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Absent from his list of DHS appointments is a director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Biden to name Chris Inglis as new national cyber director President Joe Biden is expected on Monday to name Chris Inglis to the new position of national cyber director, an official familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN. Inglis — whose legal first name is John but who goes by Chris — is a former National Security Agency deputy director. The Washington Post was first to report his appointment. The White House on Monday announced that Biden will also nominate Jen Easterly, a former NSA int...

Chris Inglis, a former NSA deputy director, is being nominated as the governments first national cyber director. Jen Easterly, a former deputy for counterterrorism at the NSA, has been tapped to run the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security.

April 9 on PBS   Oliver Sacks: His Own Life Friday, April 9 at 9 p.m. on PBS, at pbs.org/oliversacks and on the PBS Video app. The two-hour film explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller as he shares intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia and a medical establishment that embraced his work only decades after the fact. Oliver writing on porch, 2015 Photo Credit: Bill Hayes In February 2015, a few weeks after receiving a terminal cancer diag...

At the helm of the documentary is Emmy-winning filmmaker Ric Burns. Burns was invited into Sacks’ life in 2015, weeks after Sacks was diagnosed with terminal cancer. “From the start, this project has been one of the most moving and revelatory I’ve ever had the privilege of being involved with,” Burns says. “From the moment my colleagues and I walked into his apartment on Horatio Street in New York in February 2015, it was clear that virtually every issue of importance about what it me...

Artist Makes the Jump from Print to NFTs News provided by Share this article Share this article BOSTON, April 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert Silvers, an established artist with work in the New York Museum of Modern Art, is making the jump to the virtual by selling NFTs - cryptography-protected original digital art.  Washington from Currency The NFT craze has been in full swing as seen in recent news, with a few works selling for millions of dollars, but the vast majority of artists are having...

The False Memory Syndrome at 30: How Flawed Science Turned into Conventional Wisdom   In early December of 1990, the young academic was feeling confused. Though she had recently been granted tenure and was a happily married mother of two, she was weighed down by a surprising surge in anxiety. To get some relief from her distress, she decided to enter psychotherapy. When she mentioned in an early session how much she was dreading the prospect of seeing her parents during the upcoming Christma...

Published: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 Laptop screen with White House. Photo credits: Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News (graphic); Francis Chung/E&E News (White House); Freepik (laptop) The White House is still grappling with the fallout from a major hack of IT services provider SolarWinds, which led to cybersecurity breaches at several federal agencies including the Energy Department. Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News (graphic); Francis Chung/E&E News (White House); Freepik (laptop) As new fallout and revel...

DeRusha, a cybersecurity official on Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and the former cybersecurity chief for the state of Michigan, has been appointed federal chief information security officer.

Organization name they were transferring the money to. one letter wrong. spelled it wrong. >> reporter: turns out an attack on a movie studio repeated attacks on south korea all came from one source -- eric chen connected the dots and cracked the case. >> its very clear this is all the same group. >> reporter: their fingerprints are pretty clear, pretty obvious? >> pretty obvious and clear, they likely want people to know. >> reporter: because lazarus, experts around the world now believe, is no...