Slashdot Items Tagged "government"

Date / Time Story
Thursday April 18, 2024 @07:40PM Northrop Grumman Working With SpaceX On US Spy Satellite System
Thursday April 18, 2024 @04:17PM Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data
Wednesday April 17, 2024 @07:13PM House Passes Bill Requiring Warrant To Purchase Data From Third Parties
Wednesday April 17, 2024 @07:06PM Google Workers Arrested After Nine-Hour Protest In Cloud Chief's Office
Tuesday April 16, 2024 @08:25PM SEC Targets Its Own Staff's Texting, Nixes WhatsApp On Work Phones
Tuesday April 16, 2024 @08:15PM Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government
Monday April 15, 2024 @04:46PM The IRS's New Tax Software: Rave Reviews, But Low Turnout
Sunday April 14, 2024 @12:29PM Stop 'Harmful 5G Fast Lanes', Legal Scholar Warns America's FCC
Saturday April 13, 2024 @07:14PM Data Collected by the US Justice Department Exposed in Consultant's Breach
Saturday April 13, 2024 @12:43AM US Government Says Recent Microsoft Breach Exposed Federal Agencies to Hacking
Friday April 12, 2024 @06:01PM Should the US Ban Chinese EVs?
Friday April 12, 2024 @04:58PM House Votes To Extend -- and Expand -- a Major US Spy Program
Thursday April 11, 2024 @04:41PM US Lawmaker Proposes a Public Database of All AI Training Material
Wednesday April 10, 2024 @09:40PM UK Considers Banning Smartphone Sales To Children Under 16
Sunday April 07, 2024 @10:13PM NIST Blames 'Growing Backlog of Vulnerabilities' Requiring Analysis on Lack of Support
Sunday April 07, 2024 @08:19PM US Energy Department Announces 'Blueprint' for Slashing Emissions From Buildings and Reducing Energy Use
Saturday April 06, 2024 @02:24PM In America, A Complex Patchwork of State AI Regulations Has Already Arrived
Friday April 05, 2024 @11:15PM US Invests $20 Billion More to Finance Clean-Energy Projects
Friday April 05, 2024 @10:18PM Is The US About To Pass a Landmark Online Privacy Bill?
Friday April 05, 2024 @08:37PM Biden Takes Aim At SpaceX's Tax-Free Ride In American Airspace
Friday April 05, 2024 @06:17PM Trudeau Pushes 3D-Printed Homes To Solve Canada Housing Crisis
Tuesday April 02, 2024 @08:56PM UK and US Sign Landmark Agreement On AI Safety
Tuesday April 02, 2024 @07:00PM 'Russia Might Have Caused Havana Syndrome'
Tuesday April 02, 2024 @06:20PM FCC To Vote To Restore Net Neutrality Rules
Monday April 01, 2024 @11:29AM Can Apps Turn Us Into Unpaid Lobbyists?
Sunday March 31, 2024 @03:52PM America's FDA Forced to Settle 'Groundless' Lawsuit Over Its Ivermectin Warnings
Sunday March 31, 2024 @02:31PM Arizona's Governor Signs Bill Making Pluto the Official State Planet
Saturday March 30, 2024 @04:08PM Do Age Verification Laws Drag Us Back to the Dark Ages of the Internet?
Saturday March 30, 2024 @03:00PM More AI Safeguards Coming, Including Right to Refuse Face-Recognition Scans at US Airports
Saturday March 30, 2024 @12:19PM America's DHS Is Expected to Stop Buying Access to Your Phone Movements
Friday March 29, 2024 @10:35PM Are State Governments Slowing the Build-Out of America's EV Charging Stations?
