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In setting policy on facial recognition, the New York State Education Department will take a cue from a new report from the State Office of Information Technology Services that found the risks may outweigh the benefits.

Georgia State Sen. Jason Anavitarte may introduce legislation early next year to regulate students’ use of social media platforms, modeled after laws in other states and requiring age verification for some services.

Three staff email accounts at Kalama School District in Washington were compromised in mid-July, and now at least one student and several staff members have gotten fake emails from the district pretending to offer a job.

Onondaga County, N.Y., is investing $3.5 million in new voting machines that could for the first time allow voters there to cast their ballots at any of the 147 polling places spread throughout the county.

Efforts by California lawmakers to crack down on social media's potential harms stalled in the past amid fierce opposition from multibillion-dollar tech giants, and renewed attempts could suffer the same fate.

City leaders in Midland, Texas, have approved $212,000 in costs with Asterra of La Jolla, Calif., and now Asterra will perform satellite water leak detection for the city of Midland utilities department.

The wildfire detection cameras, a first in Washington, have built-in artificial intelligence that can detect a smoke plume 500 feet tall and thermal imagery. If detected, a California-based central command center will alert local fire crews.

A red flag law, which allows people to obtain gun violence restraining orders, is a commonsense proposal to disarm people who allegedly present a danger to themselves or others around them.

Visual gun detection software will be layered on the city’s existing security camera system. If an illegally brandished gun is identified, images will instantly be shared with a specialized group of experts for further action.

Following the success of biology courses aided by technology from Dreamscape Immersive, Arizona State University is hoping to make more use of virtual reality for other course subjects moving forward.

Officials are now saying that as many as 26,212 Texans were impacted by the ransomware attack that hit city systems between April 7 and May 4. The hackers accessed names and Social Security numbers among other information.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy will name a 19-member panel of education leaders, parents, students and others to study the effects of social media and make recommendations for the 2024-2025 academic year.

The company, founded in 2020, has raised more than $25 million. The fresh capital will go toward R&D and global expansion as crypto and other factors raise more risks of tax evasion.

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The NYC Office of Technology and Innovation’s Office of Data Analytics is convening a series of meetings for working groups to establish a citywide data governance program and guidance on data use.

After a somewhat chaotic year in which professors grew suspicious of their students' writing and navigated new territory largely without clear guidance, colleges and universities still face inevitable change.

Neither the Hawaii Department of Education nor the University of Hawaii are considering outright bans on ChatGPT, but educators are waiting for more professional development or guidance how to use it.

A new global report examines how threat actors who have breached a system are increasingly turning to legitimate software and valid credentials to stay hidden. Malicious actors are also becoming more cloud-savvy.

A new voice and video intercom system at Sumner-Bonney Lake School District in Washington helps staff avoid face-to-face confrontations and gather information they need to know in advance before letting a visitor in.

Not all drones are friendly.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron sent a letter to the industry last month urging it to wake up. All seven former heads of FEMA from the Clinton through Trump administrations sent a similar letter in February.

Georgia officials say they are now exploring the possibility of deploying hydrogen fueling stations across the state that would power commercial vehicles, tractor-trailers and other large trucks.

These comments from one of the state’s top officials come as election integrity groups across the state, including one in Savannah, lobby for a move to paper ballots in the interest of voting security.

This month, the Caucus of African American Leaders entered a one-year pilot program with a California software company to monitor police conduct in Annapolis and Anne Arundel County, Md.

Eyal Oron is vice president of Global Operations at Carbyne and a senior customer success executive with over 20 years of experience in technology, serving in various customer-facing roles. Eyal brings extensive technical, leadership and business expertise from working with major industrial and financial organizations, where he was responsible for Security, Cyber and C2I solutions. Eyal holds both a BA and a MBA in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship from the Israeli College of Management.