Tag: government

January 15, 2019

I wish I were shocked by the ongoing shutdown of the federal government. I wish I were surprised by the inability of both sides to see past their political bases to achieve a responsible solution and compromise. After recently serving […]

January 11, 2019

Two months ago, NASA quietly fixed a buggy internal server that was leaking sensitive information about the agency’s staff and their work. The leaking server was — ironically — a bug reporting server, running the popular Jira bug triaging and […]

January 8, 2019

The partial government shutdown tied the second longest in history on Tuesday, entering its 18th day with little signs of progress. The continued closure of nine government agencies adds a new sense of urgency to the situation as negotiations seem […]

January 7, 2019

President Donald Trump said he was prepared to continue the partial government shutdown for “months or even years” — and as the closure drags into its third week, he’s getting closer to making good on that threat. The ongoing stalemate […]

January 4, 2019

A hacker has targeted and released private data on German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other senior German lawmakers and officials. The data was leaked from a Twitter account, since suspended, and included email addresses, phone numbers, photo IDs and other […]

January 2, 2019

House Democrats have announced their opening bid to end the shutdown when they retake the majority on Thursday, stating their plan to pass a combination of six Senate appropriations bills to fund agencies that are closed as well as a […]

December 27, 2018

According to a report from Bloomberg, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not considering a roll back of Obama-era rules regulating industrial emissions of mercury. When the rules were codified in 2015, they required coal plants to add […]

December 26, 2018

At loggerheads with Congress over funding his signature border wall, president Donald Trump shut down large swaths of the federal government at midnight on Friday. Roughly 800,000 federal employees are affected, many of whom will remain on furlough without pay […]

December 24, 2018

A partial government shutdown entered its third day Monday, with little hope of a quick resolution as lawmakers left town for the holidays. Congress and the White House have failed to break an impasse over President Donald Trump’s demand for […]

November 15, 2018

Oracle has failed in its bid to protest against a $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract bidding process that the company—and many others—claim is designed for Amazon to win. Oracle has been complaining about the bidding process for the Joint Enterprise […]