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With less than two-thirds of state capitol buildings employing metal detectors, and about 20 statehouses specifically allowing guns inside, there are many security gaps that rioters could exploit.

The Defense Information Systems Agency will be absorbing the Defense Department’s Cloud Computing Program Office by the end of January, the agencys director said.

Facebook and Google Earth help probe eco-crimes in the Middle East Researchers are using the same open-source data methods that helped track war crimes in Syria to document environmental offenses in places like Yemen and Iraq. The extremist IS group set oil wells on fire near Mosul in Iraq while fleeing the area in 2017 The impact of conflict and corruption on the environment in the Middle East is often easy to see but difficult to remedy. The long list of crimes against nature in the region i...

By Stephanie Kanowitz Jan 08, 2021 Market forecasts paint a rosy picture of smart city investment, but many municipalities are slashing budgets, laying off workers and cutting services as the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic continues. To adapt to the budget shortfalls resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, smart city efforts must be more strategic, said Ruthbea Yesner, vice president of Government Insights and Smart Cities at IDC Government Insights. “We have to be really strategic...

By Justin Katz Jan 07, 2021 The Justice Department confirmed its systems were hacked by suspected Russian intelligence agents that exploited a backdoor vulnerability in the SolarWinds Orion IT management software. Attackers are believed to have accessed "around" 3% of email inboxes, but not any classified systems, according to DOJ spokesman Marc Raimondi. DOJs confirmation comes the day after the White House’s Cyber Unified Coordination Group first attributed the SolarWinds Orion hack to a R...

By Justin Katz Jan 06, 2021 Russia is the likely culprit of the widespread hack of U.S. networks, a White House task force concluded. Since the attack, analysts and some administration officials have suggested a Russian intelligence service is behind the attack on SolarWinds Orion product, but the Jan. 5 statement from the Cyber Unified Coordination Group -- which includes the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Security Agency and the Office of the Directo...

); //]]>//--> By Rob Enderle Nov 9, 2020 5:00 AM PT Healthcare is a mess, not just here in the U.S., but in most countries. Some of the biggest problems in this data-rich era are the lack of interoperability and fact-based advice. Two companies that stand out as aggressively trying to fix this are IBM and Microsoft. IBM focused its Watson AI on providing medical professionals with diagnostic tools allowing them to diagnose even the most mysterious illnesses more accurately. Simultaneously, M...

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