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The federal government’s cyber defense agency is short-staffed, and Tehran is known for its retaliatory cyberattacks.

Ban follows AI firm’s refusal to enable mass surveillance, autonomous weapons.

This week’s legislation addresses cybersecurity measures for EBT cards, pushes universal AI testing standards forward, and strengthens oversight of tech education programming for veterans.

Mikey Dickerson, the first head of the U.S. Digital Service, is a senior advisor for the effort, called the Tech Viaduct.

COMMENTARY | The White House’s proposed war on fraud, waste and abuse is neither new nor an assured outcome for any presidential administration, but history offers some lessons that can help get started.

AI maker digs in with Thursday statement rejecting DOD pleas for unfettered use.

Madhu Gottumukkala will be moved into a strategic implementation role in the Department of Homeland Security. Nick Andersen will take his place.

The senator, in part, took issue with Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd’s responses to questions regarding civil liberties and oversight against unlawful surveillance.

Lab officials give a first glimpse at how they want to expand on a pilot program for turning dual-use technology into operational capability.

The IT system undergirding the overhauled background check program is nearly a decade behind schedule and billions over budget.

Disclosure may not reveal alien visitors, but it will reveal something equally important: how science, measurement and skepticism slowly turn mystery into understanding.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called the move “retribution.”

Last month, the cyber agency’s acting director reportedly took steps to transfer Costello, but other political appointees blocked it.

Despite Donald Trump’s previous misgivings, his administration is signaling confidence in the statute with its current stance.

Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., estimates the U.S. will need “about 85 gigawatts [more] a year in order to keep pace with our demand.”

Nikki Collier had been serving as the acting CIO since Melinda Rogers left the role last year, according to the CIO Council’s website.

A Cisco threat intelligence report calls the cyberintruders “highly sophisticated” but stops short of naming any affiliation with a foreign nation.

COMMENTARY | Here’s what the Defense Department can do to improve IT acquisition outcomes.

President Donald Trump’s national address touched on the rising energy costs incurred by increasing AI use, in addition to reinforcing his administration’s imperative to tackle fraud in government programs.

Despite the White House’s claim that the platform offers the world’s lowest prices on prescriptions, Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee released a report saying “for nearly half of the drugs listed on TrumpRx, that is either misleading or completely false.”

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services COO Kim Brandt talked about her agency’s use cases for artificial intelligence in the ongoing battle against fraudulent medical claims.

The sanctions coincide with an FBI investigation into Peter Williams, a former employee of U.S. defense contractor L3Harris who pleaded guilty to selling cyber exploits to a Russian entity.

A coalition of nonprofits, research institutions, child welfare advocates and more note that plans to push research out of the Administration for Children and Families and into the purview of political appointees jeopardize the credibility of that work.

Trump’s chief design officer says that his work shouldn’t be controversial, but his team’s track record has raised questions about who their websites are for, who they leave out and whether the White House can garner trust based on sleek design alone.

The vulnerabilities could have let malicious users masquerade as agency officials, potentially misleading researchers, contractors and others.