Cybersecurity
Hackers Can Get into Pacemakers, Leak 700M Emails and Spoof the Taxman
It's just another crazy week in Threatwatch.
Digital Government
With a New Designation for Ecstasy, the US Government Is Finally Acknowledging its Potential to Treat PTSD
Unfortunately, whether this trial will be actually be conducted out depends on whether enough money can be raised.
Digital Government
In China, Facial Recognition Is Used to Buy KFC, Board Planes, and Catch Drug Users
The speed of the rollout is a sign of how China’s ambitions in artificial intelligence are advancing rapidly.
Digital Government
Samsung’s Newest Phones Could Legitimately Replace Your Desktop Computer
Smartphones are getting much more powerful.
Digital Government
Future Spy Satellites Just Got Exponentially Smaller
By changing the way microchips measure light, researchers are shrinking the size of space-based telescopes.
Artificial Intelligence
Vladimir Putin Believes Artificial Intelligence Could Lead to Global Monopolies and Drone Wars
Russian companies have been actively researching autonomous weapons, such as drones, robots and missiles, which would be able to pick targets and fire on their own.
People
GSA, OPM get new chiefs
In a Friday evening release, the Trump administration announced candidates to lead the General Services Administration, the Office of Personnel Management, as well as a new deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget.
Digital Government
Border Wall Prototyping Begins
But one continuous concrete wall across the almost 2,000 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border is unlikely, lawmakers have said.
Digital Government
GSA Issues Harvey-Related Emergency Buying Power
Federal agencies continue loosening rules for buying, hiring and even donating to help respond to the Harvey disaster.
Modernization
NIAC's timely warning on infrastructure attacks
A White House advisory group recently warned of a 9/11-style attack on American infrastructure. Here's how it could happen.
Cybersecurity
FDA Warns Nearly a Half Million Pacemakers Need Security Updates
Healthcare and Public Health
Modernization
DHS gets concrete on border wall prototypes
Tech will be an integral part of a proposed southern border wall, if the Customs and Border Protection prototypes are any indication.
People
A student-run solution to govtech skill shortages
A group of Harvard students just wrapped up the first year of a fellowship program they designed to create a tech skills pipeline for government.
Emerging Tech
China Aims to Build a Supersonic “Flying Train” That Would Put Elon Musk’s Hyperloop to Shame
This mode of transportation would be 10 times faster than the world’s fastest bullet train.
People
White House announces expected federal pay bump
The White House's alternative payment plan raises civilian pay by 1.9 percent and military pay by 2.1 percent, but critics complain it's not enough.
Cybersecurity
Former State Cyber Coordinator Says It Was a Mistake to Close His Office
The department's former cyber coordinator Chris Painter worries the country is stepping back from its role as a global cyber leader.
Digital Government
Can the FEC pivot to protect election tech?
The agency charged with enforcing campaign finance rules faces a new high-tech threat that it's not equipped to handle, says a former federal elections official.
Digital Government
Men Who Want to Fight Sexism at Work: Read Sheryl Sandberg’s Blunt Advice
Sandberg flips the narrative.
Digital Government