My phone flashes bright. A new video’s appeared in the family WhatsApp group. Before I’ve even pressed play, I’m smiling—a roll of toilet paper is…
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Spending more time at home during COVID-19 social distancing can disrupt your pets’ lives, but there are things you can do to make things easier…
Ugly intrusions into video teleconferencing sessions are just one way the FBI warns cybercriminals are exploiting the novel coronavirus outbreak. The situation is also conducive…
The SETI Institute, a Silicon Valley-based nonprofit that seeks to explore and explain the nature and origins of life in the universe, is gearing up…
The Small Business Administration says it will start accepting “paycheck protection” applications from up to 30 million small businesses by April 11. The IRS expects…
The federal government has spent more than $35.6 billion in the last two months, at least 7.3% of which was specifically related to agencies’ coronavirus…
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., believes the Trump administration’s guidance thus far for government contractors—especially those working in national security—is lacking. In a letter April 2,…
Federal employees across the country are working from home as the novel coronavirus pandemic has forced nationwide advisories to stay at home, closing virtually all…
As the COVID-19 pandemic forces many U.S. colleges and universities to move their courses online, connecting online via video is now having its moment. Family,…
Literally and figuratively, there’s no area of military activity that’s further away from the coronavirus than U.S. military assets in space. But the economic effects…
About 3,500 people have registered for the first of a series of webinars organizers are planning to meet the high demand for knowledge of how…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recruiting a chief data officer. The agency on Tuesday published the official job post for the position,…
The departments of Justice and Health and Human Services announced Thursday the confiscation and redistribution of hoarded personal protective equipment—including 192,000 N95 respirator masks. In…
Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee said that the Trump administration would violate provisions of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act blocking the…
The General Services Administration’s ongoing journey to develop multiple e-commerce platforms for agency buyers will continue for a bit longer, this time due to the…
COVID-19 makes organizations confront the reality that their network boundaries no longer end with their own infrastructure but now extend to employees’ homes. Underscoring this…
Argonne National Laboratory is leading and coordinating a variety of computational efforts to better understand both the COVID-19 disease and the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes…
As more and more U.S. schools and businesses shutter their doors, the rapidly evolving coronavirus pandemic is helping to expose society’s dependence—good and bad—on the…
NASA recently launched a new “internet and social media special” that’s compiled of heaps of activities, research opportunities and media for people of many ages…
Annual inspector general reports on compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act, or FISMA, point to a long road ahead for improving data security…