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Plus, a new piece of legislation would create a digital equity division for Washington, D.C.; an Indiana data map includes 12 different digital equity variables within the state’s counties; and more.

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.

The number of cyber attacks on schools has been ramping up, with schools facing off against ransomware, DDoS attacks and other threats. Luckily, a number of resources can help them bolster their defenses.

A bipartisan legislative effort to rein in the country’s largest technology companies collapsed this week after a whirlwind lobbying campaign by the Internet titans Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta.

During a recent Brookings Institute event, a former FCC chair and a former chief of the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau said that features that make 5G compelling also create different kinds of cybersecurity risks to address.

The U.S. government regulates many industries, but social media companies don’t neatly fit existing regulatory templates. Systems that deliver energy may be the closest analog.

Fuel prices alone are not enough to coax the electric vehicle market into full-scale adoption, say industry observers. But when EVs are the same price as their gas-powered couterparts, it’s game over for the internal combustion engine.

The bill, sponsored by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., underscores concern that the social media platform and its parent, ByteDance Ltd., could share information on U.S. users with Chinese authorities.

During a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing titled “Ensuring Solutions to Meet America’s Broadband Needs,” witnesses testified that barriers must be addressed for federal funding to see its target impact reached.

The Federal Communications Commission released its updated National Broadband Map last month and West Virginia officials are asking residents to log on and report inaccuracies about their Internet service.

Technology capable of more thoroughly scanning cargo containers for contraband has not been put in place despite a 2021 offer to purchase and install the equipment from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.

In a U.S. Supreme Court filing on Wednesday night, the Justice Department argued that social media websites should be held responsible for some of the ways their algorithms decide what content to put in front of users.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s recent announcement that it would again be delaying the deadline for compliance with federal identification requirements has prompted some to call for an end to the initiative.

Plus, a new ITIF report compares the U.S. broadband landscape with the rest of the world; a congressional broadband oversight effort is announced; Providence, R.I., has a new broadband coordinator; and more.

The social media companies and free speech advocates are joining forces in a rare cooperative effort to oppose a measure that would allow news organizations to collectively bargain with tech companies for content distribution.

The Brookings Institution hosted a panel of experts to discuss the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, which was recently issued by the White House, and what this document means and the work that remains.

Nearly 1,700 state and local entities purchased tech targeted under the ban between 2015 and 2021. A new rule lets existing tools stay, but reduces future availability, potentially leading to costlier procurements in the name of national security.

Forth is developing a free online learning portal for cities, counties and other organizations looking for resources around how to plan and develop electric vehicle charging infrastructure.