Friday March 29, 2024 @06:47PM Congress Bans Staff Use of Microsoft's AI Copilot
Friday March 29, 2024 @04:39PM NYC's Government Chatbot Is Lying About City Laws and Regulations
Thursday March 28, 2024 @04:59PM Biden Orders Every US Agency To Appoint a Chief AI Officer
Wednesday March 27, 2024 @07:11PM Oregon Governor Signs Nation's First Right-To-Repair Bill That Bans Parts Pairing
Wednesday March 27, 2024 @05:15PM TikTok Is Under Investigation By the FTC Over Data Practices
Monday March 25, 2024 @05:25PM US, UK Announce Sanctions Over China-Linked Election Hacks
Monday March 25, 2024 @04:19PM Tennessee Becomes First State To Protect Musicians, Other Artists Against AI
Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:35PM UN Adopts First Global Artificial Intelligence Resolution
Wednesday March 20, 2024 @05:17PM EPA Sets Strict New Limits On Tailpipe Emissions That Could Boost EV Sector
Wednesday March 20, 2024 @04:44PM India Will Fact-Check Online Posts About Government Matters
Monday March 18, 2024 @09:09PM C++ Creator Rebuts White House Warning
Monday March 18, 2024 @05:59PM EPA Bans Chrysotile Asbestos
Sunday March 17, 2024 @07:06PM Why Oregon's Drug Decriminalization Failed
Sunday March 17, 2024 @12:21AM 32-Hour Workweek for America Proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders
Friday March 15, 2024 @09:22PM Amazon Violated Rights of Workers Trying to Unionize, Labor Regulators Find
Friday March 15, 2024 @08:49PM TikTok is Banned in China, Notes X User Community - Along With Most US Social Media
Friday March 15, 2024 @08:34PM What Happened to Other China-Owned Social Media Apps?
Friday March 15, 2024 @03:54PM India Drops Plan To Require Approval For AI Model Launches
Thursday March 14, 2024 @07:15PM CIA Used Chinese Social Media In Covert Influence Operation Against Xi Jinping's Government
Thursday March 14, 2024 @07:01PM FTC and DOJ Think McDonald's Ice Cream Machines Should Be Legal To Fix
Wednesday March 13, 2024 @10:48AM US House Passes Bill To Force ByteDance To Divest TikTok or Face Ban
Monday March 11, 2024 @02:05PM US Must Move 'Decisively' To Avert 'Extinction-Level' Threat From AI, Gov't-Commissioned Report Says
Sunday March 10, 2024 @07:52PM Canada's 'Online Harms' Bill Would Be an Assault On Free Speech, Civil Liberties Groups Say
Saturday March 09, 2024 @07:11PM California State Legislator Proposes Ending Daylight Saving Time
Saturday March 09, 2024 @06:40PM PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' To Officially Be Removed from Food Packaging, FDA Says
Saturday March 09, 2024 @03:45PM US Cybersecurity Agency Forced to Take Two Systems Offline Last Month After Ivanti Compromise
Saturday March 09, 2024 @03:04PM US Intelligence Officer Explains Roswell, UFO Sightings
Saturday March 09, 2024 @02:37AM New US Defense Department Report Found 'No Evidence' of Alien Technology
Saturday March 09, 2024 @12:40AM How $138B in US Student Loans Were Cancelled - Roughly One-Third of Planned Amount
Thursday March 07, 2024 @03:32AM Bipartisan Bill Could Force ByteDance To Divest TikTok
Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:30PM Oregon OKs Right-To-Repair Bill That Bans the Blocking of Aftermarket Parts
Saturday March 02, 2024 @08:16PM Boeing Now Also Ordered to Fix Anti-Ice System on 737 Max, 787 Jets
Saturday March 02, 2024 @03:09AM TurboTax and H&R Block Want 'Permission to Blab Your Money Secrets'
Thursday February 29, 2024 @07:53PM How the Pentagon Learned To Use Targeted Ads To Find Its Targets
Thursday February 29, 2024 @07:35PM Government Watchdog Hacked US Federal Agency To Stress-Test Its Cloud Security
Thursday February 29, 2024 @06:31PM The FBI Is Using Push Notifications To Catch Sexual Predators
Wednesday February 28, 2024 @12:40PM White House Looks To Curb Foreign Powers' Ability To Buy Americans' Sensitive Personal Data With Executive Order
Monday February 26, 2024 @06:16PM US Leading Global Alliance To Counter Foreign Government Disinformation
Sunday February 25, 2024 @03:56PM Are Corporate Interests Holding Back US Electrical Grid Expansion?
