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With most agency headquarters at 25% capacity, ‘hard decisions’ coming for federal office holdings

17 of 24 agency headquarters offices are at or below one-quarter of full capacity, the Government Accountability Office found in preliminary findings from 2023 data.
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SEO Expert Hired and Fired By Ashley Madison Turned on Company, Promising Revenge

[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.] It was around 9 p.m. on Sunday, July 19, when I received a message through the contact form on KrebsOnSecurity.com that the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com had been hacked. The message contained links to confidential Ashley Madison documents, and included a manifesto that said a hacker group calling itself the Impact Team was prepared to leak data on all 37 million users unless Ashley Madison and a sister property voluntarily closed down within 30 days.
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NSW gov creates ‘legislation twin’

A different take on the digital twin.
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Putin’s Potential Successors Part 2: Aleksey Dyumin

Explore Aleksey Dyumin, potential successor to Putin as Russian president, including his political strengths, weaknesses, and implications for Russia’s future.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/Ss75bH

House GOP pushes bill to fast-track firing at VA. Agency leaders doubt it’ll help

Top Republicans on the House Veterans Affairs Committee are leading a bill to let the Department of Veterans Affairs once again fire employees more quickly.
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House GOP pushes bill to fast-track firing at VA. Agency leaders doubt it’ll help

Top Republicans on the House Veterans Affairs Committee are leading a bill to let the Department of Veterans Affairs once again fire employees more quickly.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/Ss5KgS

OMG Approves NIST-aided Complex Systems Modeling Upgrade for Public Review

The standards development organization, Object Management Group (OMG), recently began seeking public comments on a major upgrade to its Systems Modeling Language (SysML), which is widely used to specify requirements, design, and testing of complex
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PC shipments show signs of recovery as economic outlook improves

Enterprise demand for workstations and laptops bounced back in Q2 and may normalize by the end of the year, according to Gartner analysis.
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House GOP VA Committee members look to make firing of poor-performing VA employees easier

In today’s Federal Newscast: House Republicans are looking to make it easier to fire VA employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) abortion views lead to unfilled officer slots in the U.S. military. And the State Department looks to bring back retired diplomats.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/Ss4LG8

This National Science Foundation grant will help forecasters see inside clouds

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a 90-plus million grant with the purpose of improving understanding of weather.
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