The National Science Foundation (NSF) plans to invest in eight new CyberCorps Scholarship for Service projects to address the demand for dedicated cybersecurity professionals, particularly in government agencies.

In what has become an annual exercise, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) last week released its targeted Federal advocacy priorities for this year, highlighted again by its call for cybersecurity regulation harmonization.

In what has proven to be a most regrettable decision, former California Governor Jerry Brown back in 2012 foolishly eliminated the State CIO agency from his cabinet, and in the process returned the state’s IT management to a failed organizational structure of the past.

In a move designed to provide greater access to financial aid for college, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia launched the Virginia Alternative State Aid (VASA) Application and web portal to help Virginia students who are ineligible to complete the Federal Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form, including Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and undocumented students, access state financial aid to help pay for college.

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) voted today to take up a proposal that would require “nutrition labels” for broadband services, providing consumers with better information about prices, speeds, additional fees, network management practices, and more.

A team of researchers from Stanford University’s Autonomous Systems Laboratory posit that artificial intelligence (AI) could enable a form of traffic congestion pricing that could make everyone at every income level better off.

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