Oracle, Microsoft barely compete for a quarter of their US Federal contracts
Vendor lock-in: savings of up to $750m a year possible if Uncle Sam didn't predetermine the victor
Software01 Feb 2023 | 11
Federal government of the United States
Uncle Sam slaps $10m bounty on Hive while Russia ban-hammers FBI, CIA
New meaning to sweetening the pot
Cyber-crime27 Jan 2023 | 5
How to shave years off the journey from military lab to real-world use
Interview DARPA's Blake Bextine talks us through taking inventions commercial
Government Tech Week26 Jan 2023 |
Aviation overhaul bill passes US House... for the third time
Maybe it'll be different this year as clamors of 'I told you so' accompany the proposal
Networks26 Jan 2023 | 16
US authorities release asylum seekers after leaking their data online
In brief Also: US terrorist no-fly list found left on unsecured server, Russian dark web drug markets go to war
Security23 Jan 2023 | 4
Biden seeks out Dutch support for blockade on Chinese chip industry
Cooperation could cost Netherland's ASML a billion + in sales
Systems18 Jan 2023 | 8
US pressures Asian allies to join crusade against Chinese chipmakers
American ambassador to Japan wants a unified front against the Middle Kingdom
Government Tech Week09 Jan 2023 | 12
Quantum entanglement discovery could enable futuristic comms tech, Nuclear physicists say
So that must be why the Russians might have hacked the DoE, right?
Science07 Jan 2023 | 47
US House boots TikTok from government phones
ByteDance ban for federal devices awaits Biden’s signature
Security28 Dec 2022 | 13
NASA infosec again falls short of required US government standard
Good thing space agency doesn’t have any state secrets … oh, hang on
CSO21 Dec 2022 | 13
US postal service electrifyies its next-gen delivery fleet
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor lack of gas will stay these NGDVs from carbon-free completion of their appointed rounds
Personal Tech20 Dec 2022 | 31
Anti-money laundering bill targeting cryptocurrency introduced in US Senate
Frankly my dear, I do give a DAAML
Personal Tech15 Dec 2022 | 11
TikTok could be banned from America, thanks to proposed bipartisan bill
If you listen really closely, you can hear Mark Zuckerberg's excitement
Security14 Dec 2022 | 27
Uncle Sam needs novel memory for nuke sims. So why did it choose Intel?
Didn't the x86 giant just blow up its data storage biz?
Storage13 Dec 2022 | 12
World's governments to keep spending to erase technical debt
Never mind the corporate sector slowdown, taxpayers' wallets open for business
On-Prem12 Dec 2022 | 4
If today's tech gets you down, remember supercomputers are still being used for scientific progress
Turns out it's a bit more complex than throwing more GPUs at the math
HPC11 Dec 2022 | 14
US chip group: $52b is not enough, we need an extra $30b in federal funding
We need more free money from the government say silicon salesfolks
Systems02 Dec 2022 | 38
NOAA, Microsoft partner to put climate models in the clouds
Don't worry, Redmond hasn't gotten its hands on the agency's coffers yet
HPC01 Dec 2022 | 3
US Justice Dept reportedly checking AI rent-pricing biz RealPage
Company accused of allowing landlords to collude and artificially inflate rental prices
AI + ML28 Nov 2022 | 5
Software company wins $154k for US Navy's licensing breach
Court lands on less than the millions asked for after sailors made copies of 3D modeling suite 'hundreds of thousands' of times
Legal22 Nov 2022 | 43
Biden administration earmarks $13b to modernize electric grid
We need more transmission capacity, and we needed it yesterday
Networks21 Nov 2022 | 48
US Department of the Interior seeks $1b single-vendor cloud contract
Plan is to consolidate DCs, cut costs and carbon under one-CSP-to-rule-it-all deal
Off-Prem14 Nov 2022 | 6
Husband and wife nuclear warship 'spy' team get 20 years each
The Toebbes tried selling US Navy secrets, but handed them right to the FBI
Cyber-crime10 Nov 2022 | 27
DoE supercomputing centers get $1.5B boost from Biden administration
US government opens purse strings as China eats into America's former lead
HPC07 Nov 2022 | 1
International summit agrees crack down on crypto to combat ransomware
Commitments include international wallet info sharing, KYC requirements, and an AML crackdown
Security03 Nov 2022 | 20
And then the SEC said, we'll claw back bad bonuses
If there's been an accounting blunder, execs may have to return incentives
Offbeat26 Oct 2022 | 19
Waferscale, meet atomic scale: Uncle Sam to test Cerebras chips in nuke weapon sims
Thermonuclear warheads, so hot right now
AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 6
America, use Bitcoin instead of old-school money? Not likely, says Fed
It's all about the Benjamins, says Michael Barr
Personal Tech13 Oct 2022 | 10
Boffins rejoice: US Energy Department's research network gets a 400G upgrade
Because 100G was so 2011
Networks12 Oct 2022 | 2
Utility security is so bad, US DoE offers rate cuts to improve it
New hardware? Consultants? You tell us because your infosec is off the grid
Cyber-crime07 Oct 2022 | 7
Foreign spies hijacking US mid-terms? FBI, CISA are cool as cucumbers about it
I think we can handle one little Russia. We sent two units, they're bringing any attempts down now
Security06 Oct 2022 | 40
As Hurricane Ian hits, FCC rules cell carriers must help each other in disasters
You will or won't do it voluntarily? Doesn't matter, we'll mandate it
Networks30 Sep 2022 | 8
Apropos of nothing, US intel wants to improve low-dose radiation detection
IARPA unleashes TEI-REX to better track nuclear sources
Science30 Sep 2022 | 7
Scientists, why not simply invent a working fusion plant using $50m from Uncle Sam
You even have until the end of the 2030s to get it done
Science29 Sep 2022 | 97
Uncle Sam to unmask anonymous writers using AI
Along with revealing authors, IARPA also wants bot to disguise scribes
AI + ML28 Sep 2022 | 50
US Department of Energy has $42m to make datacenter cooling more efficient
Nice sentiment considering power-hungry components, but it's not a lot of cash in DC terms
On-Prem26 Sep 2022 |
White House puts $50m into floating wind turbine projects
Government wants access to the 60% of offshore wind potential stuck in deep waters
Science16 Sep 2022 | 46
Biden administration to dole out $900m for electric vehicle infrastructure
34 states and Puerto Rico sharing pot to fund chargers along interstate highways
Science15 Sep 2022 | 21
US warns cryptominers must cut power use to avoid busting US carbon goals
Datacenters or digicash - what's the bigger boon to society?
