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White House Expands Guidance On Promoting Open Data
White House officials have announced expanded technical guidance to help agencies make more data accessible to the public in machine-readable formats. Read More »
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White House Names Former Microsoft Exec To Run Healthcare.gov
Former Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene will take over the volunteer job of overseeing ongoing fixes to the federal Obamacare marketplace HealthCare.gov starting Wednesday, officials said. Read More »
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Why Businesses Can’t Ignore The Growing Linux Trend
It used to be a clear sign of geekiness. People who were into Linux would rave about its benefits and flexibility…as long as you knew how to install your own OS, dig around for the hardware drivers you needed, and be a master of command-line instructions. For a world building technical literacy through more user-friendly front-end systems, Linux was a niche reserved for technology enthusiasts...
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Why Do So Many American ‘Journalists’ Appear To Hate Actual Journalism?
The question was directed at Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who broke the story of NSA surveillance using material provided by on-the-lam leaker Edward Snowden. The person grilling Greenwald wasn’t a government prosecutor [...]. Read More »
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Why Healthcare Data Security, Compliance Issues Go Untreated
Secure managed file transfer solutions can be beneficial to covered entities as they work to overcome healthcare data security and compliance issues. If there ever was a pulse of healthcare operations, it’s data. From patient enrollment forms, electronic health records, and health insurance information, the amount of electronic data flowing through the medical community increases every day. With that, healthcare data security must also be a top priority...
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Why Scientists Held Back Details On A Unique Botulinum Toxin
Scientists have discovered the first new form of botulinum toxin in over 40 years, but they're taking the unusual step of keeping key details about it secret. Read More »
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Why the A.I. Euphoria Is Doomed to Fail
Investors dropped $681 million into A.I.-centric startups in Silicon Valley last year. This year, the number will likely reach $1.2 billion. Five years ago, total A.I. investment spiked at roughly $150 million. This is how Silicon Valley works: When something new is hyped and seems to have investor trust, everybody jumps on the train without asking, “Where does this train go?”...
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Why the Operating System Matters Even More in 2017
Operating systems don't quite date back to the beginning of computing, but they go back far enough. Mainframe customers wrote the first ones in the late 1950s, with operating systems that we'd more clearly recognize as such today—including OS/360 from IBM and Unix from Bell Labs—following over the next couple of decades. An operating system performs a wide variety of useful functions in a system, but it's helpful to think of those as falling into three general categories. First, the operating system sits on top of a physical system and talks to the hardware. This insulates application software from many hardware implementation details...
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Why US Government IT Fails So Hard, So Often
The rocky launch of the Department of Health and Human Services' HealthCare.gov is the most visible evidence at the moment of how hard it is for the federal government to execute major technology projects. But the troubled "Obamacare" IT system—which uses systems that aren't connected in any way to the federal IT infrastructure—is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the government's IT problems. Read More »
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Why We're Releasing Our Design Data To The Open-Source Community
There is an on-going debate about whether open-source software is more secure than closed-software, or vice-versa. Read More »
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Will Open Source Security Be On The Federal Agenda In 2015?
A bill introduced late last year could be a precursor of things to come, as lawmakers wade into more cybersecurity issues...
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Windows 8 Is Watching You
Playing around with the manufacturers' version of the not-yet-widely released Windows 8, programmer (and hacker) Nadim Kobeissi discovered that the operating system "tells Microsoft about everything you install" and does that "not very securely." Read More »
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Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install, Not Very Securely
This is a very serious privacy problem, specifically because Microsoft is the central point of authority and data collection/retention here and therefore becomes vulnerable to being served judicial subpoenas or National Security Letters intended to monitor targeted users. This situation is exacerbated when Windows 8 is deployed in countries experiencing political turmoil or repressive political situations...
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With Any Luck, You Don’t Have An Open Source Policy!
With component usage skyrocketing, shouldn't every organization have an open source governance policy? My experience shows this is not the case. And as a developer, if you don't have a policy, consider yourself lucky! Read More »
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Zero-Day Paranoia And The Reality Of Modern Web Browsing
Remote code execution is an end-user nightmare that can be stopped tomorrow, if we enact the appropriate technologies to prevent it. Read More »
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