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The latest U.S.-China clash over TikTok is likely to worsen the already rocky relationship between the two countries, as Beijing and Washington tussle over bans and concerns about espionage and national security.

The nation's largest municipal broadband program has expanded by nearly 50 percent, now delivering free Internet and basic cable television to approximately 300,000 New Yorkers in public housing.

Officials in Harlingen, Texas, are considering a range of options to bridge the digital divide, including working with broadband service providers, teaming up with Cameron County and searching for grant money.

Plus, a continued look at what some state and local governments are doing to increase participation in the Affordable Connectivity Program, and more.

Unlike an ambulance service focused solely on emergency medical services, the city's paramedics will be supplemented by firefighters who would be on duty whether the city had an ambulance service or not.

Now is an opportune time for schools to take advantage of federal, state and local grant opportunities for tech and safety upgrades, and it behooves applicants to know the process and have the right partner.

Electric bus makers and other technology providers say they are ready to help school districts with grant applications and other planning details to ensure the fast and easy transition to e-buses.

Olympia Community Unit School District 16 in Illinois has been working with a cybersecurity insurance provider to investigate a cyber attack on Feb. 26, and multifactor authentication may have minimized potential damage.

A Washington school district will use grant money from Eastern Oregon University's Greater Oregon STEM Hub to buy robots to develop coding skills in young students and augment the teaching of other subjects.

Answer: $3 billion.

An easy way to get training.

The city of Brownsville is installing its BTXFibers project that, when completed, will make the Internet accessible and affordable to all residents and businesses. The first connections are expected in July.

The Syracuse Police Department wants to install automated license plate readers at 26 locations around the city. But without the proper checks in place, the program threatens privacy, civil liberties and civil rights.

Haverhill, Mass., residents are getting help in the form of free computer classes, free computers and free Internet access from the nonprofit MakeIT Haverhill, with the support of a regional program.

"A hybrid of a couple of full-time people to lead the department to do the planning and training for the department and take calls during the day when volunteers are typically at work is kind of what we're after."

Through a pair of grants totaling $400,000, Old Dominion University is developing a pair of "lab schools" — one aimed at creating a technology talent pipeline in Chesapeake and the other focused on the maritime field.

From DMV and HCM to ERP and UI, the road to modernization for the major IT systems underpinning state government can be long and victories hard-fought. GT looked at the landscape of progress nationwide.

Drought, deluge, drought?

Code for America has announced the second cohort of state partnerships that will work with the organization's Safety Net Innovation Lab to rebuild and innovate in social safety net benefit delivery.

Voters in Dunn County will be checked in for the next election by workers using Badger Books, an electronic version of traditional paper books used to verify registered voters when they cast ballots.

Other companies are hoping to do the same, and a few are already doing so, but Starlink and Amazon are the major players in what some experts are calling a “head-to-head rivalry.”

Top tech companies are mounting a push to limit how U.S. intelligence agencies collect and view texts, emails and other information about their users, especially American citizens.

Former U.S. Rep. John Katko, who helped establish the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency through legislation, will join the 13-member advisory committee, the agency announced.

Alarm bells are ringing!

Texas caseworkers and foster care providers often get incomplete and inaccurate information about foster kids in their care because of the state child welfare agency’s archaic technology system.