Sunday February 25, 2024 @02:45PM The Companies Helping Governments Hack Citizens' Phones: a 'Thriving' Industry
Friday February 23, 2024 @07:38PM Florida Lawmakers Pass Ban On Social Media For Kids
Saturday February 17, 2024 @09:17PM US Cities Try Changing Their Zoning Rules to Allow More Housing
Friday February 16, 2024 @09:56PM California Bill Wants To Scrap Environmental Reviews To Save Downtown San Francisco
Friday February 16, 2024 @09:44PM Scientists Propose AI Apocalypse Kill Switches
Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:55PM US Military Notifies 20,000 of Data Breach After Cloud Email Leak
Monday February 12, 2024 @06:07PM The US Government Makes a $42 Million Bet On Open Cell Networks
Sunday February 11, 2024 @01:58AM Oversight of Boeing 'is Not Delivering Safe Aircraft', Says America's Top Aviation Regulator
Saturday February 10, 2024 @01:59AM In Big Tech's Backyard, a California State Lawmaker Unveils a Landmark AI Bill
Friday February 09, 2024 @10:38PM California Bill Would Ban All Plastic Shopping Bags At Grocery Stores
Thursday February 08, 2024 @05:41PM Pakistan Cuts Off Phone and Internet Services On Election Day
Wednesday February 07, 2024 @07:46PM EPA Tightens Rules On Some Air Pollution For the First Time In Over a Decade
Tuesday February 06, 2024 @11:24PM EU Proposes Criminalizing AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse and Deepfakes
Sunday February 04, 2024 @05:27PM Will Silicon Valley's Next House Member Rewrite a Key Internet Law?
Sunday February 04, 2024 @03:00PM Across America, Clean Energy Plants Are Being Banned Faster Than They're Being Built
Sunday February 04, 2024 @01:37AM 'Linux Foundation Energy' Partners With US Government on Interoperability of America's EV Charging
Wednesday January 31, 2024 @06:07PM FBI Director Warns Chinese Hackers Aim To 'Wreak Havoc' On US Critical Infrastructure
Tuesday January 30, 2024 @07:19PM German Police Secure $2 Billion In Bitcoin From Pirate Site Operators
Monday January 29, 2024 @07:25PM UK To Ban Disposable Vapes
Monday January 29, 2024 @06:39PM NYC Wants To Create a First-of-Its Kind Department To Regulate App Based Delivery
Monday January 29, 2024 @06:07PM Japan Will No Longer Require Floppy Disks For Submitting Some Official Documents
Sunday January 28, 2024 @11:56PM California Bill Wants To Mandate Electronic 'Speed Limiters' in Cars
Sunday January 28, 2024 @04:49PM America's Car Industry Seeks to Crush AM Radio. Will Congress Rescue It?
Sunday January 28, 2024 @01:47AM London Accused of Wrongly Fining Hundreds of Thousands of EU Drivers
Friday January 19, 2024 @05:26PM US Government Opens 22 Million Acres of Federal Lands To Solar
Wednesday January 17, 2024 @10:02PM US Must Beat China Back To the Moon, Congress Tells NASA
Sunday January 14, 2024 @04:18PM Python Software Foundation Says EU's 'Cyber Resilience Act' Includes Wins for Open Source
Saturday January 13, 2024 @07:10PM What Laws Will We Need to Regulate AI?
