Cloud & Computing
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Next year will bring a complex mix of evolution, correction and convergence when it comes to AI. It will become more powerful, more personal and more ubiquitous — and also more expensive, more autonomous and more disruptive. -
Minnesota Chief Transformation Officer Zarina Baber explains how modernizing not only IT but all executive agencies and moving to an agile product delivery model is driving maturity statewide.
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Customers can now use smart devices to make their payments. The DMV is now accepting Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay at all customer service centers.
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SponsoredIT departments in the public sector are under a lot of pressure to use resources more efficiently. Trying to do more with a stagnant IT budget often leads to cutting corners, but it doesn’t have to. Here are three ways IT leaders can improve resource capacity to shift time away from things like administrative tasks and redundant tickets toward more strategic initiatives.
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States are increasingly turning to machine learning and algorithms to detect fraud in food stamps, Medicaid and other welfare programs – despite little evidence of actual fraud.
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The Department of Homeland Security is reviewing a cyberattack that occurred just weeks before the 2016 presidential primary. The Palm Beach County elections office was targeted by ransomware but never reported it.
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Southwick, Mass., Police Chief Kevin Bishop announced Thursday that the department’s official webpage, www.SouthwickPolice.com, has been taken out of commission due to hackers infecting it with malware.
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The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday released funding for an Illinois company's broadband program in Missouri, a day after U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley raised questions about progress on the projects.
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The state has ordered a software company to halt work on a massive citizen database for the Michigan State Police, saying the product the company has delivered to date is “inoperable,” records show.
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Lt. Gov. Jon Husted said his staff will use an AI software tool, developed for the state by an outside company, to analyze the state’s regulations, numbered at 240,000 in a recent study by a conservative think tank.
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Plus, Code for America and L.A. County dismiss 66,000 marijuana convictions; Philadelphia’s Pitch and Pilot program tackles tap water with new challenge; and NYU calls on Congress to embrace citizen engagement tech.
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High-speed Internet could be coming to the booming Permian Basin as an oil giant partnered with the State of New Mexico and a communications company to install fiber infrastructure in that region.
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U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley is questioning the progress of an Internet company in expanding rural broadband in his state, noting the company has yet to receive a cent of federal funding for the projects.
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Raleigh PD has stopped using a facial recognition app to identify potential criminals through the Internet, cutting ties with a company that has drawn widespread privacy concerns from the community.
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The University of South Florida’s Cyber Florida initiative, which is a program established by that state’s legislature to bolster its cybersecurity workforce, has appointed J. Michael McConnell as its next leader.
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An FBI study shows that in the past year, the reported incidents of Internet fraud in the U.S. jumped to more than 467,000 cases, while the total dollar value swindled from consumers exceeded $3.5 billion.
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Texas software firm Tyler Technologies finished 2019 with $1.1 billion in revenue, a 16 percent jump from the previous year. The company’s customers include schools, cities and counties, and the federal government.
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A ransomware attack may have hit the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Office in 2016, corrupting some of the agency’s data, and the potential incident was not reported to state or federal officials at the time.
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Federal money to bring fast Internet to a rural community has arrived in a $4.4 million grant, the first time the government has picked a Georgia project to receive a share of $600 million worth of funding.
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The just-introduced bipartisan bill would send the money to state and local governments through the Department of Homeland Security, which would also create a new federal strategy for cybersecurity.
