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Focus on fundamentals: How Illinois flipped the work-from-home switch
July 06, 2020 | NewsUsing their continuity of operations and disaster-recovery plans, Illinois officials quickly pivoted to a zero-trust, hybrid multi-cloud and multi-premise environment to support remote state workers.
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CBP expands border surveillance tower network
| NewsCustoms and Border Protection will add up to 200 autonomous surveillance towers.
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CISA names top 3 threats to government systems
| NewsThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s EINSTEIN intrusion detection system found that remote-access tool exploitation, fileless Trojan malware and cryptocurrency mining software accounted for 90% of the observed threat activity against civilian federal systems and networks in May.
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Can software help local governments find alternatives to COVID lockdowns?
July 02, 2020 | NewsAnalyzing factors such as population density, demographics, climate and transportation statistics could help policy-makers find strategies that could control the virus without taking a huge toll on the economy, one researcher says.
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Your weekend project: A DIY pendant that warns about face touching
| NewsScientists at NASA have released instructions a 3D-printed pendant that reminds wearers not to touch their face.
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AWS launches new unit for space sector
| NewsAmazon Web Services is ready to provide cloud hosting and other communications and data processing services to customers and partners in the space sector.
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GSA launches EULA challenge
July 01, 2020 | NewsThe General Services administration is looking for civic-minded developers to help it find an artificial intelligence or machine learning solution to review software end-user agreements.
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Santa Cruz bans predictive policing
| NewsAs municipalities around the country roll back their use of facial recognition technology, the California city is the first to ban the use of predictive policing.
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Deadline extended for Government Innovation Award nominations
June 30, 2020 | NewsHelp us find the best examples of public-sector innovation in six critical categories -- submit your nomination by July 17.
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Network telemetry is becoming the new normal
| NewsAgencies need a way to collect and process the tidal wave of information coming their way and gain better visibility into the various devices delivering data.