Friday January 12, 2024 @11:33PM America Cracks Down on Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Facilities
Friday January 12, 2024 @01:20AM White House Unveils $623 Million In Funding To Boost EV Charging Points
Thursday January 11, 2024 @11:10PM SEC Claims Account Was 'Compromised' After Announcing False Bitcoin ETF Approval
Monday January 08, 2024 @04:33PM Biden Administration To Unveil Contractor Rule Set To Upend Gig Economy
Saturday January 06, 2024 @04:42PM America's FAA Temporarily Grounds All Boeing 737 Max 9s - After a Window Blows Off In-Flight
Friday January 05, 2024 @05:39PM US Moves Closer To Filing Sweeping Antitrust Case Against Apple
Wednesday January 03, 2024 @06:01PM Firmware Prank Causes LED Curtain In Russia To Display 'Slava Ukraini'
Wednesday January 03, 2024 @05:54PM New Jersey Used COVID Relief Funds To Buy Banned Chinese Surveillance Cameras
Sunday December 31, 2023 @09:29PM Will 2024 Bring a 'Major Turning Point' in US Health Care?
Sunday December 31, 2023 @01:00AM 20% of America's Plants and Animals are At Risk of Extinction
Thursday December 28, 2023 @09:21PM New US Immigration Rules Spur More Visa Approvals For STEM Workers
Thursday December 28, 2023 @01:17AM India Targets Apple Over Its Phone Hacking Notifications
Wednesday December 27, 2023 @07:07PM US Engine Maker Will Pay $1.6 Billion To Settle Claims of Emissions Cheating
Saturday December 23, 2023 @06:39PM US Water Utilities Hacked After Default Passwords Set to '1111', Cybersecurity Officials Say
Friday December 22, 2023 @09:58PM AI Companies Would Be Required To Disclose Copyrighted Training Data Under New Bill
Friday December 22, 2023 @05:16PM Biden Administration Unveils Hydrogen Tax Credit Plan To Jump-Start Industry
Thursday December 21, 2023 @06:06PM Massachusetts Lawmakers Mull 'Killer Robot' Bill
Tuesday December 19, 2023 @05:27PM Meta's News Ban In Canada Remains As Online News Act Goes Into Effect
Monday December 18, 2023 @12:25PM Lawmakers Push DOJ To Investigate Apple Following Beeper Shutdowns
Sunday December 17, 2023 @11:51PM ProPublica Argues US Police 'Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras'
Saturday December 16, 2023 @01:49AM US Pharmacies Share Medical Data with Police Without a Warrant, Inquiry Finds
Friday December 15, 2023 @11:44PM Is Climate-Friendy Flying Possible? The US Tries Subsidizing Sustainable Aviation Fuels
Wednesday December 13, 2023 @05:21PM European Union Lawmakers Agree To New Rules That Bolster Gig Worker Rights
Tuesday December 12, 2023 @04:03PM US Climate Bill 'Ignites New Zeal' Around the World for Government Climate Efforts
Tuesday December 12, 2023 @03:06PM US Expects To Make Multi-Billion Chips Awards Within the Next Year
Monday December 11, 2023 @06:16PM MIT Group Releases White Papers On Governance of AI
Saturday December 09, 2023 @10:35PM US Diet Committee Debates Whether Potatoes are Vegetables or 'Starchy Grain'
Saturday December 09, 2023 @01:48AM US Postal Service Warns Rural Mail Carriers: Don't Publicly Blame Delays on Amazon
Friday December 08, 2023 @08:00PM Europe Reaches a Deal On the World's First Comprehensive AI Rules
Friday December 08, 2023 @04:53PM White House Threatens Patents of High-Priced Drugs
Wednesday December 06, 2023 @10:05AM Governments Spying on Apple, Google Users Through Push Notifications
Monday December 04, 2023 @06:52PM US Issues Warning To Nvidia, Urging To Stop Redesigning Chips For China
Monday December 04, 2023 @06:07PM Automakers' Data Privacy Practices 'Are Unacceptable,' Says US Senator
Saturday December 02, 2023 @01:28AM Are Amazon Packages Disrupting Mail Services in Some Small Towns?
