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When Nokia Pulled Out of Russia, a Vast Surveillance System Remained
The Finnish company played a key role in enabling Russia’s cyberspying, documents show, raising questions of corporate responsibility. Source
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Air Force Taps Clearview AI to Research Face-Identifying A.R. Glasses
The U.S. Air Force is looking into keeping its airfields safer with help from the facial recognition start-up Clearview AI. The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Clearview $49,847 to research augmented reality glasses that could […]
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The Battle for the World’s Most Powerful Cyberweapon
The Mexico example revealed both the promise and the perils of working with NSO. In 2017, researchers at Citizen Lab, a watchdog group based at the University of Toronto, reported that authorities in Mexico had […]
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Blue Origin Loses Legal Fight Over SpaceX’s NASA Moon Contract
A federal judge rejected the argument by Jeff Bezos’ rocket company that NASA unfairly awarded a lunar lander contract to Elon Musk’s firm. Source
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Bezos’ Blue Origin Loses Challenge to NASA SpaceX Lunar Lander Contract
The G.A.O. also said that NASA had fairly evaluated the three proposals, and although it agreed that NASA had improperly waived one requirement for SpaceX, that mistake was not serious enough to merit redoing the […]
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G.O.P. Lawmakers Question Amazon’s Connections on Pentagon Contract
Newly released emails show particular praise of Amazon among top Defense Department officials during the Trump administration as technology firms competed for a $10 billion award. Source
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Government Tech Moves Too Slooowly
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. Let’s talk about the exciting topic of government procurement! Woo hoo?! Seriously, the way that government agencies […]