bulk metadata
Telephone companies will retain the records, but will have to ensure a "usable format" for the National Security Agency.
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Why We Can't Name a Planet After Joe Biden—Yet
Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet. For now, they're calling it 'Biden.'
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HealthCare.gov Visits Surge Ahead of Obamacare Enrollment Deadline
Consumers must try to sign up for a plan by March 31.
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HealthCare.gov Bugs and 16 Other Ways to Qualify for an Obamacare Extension
The administration releases a long list of loopholes to the enrollment deadline.
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Boehner Supports End to NSA Mass Surveillance
The House speaker backs moderate legislation from the Intelligence Committee.
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How One College Went From 10% Female Computer-Science Majors to 40%
Changing the name of the intro class to be more creative and inclusive is just one step.
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