US CHIPS Act set to electrify semiconductor scene with billions National Strategy focuses on four goals for silicon heaven Systems18 Mar 2024 | 8
Bernie Sanders clocks in with 4-day workweek bill thanks to AI and productivity tech Don't start planning your long weekend yet – proposal is likely to be a hard sell in work-obsessed America Offbeat15 Mar 2024 | 71
Trump, who tried kicking TikTok out of the US, says boo to latest ban effort Comment Florida man would rather have app stay so as not to give gift to 'true enemy of the people' ... Zuckerberg Personal Tech09 Mar 2024 | 92
US wants ASML to stop servicing China-owned chip equipment Dutch lithography giant caught in crossfire amid escalating tensions Systems07 Mar 2024 | 51
Micron New York mega fab faces an environmental exam At least the US Army is thinking about the frogs in those 226 acres of wetland Systems04 Mar 2024 | 8
Biden asks Coast Guard to create an infosec port in a stormy sea of cyber threats Oh hear us when we cry to thee for those in peril on the sea Public Sector21 Feb 2024 | 8
Uncle Sam officially opens funding gates for silicon R&D $5B investment part of $53B bet to reboot semiconductor industry Systems12 Feb 2024 | 1
IT suppliers hacked off with Uncle Sam's demands in aftermath of cyberattacks Plan says to hand over keys to networks – and report intrusions within eight hours of discovery Public Sector08 Feb 2024 | 36
Biden will veto attempts to kill off SEC's security breach reporting rules Senate, House can try but won't make it past the Prez, says White House Security01 Feb 2024 | 18
US govt, tech sector team up to get academia making its own next-gen AI models Launch National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource to help non-corporate boffins play catch-up AI + ML24 Jan 2024 |
Nokia walks the walk about its RAN to play on Uncle Sam’s China fears Comment It pays not to be Huawei, and the US military can be lucrative, too Security17 Jan 2024 | 8
SEC Twitter hijacked to push fake news of hotly anticipated Bitcoin ETF approval Updated Buy the hype, sell the, wait, what do we do now?! Cyber-crime09 Jan 2024 | 11
Huawei finally gives up on US schmoozing efforts So long, and thanks for all the sanctions as PR and government relations teams decamp Networks05 Jan 2024 | 41
Biden urged to do something about Europe 'unfairly' targeting American tech 5 out of 6 'gatekeepers' are US-based so regulators across pond are just being mean to us, say lawmakers Public Sector19 Dec 2023 | 107
Southwest Airlines lands $140M fine for that Christmas IT meltdown Wrist, meet slap: Only a quarter will be paid to Treasury, the rest is vouchers and credits Software18 Dec 2023 | 14
No new top boss at NSA until it answers questions about buying up location, browsing data Senator Ron Wyden puts his foot down – for as long as he can Public Sector02 Dec 2023 | 36
Senate bill aims to stop Uncle Sam using facial recognition at airports Legislation would eliminate TSA permission to use the tech, require database purge in 90 days Public Sector01 Dec 2023 | 40
After bashing Nvidia for ‘arming’ China, Cerebras's backer G42 alarms US govt with suspected Beijing ties What was it they say about folks in silicon houses? HPC28 Nov 2023 | 7
White House hopes to power up American battery factories with $3.5B fund Now that's the kind of current affairs we're into Public Sector16 Nov 2023 | 18
Don't worry about those new export rules, China – Nvidia's already got more sanctions-compliant GPUs for ya Chips limbo-dance right under Biden's performance limits AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 10
Sales bonanza at ASML as China stockpiles chipmaking kit Dutch exports skyrocket thanks to Washington restrictions Systems08 Nov 2023 | 4
Developing AI models or giant GPU clusters? Uncle Sam would like a word Analysis But the astronomical performance thresholds mean few ML operators will be required to report at this rate HPC05 Nov 2023 | 18
Yeah, that oughta do the trick, Joe... Biden hopes to tackle AI safety with exec order ML players must alert Uncle Sam if they're training a foundation model, and more AI + ML30 Oct 2023 | 12
FEMA to test emergency alert system US-wide today Updated Americans are used to drills :( Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2023 | 62
US State Dept has no idea if its IT security actually works, say auditors Updated End-of-life systems still in use, poor inventory control, and China's hunting Cybersecurity Month02 Oct 2023 | 9
NSA hopes AI Security Center will help US outsmart, outwit, and outlast adversaries Agency boss warns enemies trying to nick AI advances and 'corrupt our application of it' AI + ML02 Oct 2023 | 1
US Trademark Office still wants to keep faxes, but is willing to try this cloud thing Finally, we've arrived in the future Public Sector25 Sep 2023 | 16
Uncle Sam mulls spying on clouds being used to train AI Big Brother wants to watch your big data AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 7
Don't worry, folks. Big Tech pinky swears it'll build safe, trustworthy generative AI White House bags more voluntary commitments AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 6
