Rudolf Rojas, an IT program manager at the USDA, stated that government staffing and resource cuts make keeping a human in the loop for AI tasks untenable. He argued that agencies must use AI tools to perform work and report back, relying on zero-trust principles and minimal privileges for security. Rojas also called for national…
Rachel Worsham, the first female varsity football coach in Virginia high school history, is leading the Thomas Jefferson Colonials through their first season under her guidance. Many players at the elite magnet school are novices who have only played flag football, making the transition to tackle football a significant challenge. Worsham focuses on teaching basic…
For fresh graduates and experienced professionals, the best way to demonstrate AI proficiency is to provide examples of actual work. Candidates need to demonstrate practical capabilities to show that they can work effectively with AI.
The U.S. government’s 2026 fiscal year ended on September 30, 2026. At the end, the federal government’s total public debt outstanding stood at $40,171,825,101,340.31. Because that’s an insanely big number, let’s spell it out in pieces.
Today, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) released a new staff Spotlight publication, “ Staff Update on 2025 Inspections of Public Company Audits.” In 2025, the staff of the PCAOB’s Division of Registration and Inspections inspected 143 PCAOB-registered public accounting firms…
You know when you are itching to take that plane flight for your vacation, but you can’t quite leave the house just yet on the off-chance that your flight might be delayed, canceled or even diverted to a different plane.
(Randy Litzinger/Icon Sportswire via AP Images)CINCINNATI — David Douděra scored for the first time in MLS, and Teenage Hadebe recorded his first goal with Cincinnati to help beat D.C. United 2-1 on Wednesday night.
A team led by Paweł Oświęcimka developed an agent-based model to investigate how multifractal behavior emerges in stock markets. The simulation uses simple rules where agents trade based on local positions and overall market sentiment. The researchers found that complex multifractal dynamics appear spontaneously at the boundary between collective action and individual freedom. This work…
Employers are prioritizing precise hiring for AI skills, with 72% of surveyed managers increasing pay for relevant expertise. CompTIA data shows 349,821 active IT job listings in September required AI skills, representing over half of all active postings. Robert Half reports AI engineer salaries ranging from $154,500 to $196,750, while AI architects earn between $145,250…
The Treasury reported that net interest payments on federal debt reached 19.5% of net receipts in fiscal year 2026, the highest level since at least 1940. This figure exceeds national defense spending and reflects a larger outstanding debt stock rather than higher interest rates, which averaged 3.518% in September 2026. With $17.507 trillion of marketable…