Slashdot Items Tagged "government"

Date / Time Story
Wednesday April 22, 2026 @12:11AM Pentagon Wants $54 Billion For Drones
Tuesday April 21, 2026 @11:48PM FBI Looks Into Dead or Missing Scientists Tied To Sensitive US Research
Monday April 20, 2026 @09:15PM Maryland Becomes First State To Pass Bill Banning 'Surveillance Pricing'
Monday April 20, 2026 @04:04PM Former Palantir Employee Running For Congress Unveils 'AI Dividend' Plan
Monday April 20, 2026 @01:11PM Trump Administration Begins Refunding $166 Billion In Tariffs
Sunday April 19, 2026 @11:53PM NSA Using Anthropic's Mythos Despite Blacklist
Saturday April 18, 2026 @03:26PM Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant
Saturday April 18, 2026 @02:34PM US Congress Fails to Pass Long-Term FISA Extension, Authorizes It Through April 30
Friday April 17, 2026 @11:09PM US Government Now Wants Anthropic's 'Mythos', Preparing for AI Cybersecurity Threats
Thursday April 16, 2026 @02:04PM Google, Pentagon Discuss Classified AI Deal
Sunday April 12, 2026 @11:35PM Maine Set To Become First State With Data Center Ban
Sunday April 12, 2026 @01:28PM Botched IT Upgrade Ended Liquor Sales for the Entire State of Mississippi
Saturday April 11, 2026 @10:05PM Judge Pauses Arizona's Prosecution of Kalshi, Bars Arizona from Regulating Prediction Markets
Friday April 10, 2026 @05:09PM To Fill Air Traffic Controller Shortage, FAA Turns To Gamers
Friday April 10, 2026 @04:12PM EU Parliament Fails To Renew Loophole Allowing Tech Firms To Report Abuse
Tuesday April 07, 2026 @09:52PM CIA Reportedly Used Secret Quantum Tool To Find Downed Airman in Iran
Monday April 06, 2026 @05:54PM OpenAI Calls For Robot Taxes, Public Wealth Fund, and 4-Day Workweek To Tackle AI Disruption
Saturday April 04, 2026 @04:55PM America's CIA Recruited Iran's Nuclear Scientists - By Threatening To Kill Them
Friday April 03, 2026 @02:45PM Tech Companies Are Trying To Neuter Colorado's Landmark Right-to-Repair Law
Thursday April 02, 2026 @07:10PM EPA Flags Microplastics, Pharmaceuticals As Contaminants In Drinking Water
Tuesday March 31, 2026 @02:59PM Top Brussels Official Urges Europeans To Work From Home, Drive Less As Energy Crisis Deepens
Tuesday March 31, 2026 @01:17PM Australia Readies Social Media Court Action Citing Teen Ban Breaches
Tuesday March 31, 2026 @12:13AM US Paves Way For Private Assets To Be Included In 401(k) Retirement Plans
Monday March 30, 2026 @02:39AM New Company Hopes to Build Age-Verification Tech into Vape Cartridges
Sunday March 29, 2026 @10:19PM Rivian and Lucid Win Right to Sell Their EVs Directly to Buyers in Washington State
Saturday March 28, 2026 @06:54PM Apple Now Requires Device-Level Age Verification in the UK. Could the US Be Next?