Chinese meme-makers crown US Commerce Secretary as Huawei brand ambassador Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of Uncle Sam's actions Personal Tech06 Sep 2023 | 10
The Pentagon has the worst IT helpdesk in the US govt Updated DoD is dead last for tech support, equipment, communication, and function, say staff On-Prem31 Aug 2023 | 13
Biden to bolster boondocks broadband with a billion bonus bucks (barely) ISPs in 22 states and Marshall Islands get to split nine-figure pot Networks22 Aug 2023 | 20
Get a $25 gift card if you help the US check whether these facial logins really work NB: That will involve handing over your selfies and other personal info to AI outfits to experiment with AI + ML21 Aug 2023 | 8
Hold the Moon – NASA's buildings are crumbling amid 200-year upgrade cycles If a facility falls down, 'the microscope inside it is useless to you' Science18 Aug 2023 | 64
US shovels cash into supercomputers hoping to stoke fusion future $112M for 12 projects announced on heels of LLNL's second successful fusion ignition HPC15 Aug 2023 | 2
AMD says it'll jump through Uncle Sam's hoops to sell AI chips to China Set to join Intel, Nvidia in observing bus speed limits AI + ML03 Aug 2023 | 2
Biden urged to completely cripple AI chips to China Give them Z80s, Joe, and tell 'em to like it AI + ML28 Jul 2023 | 53
Aliens crash landed on Earth – and Uncle Sam is covering it up, this guy tells Congress Poll Men in Black snatched Little Green Men's spacecraft, allegedly Science27 Jul 2023 | 322
Senator trying to force Uncle Sam to share everything it knows about UFOs The truth is... somewhere in these piles of government documents. Maybe Offbeat14 Jul 2023 | 77
Biden lines up $42.5B for US broadband boost You get funding, you get funding, everybody gets funding Networks26 Jun 2023 | 14
Missing Titan sub likely destroyed in implosion, no survivors Debris points to 'catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber,' says Coast Guard Science22 Jun 2023 | 315
Oracle Cerner bleeds jobs as Veterans Affairs project stalls Health acquisition freezes recruitment after $10 billion contract put on hold Databases16 Jun 2023 | 13
Intel details coral-shaped immersion cooler that bubbles like Mentos in Coke In the future, you may boil your servers to keep them happy Systems15 Jun 2023 | 15
Microsoft injects ChatGPT into 'secure' US government Azure cloud What could possibly go wrong? AI + ML08 Jun 2023 | 11
US govt now bans TikTok from contractors' work gear BYODALAINGTI (as long as it's not got TikTok installed) CSO06 Jun 2023 | 11
Get ready for Team America: AI Police Biden Admin expands plan for 'responsible' ML research and seeks to drive international talks on making binary brainboxes behave AI + ML25 May 2023 | 6
Applied Materials wants Uncle Sam's help with $4B chip R&D nerve center Step right up and let us help you become dependent on us Systems22 May 2023 |
US supers maintain grip on Top500 list as China seemingly hides its powers ISC Meanwhile, Europe awaits a seat at the exascale table HPC22 May 2023 | 4
VA, Oracle's Cerner agree on renegotiated health records contract Long, costly wars not the only thing US government good at getting stuck in Databases17 May 2023 | 4
Top AI execs tell US Senate: Please, please pour that regulation down on us Devs should need a license to build powerful models, OpenAI CEO adds AI + ML17 May 2023 | 19
US Dept of Transport security breach exposes info on a quarter-million people Not the first time Uncle Sam has had the wheels come off its IT systems Security16 May 2023 | 4
Exhibit 3,021: Millions wasted on US govt IT due to poor oversight, audit finds $24M was paid out incorrectly - and that's just from a close look at 5 out of 48 orders under ENCORE III Software12 May 2023 | 10
VA's Cerner EHR platform fails to deliver medications to veterans Messy system is forcing VA pharmacies to work overtime to deal with poor IT, committee told Databases11 May 2023 | 4
Here's what the US Army picked for soldier-worn tactical USB hubs That kit ain't for chargin' your iPhone, Private! On-Prem08 May 2023 | 36
Uncle Sam mulls dumping monolithic software stacks for modular blocks Anyone else heard of these microservices? PaaS + IaaS08 May 2023 | 11
President Biden urged to appoint AI officers to regulate this shiny-shiny tech And a pin to pop this hype bubble would be nice, too Public Sector27 Apr 2023 | 7
Pentagon advised to get agile if it wants to keep up with evolving threats I feel the need, the need for code speed Public Sector07 Apr 2023 | 14
US Veterans Affairs department didn't check with CIO for 39% of IT projects Contracts could be duplicate and poorly conceived, accountability report finds Defense Tech Week03 Apr 2023 | 5
Hands up who DIDN'T exploit this years-old flaw to ransack a US govt web server... Why patching matters: Everyone seemingly had a crack at security bug Security15 Mar 2023 | 16
Biden wants to claw back, flog off 1.5GHz of spectrum Good news, unless trees or walls get in the way Networks15 Mar 2023 | 10
The US would sooner see TSMC fabs burn than let China have them Successful invasion would make China 'the OPEC of silicon chips' Systems14 Mar 2023 | 100
Sandia opens up ultra-fast X-ray cameras to speedy shutterbugs Seriously, this tech makes your phone camera look like it's from the stone age Science14 Mar 2023 | 7