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The government is testing how well facial recognition works to compare folks against their ID and to identity proof them online. One tested solution had a false negative rate of about 50%, essentially meaning that only half of legit users got through. www.nextgov.com/emerging-tec...

GSA testing finds variations in the accuracy of digital ID verification tech

The preliminary results of a study that tested five different vendor solutions found some to be relatively accurate, while others were inaccurate or inequitable.

John Oliver talks through SSA's disability benefits — a “key safety net" for disability with a "nightmare" application process m.youtube.com/watch?v=_hIO...

S11 E23: Disability Benefits, Trump, Vance & Haiti: 9/22/24: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

journalism!! www.wsj.com/us-news/spri...

Under Trump, EPA scientists say managers pressured them to "delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage & neurological problems, from their reports — and in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves." (Via @propublica.bsky.social)

EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against.

Three reports issued by the agency’s inspector general detailed personal attacks suffered by the scientists — including being called “stupid,” “piranhas” and “pot-stirrers” — and called on the EPA to ...

The State Department launched online passport renewal today! It's the culmination of years of effort. www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

State Department goes big with online passport renewal

The latest pilot has been ongoing since June, but limited in scale. Now, Americans can renew online anytime.

Kamala Harris said at a campaign rally on Friday that as president, she would “get rid of the unnecessary degree requirements for federal jobs to increase jobs for folks without a four-year degree.” www.nextgov.com/people/2024/...

Harris touts skills-based hiring for feds on the campaign trail

The move to skills-based hiring for federal government jobs has been ongoing under the Trump and Biden administrations.

"According to a Guardian analysis, from 2020 to 2022 the real emissions from the 'in-house' or company-owned data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple are likely about 662% – or 7.62 times – higher than officially reported." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Data center emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?

Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures

WSJ editorial based on my reporting: t.co/DZHjEswTCb

Progress on IRS modernization www.nextgov.com/modernizatio...

Inside the IRS push for digital transformation

IRS employees at an Austin, Texas processing center must still sort through heaps of paper documents. But digitization tools are being powered on to help.