Friday December 01, 2023 @04:27PM Brazilian City Enacts an Ordinance That Was Secretly Written By ChatGPT
Thursday November 30, 2023 @07:06PM US Announces AI Hackathons to Strengthen Critical Mineral Supply Chains
Wednesday November 29, 2023 @05:50PM Canadian Government Reaches Deal With Google On Online News Act
Sunday November 26, 2023 @05:22PM Microsoft, Uber, Dell CEOs Consider Government-Funded Stock Funds for Children
Sunday November 26, 2023 @12:28AM Meta Knowingly Collected Data on Pre-Teens, Unredacted Evidence From Lawsuit Shows
Saturday November 25, 2023 @11:05PM US Energy Department Funds Next-Gen Semiconductor Projects to Improve Power Grids
Saturday November 25, 2023 @09:28PM What Happened When California's State Government Examined the Risks and Benefits of AI?
Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:07PM Third-Party Data Breach Affecting Canadian Government Could Involve Data From 1999
Friday November 17, 2023 @06:22PM Canada Court Overturns Government Ruling That Some Plastics Are Toxic
Wednesday November 15, 2023 @10:05PM FCC Can Now Punish Telecom Providers For Charging Customers More For Less
Wednesday November 15, 2023 @05:20PM Lawmakers Question Apple Over Cancellation of Jon Stewart's Show
Monday November 13, 2023 @09:26AM 'Provisional Agreement' Reached on eID, a 'Digital Identity for All Europeans'
Saturday November 11, 2023 @01:29AM Is India Setting a 'Global Standard' for Online Censorship of Social Media?
Wednesday November 08, 2023 @05:59PM Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine
Tuesday November 07, 2023 @07:52PM Intel To Build 'Secure Enclave' Chip Facilities For Defense Applications
Sunday November 05, 2023 @09:11PM Maine Considers Giving the Boot To Corporate Electric Utilities
Saturday November 04, 2023 @11:01PM 'Stupid' Daylight Saving Time Ritual Continues. But Why?
Thursday November 02, 2023 @06:42PM US House Panel Seeks Ban On Federal Purchases of China Drones
Monday October 30, 2023 @04:41PM Canada Bans WeChat, Kaspersky Apps On Government Devices
Monday October 30, 2023 @07:46AM Biden Signs Executive Order To Oversee and Invest in AI
Sunday October 29, 2023 @11:33PM $127 Billion in US Student Loans Now Flagged for Cancellation - About 30% of Planned Amount
Sunday October 29, 2023 @07:03PM G7 Nations Will Announce an 'AI Code of Conduct' for Companies Building AI
Sunday October 29, 2023 @02:39PM America's Net Neutrality Question: Should the FCC Define the Internet as a 'Common Carrier'?
Saturday October 28, 2023 @11:35PM Huawei's Profit Doubles With Made-in-China Chip Breakthrough
Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:56PM How the US is Preparing For a Post-Quantum World
Saturday October 28, 2023 @02:43AM Apple Backs US Government's Push for a National Right-to-Repair Bill . (But What About Parts Pairing?)
Wednesday October 25, 2023 @08:58PM Network State Conference Announced in Amsterdam for October 30
Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:45PM Biden Administration Moves To Ban Solvent Trichloroethylene, Linked To Cancer
Tuesday October 24, 2023 @05:50PM ICE Uses Tool To Find 'Derogatory' Speech Online
Sunday October 22, 2023 @07:09PM California Law Limits Bitcoin ATM Transactions to $1,000 to Thwart Scammers
Saturday October 21, 2023 @01:31PM Online 'Information War' in Africa Rages on Social Media
Thursday October 19, 2023 @05:00PM CFPB Moves To Bar Financial Firms From 'Hoarding' a Consumer's Data
Tuesday October 17, 2023 @06:43PM IRS Will Pilot Free, Direct Tax Filing In 2024
Monday October 16, 2023 @10:31PM Google Asks Congress To Not Ban Teens From Social Media
Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:28PM Have Economists Contributed to Inequality?