Friday March 27, 2026 @02:26PM Austria Plans Social Media Ban For Under-14s
Friday March 27, 2026 @11:07AM California Bill Would Require Parent Bloggers To Delete Content of Minors On Social Media
Thursday March 26, 2026 @03:25PM Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use
Monday March 23, 2026 @06:21PM Trump Administration To Pay French Company $1 Billion To Stop Offshore Wind Farms
Monday March 23, 2026 @04:15PM Bipartisan Bill Seeks To Ban Sports Betting On Prediction Market Platforms
Sunday March 22, 2026 @04:25PM Tech Leaders Support California Bill to Stop 'Dominant Platforms' From Blocking Competition
Friday March 20, 2026 @05:11PM White House Unveils National AI Policy Framework To Limit State Power
Friday March 20, 2026 @04:35PM Work From Home and Drive More Slowly To Save Energy, IEA Says
Wednesday March 18, 2026 @10:52AM Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft's Cloud 'a Pile of Shit', Yet Approved It Anyway
Tuesday March 17, 2026 @05:45PM Rural Ohioans Seek To Ban Data Centers Through Constitutional Amendment
Monday March 16, 2026 @06:22PM Bills Would Ban Liability Lawsuits For Climate Change
Sunday March 15, 2026 @03:42PM How One Company Finally Exposed North Korea's Massive Remote Workers Scam
Sunday March 15, 2026 @02:47AM Does Canada Need Nationalized, Public AI?
Saturday March 14, 2026 @06:25PM America's First Large-Scale Offshore Wind Project Finally Finishes Construction
Saturday March 14, 2026 @01:33PM US Set To Receive $10 Billion Fee For Brokering TikTok Deal
Saturday March 14, 2026 @04:05AM System76 CEO Sees 'Real Possibility' Colorado's Age-Verification Bill Excludes Open-Source
Saturday March 14, 2026 @03:11AM Are U.S. Utilities Trying to Delay Easy-to-Use Solar 'Balcony' Panels?
Friday March 13, 2026 @11:03PM U.S. State Bans on Lab-Grown Meats Challenged in Court
Friday March 13, 2026 @05:11PM ChatGPT, Other Chatbots Approved For Official Use In the Senate
Wednesday March 11, 2026 @03:02PM Binance Sues WSJ, Panicked By Gov't Probes Into Sanctioned Crypto Transfers
Monday March 09, 2026 @01:44AM EFF, Ubuntu and Other Distros Discuss How to Respond to Age-Verification Laws
Monday March 09, 2026 @12:19AM Swiss Vote Places Right To Use Cash In Country's Constitution
Monday March 09, 2026 @12:10AM US Military Tested Device That May Be Tied To Havana Syndrome On Rats, Sheep
Saturday March 07, 2026 @09:05PM Daylight Saving Time Ritual Continues. But Are There Alternatives?
Saturday March 07, 2026 @04:58PM AI CEOs Worry the Government Will Nationalize AI
Friday March 06, 2026 @06:24PM Trump Administration Says It Can't Process Tariff Refunds Because of Computer Problems
Friday March 06, 2026 @05:16PM Indonesia To Ban Social Media For Children Under 16
Friday March 06, 2026 @02:51PM System76 Comments On Recent Age Verification Laws
Friday March 06, 2026 @12:29PM Iran War Provides a Large-Scale Test For AI-Assisted Warfare
Thursday March 05, 2026 @01:37AM US Tech Firms Pledge At White House To Bear Costs of Energy For Datacenters
Tuesday March 03, 2026 @04:49PM A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now In the Hands of Foreign Spies, Criminals
Tuesday March 03, 2026 @03:18PM OpenAI Amends Pentagon Deal As Sam Altman Admits It Looks 'Sloppy'
Tuesday March 03, 2026 @01:27AM ChatGPT Uninstalls Surged By 295% After Pentagon Deal
Monday March 02, 2026 @05:51PM British Columbia To End Time Changes, Adopt Year-Round Daylight Time
Monday March 02, 2026 @02:56PM Charter Gets FCC Permission To Buy Cox, Become Largest ISP In the US
Saturday February 28, 2026 @10:33PM Sam Altman Answers Questions on X.com About Pentagon Deal, Threats to Anthropic
Friday February 27, 2026 @06:15PM CISA Replaces Bumbling Acting Director After a Year
