Newscan: California bill lets on-the-job firefighters take out drones

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Video decision cited as one reason for Portland crowd-control unit’s mass resignation Microsoft president op-ed: The secret gag orders must stop Something appears to be ‘simply, simply wrong’ at the Biden Justice Department SEC probing SolarWinds clients over cyber breach disclosures–sources Feds aim to standardize GIS across the […]

Ransomware attacks are the new pandemic, threatening the US economy, commerce, and the flow of goods to market. First, there was the Colonial Pipeline shutdown, then JBS USA. However, those were not even close to being the first; ransomware attacks have been around for decades. Some of the earliest attacks were in healthcare facilities, in part due […]

A trial of robot bus fleets run simultaneously in several European cities is being hailed as a success despite some areas of concern. The trial, orchestrated within the European Union funded ‘Fabulous’ project, saw three different robot bus solutions tested in Finland, Norway, Estonia, Greece and the Netherlands. Based on the results, proof-of-concepts for the management […]

National Emergency Number Association (NENA) CEO Brian Fontes said it is “false” that his organization would oppose legislation that would provide $15 billion in federal funding for next-generation 911 (NG911) deployments, but he reiterated NENA’s stance that some language in the existing proposal should be changed. NENA’s position on the NG911 funding language in the […]