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Brown University has reached an agreement with the federal government to restore funding for things like research grants, the prestigious college said. The “voluntary agreement” reached Wednesday restores funding for medical and science research that is funded by the federal government, the school said in a release. The deal also resolves three outstanding reviews that were looking at Brown’s “compliance …

ADDRESSING A NATIONAL EMERGENCY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order implementing an additional 40% tariff on Brazil, bringing the total tariff amount to 50%, to deal with recent policies, practices, and actions by the Government of Brazil that constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. The …

Critics of those who misuse power tend to be outsiders. So, it’s striking that Alexander Karp, co-founder and CEO of data analytics giant Palantir Technologies, has written a book, with Palantir’s head of corporate affairs Nicholas Zamiska, calling on Silicon Valley to find its moral compass. Together, they upbraid fellow big tech companies for “building [things] simply because they can, …

Gov. Lee, The Boring Company Unveil Transformative Underground Music City Loop Project  Tennessee State Government (.gov) Musk’s Boring Company unveils Music City Loop tunnel project for Nashville  Axios Elon Musk’s Boring Company announces Music City Loop project connecting airport, downtown Nashville  WSMV Tunnel proposal from Musk’s Boring Company aims to connect downtown Nashville and BNA airport  WPLN News Elon Musk to install ‘Music City …

The Microsoft Hack Affected Some of the Highest Levels of Government. The Stock Is Up.  Barron’s Disrupting active exploitation of on-premises SharePoint vulnerabilities  Microsoft Chinese Hackers Are Exploiting Flaws in Widely Used Software, Microsoft Says  The New York Times Nuclear Weapons Agency Breached in Microsoft SharePoint Hack  Bloomberg.com A Failed Microsoft Security Patch Is the Latest Win for Chinese Hackers  The Wall Street Journal Source …

US national debt currently exceeds $36 trillion, but if you want to toss a few extra dollars of your own money to try and help bring that down, you can now do so from a Venmo account, as spotted by NPR’s Jack Corbett. You can see the Venmo payment option on the Treasury Department’s “Gifts to Reduce the Public Debt” …

U.S. Says Government Employee Blocked From Leaving China  The Wall Street Journal China imposes exit bans on U.S. Department of Commerce employee and a Wells Fargo banker  CBS News China denies wrongdoing in preventing dozens of Americans from leaving under shadow ‘exit ban’  Fox News China Confirms Exit Ban on Wells Fargo Banker Chenyue Mao  The Wall Street Journal China blocks US federal employee …

Senate takes first bipartisan step on government funding ahead of September shutdown cliff  Politico Schumer’s strategy for avoiding a shutdown scramble  Politico Senate Dems preserve shutdown leverage over Trump, GOP  Axios Senate Democrats agree to advance military construction, VA spending bill  The Hill Senate weathers Dem opposition, advances first government funding bill  Fox News Source link

Washington says China will not let US government employee leave the country  Reuters China bans Wells Fargo banker from leaving the country  CNN Chinese Officers Questioned U.S. Government Employee About His Army Service  The New York Times China blocks Wells Fargo banker from leaving due to ‘criminal case’  BBC US government employee barred from leaving China, Washington says  Al Jazeera Source link

The hackers behind the initial wave of attacks exploiting a zero-day in Microsoft SharePoint servers have so far primarily targeted government organizations, according to researchers and news reports. Over the weekend, U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA published an alert, warning that hackers were exploiting a previously unknown bug — known as a “zero-day” — in Microsoft’s enterprise data management product SharePoint. …