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Cybersecurity – T-Mobile says hackers accessed user data but won’t confirm SSN breach of 100 million customers (ZDNet)

Jonathan Greig T-Mobile is looking into allegations that a hacker stole 106GB of data containing the social security numbers, names, addresses and driver's license information...

TechInnovation – SAP acquires machine learning tech company SwoopTalent (ZDNet)

Jonathan Greig SAP announced on Monday that it is acquiring machine learning tech company SwoopTalent in a deal centered around the company's intellectual property. The companies did...

USA/Afghanistan – DOD IG Issues Guidance for Removing Sensitive Tech and Data from Afghanistan (Nextgov)

Brandi Vincent The U.S. military must take deliberate steps to ensure that records are kept and sensitive data is protected or removed from the equipment...

USA – Homeland Security Considering CMMC-like Compliance Effort (Nextgov)

Frank Konkel The Department of Homeland Security will conduct a “pathfinder assessment” to determine a path forward regarding a new cybersecurity compliance program that shares...

USA – Agriculture Launching New IT System to Manage Discrimination Complaints (Nextgov)

Aaron Boyd The Agriculture Department is launching a new IT system to manage civil rights discrimination complaints lodged against its programs and partners, to be...

USA – How Turning to a Digital Workforce Is Government’s Path from Legacy IT to IT Transformation (Nextgov)

ENOT-POLOSKUN/ISTOCK.COM Steve Picot The public sector has an understandably high bar for adopting emerging technologies, not only because of governance issues, but also due to the...

Cuba – What’s Next for Cuba? (CFR)

Speakers Nora Gámez Torres Reporter, Cuba and U.S.-Latin American Policy, Nuevo Herald and Miami Herald Lillian Guerra Professor of Cuban and Caribbean History and Director, Cuba Program, University of Florida Jason I....

Afghanistan/USA – How the Afghan Army Collapsed Under the Taliban’s Pressure (CFR)

Max Boot A reporter asked U.S. President Joe Biden in July whether a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was inevitable. “No, it is not,” he said, pointing to...

USA – Doubling Pell Grants makes sense — if Biden ditches the rest of his higher ed agenda (AEI)

Elizabeth “Beth” Akers, Frederick M. Hess Over the last several years, the Warren-Sanders wing of the Democratic Party has succeeded at reshaping the higher education...

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