Author: Ethan Johnson

Josh Tyrangiel made some solid points about the potential for beneficial uses of artificial intelligence in his March 7 opinion essay “Let AI Reshape the Entire U.S. Government,” but he The ideas described are no match for saving our country.The use of AI could prove advantageous in making organ donation more efficient and data more organized. But unless these programs achieve significant reductions in health care costs and enable health professionals to check implicit bias, they will not “save” the health care system.Tyrangiel also briefly mentioned the potential for job losses and data breaches that AI could bring about, but…

Hackers with ties to the People's Republic of China exploited two common vulnerabilities to attack a U.S. defense contractor, a British government agency, and an Asian institution. A new report from Mandiant, a security company owned by Google, focuses on the activity of a threat actor it calls UNC5174. Researchers believe that UNC5174 is a former member of a Chinese hacktivist group that has since shown signs of operating as a contractor for China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) focused on conducting access operations. . “In February 2024, UNC5174 was observed exploiting the ConnectWise ScreenConnect vulnerability (CVE-2024-1709) to compromise hundreds…

tom temin And we never talked about your Presidential Rank Award, and it was for work done before coming to the Department of Agriculture. and a ranking award. Never state why someone got it. So what did they tell you? got it. byron adkins So it was a series of events. I have been a senior executive for about 10 years, and all of his accomplishments during those 10 years were highlighted, especially when he worked at the Department of Commerce and worked with GSA to renovate their headquarters facilities. it was done. It's what we called the 21st Century…

The federal government will likely run out of funds to cover disasters during the peak of this year's hurricane season, a government auditor said Tuesday, jeopardizing its ability to pay for emergency shelters, home repairs and long-term rebuilding. I warned them. The warning came a day after President Joe Biden proposed a modest increase in disaster spending next year at a Congressional hearing. But even if the request were approved, it would likely be too late to prevent the disaster fund from going bankrupt. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which runs the disaster fund, faced a similar situation last summer…

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has taken initial steps “just in case” he felt it was necessary to remove the Lone Star State from the United States and establish it as a fully independent nation, according to a leading Texas nationalist. It is said that there is a possibility that they are taking steps.This claim was based on an anecdote from Daniel Miller, president of the pro-independence Texas Nationalist Movement. texas news Podcast released on Monday.Mr Abbott has recently made a number of high-profile foreign visits, including to India, Israel and the UK, where he signed a “Statement of Mutual Cooperation”…

The US said Thursday that Apple was breaking the law by locking out competing technology that could be better for users.The antitrust lawsuit brought by the Justice Department and 16 attorneys general accuses the government of several big tech companies, including Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta, using their popular products to crush free market competition. This is the latest claim. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.)If the case goes that far, the government's charges against Apple would likely face high legal hurdles in court.Apple said it would “vigorously” contest the lawsuit. A victory for the plaintiffs would “impede…

The rise of AI appears to be raising concerns within state governments about data privacy, but a report released Thursday by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers found that states with “well-established” privacy programs That's less than a quarter. A new report titled “The Changing Privacy Paradigm: The Evolving Role and Enduring Reality of State Chief Privacy Officers” shows that the number of chief privacy officer roles is increasing. NASCIO counts her as having the chief privacy officer or equivalent position at 25 people, but that is not the case. Everything is fulfilled. However, of the 17 privacy…

Nicole Sedaka, fellow at the Center for Effective Government and Democracy, speaks to students at the Harris School of Public Policy. In an interview with maroonNicole Bivins Sedaka, Democracy Fellow at the Center for Effective Government (CEG), shares advice for students who want to pursue a career in international affairs and her work at the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy organization Freedom House. He talked about his role. CEG is a division of the Harris School focused on civil reform and advocacy. Over the course of February, Sedaka met with students from the Harris School of Public Policy and the university to…

LONDON — A Zambian-born lawyer has become the first black head of government in Wales, the United Kingdom and across Europe. Thursday will be Vaughan Gething's first full day as First Minister of Wales, having been elected the previous day by the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff and approved by King Charles III. “Today, we turn the page in this nation's history book. It is a history we will write together,” the president said at his inauguration. “Not only do I have the honor of being the first black leader of a European country, but I also cross a generational divide.”…

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence acknowledged last year that commercially available data about individual people allows the government to compile information “of a type and level of sensitivity that historically could have been obtained, if at all, only through targeted (and predicated) collection.”  That commercially available information — captured and packaged by companies called data brokers — extends to places most Americans would never imagine, according to longtime investigative reporter Byron Tau, who dives into the data broker industry in his new book, “Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government is Creating a…