Thursday February 26, 2026 @01:22PM The Government Just Made it Harder to See What Spy Tech it Buys
Sunday February 22, 2026 @07:32PM Telegram Disputes Russia's Claim Its Encryption Was Compromised
Saturday February 21, 2026 @07:16PM Pro-Gamer Consumer Movement 'Stop Killing Games' Will Launch NGOs in America and the EU
Saturday February 21, 2026 @05:40PM America's Peace Corps Announces 'Tech Corps' Volunteers to Help Bring AI to Foreign Countries
Thursday February 19, 2026 @07:01PM New York Drops Plan To Legalize Robotaxis Outside NYC
Thursday February 19, 2026 @06:47PM US Plans Online Portal To Bypass Content Bans In Europe and Elsewhere
Thursday February 19, 2026 @06:19PM California's New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves
Thursday February 19, 2026 @05:51PM IRS Loses 40% of IT Staff, 80% of Tech Leaders In 'Efficiency' Shakeup
Wednesday February 18, 2026 @08:34PM EPA Faces First Lawsuit Over Its Killing of Major Climate Rule
Wednesday February 18, 2026 @05:26PM Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push To Advance AI Agenda
Sunday February 15, 2026 @06:31PM India's New Social Media Rules: Remove Unlawful Content in Three Hours, Detect Illegal AI Content Automatically
Friday January 30, 2026 @04:41PM White House Scraps 'Burdensome' Software Security Rules
Thursday January 29, 2026 @07:30PM Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says
Wednesday January 28, 2026 @06:33PM French Lawmakers Vote To Ban Social Media Use By Under-15s
Wednesday January 28, 2026 @05:44PM US Cyber Defense Chief Uploaded Sensitive Files Into a Public Version of ChatGPT
Tuesday January 27, 2026 @07:43PM US Government Lost More Than 10,000 STEM PhDs Last Year
Sunday January 25, 2026 @08:35PM Washington State May Mandate 'Firearm Blueprint Detection Algorithms' For 3D Printers
Saturday January 24, 2026 @02:45PM US Congress Fails to Repeal 'Kill Switch' for Cars Mandate
Friday January 23, 2026 @07:50PM California Becomes First State To Join WHO Disease Network After US Exit
Friday January 23, 2026 @03:28PM White House Labels Altered Photo of Arrested Minnesota Protester a 'Meme'
Thursday January 22, 2026 @07:39PM South Korea Launches Landmark Laws To Regulate AI
Wednesday January 21, 2026 @07:42PM FBI's Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch On You
Tuesday January 20, 2026 @06:15PM HHS Announces New Study of Cellphone Radiation and Health
Monday January 19, 2026 @08:45PM Bank of England 'Must Plan For a Financial Crisis Triggered By Aliens'
Monday January 19, 2026 @06:21PM Congress Wants To Hand Your Parenting To Big Tech
Monday January 19, 2026 @03:06AM More US States are Putting Bitcoin on Public Balance Sheets
Saturday January 17, 2026 @03:18AM What Happened After Security Researchers Found 60 Flock Cameras Livestreaming to the Internet
Saturday January 17, 2026 @01:34AM Pentagon Purchases a Device Allegedly Linked To Havana Syndrome
Saturday January 17, 2026 @12:17AM Biggest Offshore Wind Project In US To Resume Construction
Friday January 16, 2026 @05:37PM Trump Wants Tech Companies To Foot the Bill For New Power Plants
Thursday January 15, 2026 @06:28PM Iran's Internet Shutdown Is Now One of the Longest Ever
Tuesday January 13, 2026 @07:47PM Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue
Tuesday January 13, 2026 @12:16AM Trump Says Microsoft To Make Changes To Curb Data Center Power Costs For Americans
Monday January 12, 2026 @07:33PM EPA To Stop Considering Lives Saved By Limiting Air Pollution
Monday January 12, 2026 @06:09PM Supreme Court Takes Case That Could Strip FCC of Authority To Issue Fines
Saturday January 10, 2026 @01:04AM More US States Are Preparing Age-Verification Laws for App Stores
