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How Virtual Reality Could Help Stop the Next Ebola Outbreak
The Health and Human Services Department wants to train clinicians using simulations.
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DARPA Wants a ‘Social Supercollider’ To Help It Understand Humans
The Defense Department's R&D agency wants technology that can improve its social science research.
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You Can Now Buy a USB Stick That Destroys Any Computer
The gadget will "instantly and permanently disable" any device it plugs into, says the manufacturer.
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GSA Official: Federal IT Modernization Will Happen With or Without Legislation
Even if Congress doesn't pass a meaningful law, agencies must respond to a crisis U.S. Chief Information Officer Tony Scott has labeled worse than Y2K.
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18F To Agencies: Think Before Creating a Citizen Login System
The group is also overseeing the production of Login.gov.
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White House Names First Chief Information Security Officer
The White House selected Gregory Touhill, a retired Air Force general, for the new role.
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Following Bid Protest, DISA Re-Releases $17.5B Contract
Encore III earned ire from industry groups earlier this year because it sought “lowest price, technically acceptable” solutions for potentially complex services.
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2 of 'Crackas With Attitude' Arrested for Hacking into Senior Officials' Accounts
The hackers allegedly used social engineering techniques and impersonated victims to gain access to senior U.S. government officials, their families, and several U.S. government computer systems.
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Senator to Twitter: Help Us Fend Off Russian Spambots
A top Democrat on the homeland security committee today wrote a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
Tech
Colin Powell Advised Hillary Clinton on How to Skirt Email Security as Secretary of State
"I even used it to do business with some foreign leaders and some of the senior folks in the Department on their personal email accounts."
Defense
A New AI Learns Through Observation Alone: What That Means for Drone Surveillance
The military spends hundreds of man hours on intelligence collection and image analysis. Drones that could learn about human behavior with less human guidance could cut that time considerably.
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Report: Government Mobility Spending Lags Behind Private Sector
Agencies are held back by security concerns, an IDC analyst said.
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Why a Hack on Education Department Would Be Worse than the OPM Breach
Despite housing tens of millions of people’s sensitive information and 180-plus databases, the agency doesn’t "even have the most basic of tools” to protect them against breaches, Chaffetz said.
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Congressional Probe Says OPM Hackers Arrived in 2012 And We Will Never Know What They Took
The breaches were avoidable, according to the report.
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Spy Agency To Pilot Insider-Threat Hunting Tech
NGA intends to sole-source a contract for technology that analyzes employees' text.
Defense
The Same Culprits That Targeted Election Boards Might Have Also Targeted Ukraine
More circumstantial evidence suggests Russian-backed actors targeted state election boards.
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Did Clinton Officials Obstruct Justice? House Oversight Asks Court For Review
Rep. Jason Chaffetz sent two letters calling for investigation of deleted emails.
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Biggest Benefit of Going Paperless? Saving on Salaries
Agencies should take the long view when determining whether to digitize a process, according to a new report.
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Report: Federal Government Has 'Near Monopoly' on Worst Customer Experience
Uncle Sam finished dead last among 21 major industries.
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Military Supermarket Chain's Encryption Setup is 'Unacceptable,' Commissary Says
Computer-generated passwords essentially are stored underneath the doormat, beside personal and financial data, contracting documents show.
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