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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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Pentagon Mapmakers Want To Tap Mobile Ad Technology. Here's Why.
NGA is scoping private-sector technology at incubators in Boston, Austin and New York.
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Government Needs Strategic Vision for Emerging Tech, Advisory Group Says
The Trump administration should tackle networking speed advances like the Obama administration did cloud, NSTAC draft report says.
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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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In Urgent Request, U.S. Special Ops Adds 350 Kamikaze Drones to Fight ISIS
And that's not all. The command is also opening a drone-hacker lab to help keep up with ISIS weaponeers.
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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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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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How Pentagon Contracting Is Killing the Military’s Technological Edge
Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” is a quick read compared to some procurements, and far more satisfying.
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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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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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The Secret to Better Weather Forecasts Could Be in Meteorologists' Eyes
NOAA is using eye-tracking technologies on weather forecasters to ascertain how they adjust to more, faster data on their video monitors.
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GAO Lists Pros and Cons of Internet of Things for Congress
The agency examined the costs and benefits of the growing market, per a congressional request.
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