Wednesday January 07, 2026 @05:45PM California Lawmaker Proposes a Four-Year Ban On AI Chatbots In Kids' Toys
Tuesday January 06, 2026 @08:26PM Congressman Introduces Legislation To Criminalize Insider Trading On Prediction Markets
Tuesday January 06, 2026 @08:14PM An AI-Generated NWS Map Invented Fake Towns In Idaho
Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:48PM Vietnam Bans Unskippable Ads
Monday January 05, 2026 @07:23PM The Nation's Strictest Privacy Law Goes Into Effect
Monday January 05, 2026 @07:05PM Corporation for Public Broadcasting To Shut Down After 58 Years
Monday January 05, 2026 @12:45AM As US Communities Start Fighting Back, Many Datacenters are Blocked
Sunday January 04, 2026 @10:24PM 39 Million Californians Can Now Legally Demand Data Brokers Delete Their Personal Data
Sunday January 04, 2026 @08:27PM North Dakota Law Included Fake Critical Minerals Using Lawyers' Last Names
Saturday January 03, 2026 @01:40PM Airlines Cancel Hundreds of Flights After U.S. Attack on Venezuela
Friday January 02, 2026 @11:51PM Google's $250M Deal with California to Fund Newsrooms May Be Stalled
Wednesday December 31, 2025 @03:59PM Trump Administration Removes Three Spyware-Linked Execs From Sanctions List
Tuesday December 30, 2025 @08:12PM Denmark's Main Postal Carrier Ends Letter Delivery
Tuesday December 30, 2025 @08:05PM NYC Inauguration Bans Raspberry Pi, Flipper Zero Devices
Sunday December 28, 2025 @02:42AM Challenges Face European Governments Pursuing 'Digital Sovereignty'
Wednesday December 24, 2025 @04:55PM Apple To Allow Alternative App Stores For iOS Users In Brazil
Wednesday December 24, 2025 @03:45PM Italy Tells Meta To Suspend Its Policy That Bans Rival AI Chatbots From WhatsApp
Wednesday December 24, 2025 @03:10PM China Is Worried AI Threatens Party Rule
Tuesday December 23, 2025 @11:19PM US Bars Five Europeans It Says Pressured Tech Firms To Censor American Viewpoints Online
Monday December 22, 2025 @08:36PM FCC Bans Foreign-Made Drones Over National Security, Spying Concerns
Monday December 22, 2025 @12:02AM The U.S. Could Ban Chinese-Made Drones Used By Police Departments
Sunday December 21, 2025 @03:05AM Trump Admin to Hire 1,000 for New 'Tech Force' to Build AI Infrastructure
Friday December 19, 2025 @10:59PM Pro-AI Group Launches First of Many Attack Ads for US Election
Friday December 19, 2025 @05:44PM YouTuber's Livestream Appears On White House Website
Wednesday December 17, 2025 @06:40PM Senate Confirms Billionaire Entrepreneur Jared Isaacman As New NASA Chief
Wednesday December 17, 2025 @02:17PM FCC Chair Suggests Agency Isn't Independent, Word Cut From Mission Statement
Sunday December 14, 2025 @09:20PM Like Australia, Denmark Plans to Severely Restrict Social Media Use for Teenagers
Sunday December 14, 2025 @06:57PM 'Investors in Limbo'. Will the TikTok Deal's Deadline Be Extended Again?
Sunday December 14, 2025 @02:56AM Repeal Section 230 and Its Platform Protections, Urges New Bipartisan US Bill
Friday December 12, 2025 @09:57PM Trump Ban on Wind Energy Permits 'Unlawful', Court Rules
Friday December 12, 2025 @05:48PM US To Mandate AI Vendors Measure Political Bias For Federal Sales
Thursday December 11, 2025 @11:54PM SEC Gives DTCC OK to Tokenize Stocks In Move To Blockchain
Thursday December 11, 2025 @07:52PM Trump Signs Executive Order For Single National AI Regulation Framework, Limiting Power of States
Tuesday December 09, 2025 @08:59PM Rubio Orders Diplomats To Return To Using Times New Roman Font
Tuesday December 09, 2025 @05:23PM Congress Quietly Strips Right-To-Repair Provisions From US Military Spending Bill
Monday December 08, 2025 @07:51PM Nvidia Can Sell H200 Chips To China For 25% US Cut
Saturday December 06, 2025 @02:53PM Could America's Paper Checks Be On the Way Out, Like the Penny?
