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Senator Presses FTC on Hackable Toys
Internet-connected toys can expose children’s personal information or be used as surveillance tools.
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Contract to Watch: State Department's $850M Effort to Revamp Passports and Services
The Bureau of Consular Affairs is aiming for better customer service for passports and renewals.
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32 Optometrists Without Indoor Plumbing And Other Facts You Can Find In Census Data
MapD created an interactive dashboard visualizing ACS data.
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U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down North Carolina’s Congressional District Map
Also in our State and Local Daily Digest: Pittsburgh sours on Uber; Colorado governor signs measure for ‘Rolling Coal’ fines; and Western states see jump in arrests of undocumented immigrants.
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5 Things We Know (And Don’t Know) About Trump’s Pending Infrastructure Plan
In the nation’s capital, there was plenty of talk during Infrastructure Week about the forthcoming proposal.
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City and County Leaders to Trump: ONDCP Cuts Weaken Response to Opioid Epidemic
The White House appears to be cutting the budget for the Office of National Drug Control Policy by 95 percent—a reduction in funds akin to effective elimination.
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GAO to Agencies: Get a Data Center Plan
A handful of agencies are doing the bulk of the government's consolidation and that's a problem, GAO said.
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White House Hasn’t Ruled Out Cutting the Muni Bond Tax Exemption
“They didn’t say if it was gonna go away or not… It’s just on the table.”
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DHS Lags on Some FITARA Benchmarks
In all three cases, DHS said it had achieved the milestone, but GAO’s review found otherwise.
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McAfee VP: Cyber Executive Order Could Signal Windfall for Contractors
The order, and other recent bills, could mean more investments in private-sector cyber services, according to Candace Worley, McAfee’s chief technical strategist.
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Lawmakers To Trump: Without A Science Adviser, You'll Keep Falling For Fake News
Democrats urged the president to hire a qualified OSTP director to help sort fact from alt-fact.
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White House Adviser Wants to Move Cyber Risk Decisions Up the Chain
Cybersecurity Coordinator Rob Joyce also urged members of an advisory board to help the government combat botnets.
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Bill Aims to Clarify When and How the Government Discloses Software Vulnerabilities
The Protecting our Ability To Counter Hacking, or PATCH, Act, is an effort to balance “national security and general cybersecurity,” said a senator.
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House Passes IT Modernization Bill
The bill's fast movement highlights the bipartisan concern lawmakers share regarding the nation’s aging federal technology.
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Trump Administration Is Still Talking About the TIGER Grant Program
The White House proposed nixing funding for the transportation grants entirely in a budget blueprint sent to Congress earlier this year.
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Hiring Cyber Talent Is Key In Pentagon's Potential 'Offensive Measures'
The federal government needs to be prepared to "engage in offensive measures, if required," a deputy general counsel said.
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What Are Microservices and Why Should Government Care?
The General Services Administration is experimenting with some of the easy-to-tweak services that power online shopping.
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