Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Housing and Urban Development
GAO发现了2024年6月，GAO确定了住房和城市发展部（HUD）的11个优先建议。从那以后，HUD实施了其中两个建议。首先，HUD实施了CARE（COC）时间点计数方法数据的质量保证检查。具体而言，HUD评估了COCS的数据方法论提交的年度变化，并检查是否触发了任何验证标志。其次，HUD制定并实施了一项隐私风险管理策略，以确保符合联邦隐私要求并保护个人信息HUD收集。根据2025年5月，GAO尚未确定HUD的任何其他优先建议。 The nine priority recommendations involve the following areas: Reducing fraud risk
U.S., Philippine, and Japanese military forces, along with civilian leaders, gathered for the Balikatan 25 Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Tabletop Exercise, working together to enhance crisis response coordination and strengthen their longstanding alliance from April 29 to May 1,
'Cataclysmic impact': Americans are 'objectively worse off' under Trump
在唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）第二任期的近100天内，选民似乎不满意，尤其是他对通货膨胀和关税的管理。 61％的成年人不赞成他在这一领域的表现。 The poll revealed that 53 percent of adults believe the economy has declined since Trump began his second term, while only 21 percent feel it has improved.ALSO READ: Republicans 'losing faith' as Trump is plagued by 'his
MBA Survey: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Decreases to 0.36% in March
从MBA：抵押贷款中的抵押贷款份额略微下降至三月抵押贷款银行家协会（MBA）每月贷款监控调查显示，现在，预宽贷款的总贷款总数减少了2个基点的总数从上月的0.38％降至0.38％的投资组合，到3月3日，估价为2025年3月3日。忍耐计划。 Mortgage servicers have provided approximately 8.6 million forbearances since March 2020.The share of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans in forbearance decreased 2 basis points to 0.1
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):How you can use AI to help when you are made redundant: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/7-ways-generative-ai-can-help-you-survive-a-layoff No mention of wh
Canada Is Dreaming Up Disaster if the JAS 39 Gripen Fighter Replaces the F-35
摘要和要点：由于与美国的紧张关系，加拿大的F-35战斗机决定在政治上变得复杂。 -Prime Minister Mark Carney paused Canada’s $19 billion deal for 88 F-35s, opting instead for a full review after only committing to an initial 16. -Candidates campaigning for office emphasize Canadian sovereignty and independence from U.S. […]The post Canada
Disaster Assistance: Improving the Federal Approach
GAO发现的是，越来越强调联邦政府如何改善其灾难恢复的方法。 In the last 10 years, appropriations for disaster assistance totaled at least $448 billion, plus an additional $110 billion in supplemental appropriations so far in fiscal year 2025. Recent disasters such as Hurricanes Helene and Milton, the wildfires in California, an
The trouble with T-levels and the academic/vocational divide | Letters
John Butcher and Karen Ahmed respond to Susanna Rustin’s article on the vocational qualificationI am grateful to Susanna Rustin for her trenchant analysis of government failure to tackle the post-16 academic/vocational divide (T-levels are a disaster – and young people are suffering because minister
高高发现运输部（DOT）和国土安全部（DHS）通过各种赠款向港口及其周围社区提供了资金机会。对于七个这样的赠款计划，GAO在2024年确定了与自然灾害弹性有关的赠款选择标准，该计划在最近的五个使用此类通知的竞争性计划的资金通知中。 Gao发现，在港口的联邦授予的项目改善了自然灾害弹性的程度尚不完全了解。根据DOT和DHS官员的说法，这样做的一个关键原因是，即使港口项目对自然灾害的韧性通常会提高，即使他们具有不同的主要目标，例如打击恐怖主义或解决网络安全。例如，GAO的一个选定端口中的一个获得了赠款，以重新安装安全检查点门并安装新的门操作系统。港口代表说，大门已经离开了洪水区，从而提高了抵抗洪水
我上周在 Twitter 上发布的一些有趣的链接（我也在 Mastodon、Threads、Newsmast 和 Bluesky 上发布了这些链接）：使用 AI 提高编程效率：https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/how-i-program-with-llms/ 大多数公众并不了解同行评审与预印本的概念。作为研究人员，我们真的应该尽量避免使用预印本作为我们向公众所说的话的基础：https://www.science.org/content/article/preprints-often-make-news-many-people-don-t-know-what-
Роботы помогли в ликвидации последствий землятрясения в Италии
8月24日意大利阿马特里切发生毁灭性地震后，意大利消防部门向欧洲机器人辅助救灾小组（Teaming for TRADR - Robot-Assisted Disaster Response）请求援助。
