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California electric utilities plan to launch a program to help pay for electric vehicle charging, for income-qualified households that do not have charging at home. Other initiatives are already underway. -
The outgoing governor has signed a memorandum of understanding with tech company NVIDIA to support AI research, education and workforce development. The state has invested $25 million to support the work.
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Officials at the capital city this week approved a one-year moratorium on data center development. The suspension will provide time to review potential impacts and guide responsible development.
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The State Bar of California stirred some controversy when it disclosed that some questions on this year's exam were developed with the assistance of AI by ACS Ventures, the State Bar's independent psychometrician.
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The village reached an agreement this week with ParkMobile on a system that would let residents pay parking fees via cellphone — preserving meters, for now. Hours, rates and locations of use will be considered shortly by a city committee.
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Money from the Oregon CHIPS Act, a package of legislation from 2023, will help Oregon colleges and universities hire artificial intelligence faculty and technical experts.
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A simulated election and vote count test was a success this week — among the final steps before the county’s board of elections will propose buying new equipment. Current systems are aging but secure.
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After Baltimore City Public Schools discovered that a ransomware attack in February had compromised data, it hired Austin-based CrowdStrike Inc. to provide a cybersecurity forensic analysis and assessment for $160,000.
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After Long Beach was hit with a cyber attack in November 2023, most of the city’s systems were briefly taken offline and replaced with a stripped back version of the government website, null.
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President Trump recently signed an null shifting some of the responsibility from the federal government to states to improve their infrastructure to address risks, including cyber crimes.
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To drastically cut response times to people needing help on remote trails, the Seminole County Fire Department created an internal app using lay-of-the-land expertise and countywide collaboration.
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Officials in the city of about 129,000 residents are probing a server outage detected Friday. They’re working with cybersecurity experts and have disconnected “affected and critical assets to secure our systems.”
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At the annual Curbivore conference in Los Angeles, city transit and tech leaders discussed how to keep moving forward in a new environment of shifting political priorities coming from Washington.
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The university's pilot program, which will use virtual teaching assistants to explain course concepts to students and guide them through problems, will contribute to a study on virtual TAs working across 26 campuses.
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Officials at the Florida city have elevated its chief digital officer to acting chief information officer. Tamecka McKay, the now-former CIO and director of the IT Services Department, has stepped down.
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Through separate partnerships with the two companies, the education nonprofit ISTE+ASCD hopes to make social media more accountable and students more knowledgeable about healthy tech use.
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Jeff Baer, the city’s longtime chief technology officer and director of the Bureau of Technology Services, has retired. As officials seek his replacement, the job’s working title has been updated to CIO.
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The Pennsylvania city has recently launched two new interactive devices, a dashboard and a free Wi-Fi locator. They’re intended to help expand awareness of the free Internet service available to residents.
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More than one million American women were working in STEM occupations in 2023, only representing 26 percent of the STEM workforce, according to a networking organization. In 2016, they were 21 percent.
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The $11 billion data center campus going up outside of Northwest Indiana will have a 2,250-megawatt capacity. It will be able to use as much electricity as 1.5 million households, or up to half the households in the state.
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City Council members voted unanimously to withdraw the renewal with a debt collector following word its 2024 data breach could have affected thousands. Hamilton County was also impacted.
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