1+ hour, 12+ min ago   (351+ words) An industry coalition representing operational technology cybersecurity firms and critical infrastructure operators on Friday called for a stronger federal response to a wave of cyberattacks against U.S. water systems, including suspected Iran-linked intrusions affecting more than 30 utilities in Minnesota. “No clearer…...

1+ hour, 44+ min ago   (416+ words) A bipartisan set of senators introduced legislation on Tuesday that would codify elements of President Donald Trump’s executive order on quantum information sciences and technologies. The Secretary of Defense would need to identify at least three next-generation quantum sensor projects…...

4+ hour, 51+ min ago   (316+ words) Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia speaks during the July 16 Government Efficiency Summit. Zaid Hamid/Nextgov/FCW By Christian Robles, David DiMolfetta and Alexandra Kelley Federal Chief Information Officer Greg Barbaccia is returning to Palantir after he departs the federal government on…...

7+ hour, 52+ min ago   (443+ words) Each attack occurred during a “capture-the-flag” scenario where the models are asked to find hidden information housed within a different node. In the blog post, Anthropic blamed a “misunderstanding” between them and their third-party evaluators that granted the models internet…...

7+ hour, 41+ min ago   (606+ words) Following coordinated cyberattacks on Minnesota water systems that officials suspect may be linked to Iran, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Thursday warned utilities nationwide to remove exposed industrial-control equipment from the internet, citing a surge in activity that…...

23+ hour, 54+ min ago   (782+ words) Adversaries are no longer just nation-states and elite criminal organizations, but anyone with AI tools and a prompt. And the public sector agencies least equipped to respond to that shift are often the ones with the most sensitive missions. For…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (455+ words) The General Services Administration on Wednesday celebrated the graduation of 71 U.S. Digital Corps fellows, marking the largest graduating class since the program’s inception. Those graduates updated the FedRAMP website, helped streamline Agriculture Department environmental reviews and supported other technology projects during…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (777+ words) The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently told states it will no longer move an “Eligibility Made Easy” — or Emmy — application programming interface into production and will instead incorporate that technology designed to support Medicaid eligibility checks into the…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (318+ words) sasha85ru / Getty Images By Riccardo Di Blasio For years, federal security rested on one idea: the perimeter. Agencies drew a line around their networks and watched that line closely. They trusted what was inside while treating everything outside as a threat....

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (715+ words) A North Korea-linked hacker group has been tied to four open-source software compromises dating back to March 2025, Amazon researchers said Wednesday, significantly expanding the publicly known scope of Pyongyang’s efforts to use trusted code to reach large numbers of potential…...