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The attack highlights risks around holiday weekend attacks, targeted software supply chains and the growing popularity of data-theft-based extortion. Still, zero-day exploits comprise only a small slice of extortion attacks.

A California school district has signed onto an effort by districts across the country to hold companies such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube accountable for contributing to a mental health crisis among young people.

Nevada's largest school district will not put metal detectors at the entrances of select facilities this fall, as administrators felt the idea was not feasible and did not definitively address safety concerns.

The University of Idaho-led team, recognizing the need for communication across sectors, plans to bring forces together with its think tank, called FIERCE: Fueling an Innovative, Equitable and Resilient Climate-smart Economy.

The Internal Revenue Service has a pilot program for the 2024 tax season that will start preparing and filing Americans’ taxes in-house, potentially replacing the use of an accountant or software such as TurboTax.

Gunshot detection technology and a license plate reading camera system are poised to help law enforcement agencies in Glynn County combat crime and make streets safer, Glynn County's new police chief said.

The digital divide leads to lost opportunities for people in underserved broadband areas, officials said as they discussed how to spend $1.16 billion expected from the federal government to help solve the problem.

A growing number of lookout cameras stationed across California to locate and monitor wildfires will soon be equipped with artificial intelligence technology to speed response to fires and other natural disasters.

The group, Public Citizen, is behind a petition that calls for Federal Election Commission rules around the use of deepfake videos in political advertising. An earlier request deadlocked before the commission.

For first responders, it was an opportunity to demonstrate just what they go through to protect the public. For officials, it was a chance to see and feel, firsthand, what it’s like to be a first responder.

Plus, Houston is hiring a broadband director; more governors issue comments on the federal BEAD funding for high-speed Internet; and U.S. senators are fighting for a broadband strategy.

The nonprofit Consortium for School Networking’s online dashboard includes data on population demographics, financial information, Internet speeds and other metrics for states and counties across the U.S.

Someone left the climate stove on high.

What could have been a digital quagmire for California’s largest school district served as a chance to hone cyber response and gird its more than 250 applications used by some 1.6 million users.

Answer: Privacy concerns.

The proposal would create a new pilot program, allotting up to $200 million over three years, for schools and libraries to assess effective cybersecurity methods and implement advanced firewalls, among other needs.

Multiple Minnesota law enforcement agencies face a civil rights lawsuit over the use of facial recognition technology in an arrest. However, the government denies facial recognition led to the arrest.

A dam is classified as high risk if its failure would “likely result in loss of human life” and it is considered significant risk if its failure would “likely result in disruption of access to critical facilities."

Officials at a Texas school district are taking a deliberative approach to bringing generative artificial intelligence to classrooms, sending staff for training and preparing to explain appropriate use to students.

The history of artificial intelligence is rife with grandiose predictions, and while ChatGPT can help students organize large quantities of data or produce creative insights, it's still quite limited and prone to error.

Hackers breached Microsoft Outlook email accounts linked to government agencies in the U.S., and others in Western Europe, according to officials, which described the attackers as being based in China.

The NASA Flight Dynamics Research Facility, a project some officials have been pursuing for 25 years, will replace two smaller wind tunnels that are around 80 years old.

The Agriculture Department will use $300 million to improve its measurement, verification and tracking of carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions as it moves ahead with climate-smart agriculture.

“It’s horrifying. It really is. The water was coming through here so fast and it was slowly eroding away. I was having a nervous breakdown because I thought for sure this whole corner of my house was just going to go."

Farmers is the latest to do so in Florida.