Digital Government
White House: No Deportation for Justin Bieber
Obama administration declines to comment on anti-Bieber We the People petition.
Emerging Tech
How China Will Dominate the U.S. Electric-Bus Market
The country is emerging as an innovator in green tech.
Digital Government
The Electronic-Medical-Records Email(s) of the Day, No. 2
The pricing of voice-recognition software as one sign of distortions of the medical market, and other inside insights.
Acquisition
HealthCare.gov -- more agile, please
Draft requirements for the site's next contract stress open source, iterative development and maintaining the financial back-end platform.
Cybersecurity
Guarding against Heartbleed not so simple
As DHS discusses the ongoing assessment, cybersecurity experts warn that "you never know when you're done."
Digital Government
Americans wary of domestic drones, wearable computers
A new Pew survey found overall optimism but strong concerns about the effect of specific technologies.
Cybersecurity
Deltek Breach Raises Questions About Widespread Hacking
Feds won't confirm company assertions about the attack, which affected 80,000 employees of government contractors.
Modernization
In Aereo’s Supreme Court Case, What’s Really on Trial is the Cloud
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in that same case on April 22.
Cybersecurity
Feds warn HealthCare.gov users about Heartbleed
HHS officials reset 8 million user accounts as a precaution, though they said they have found no indication that personal information has been targeted.
Modernization
VDI moves to the cloud
To counter the strain desktop virtualization can put on data centers and administrators, some agencies and vendors are turning to desktop as a service.
Digital Government
Clapper: GEOINT is on the rise
The transparent nature of geospatial intelligence brings added value in the post-Snowden era, the director of national intelligence says.
Cybersecurity
Free speech activists hack Turkish bank running soccer surveillance system
Financial Services // Turkey
Cybersecurity
Heartbleed Means HealthCare.gov Users Must Reset Passwords
The online marketplace's homepage directs users to change their login information.
Emerging Tech
You Could Virtually Hover Over a Battlefield With Oculus
The virtual reality headset is ready for action, software exec says.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Scour Boob Job Records, Identify Anonymous, and Hold Up Nebraska Bank
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Digital Government
Flagging Tweets Didn't Weigh Down Late Obamacare Enrollments
The White House drastically slowed its #GetCovered Twitter campaign after March 31.
Digital Government
NASA Found the New ‘Earth-like’ Planet Using Old Data
Kepler Space Telescope found a lot of data before it malfunctioned in 2013; scientists are now going back through it.
Digital Government