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Crunch data while the sun shines and save it in an ‘information battery’
February 11, 2022 | News, Emerging Tech"Information batteries" can make better use of green energy by storing partially computed data for processing later, researchers at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering suggest.
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Ransomware routed by fast-acting, info-sharing Texans
| News, CybersecurityThanks to federal, state and local government coordination, security teams were able to get 23 Texas municipalities hit with ransomware in 2019 back in business in eight days.
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Biden admin announces $5 billion to fund nationwide electric vehicle charging network
| News, Emerging TechThe funding comes from the $1 trillion infrastructure bill Congress passed in November.
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AI could match ‘fingerprints’ of texts to their authors, under new intelligence program
| News, Emerging TechNextgov was pre-briefed by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity on a soon-to-be-released, broad agency announcement that might one day help combat disinformation campaigns and human trafficking.
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Why StateRAMP works for state and local cloud procurements
February 10, 2022 | News, Cloud & InfrastructureFor cash-strapped public sector organizations, the program can help streamline modernization and cloud decision-making, allowing previously overwhelming decisions to become achievable.
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Selfies now optional for ID.me verification
| News, CybersecurityThe company's government customers can now verify users without using automated facial recognition technology.
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Ransomware: Who’s likely to pay?
| News, CybersecurityWhen it comes to paying off attackers, local governments fall just behind the energy industry in their willingness to pay ransoms.
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Evidence-based policing platform boosts state police effectiveness
| News, Data & AnalyticsAn SAS platform aggregates and analyzes data from multiple sources and enables role-based access to organizational data, traffic citations, criminal incidents and statewide calls for law enforcement service.
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FBI: Ransomware attackers have code to halt critical infrastructure
| News, CybersecurityMonitoring remote access technology will be especially important for limiting the reach of malicious actors, allied cybersecurity agencies said in a report on trends they’ve observed over the last year in a booming ransomware industry.
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Sensor, satellite data help map, predict heat islands
February 09, 2022 | News, Data & AnalyticsA community project to map urban heat in North Carolina sent volunteers out to collect sensor data, which was then used – in combination with satellite imagery and machine learning -- to create predictive surface temperature maps.