New York City Mayor Eric Adams has issued Executive Order (EO) 39, which will address truck and bus safety for the city’s fleet and contracted units. As part of the EO, city contractors will have new safety requirements, including preparing fleet safety plans, increasing driver training, adopting telematics, and adding 360-degree cameras to mitigate the impacts of visual impairments for operators.

Feds Warn of Chinese Hack Into US Critical Infrastructure
Federal agencies called on all organizations today to urgently implement a series of cybersecurity actions after discovering that a Chinese-based hacking group has compromised the IT environments of multiple U.S. critical infrastructure organizations – with the end goal of a future cyberattack.

A coalition of education and library stakeholders has filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding its $200 million Cybersecurity Pilot Program and is urging the commission to take additional steps and modify the proposed program.

IT service management teams in state and local government agencies are experiencing increased demands in rapidly changing environments that are growing more complex. MeriTalk recently sat down with Andrew Graf, chief product officer at TeamDynamix, to discuss the trends that have the greatest potential to overcome these IT service management challenges in 2024.

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) announced the creation of a new college at the university focused on artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, computing, data science and related disciplines.

Ohio’s Lake Erie College has received $150,000 in funding as part of the Ohio Department of Higher Education’s (ODHE) Teach Computer Science (CS) Grant Program.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has announced award recipients for the 2024 Municipal Cybersecurity Awareness Grant Program, which will provide 78,000 employees from 227 municipalities and public school districts across the state with cybersecurity training to better detect and avoid cyber threats.

The Department of Education has released the 2024 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP): A Call to Action for Closing the Digital Access, Design and Use Divides.

As the 2024 presidential election draws near, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., is looking to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to share critical information to help combat foreign election threats.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed new legislation that protects consumer privacy by requiring notifications to consumers of collection and disclosure of personal data by certain entities, including internet websites and online service providers.