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The Cybersecurity 202: The Biden administration will prioritize cybersecurity in the distribution of $1 billion in federal IT funding Tonya Riley with Aaron Schaffer Cybersecurity defenses will take top priority in the spending of  $1 billion in tech modernization funding passed by Congress earlier this year, according to plans shared first with The Cybersecurity 202. The Office of Management and Budget and General Services Administration will also prioritize projects add...

The Technology 202: Kamala Harris will lead the Biden administrations push to bring every American online Cat Zakrzewski with Aaron Schaffer Vice President Harris will lead the Biden administrations unprecedented effort to ensure every American has access to affordable, high-speed Internet.  President Biden announced the veep would take the lead on the issue during his first address to a slimmed-down joint session of Congress, where he touted his proposal to create new job...

The reserve would provide backup talent to the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security.

Quarterly reports yesterday from Alphabet and Microsoft underscore how the industry is continuing to benefit from the digital transformation ushered in by widespread stay-at-home policies.

The Technology 202: Software company Basecamp restricts talk of politics and social issues at work Cat Zakrzewski with Aaron Schaffer Basecamp is telling employees to keep chatter about politics or social issues out of work, amid growing limits on employee speech across the tech industry.   Jason Fried, the CEO of the Chicago-based software company, wrote in a blog post that such conversations were a “major distraction” and “not healthy,” and he said the company w...

The Technology 202: Congress is eying the future of the Silicon Valleys top watchdog in hearings this week Cat Zakrzewski with Aaron Schaffer Congress is weighing the future of the government’s top Silicon Valley watchdog at a pair of hearings this week.  Acting Federal Trade Commission chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and three other commissioners will today testify in front of the Senate, which will focus on expanding the agency’s powers to better protect consumers...

The Cybersecurity 202: Lawmakers want Biden to fund technology they say could secure American telecommunications companies from spies Tonya Riley with Aaron Schaffer A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging President Biden to include $3 billion in funding for technology it says would reduce American reliance on Chinese telecommunications equipment that could provide a back door for spying. The money would go to funds established by Congress last year to encourage more America...

The Cybersecurity 202: A massive Facebook breach underscores limits to current data breach notification laws Tonya Riley with Aaron Schaffer Lawmakers and privacy experts are slamming Facebook for its handling of a leak of more than 500 million users personal information that was posted online for free. The stolen data, first spotted by cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, stems from a 2019 vulnerability the company fixed at the time, a Facebook spokesperson said. No d...

Coronavirus relief bill includes $7.6 billion to target the homework gap Cat Zakrzewski, The Washington Post March 10, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON - With the coronavirus relief bill the final expected to get the final green light Wednesday in Congress, setting aside $7.17 billion to help students and teachers get online in an ambitious effort to address the "homework gap." The pandemic exacerbated long-running inequality in access to the Internet throughout the United States. The fund...

More than a third of the people charged with assaulting law enforcement officers were accused in clashes on the West Terrace, the site of some of the “heaviest violence” that day.