Cybersecurity
Equifax Will Fork Up to $700 Million to Compensate for 2017 Data Breach
Those impacted by the breach may be eligible to receive up to $20,000 in cash payments.
Cybersecurity
Industry Wants to Know Exactly What Huawei Ban Means for Contractors
While the law is clear that agencies can’t buy tech from certain companies, it is ambiguous about how that affects federal contractors and grant programs.
Cybersecurity
IRS Urges Tax Pros to Take Cyber Seriously
The agency released a list of basic cybersecurity procedures the entire tax industry should use to stop digital identity theft.
Policy
Trump’s Tax Law Threatened TurboTax’s Profits. So the Company Started Charging the Disabled, the Unemployed and Students.
The move by TurboTax maker Intuit to charge more lower-income customers has helped boost revenue.
Emerging Tech
How Government Can Help America Lead in Robotics
Experts fear automation and robotics get a bad rap.
Emerging Tech
Why Electric Scooters Companies Are Getting Serious About Safety
Lime has joined rival Bird in establishing a safety advisory board tasked with helping the e-scooter industry shape local regulations—and shake its risky reputation.
Modernization
Office of American Innovation on Keeping Modernization Apolitical
The office is turning its attention to finding secure identification systems.
Emerging Tech
The Intelligence Community Wants to Hear Your Cutting-Edge Tech Pitch
ODNI is expanding one of its major vendor outreach programs to speed up adoption of emerging tech and modernize the intelligence community’s IT infrastructure.
Emerging Tech
Lawmaker: Human Problem at Pentagon Worse than Tech Problem
Rep. Jim Cooper says Congress shouldn’t accept a government topped by acting political appointees.
Digital Government
Agencies Meet Small Business Contract Goals
Eight receive an A+ procurement rating, the Small Business Administration says.
Ideas
Collaboration the Key to Resolving Spectrum Skirmishes
Spectrum is limited but it doesn't have to be a zero-sum game.
Ideas
The Problem With Diversity in Computing
Tech’s discriminatory culture might never change, no matter how many women and people of color are invited into the room.
Artificial Intelligence
Pentagon Targets August for JEDI Award
The Defense Department is making its source selection “disconnected” from Oracle’s pending court case.
Digital Government
How Far Will Google’s Billion-Dollar Bay Area Housing Plan Go?
The single largest commitment by a private employer to address the Bay Area’s acute affordable housing crisis is unique in its focus on land redevelopment.
Emerging Tech
Google Maps Wants to Help Users Navigate During Natural Disasters
The app will offer crisis navigation warnings and provide detailed visual information about hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes.
Emerging Tech
The ‘Platform’ Excuse Is Dying
For years, tech companies have relied on a rhetorical sleight of hand. It’s not working anymore.
Policy
House Appropriations Package Now Includes Contractor Back Pay
There is still a chance federal contractors unpaid during the 35-day shutdown could get back pay.
Digital Government
Watchdog: FCC’s Tech Advisory Council Is Too Heavily Skewed Toward Industry
The result is an ineffective body with minimal impact, according to former members.
Digital Government