Colin Wood

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The Florida Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill that would create a new, larger centralized agency to oversee the state’s technology projects. The bill, which passed 36-0, would create the Agency for State Systems and Enterprise Technology, or ASSET, absorbing the Florida Digital Service, the state’s most recent attempt at an effective technology division.

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A day after the Trump administration froze funding for $2.7 billion in digital equity grants, California’s technology bureau on Wednesday announced it’s opened applications for a $50 million program designed to improve digital literacy, drive workforce training and bring internet connectivity to more residents in the state.

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After the Department of Homeland Security last month cut roughly $10 million in funding from the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, the group will continue providing all cybersecurity services to its 18,000 members thanks to temporary gap funding provided by its parent organization. The New York nonprofit Center for Internet Security that hosts the MS-ISAC in February lost funding for its Elections Infrastructure ISAC, leading to its closure.

2 weeks ago | edscoop.com | Colin Wood

Taking a page from federal, state and local government agencies that have banned the Chinese AI app DeepSeek, the University of North Dakota system last month instituted its own ban of the software. Federal agencies and state governments have instated bans on DeepSeek as part of their routine prohibitions against technology that could contain backdoors or collect personal information for rival governments.