Author: Ethan Johnson

Vice President Kamala Harris addressed a crowd of Indian-Americans this week, stressing the importance of South Asians running for office and saying they are underrepresented compared to the size of the group in the United States. Stated. Indian Americans are now the most populous “single Asian” group in the country, surpassing Chinese Americans in September. This means that 4.4 million people identified themselves as “single Indian,” or 100% Indian, in the 2020 U.S. Census, an increase of 55% in 10 years. Despite this, only five of the 535 members of Congress are Indian-American. Harris called for a change in his…

The Douglas County Commission rejected a new state law that would have banned firearms in sensitive areas, continuing to allow legal possession of firearms inside courthouses. Senate Bill 24-131, passed by the Colorado House of Representatives on May 7, is scheduled to go into effect on July 1, 2024, effectively banning firearms inside Colorado government buildings. Local governments are allowed to opt out of the bill, which the Commissioner did by resolution at the regular business meeting scheduled for May 14. “I am very critical of this new state law,” Commissioner George Thiel said. “We are a nation built on…

38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later Pew Research Center conducted the analysis to examine how often online content that once existed becomes inaccessible. One part of the study looks at a representative sample of webpages that existed over the past decade to see how many are still accessible today. For this analysis, we collected a sample of pages from the Common Crawl web repository for each year from 2013 to 2023. We then tried to access those pages to see how many still exist. A second part of the study looks at…

Last year, figures showed Australia could become a leader in quantum computing, potentially adding $6 billion to the economy over the next few decades. Significant progress is currently being made towards this goal, and in the medium term the IT industry must prepare for opportunities and challenges that will completely transform the very foundations of computing. Australian Government’s quantum investment of over $1 billion Australia is considered to be ideally placed for quantum computing due to its close relationship with the United States, reducing risk sensitivity in the application of such powerful technology. As a result, his nearly 5% of…

of federal housing authority (FHA) this week amended its 2022 requirement for mortgage lenders and anyone wishing to do business with FHA to obtain a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) to qualify for such transactions. Announced the Mortgage Letter (ML). ML 2024-09 updates the agency's UEI policy for FHA-approved lenders to streamline reporting requirements starting with the policy developed in summer 2022 and implemented by the end of the same year. “In August 2022, FHA implemented the UEI Policy, which requires people doing or seeking to do business with the federal government to register, obtain, and maintain a UEI number with…

Emmanuel Dunant // Getty Images How the U.S. Government Encourages Green Manufacturing Construction workers building an eco-friendly school How sustainable are electric cars whose manufacturing process relies heavily on natural gas? How “green” are LEED-certified buildings built with carbon-intensive materials like glass and concrete? Will it become a thing? Even when creating sustainable products, industrial activities such as construction and manufacturing contribute significantly to pollution. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, these activities account for nearly one-third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Addressing climate change is one of President Joe Biden's top priorities, and his administration aims to reduce these…

Metastatic governments have penetrated every crevice of life and cannot get out of their own way. It justifies punitive measures against the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok, calling it important to “national security.” But at the same time, the government claims that his takeover of US Steel by a Japanese steel company would threaten “national security.” Federal officials pretend to be wary of an allied company buying his U.S. Steel Corporation (this can only happen in the political arena). Although it is the largest steelmaker in the United States, the Defense Department currently buys just 3% of the domestic steel production…

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two vulnerabilities found in some D-Link routers to its database of known exploited vulnerabilities (KEV). This means there is evidence of actual abuse.The two vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-20214-100005 and CVE-2021-40655. The former is a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) flaw found in the D-Link DIR-600 router, and the latter is an information disclosure flaw found in the D-Link DIR-605 router. The former allows attackers to change router settings, and the latter allows attackers to steal login credentials.CISA did not provide details about who is actually exploiting these vulnerabilities and how,…

A Bowie resident faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted on criminal charges that he posed as a software developer for a Virginia-based government contractor and had people in China perform the work. possible punishment.The criminal charges were filed Wednesday against Vietnam-born Bowie resident Minh Phuong Vuong by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland following an investigation by the FBI.Vong attended an interview for the job and submitted a false resume, but another person, whose identity has not yet been identified, was holding the job, according to the complaint. According to the news release,…

Not many people are extolling the benefits of the coronavirus pandemic. But a few weeks ago, I stood before the Storm Lake Kiwanis Club and spoke about government transparency in Iowa. I did not participate in the debate over masks, social distancing, and vaccinations. Although I was a polite audience, I was not foolish enough to step onto that thin ice unnecessarily. Here's what I said about the pandemic: State and local governments have embraced, albeit reluctantly, the benefits of live-streaming board meetings for the public to watch from anywhere during the pandemic. When the coronavirus shuttered government buildings and…