Systems09 Sep 2022 | 54
UK tech sector facing structural difficulties, says analyst firm
Meanwhile, Federal Reserve sentiment sees US tech stock fall amid uncertainty
Legal07 Sep 2022 | 28
US semiconductor industry has a lot of ideas about where CHIPS Act money should go
Outsourced assembly and test a key missing part of supply chain, and foreign entities aren't beyond the pale
Systems02 Sep 2022 | 7
US CHIPS Act: Getting the funding is just the start
Analysis Plan to regain semiconductor production market share may be a case of too little, too late
Systems15 Aug 2022 | 12
The US grid is ready for 100% renewables, says DoE
A $26m chunk of the infrastructure bill set aside to prove it can handle inverter-based energy
Science03 Aug 2022 | 42
US regulators set the stage for small, local nuclear power stations
What could go wrong? Study finds waste is more reactive, making it more dangerous
Science02 Aug 2022 | 73
US court system suffered 'incredibly significant attack' – sealed files at risk
Effects still being felt today across US government
Security29 Jul 2022 | 15
Congress finally passes $52b subsidies for chip fabs on US soil
Intel and pals can now die happy
Systems28 Jul 2022 | 20
US net neutrality bill is only two pages long. And that's potentially a good thing
May stand a chance of passing as it's simple: Make ISPs Title II common carriers. Boom, done
Personal Tech28 Jul 2022 | 17
National data privacy law for the US clears first hurdle
ADPPA doesn't make everyone happy, particularly California
Legal21 Jul 2022 | 14
FCC chair wishes for 100Mbps down, 20Mbps up broadband minimum in US
Quite a leap from national baseline of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up
Personal Tech18 Jul 2022 | 22
Crypto miners aren't honest about power use – time for a crackdown
Democrats: regulations needed to assess how much energy used and emissions created, says letter to DoE, EPA
On-Prem18 Jul 2022 | 45
Why $52b chip subsidies are being held up – and what the White House is doing about it
Bill bloat blamed, countdown continues, Intel irritable, negotiations necessary
Systems15 Jul 2022 | 32
FTC suddenly gets very stern about not-really-anonymized anonymized data
Right after Biden's order to protect women in a post-Roe America
Personal Tech12 Jul 2022 | 9
How can we make the VC world less pale and male, Congress wonders
'Combating tech bro culture' on the agenda this week for US House committee
Legal29 Jun 2022 | 23
US must adopt USB-C charging standard like EU, senators urge
Tangle of cables creates headaches and electronic waste, warn senators
Personal Tech17 Jun 2022 | 83
Big Tech begs Congress to pass $52bn chip subsidies bill
This silicon business ain't cheap, you know, say execs at Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia etc
Systems15 Jun 2022 | 24
Tesla Autopilot accounts for 70% of driver assist crashes, says US traffic safety body
First of its kind report from NHTSA comes with caveats, though – the new tech also saves lives
AI + ML15 Jun 2022 | 58
US-APAC trade deal leaves out Taiwan, military defense not ruled out
All fun and games until the chip factories are in the crosshairs
Systems23 May 2022 | 5
How ICE became a $2.8b domestic surveillance agency
Your US tax dollars at work
AI + ML14 May 2022 | 69
Biden deal with ISPs: Low to no cost internet for 40% of US
$30 plans from ISPs and 'up to' $30 monthly credit means free internet for some
Personal Tech09 May 2022 | 29
US judge dismisses Republican efforts to block release of Salesforce emails
Probe into Capitol attack must wait for appeal before data can be accessed
SaaS03 May 2022 | 62
60 countries sign declaration to keep future internet open
Lofty, non-binding declaration aims for open, free, interoperable internet in the face of authoritarian threats
Networks28 Apr 2022 | 34
YouTube terminates account for Hong Kong's presumed next head of government
Google cites US sanctions while Beijing and John Lee Ka-chiu are miffed
Security21 Apr 2022 | 34
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