Ex-congressional IT aide accused of stealing 240 government phones and selling them at pawn shop

A former congressional IT aide is accused of stealing 240 taxpayer-funded cellphones worth $150K, shipping them to his home ...

The Trump administration fired nearly 100 immigration judges in 2025. What's next?

An immigration court in San Francisco is the latest to close its doors, NPR has learned, as the Trump administration seeks to ...
Wall Street Journal

The Next Big Quantum Computer Has Arrived

Quantinuum, the $10 billion firm that’s become one of the biggest players in quantum computing, unveiled its latest computer Wednesday. The Helios machine represents an important leap in terms of ...
ischool.berkeley.edu

System Administrator

This position has been filled. The I School is currently seeking an experienced Linux System Administrator to join its IT team. Working in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, this team ...
Bleeping Computer

Critical FortiSwitch flaw lets hackers change admin passwords remotely

Fortinet has released security patches for a critical vulnerability in its FortiSwitch devices that can be exploited to change administrator passwords remotely. The company says Daniel Rozeboom of the ...
Wired

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest ...
Phys.org

OQTOPUS: Researchers launch open-source quantum computer operating system

The University of Osaka, Fujitsu Limited, Systems Engineering Consultants Co., LTD. (SEC), and TIS Inc. (TIS) today announced the launch of an open-source operating system (OS) for quantum computers ...
New Scientist

The critical computer systems still relying on decades-old code

Earlier this year, the technology world welcomed back a long-lost friend. ELIZA, the world’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, had wowed the computer scientists of the mid-1960s with its ability ...
The Atlantic

The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified

If you have tips about the remaking of the federal government, you can contact Charlie and Ian on Signal at @cwarzel.92 and @ibogost.47. Elon Musk’s unceasing attempts to access the data and ...
Forbes

Information Security Vs. Cybersecurity: What’s The Difference?

With five years of experience as a writer and editor in the higher education and career development space, Ilana has a passion for creating accessible, relevant content that demystifies the higher-ed ...
Los Angeles Times

‘Temporary fix’ gets L.A. County sheriff’s computer dispatch system back online

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department implemented a “temporary fix” Friday to get its computer dispatch system back online after it crashed on New Year’s Eve, authorities said. Problems were ...