Friday October 13, 2023 @06:23PM Biden Awards $7 Billion For 7 Hydrogen Hubs In Climate Fight Plan
Thursday October 12, 2023 @06:03PM 'No Fakes Act' Wants To Protect Actors and Singers From Unauthorized AI Replicas
Wednesday October 11, 2023 @04:48PM Right-To-Repair Is Now the Law In California
Monday October 09, 2023 @04:49PM California Governor Signs Ban On Social Media 'Aiding or Abetting' Child Abuse
Sunday October 08, 2023 @12:41PM California Becomes First US State to Ban Four 'Toxic' Food Additives
Saturday October 07, 2023 @02:25AM For 'Cybersecurity Awareness Month' America's Cybersecurity Agency Shares Four Online Safety Tips
Saturday October 07, 2023 @01:09AM Some US Lawmakers Want to Restrict American Companies From Working on RISC-V Chip Technology
Saturday October 07, 2023 @12:43AM Some US Lawmakers Want to Restrict American Companies From Working on RISC-V Chip Technology
Friday October 06, 2023 @04:34PM US Nutrition Panel's Ties To Top Food Giants Revealed In New Report
Thursday October 05, 2023 @06:26PM Lockheed CEO Pitches Pentagon on Subscription Software
Thursday October 05, 2023 @06:08PM ICE, CBP, Secret Service All Illegally Used Smartphone Location Data
Monday October 02, 2023 @08:01PM Dish Dealt First-Ever Space-Debris Fine For Misparking Satellite
Sunday October 01, 2023 @11:27PM US Energy Department Funds 'Energy Earthshots' to Speed Clean-Energy Innovations
Sunday October 01, 2023 @06:37PM San Francisco's Empty Offices Might Start Converting Into Housing
Friday September 29, 2023 @04:56PM NSA Is Starting an AI Security Center
Friday September 29, 2023 @04:43PM Six Young People Take 32 Countries To Court Over Climate Change
Friday September 29, 2023 @04:10PM Supreme Court To Decide If State Laws Limiting Social Media Platforms Violate Constitution
Thursday September 28, 2023 @11:21PM New York Bans Facial Recognition In Schools
Thursday September 28, 2023 @05:20PM Freelancers Aren't Happy With Japan's New Invoice System
Monday September 25, 2023 @06:49PM FBI Agents Are Using Face Recognition Without Proper Training
Friday September 22, 2023 @04:15PM White House Could Force Cloud Companies To Disclose AI Customers
Wednesday September 20, 2023 @04:56PM New Revelations From the Snowden Archive Surface
Wednesday September 20, 2023 @04:08PM FCC Plays Whack-a-Mole With Telcos Accused of Profiting From Robocalls
Tuesday September 19, 2023 @04:51PM UK Parliament Passes Online Safety Bill
Monday September 18, 2023 @05:45PM Court Blocks California's Online Child Safety Law
Monday September 18, 2023 @05:31PM One of the FBI's Most Wanted Hackers Is Trolling the US Government
Sunday September 17, 2023 @05:43PM Was China's 'Spy Balloon' Just Blown Off Course?
Saturday September 16, 2023 @12:55AM US Energy Department Unveils Interactive Map Showing New Clean Energy Investments
Friday September 15, 2023 @04:10PM California Legislature Passes Delete Act Regulating Data Brokers
Sunday September 10, 2023 @09:16PM How a Breached Microsoft Engineer Account Compromised the Email Accounts of US Officials
Sunday September 10, 2023 @02:56PM Whatever Happened to El Salvador's Bitcoin Experiment? Two Years Later...
Saturday September 09, 2023 @11:12PM Startup Building Zinc-Based Alternatives to Lithium Batteries Granted $400M Loan from the US
Saturday September 09, 2023 @06:18PM US Broadband Buildout Finds Cost to Connect Some Households as High as $53,000