Saturday December 06, 2025 @12:55AM Could Netflix's Deal for Warner Bros. Fall Apart?
Friday December 05, 2025 @05:10PM India Reviews Telecom Industry Proposal For Always-On Satellite Location Tracking
Thursday December 04, 2025 @10:51PM Contractors With Hacking Records Accused of Wiping 96 Government Databases
Thursday December 04, 2025 @06:28PM Republicans Drop Trump-Ordered Block On State AI Laws From Defense Bill
Wednesday December 03, 2025 @01:37PM After AI Push, Trump Administration Is Now Looking To Robots
Wednesday December 03, 2025 @01:12PM India Pulls Its Preinstalled iPhone App Demand
Tuesday December 02, 2025 @06:14PM Apple To Resist India Order To Preload State-Run App As Political Outcry Builds
Tuesday December 02, 2025 @01:30AM Trump Administration To Take Equity Stake In Former Intel CEO's Chip Startup
Monday December 01, 2025 @12:18AM Two Former US Congressmen Announce Fundraising for Candidates Supporting AI Regulation
Sunday November 30, 2025 @01:46PM What Happens When You Kick Millions of Teens Off Social Media? Australia's About to Find Out
Tuesday November 25, 2025 @08:10PM Texas Buys $5 Million In BTC ETF As States Edge Toward First Government Crypto Reserves
Monday November 24, 2025 @08:09PM Trump Launches Genesis Mission, a Manhattan Project-Level AI Push
Monday November 24, 2025 @06:33PM Amazon Pledges Up To $50 Billion To Expand AI, Supercomputing For US Government
Saturday November 22, 2025 @06:27PM 'The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming'
Friday November 21, 2025 @06:38PM SEC Dismisses Case Against SolarWinds, Top Security Officer
Wednesday November 19, 2025 @08:34PM White House Prepares Executive Order To Block State AI Laws
Monday November 17, 2025 @05:06PM NetChoice Sues Virginia To Block Its One-Hour Social Media Limit For Kids
Friday November 14, 2025 @12:12AM Singapore To Trial Tokenized Bills, Bring In Stablecoin Laws
Friday November 07, 2025 @06:23PM Denmark's Government Aims To Ban Access To Social Media For Children Under 15
Thursday November 06, 2025 @09:15PM US Congressional Budget Office Hit By Suspected Foreign Cyberattack
Monday November 03, 2025 @11:02PM Australians To Get At Least Three Hours a Day of Free Solar Power - Even If They Don't Have Solar Panels
Monday November 03, 2025 @05:24PM Google Removes Gemma Models From AI Studio After GOP Senator's Complaint
Sunday November 02, 2025 @02:26AM Daylight Saving Time: Still Happening. Still Unpopular
Friday October 31, 2025 @07:07PM FCC To Rescind Ruling That Said ISPs Are Required To Secure Their Networks
Tuesday October 28, 2025 @11:21PM Senator Blocks Trump-Backed Effort To Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent
Tuesday October 28, 2025 @05:13PM Senators Announce Bill That Would Ban AI Chatbot Companions For Minors
Tuesday October 28, 2025 @05:01PM Python Foundation Rejects Government Grant Over DEI Restrictions
Sunday October 26, 2025 @12:19AM How America's Transportation Department Blocked a Self-Driving Truck Company
Saturday October 25, 2025 @08:34PM Exxon Sues California Over Climate Disclosure Laws
Thursday October 23, 2025 @04:48PM Trump Eyes Government Control of Quantum Computing Firms
Sunday October 19, 2025 @01:49PM Sony Applies to Establish National Crypto Bank, Issue Stablecoin for US Dollar
