The state’s new accessibility and equity strategy focuses on how state agencies design and run digital services. It aims to ensure government websites and other online resources can be used by all.
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Having realized efficiencies through their use of a technology project management platform, city officials are contemplating where else it might bring transparency, save time and accomplish routine tasks. -
The state is upgrading its Division of Motor Vehicles technology system this month to improve security, usability and efficiency. To do so, several temporary service closures are planned.
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The third-party payment processing vendor, BridgePay Network Solutions, is reporting a systemwide outage to its services following a ransomware attack. An investigation and recovery efforts are ongoing.
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The state has created a policy establishing how data across the executive branch is identified, classified and safeguarded, to act as the foundation for data security. Its scope is wide-reaching.
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From Pilot to Launch: What will it take to scale AI in government?
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As fears of an AI “bubble” persist, officials and gov tech suppliers are looking to move past pilots and deploy larger, more permanent projects that bring tangible benefits. But getting there is easier said than done. -
Artificial intelligence has been dominant for several years. But where has government taken it? More than a decade after the GT100's debut, companies doing business in the public sector are ready to prove their worth.
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The boom of early Internet in the mid-1990s upended government IT. The rise of artificial intelligence isn't exactly the same, but it isn't completely different. What can we learn from 30 years ago?
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A new safety app at UTC includes a panic button, ride requests, location sharing and remote monitoring. The university is also planning to implement panic alarms on walls and computers.
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A new center at the University of Texas at Arlington will focus on space simulation, space instrumentation, astrophysics, data science, aerospace engineering and physics education.
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Students and faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with backgrounds in physical and social sciences are trying to design an energy system that better serves the needs of low- and moderate-income households.
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Called Civiq, the platform assembles in one color-coded place voter registration info, past election results, campaign finance totals, census details and other public data sets related to elections.
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With a pilot area built, crews will expand north of Belknap Street, where fiber enters the city from Duluth, Minn. Officials have allocated $5 million of federal American Rescue Plan Act money to the project.
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The grant, which would have benefitted the Birmingham Biotechnology Hub, led by Southern Research, has been cancelled. The award followed its 2023 designation as one of 31 federal Tech Hubs, setting the stage for funding.
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The company plans to reactivate a battery energy storage system at the Moss Landing power complex. A second facility there, a portion of which caught fire in January, remains shuttered and an investigation continues.
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Ahead of a planned July issuance, talks continue on digital asset integration. The tokens, often called stablecoins, are a kind of digital currency, but are considered much less volatile than forms of crypto.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised 2025-2026 fiscal year state budget proposal has some General Fund reductions for agencies from the previous fiscal year. It would also provide additional funding for some tech projects.
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To fight enrollment fraud, the state chancellor of California Community Colleges has proposed to raise security around the state's online application portal and begin charging students a fee "in the tens of dollars."
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