New York Gov. Kathy Hochul launched a website on July 2 that provides resources for school districts across the state as they prepare to implement “bell-to-bell” restrictions on student use of smartphones for the coming school year.

Binghamton University – located in Binghamton, N.Y., and part of the State University of New York system – has launched its new SafeBing mobile app that enables students, staff, faculty, parents, and family members to receive real-time emergency alerts and access a suite of campus safety resources directly from their smartphones.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr on July 2 unveiled his Build America Agenda that aims to have the agency pursue action on a number of fronts to pave the way for service providers to build out more fiber-based networks that provide high-speed broadband services.

The U.S. Senate voted early Tuesday morning to drop from its reconciliation legislation a controversial 10-year moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence tech after the proposed ban met significant bipartisan pushback.

With a March presidential executive order putting some breathing room between the Federal government and states on cybersecurity protections – and state and local governments hoping for a second go-round of funding from Congress under the 2021 State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program (SLCGP) – we checked in with Gary Barlet, Illumio’s public sector chief technology officer, for his read on the new landscape.

A Federal judge last week temporarily blocked the Department of Defense (DoD) from implementing a controversial policy slashing research funding for U.S. universities by granting a temporary restraining order (TRO) sought by a coalition of 12 major research institutions.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has appointed Gaspare LoDuca vice president for information systems and technology (IS&T) and chief information officer (CIO), with a start date of Aug. 18.

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