Category: Tech

September 21, 2023

Pennsylvania state government will prepare to use artificial intelligence in its operations, Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro said Wednesday, as states are increasingly trying to gauge the impact of AI and how to regulate it. Shapiro, speaking at a news conference […]

September 18, 2023

Computer researchers, data scientists and congressional staff convened on Capitol Hill Thursday to help develop new ways to enhance public-facing digital services across federal agencies and streamline government operations with the help of emerging technologies. The fifth congressional hackathon brought […]

September 18, 2023

In March, Tim Cook was among the first batch of foreign executives to land in Beijing to court high-level officials after the lifting of pandemic-era restrictions, with Apple’s chief lauding how the company and China had grown together in a […]

September 15, 2023

The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) analyzed the software licenses used by the Department of Defense (DoD), focusing in particular on commercial cloud computing offers. GAO officials found several issues within those contracts, despite highlighting the fact that federal agencies […]

September 13, 2023

France’s FCC has ordered Apple to remove the iPhone 12 from the local market as the model exceeds the limit for electromagnetic absorption by the body. The information comes from the French blog France24. ANFR, the French agency that regulates […]

September 12, 2023

A new report released Tuesday found that local governments can boost the public’s trust in its operations by offering government services in a digital format and providing administrative transparency. Specifically, the new report from the government technology software company CivicPlus […]

September 12, 2023

The IRS is using artificial intelligence to identify complicated tax evasion schemes and focus its enforcement efforts for large partnerships, as part of a new compliance push announced Friday. “The IRS is deploying new resources towards cutting-edge technology to improve […]

September 7, 2023

The top Republican on the Senate Energy Committee will warn Thursday against allowing U.S. artificial intelligence capabilities to fall into China’s hands when the panel meets for a hearing on the topic. Senators returned to Capitol Hill just days ago […]

September 1, 2023

A majority of Americans are more concerned than excited by the increased use of artificial intelligence, with the number of those concerned growing dramatically in recent years, according to a new survey released this week. The Pew Research survey found […]

August 31, 2023

The Department of Defense is at the bottom of the list of federal agencies for satisfaction with IT support and IT equipment according to a survey of more than 270,000 federal employees released Wednesday. The news should come as no […]

August 28, 2023

As artificial intelligence proliferates, so do concerns about AI-grown misinformation. AI systems like ChatGPT and other algorithms learn from the text and data that they’re fed. If the input data is bad, so it the output—thus the aphorism “garbage in; […]

August 25, 2023

California’s main firefighting agency, Cal Fire, is training AI models to detect visual signs of wildfires using a network of 1,039 high-definition cameras, reports The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. When it sees signs of smoke, it […]

August 24, 2023

While AI has steadily worked its way into the enterprise and business vernacular over many years, gen AI has not only become an abrupt and immediate force unto itself, but also an overarching AI accelerant. Not without warning signs, however. […]

August 11, 2023

Vital for democracy, voting system integrity has come under increasing scrutiny of late, placing pressure on government IT leaders to ensure election systems are robust and uncompromised. Aman Bhullar, CIO of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, has heeded the call, […]

August 10, 2023

The Federal Election Commission has begun a process to potentially regulate AI-generated deepfakes in political ads ahead of the 2024 election, a move advocates say would safeguard voters against a particularly insidious form of election disinformation. The FEC’s unanimous procedural […]

August 8, 2023

Industry groups have expressed privacy and censorship concerns over a federal ban that prohibits government contractors from using the TikTok social media app on covered devices, while warning that monitoring compliance and implementation could prove difficult for many organizations. In […]

August 7, 2023

Over the past several months, the US government has introduced several new requirements affecting organizations that sell software to government agencies. Because these new requirements are complex, many leaders are not yet sure how their organization will be impacted. In […]

August 3, 2023

A group of Internet service providers that won government grants are asking the Federal Communication Commission for more money or an “amnesty window” in which they could give up grants without penalty. The ISPs were awarded grants to build broadband […]

August 2, 2023

Most taxpayers will be able to digitally submit a slew of tax documents and other communications to the IRS next filing season as the agency aims to go completely paperless by 2025. The effort to reduce the exorbitant load of […]

July 31, 2023

Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports that the order will primarily target areas where the US has previously attempted to restrict China’s development: semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing. The publication writes that the order will not affect […]