House fails to renew FISA surveillance law amid controversy
The House voted against renewing Section 702 of FISA, a law that allows U.S. intelligence agencies to collect vast amounts of information, including data on Americans, to identify foreign threats.
California's new CIO focuses on modernizing legacy systems and AI
Given plans to steer the California Department of Technology (CDT) towards incremental improvements with measurable returns, rather than large-scale, multi-year modernization projects, citing budget limitations.
China-nexus group hid in Linux login system for nearly a decade
The group's operation, dubbed Operation Highland, involved backdooring the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) and OpenSSH components, which are fundamental to user authentication on Linux systems.