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North Carolina Chief Risk Officer Rob Main announced his retirement from state government Dec. 31, ending a five-year run with the state's information technology department. He was appointed to the position in October 2021.

Doug Murdock, named state chief information officer in Hawaii by former Gov. David Ige, will remain in the post as the state continues a slate of technology modernization projects.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly’s executive order banning use of TikTok by executive branch agencies, boards and commissions has local government leaders evaluating their use of the social media platform.

The third-party vendor for the county’s online record management system alerted officials Monday that it detected potentially malicious files and would be shutting down its servers to find the source of the problem.

After serving six years as CIO and secretary of the IT department, Michael Leahy announced his forthcoming departure. The news comes as a new governor takes over from Gov. Larry Hogan, who appointed Leahy to the role.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has announced the appointment of Adam Proffitt as secretary of administration and Jeff Maxon as the interim chief information technology officer following the departure of Dr. DeAngela Burns-Wallace.

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Southern University in Louisiana will use a $6.2 million grant to expand broadband Internet and create interactive VR spaces and tools for the training of future middle-school teachers and university faculty.

The Sacramento area started to see early signs of recovery Monday after a New Year’s Eve storm breached levees, overflowed rivers and triggered evacuations across the region. But light rain returned in the afternoon.

Answer: BlackBerry and Internet Explorer, finally.

School safety has been an important topic in education for years, but the Michigan lawmakers included new investments in school safety and student mental health in the latest School Aid budget, following the mass shooting in November 2021.

Snow is a disaster that can be everywhere at once.

A study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found a decrease in Dane County students reporting suicidal thoughts or actions between 2018 and 2021, although they remained higher for LGBTQ+ students than others.

Asked for numbers, officials at many San Antonio-area school districts have declined to say how many lockdowns their campuses endured this year or what triggered them — actual threats, false rumors or outright hoaxes.

What brands say about your politics.

As chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Sen. Sherrod Brown sounded the alarm on cryptocurrency more than a year before the meltdown of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange.

South Orange will not install facial recognition software when it upgrades street security cameras after questions were raised about whether the tech is unreliable and prone toward misidentifying people of color.

Facial recognition technology has allowed police departments across the U.S. to compare the faces of criminal suspects against other existing photos, but the tech has also proven controversial.

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After starting a free tutoring service, 17-year-old senior Athena Hernandez of The Bishop's School in La Jolla, Calif., published a new book aiming to teach Spanish-speaking children the basics of coding in Python.

Vice Society, which is known for targeting schools with cyber attacks, says it leaked sensitive personal data of students and staff since Xavier University declined to meet its demands after a November ransomware attack.

How a Florida community turned lessons learned into an actionable response.

After a year full of data breaches, ransomware attacks and real-world cyber impacts stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, what’s next? Here’s part 2 of your annual roundup of security industry forecasts for 2023 and beyond.

Their failed strategy has been exposed.