Cybersecurity
If Your Weapons Aren’t Cyber-Hardened, Expect to Lose Pentagon Contracts
The Pentagon intends to start assessing its weapons’ resistance to hacks, instead of leaving that to manufacturers.
Emerging Tech
The Pentagon Wants to Bring Mind-Controlled Tech To Troops
The Defense Department’s research arm is working on a project that connects human operators’ brains to the systems they’re controlling—and vice versa.
CIO Briefing
There Are Two Types of Respect. Lack One, And You’ll Hate Your Job
This isn’t just a millennial, “special snowflake” phenomenon.
Emerging Tech
Google Is Using AI to See Inside the Brain Like Never Before
New data might help neuroscientists better understand the structure of the brain.
Cybersecurity
Trump Believes Putin, Rejects American Findings on Election Hacking
“I do not see any reason why it would be” Russia, he said when asked if he believed Vladimir Putin over U.S. intelligence agencies.
Cybersecurity
Census Should Be More Transparent About Cyber Protections, Former Officials Say
The Census Bureau will conduct its first largely online decennial census in 2020 but hasn’t said how it will secure the process.
Cybersecurity
Government’s Kaspersky Ban Takes Effect
Pentagon, GSA and NASA contracts will now officially prohibit Kaspersky software.
CIO Briefing
Official Says Vendors Will Have To Abide by New IT Spending Schema Too
But officials have yet to answer outstanding questions about how that would work.
Data
Smart TVs Are Tracking Viewers And These Lawmakers Are Concerned
Your TV knows just how many cooking shows you watch.
Ideas
What If Your Data Could Secure Itself?
Building strong protections at the network perimeter are only part of the solution.
Cybersecurity
Russia’s Foreign-Software Approval Service Helps Military Hackers: Report
The agency that ostensibly reviews foreign-made wares for vulnerabilities sends the lion’s share straight to its hacker squads.
Policy
White House Lays Groundwork for Improving Government Customer Experience
The Office of Management and Budget’s new Circular A-11 provides guidance to federal agencies in establishing customer experience frameworks.
CIO Briefing
More Money for Cyber Spies, Outrage after Indictments and Supply Chain Cyber is Super Hot
More indictments for Mueller and a busy week regarding federal IT for Congress.
Emerging Tech
Microsoft Wants Congress to Regulate Facial Recognition
One of these metrics for regulation could be ensuring the technology works similarly for all
Cybersecurity
4 Big Ideas in the DNC Hacking Indictments
The indictments show how complicated spear-phishing really is.
Emerging Tech
5G Compromise Bill Still a Hit to Local Government
Wireless industry groups support the new Senate bill, but the Institute for Local Self-Reliance argues it sacrifices too much local government authority.
Emerging Tech
Pentagon Seeks an Edge in Quantum Computing
The Pentagon’s research arm wants to get up to speed on quantum computing before China and other adversaries.
Cybersecurity
Google Chrome Feature Guards Users From Spectre Attacks
Site isolation helps keep most of your data out of reach from hackers looking to exploit the Spectre vulnerability.
Ideas
Here's Why the Federal Government Ought to Embrace the Blockchain
First, it's essentially impervious to tampering.
CIO Briefing
Microsoft Is Putting Slack On Notice
The company's new product appears positioned to directly compete with Slack’s free offering.
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