Monday October 13, 2025 @06:36PM Major US Online Retailers Remove Listings For Millions of Prohibited Chinese Electronics
Monday October 13, 2025 @05:51PM Britain Issues First Online Safety Fine To US Website 4chan
Monday October 13, 2025 @05:21PM Dutch Government Takes Control of China-Owned Chipmaker Nexperia
Sunday October 12, 2025 @03:51AM Cryptologist DJB Alleges NSA is Pushing an End to Backup Algorithms for Post-Quantum Cryptography
Saturday October 11, 2025 @01:44AM California 'Privacy Protection Agency' Targets Tractor Supply's Tricky Tracking
Saturday October 11, 2025 @01:13AM New California Privacy Law Will Require Chrome/Edge/Safari to Offer Easy Opt-Outs for Data Sharing
Thursday October 09, 2025 @04:44PM Apple and Google Reluctantly Comply With Texas Age Verification Law
Sunday October 05, 2025 @05:49PM California's Uber and Lyft Drivers Get Union Rights
Friday October 03, 2025 @07:01PM Indonesia Suspends TikTok Registration With Over 100 Million Accounts At Risk
Friday October 03, 2025 @06:24PM SEC Approves Texas Stock Exchange
Friday October 03, 2025 @10:41AM Key Cybersecurity Intelligence-Sharing Law Expires as Government Shuts Down
Sunday September 28, 2025 @05:56PM Switzerland Approves Digital ID In Narrow Vote, UK Proposes One Too
Sunday September 28, 2025 @12:04AM Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'?
Friday September 26, 2025 @03:15PM US Plans 1:1 Chip Production Rule To Curb Overseas Reliance
Friday September 26, 2025 @03:07PM xAI Offers Grok To Federal Government For 42 Cents
Friday September 26, 2025 @02:36PM Chinese Hackers Breach US Software and Law Firms Amid Trade Fight
Wednesday September 24, 2025 @06:49PM Japanese City Passes Two-Hours-a-Day Smartphone Usage Ordinance
Monday September 22, 2025 @07:03PM Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire Remaining Democrat On FTC
Monday September 22, 2025 @03:55PM Meta's AI System Llama Approved For Use By US Government Agencies
Wednesday September 17, 2025 @03:41PM Congress Asks Valve, Discord, and Twitch To Testify On 'Radicalization'
Monday September 15, 2025 @08:07PM UK's MI5 'Unlawfully' Obtained Data From Former BBC Journalist
Monday September 15, 2025 @06:13PM FTC Probes Whether Ticketmaster Does Enough To Stop Resale Bots
Sunday September 14, 2025 @12:56PM African Island Demanding Government Action Punished with Year-Long Internet Outage
Sunday September 14, 2025 @12:38PM America's FTC Opens New Probe into Amazon and Google Advertising Practices
Wednesday September 10, 2025 @04:53PM White House Asks FDA To Review Pharma Advertising On TV
Tuesday September 09, 2025 @05:29PM HHS Asks All Employees To Start Using ChatGPT
Sunday September 07, 2025 @03:44PM Chinese Hackers Impersonated US Lawmaker in Email Espionage Campaign
Friday September 05, 2025 @02:59PM Trump To Impose Tariffs On Semiconductor Imports From Firms Not Moving Production To US
Thursday September 04, 2025 @07:26PM UK Government Trial of M365 Copilot Finds No Clear Productivity Boost
Sunday August 31, 2025 @08:47PM 400 'Tech Utopian' Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State
Saturday August 30, 2025 @05:44PM Intel Get $5.7 Billion Early. What's the Government's Strategy?
Thursday August 28, 2025 @02:02PM US To Publish Economic Data On Blockchain, Commerce Chief Says
Monday August 25, 2025 @03:23AM Bluesky Blocks Mississippi Over Age Verification Law