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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.

W. Bernard Carlson is the chair of the Engineering and Society Department in the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science and a nationally renowned historian of technology who studies the careers of inventors and entrepreneurs in order to educate future engineers to be creative and effective leaders.

Eyal Darmon is managing director of Accenture’s North America Pension Industry Management Consulting and Digital practices. He leads teams of dedicated consulting, technology and digital professionals to deliver holistic, end-to-end services to some of the largest and most complex public retirement organizations in North America. The teams’ breadth of perspective and depth of experience enables them to address the full range of challenges and opportunities facing the industry. Eyal combines passion and pragmatism to shape innovative solutions that have a positive impact for his clients’ customers. These range from developing a social media strategy to engage retirement system members through a new communication channel, to implementing the first ever web self-service capability offered by a public retirement organization to its members.

“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.

MakeWay Safety is piloting a cloud-based safety platform at several St. Louis area police departments that allows first responders and other personnel to emit a warning to drivers when they’re approaching on roadways.

Answer: In protest.

As with any powerful new technology, the potential for artificial intelligence to analyze large volumes of data and automate processes comes with a risk that it will be used for nefarious purposes.

PowerSchool will add messaging, notification and paperless permission forms to its growing list of K-12 functions that already includes grading, registrations, finance and state reporting compliance.

California State Parks has added navigation technology to support both visitors and staff, which will help both to aid in rescue efforts and to improve the overall experience for park visitors.

A $1.3 million grant from the Economic Development Administration will fund renovations to turn an old building into a state-of-the-art workforce training center for data analytics, cybersecurity and other fields.

Storms, heat, death and destruction.

Plans for money from the Louisiana Department of Education, part of federal funds allocated after the shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, vary by school, but many include shoring up entries or installing more cameras.

While the continuation of Pittsburgh's pilot program with battery-powered scooters has been frozen by a state budget impasse, it may restart soon with fines for the program operator for letting scooters lay around.

Waymo's driverless cars spend a lot of time testing their technology on San Francisco's streets. But the black-and-white vehicles are also observing their surroundings, gathering data.

The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority will soon have $1.16 billion in funds to upgrade Internet service — and that effort was moving forward on Tuesday by collecting community stories.

While California lawmakers have put the brakes on a bill that would make the likes of Facebook and Google pay news publishers for using their stories, a similar federal bill has once again advanced in Congress.

It’s hard to say how many, but the business of politics is full of the sorts of roles that researchers believe are most vulnerable to disruption by generative AI, such as legal professionals and administrative workers.