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The new information security leader, previously part of its technology organization, was formerly with Dallas, where he helped stand up that city’s first-ever cyber fusion and security operation center.
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The proposed act would establish a legal framework for state cybersecurity and artificial intelligence governance by mandating annual cyber training for public employees. It would also create cyber and AI oversight groups.
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The district attorney’s office in Fort Bend County is investigating the Feb. 24 breach of the county’s library system, which led to $2.6 million in contracts with cybersecurity companies. Some library systems are still down.
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Officials in the Texas border city say a cyber attack hobbled the city's computer network and placed confidential health data and other records at risk. They're asking Gov. Greg Abbott for help.
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A donation from venture capitalist Bill Gurley University of Texas at Austin will help support a robotics program, including freshmen research and updates to lab equipment, computing power and materials.
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The western city has elevated its IT director, an 18-year staffer, within management. Officials have also named an interim replacement while a job search is conducted for a permanent technology head.
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The feat makes Firefly Aerospace the first private space firm to achieve a fully successful moon landing after another Texas company's craft made it to the moon last year but tipped over after landing.
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The university is hoping to streamline administrative operations, improve AI literacy and enhance recruitment efforts. It has also requested millions more from the legislature for other tech-related initiatives.
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The Delivery of Government Efficiency Committee aims to improve the state government’s efficiency through emerging technologies like AI, modernizing existing processes while both innovating and saving.
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As Aurora Innovation’s trucks practice a route from Dallas to Houston, they have overcome all manner of tricky scenarios. Now, the company is preparing to pull their human backup drivers from the vehicles.
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The city has strengthened its cybersecurity efforts, using artificial intelligence to analyze more than 1 million pieces of incoming communication and protecting employees from impersonation attempts and data theft.
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A bill making its way through the Texas Legislature would require every school district to have a policy requiring students to keep cellphones in storage lockers throughout the school day.
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Gov. Greg Abbott’s emergency priority list includes “life-changing career training" high school programs, with the goal of getting 60 percent of 25- to 34-year-olds to obtain a postsecondary degree or credential by 2030.
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Officials at the port of Corpus Christi, Texas, have used generative artificial intelligence, geospatial data and a video game engine to show work as it happens in 3D, internally and to law enforcement.
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The Texas Cyber Command would work closely with state agencies, universities and Regional Security Operation Centers to improve cybersecurity. Gov. Greg Abbott announced it during his State of the State address Sunday.
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The personal identifying information of more than 61,000 Texans may have been compromised in a data breach, and some of the state's most vulnerable residents are at highest risk.
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Now that phone ban policies have been in place for a semester, North Texas school leaders and parents say they’re helping limit distractions in class, which keeps students more engaged.
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Texas lawmakers vowed Tuesday to hold Big Tech accountable for failing to protect minors from harm on social media, including exposure to pornography and sex trafficking.
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Justine Tran, recently named technology leader, served as deputy CIO for the city of Dallas for nearly four years. She brings with her years of technology work in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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A need for skilled workforce development and technical training in Central Texas has prompted the college system to expand to a 12th campus, which will likely host programs in advanced manufacturing technology.
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In Bexar County, Texas, millions of records are publicly accessible online for the first time with the culmination of a massive, $18 million project to digitize the county's archives.
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