Digital Government
How the U.S. Marshals Service Saved $300 Million By Identifying Over-Charging Prisons
The service rents space for prisoners awaiting trial from federal, state and local jails—and realized that it needed some more leverage negotiating rates.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Hit Pizza Hut's Ordering While Breaches Expose 30 Million South Africans
And an image sharing site warns 8 million of its users' passwords may have been exposed, too.
Digital Government
"Burnout" Is Not Only a Personal Problem, It's a Workplace Problem
Highly stressful workplaces are often poorly designed, socially toxic, and exploitative environments.
Emerging Tech
Secretly Wish You Could Be Invisible? Science Is Getting Close
"Advanced technology can seem indistinguishable from magic."
Digital Government
Seattle Has 5 Big Pieces of Advice for Amazon’s HQ2 Winner
Being HQ1 has been no picnic.
Digital Government
Congress Makes Budget Progress, Gets Snubbed by Cyber Czar and Preps for Fake News Fights
Senators also want to know why it's taking the agencies so long to remove Kaspersky anti-virus.
Cybersecurity
Google Introduces New Bug Bounty
Cash is waiting for hackers who can find any flaws in these Android apps.
Cybersecurity
Report: 1 in 4 Emails that Appear to Be Dot-Gov Addresses are Phishing Attempts
The government just launched a major effort to prevent email spoofing.
Digital Government
What One Tech-Focused Lawmaker Says Stands in the Way of Modernization
Rep. Gerry Connolly renewed his call for the federal chief information officer and chief technology officer positions to be filled.
Digital Government
Big Tech Companies Won’t Change Until They Are Regulated Like Banks
There would be many bureaucratic hurdles to overcome, however.
Digital Government
Facebook Treats Its Ethical Failures Like Software Bugs, and That’s Why They Keep Happening
Facebook should have anticipated that its ad platform could be misused.
Modernization
Little progress on IT governance, says NASA IG
An oversight body found little change in IT governance at NASA four years after a critical report and wonders if the space agency can effectively oversee its IT assets.
Digital Government
Can FOIA be fixed?
A federal advisory committee offered tech and procedural suggestions to improve agency performance on meeting Freedom of Information Act requests.
Digital Government
This Technology Could Help Solve IED Detection — And Airport Security Too
New radio-wave sensors are designed to suss out hidden explosives —whether in car bombs or carry-on laptops.
Cybersecurity
Whitehouse: 'I can't find a point of entry' to talk cyber with Trump administration
Senate Democrat wants to know whom he needs to talk to in the administration to coordinate on cybersecurity legislation.
Cybersecurity
Letter: White House told House panel officials weren't following records law
Rep. Elijah Cummings, ranking member on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is asking for the chairman to press the White House on records management.
Digital Government
Mash Up Library of Congress Data, Maybe Win $5,000
The Library of Congress launched a new data competition searching for new ways to use legislative data sets from Congress.gov.
Ideas
What Every Government Leader Should Know About Blockchain
Blockchain could be as disruptive as the internet.
Emerging Tech
