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Budget for All: What a Way to Celebrate the Holidays
Congress passed its whole-of-government funding package just before the end of the year.
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5 Things Holding Innovation Back at the IRS
Believe it or not, the IRS has some budget and the will to modernize in the interest of public service.
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Young Men Have Higher Risk of Gun Death in Some US Cities Than in War
Some US cities are more dangerous than warzones, according to new research.
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Let's not cancel TikTok
Steve Kelman argues that First Amendment rights come ahead of vaguely articulated national security concerns when it comes to the China-owned social media app.
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Did He Jiankui ‘Make People Better’? Documentary Spurs a New Look at the Case of the First Gene-edited Babies
Gene editing is now a real thing.
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Improving CX through data and testing
We must gauge the scale and nature of the challenges we're facing before we charge headlong into trying to solve them and risk investing time, effort and public money in the wrong places.
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Social Media Monitoring in the Security Clearance Process
What – if anything – is the government considering in an online search of security clearance applicants?
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Greenland's Glaciers Might be Melting 100X Faster Than Thought
Ice melt could be much more significant than scientists thought.
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What Social Media Regulation Could Look Like: Think of Pipelines, Not Utilities
A potential preview of what social media regulation might look like.
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Toilets Spew Invisible Aerosol Plumes With Every Flush—Here’s the Proof, Captured by High-powered Lasers
What goes down also goes up.
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Shifting left on day one
An IT modernization bill currently moving in Congress would be improved by a focus on building security into software from the very start of the development lifecycle.
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China’s New Space Station Opens for Business in an Increasingly Competitive Era of Space Activity
The space station is built and run entirely by China.
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The DHS Procurement Innovation Lab is still busy
Steve Kelman looks at how advisory downselects pioneered helped speed up a key FEMA acquisition – and how other agencies can benefit.
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More Likes Up the Chance People Believe Fake News
New research digs into how the social part of social media can affect what people think about fake news stories.
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Darknet Markets Generate Millions in Revenue Selling Stolen Personal Data, Supply Chain Study Finds
Darknet hackers aren't slowing down.
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Text-to-Image AI: Powerful, Easy-to-Use Technology for Making Art--And Fakes
The latest trend in synthetic media could be among the most dangerous.
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Twitter Lifted its Ban on COVID Misinformation—Research Shows This is a Grave Risk to Public Health
Health experts have concerns.
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