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Noveck, also serving as the state’s chief innovation officer, takes over the new job as the governor calls for an "AI Moonshot." Her appointment reflects AI hiring trends in other parts of government.

As disinformation and misinformation spread ahead of the 2024 elections in November, libraries may be one of the few remaining institutions that Americans widely trust.

Facing budget cuts, Baltimore City Public Schools will convert a virtual learning program for students in second through fifth grades into a city school, so it will be eligible for state funding and other resources.

"I'm really disappointed how many people have told me in the past three and a half years I've been involved with this, 'Yeah, I'd like to be more involved' with those people not ending up helping out."

Kansas State University has restored its email service, VPN and authenticated wireless services in the wake of a Jan. 14 cyber attack, although IT is fielding many tech support calls as all eID passwords must be reset.

A state-led swap that would give SpaceX state park land near its Boca Chica Starship facilities — a plan that sparked widespread opposition — was pulled from a meeting scheduled for Thursday.

Anne Arundel County officials and members of the library system handed out more than 200 Chromebooks at the Linthicum library location as part of a program aiming to bridge digital and Internet access gaps.

The state's Artificial Intelligence Task Force may recommend proposed legislation to enhance transparency and accountability in AI, plus new training programs and the criminalization of AI-generated porn.

According to a survey by the school software company Clever, most K-12 administrators predict more cybersecurity spending in the near future, and most districts have cybersecurity insurance or are planning to acquire it.

Mass layoffs at the Los Angeles Times are pulling focus back to legislation that would force companies, like Google and Meta, to pay for the news published on their platforms. The bill stalled last year amid stiff opposition.

Officials from Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration on Monday confirmed data stored on the state’s computer system servers had been deleted affecting at least the state police and the State Employees’ Retirement System.

The U.S. National Science Foundation and other collaborating federal agencies are launching a national pilot to research, and ultimately bolster investment in, the area of artificial intelligence.

Court officials anticipate having messy debates over whether evidence is authentic or fabricated, with deepfakes skewing jurors’ decisions and digital forensics analysts helping to find the truth.

FEMA is currently accepting applications for teens interested in emergency management and community preparedness, which the agency says gives a “glimpse into the future of our profession.”

During a meeting of the task force this week, lawmakers highlighted the importance of notifying people when they are interacting with artificial intelligence. The group is likely to propose new legislation to that effect.

The U.S. General Services Administration has chosen to collaborate with four states to pilot a text notification platform geared toward enhancing internal and external communication surrounding federal benefits services.

A public community college in Oregon took its systems offline and canceled classes early this week while working with law enforcement to investigate a cyber attack that officials discovered last Friday.

Addressing the subject of artificial intelligence at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland last week, panelists said students will need to learn how to identify truth, have meaningful conversations and think critically.

Answer: 2.8 million.

Since Harvard University's president stepped down in the wake of a plagiarism scandal earlier this month, some educators worry that bad-faith actors will use AI to comb through records to gin up controversies.

Multnomah County officials said they could have kept warming sites open longer if the city had been more willing to pitch in. Portland officials say longer accommodations would have been easier to provide if the county had been more cooperative.

The Affordable Connectivity Program that helped millions of households across the country — and 2.8 million in California — afford Internet access is ending, without additional funding from Congress.

A Fulton County agency approved Tuesday a $10.1 million tax break for a controversial data center expansion by the social media platform X that was already underway.

The City Council voted to overhaul San Diego's hard-fought surveillance law, a move officials said was necessary to prevent citywide disruptions, but that privacy advocates saw as a gutting of oversight powers.

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