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As programs funded by the American Rescue Plan Act come to a close, several local governments share how the funding — and the technology that helped them distribute it — helped people in their communities.

Despite initially blocking access to ChatGPT on district devices shortly after its release, a school district in Washington state has convened a committee of 16 teachers to develop policies for using it.

An unauthorized party accessed Social Security, passport, driver's license and financial account numbers and birthdates of some students and staff at Shoreline Community College in Washington state last month.

Dallas Hybrid Preparatory's enrollment has increased since it became the state's first hybrid public school in 2021, and now several pieces of proposed legislation could mean more money for virtual and hybrid campuses.

Scammers could use artificial intelligence or AI — basically, the simulation of human intelligence by machines, particularly computers — to clone the voice of a loved one.

ALEA Senior Trooper Jeremy Burkett told news media gathered at the Tallapoosa County Courthouse that the 28 injured had a “wide variety of injuries” ranging from superficial to critical.

Elected official involvement can be good.

A coalition based in Illinois, Indiana and Michigan has taken a big step in its bid to obtain up to $1.25 billion in federal funding for a regional clean hydrogen hub intended to reduce planet-warming emissions.

The Syracuse Police Department is proposing installing 26 stationary automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) along the city’s major roads traveled by hundreds of thousands of vehicles each day.

SpaceX got the OK from the Federal Aviation Administration and will try its luck sending what would be the most powerful rocket to ever blast off from Earth on a suborbital test flight today.

As a keynote speaker and multiday attendee at Europe’s largest cybersecurity conference, here are some of my top takeaways from a thought-provoking, global event with a distinctly European flare.

Driving simulators, like the one California-based VDI will install throughout an Alabama school district next month, are in use in all 50 states and becoming more common as technology improves.

The online learning platform has developed a slew of new AI-powered functions for grading, student feedback and lesson planning, as well as activities that focus on teaching students about machine learning.

Answer: Roughly 500 ml.

The Amazon Web Services unit on Thursday announced two of its own large-language models, one designed to generate text, and another that could help power web search personalization, among other things.

The proposed Mid-Continent Clean Hydrogen Hub (MCH2) – a partnership between Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri – would be competing with other regional proposals for $7 billion available to establish six to 10 green hydrogen hubs.

Frank Ray was a police officer for 10 years and knows the stress that first responders go through on the job. He is using his platform as a country music artist to give responders an outlet and a place to find resources.

The distributed ledger technology, used in cryptocurrency, could potentially power food permits, social media access and other tasks. But blockchain still has serious political and logistical obstacles to overcome.

Under a new state law, the CISO will report to a Cybersecurity Advisory Committee instead of the CIO. The committee will draw from different branches and levels of government.

Machine learning and process automation help government agencies simplify and accelerate interactions with constituents, which strengthens the public’s trust, says Noel Loughrin, who worked in county government in Southern California for seven years before moving to the private sector. This Q&A explores how.

While cyber attacks on schools dropped a bit in 2021, CISA and the FBI released a joint statement in September 2022 saying they anticipated more cyber attacks on schools, and Minnesota has seen some of that.

The Alabama Supercomputer Authority, which provides free Internet and cybersecurity services to all schools statewide, warned the Board of Education about an increase in ransomware and phishing attacks.

New Mexico Highlands University will run a program piloting new curricula related to the region's culture and ensuring students have quality computers and high-speed Internet necessary for online courses.

Passwords are both annoying to use and vulnerable to hackers. Fortunately, big tech is moving to support stronger, easier-to-use passkeys.