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To Navigate the Dangers of the Web, You Need Critical Thinking – but also Critical Ignoring
Learning to ignore information is not something taught in school.
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Here’s How Much Your Personal Information Is Worth to Cybercriminals – and What They Do with It
Though data breaches can be a national security threat, 86% are about money, and 55% are committed by organized criminal groups, according to Verizon’s annual data breach report.
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Biden’s Cyber Strategy Must De-weaponize Civilian Data
It's time to stop relying on knowledge-based authentication.
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Modernizing Container Security Is Essential to Secure Application Development
Most traditional security tools agencies rely on aren’t designed to effectively show what’s going on inside of a container.
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Look to the Roman Empire to Truly Understand Zero Trust
With the network border blurry at best, we no longer have a single and convenient point of telemetry collection to force the attacker in the open.
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Make Your Mom Happier
Plenty of moms feel something less than unmitigated joy around their grown-up kids. Make sure yours feels that she’s getting as much out of her relationship with you as she gives.
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How Design Thinking Can Improve Public Sector IT
With its push to provide faster, more predictable and higher quality software, public sector IT organizations may have discounted the need for design.
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COVID-19 Lockdown Stressed All Ages, But in Different Ways
Overall, more than one-third of the children and adolescents screened positive for one of the mental health problems assessed in the study.
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Our Most Advanced Technology Can Still Be Bested by a Rock
Earth is doomed if a large asteroid ever comes calling.
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Why We Remember More by Reading – Especially Print – than from Audio or Video
Learning is generally more successful when it’s on paper than onscreen.
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Busting the Bureaucratic Myth, One Amazing Achievement at a Time
Federal employees accomplished a lot last year—it’s time to give them the respect they deserve.
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Beeple, Meet CPARS
Forget art. What if agencies used non-fungible tokens for reporting contractor performance?
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Exoskeleton Cloud One Day Boost Walking Speed of Older Adults
Being unable to walk quickly can be frustrating and problematic, but it is a common issue, especially as people age.
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Post-vaccination Inertia Is Real
Readjusting our ideas about what’s safe is going to take time.
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What Texas Power Outages Can Teach Us About Securing the Electric Grid
Cyber threats have the potential to impact the power grid in a similarly serious manner.
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Your Brain Responds to Happy Screams Faster than Fearful Ones
A study revealed six emotionally distinct types of these calls indicating pain, anger, fear, pleasure, sadness and joy.
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To Future-Proof the American Economy, We Need 5 Million Digital Jobs in 5 Years
The challenge isn’t having enough workers to fill these roles: It’s that available workers aren’t trained in these high-demand areas.
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Space Tourism – 20 Years in the Making – Is Finally Ready for Launch
With companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin hoping to build a future for humanity in space, space tourism is a way to demonstrate both the safety and reliability of space travel to the general public.
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