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John Paczkowski in News on May 17 at 8:47 am PT
Howard Schmidt, the first-ever White House cyber-security coordinator, is leaving the post he’s held since 2009. Schmidt, who has spent the past two-and-a-half years working on protections for the country’s critical infrastructure, will step down at the end of this month; he’ll be succeeded by Michael Daniel, chief of the White House budget office’s intelligence branch.
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Laura Meckler and Jared A. Favole, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 23 at 12:05 pm PT
President Barack Obama has signed an executive order targeting people and companies facilitating human-rights abuses with technology, part of a broader push by the White House to combat mass atrocities at a time of heightened concern over civilian massacres in places like Syria.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 20 at 5:26 am PT
Two years after the introduction of the National Broadband Plan, a new study finds that not many more Americans have fast access at home than they did before.
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John Murrell in News on March 9 at 1:09 pm PT
The White House today
named Todd Park, the chief technology officer of the Department of Health and Human Services, to fill that role on a national level, replacing the departed Aneesh Chopra. Park comes in with an entrepreneurial background,
good press on his three years at HHS and, as the son of Korean immigrants, a compelling personal story.
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Julia Angwin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 23 at 3:00 am PT
A coalition of Internet giants including Google Inc. has agreed to support a do-not-track button to be embedded in most Web browsers — a move that the industry had been resisting for more than a year.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 24 at 3:54 am PT
The intelligent discussion site Quora has gotten a nod from the Obama administration on the eve of the annual U.S. State of the Union address.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 14 at 4:00 pm PT
The White House signals that it doesn’t like the controversial SOPA bill. Here’s one writer who’s not the least bit surprised.
