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Broken Bow Public Schools fell victim to a sophisticated phishing scam in the form of an email containing false payment instructions that appeared to come from a trusted vendor in ongoing construction projects.

AI models are trained to optimize outputs, but in educating children, the process is the point. If we assess children only in terms of what can be “trained,” we repeat the mistake of emphasizing output over experience.

Mature ITSM helps agencies manage increasing complexity, growing workloads and rising user expectations.

On a webcast Tuesday co-hosted by the Public Technology Institute, NASCIO Executive Director Doug Robinson called it "unlikely" that the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program would be reauthorized.

The exponential growth of data in the information age has not necessarily coincided with more effective education technology. Making the most of this data will require trust and conversation between multiple parties.

The communications, community engagement and compliance tech company has launched its first AI chatbot, and the company’s CEO recently discussed its inner workings.

In light of federal plans to phase out FEMA by the end of 2025, artificial intelligence can help multiply and streamline state and local preparation for, response to and recovery from wildfires, hurricanes and floods.

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The city of San Francisco is making Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat available to roughly 30,000 employees in an effort to improve services while also launching training to support staff use of the technology.

The complaint argues that the Constitution does not give the executive branch power "to unilaterally refuse to spend appropriations that were passed by both houses of Congress and were signed into law."

The 8,140-acre Turner Gulch Fire is currently the largest burning in Colorado, but the nearly 15,000-acre Deer Creek Fire in Utah crossed the state border Monday. Officials anticipate more dangerous fire activity ahead.

Funded by a grant from the Department of Defense, a cybersecurity camp in Texas allows students to take part in exercises that teach them about network security, the latest cybersecurity technologies and ethical hacking.

The technology company said that it plans to spend about $25 billion in the region to build out its data center and AI infrastructure in the next two years.

A data center project near Tucson will use the equivalent of about two golf courses' worth of water a year once fully built out, a new draft agreement between city and Project Blue has found.

Authorities have identified the extortion operation behind the June cyber attack that took down the Internet in county offices and may have exposed both government employee and county resident data.

The inaugural Energy and Innovation Summit will convene at Carnegie Mellon University and feature President Donald Trump, who is making his second visit to Western Pennsylvania in less than two months.

There are conflicting studies on the impacts of AI on education so far, and the outcome of the newly announced AI academy led by OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic will depend on what and how it teaches.

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A new $23 million initiative by the American Federation of Teachers, OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthology aims to train 400,000 educators in ethical, effective use of AI in the classroom by 2030.

Training poses deadly risks for firefighters. Researchers are experimenting with new augmented and virtual reality technologies to allow first responders to learn life-saving skills without risking their own.

A new cybersecurity office aims to centralize oversight, align standards and support risk management across state government, and will be supported by the renamed Office of State Technology.

With AI-generated scams evolving, state security and technology officers said now is not the time to soften training — even if it stings. Realism may draw criticism, but it can also drive engagement.

A new executive order in the state calls for the use of agentic AI within a regulatory review process aimed at reducing excessive requirements as part of a broader modernization effort in Virginia.