Dorobek Must Reads – August 26

Each day, the DorobekInsider team searches the Web for the stories most important to the federal community. We gather them so you don’t have to.

• Digital devices deprive brain of needed downtime (NYT)
• Apple plans to compete with 99-cent TV show purchases (Bloomberg)
• Rich exoplanet system discovered (BBC)
• A tech autopsy of Google’s failed communication platform (Slate)
• New Orleans’ fragile recovery, 5 years after Katrina (Yahoo!)
• Five years later: Hurricane Katrina (USA TODAY)
• What the US can learn from the UK’s public service agreements (The Business of Government)
• At West Point, hidden gay cadets put in spotlight (NYT)
• WikiLeaks releases CIA document (The Daily Beast)
• CDC: Motor vehicle crashes cost the US $100 billion a year (CNN)
• The benefits of teleworking (GovLoop)
• Bedbugs invade file cabinets at SSA offices (Federal Computer Week)
• Where science is five years after Hurricane Katrina (Geeked on Goddard)
• Defending a new domain: The Pentagon’s cyberstrategy (Council on Foreign Relations)
• Cybersecurity: a team sport (CIO Blog)

And here’s a list of stories that you made popular yesterday:

1. More TSP participants taking out money early
2. Rule would change contractors’ hiring practices
3. Hatch Act rules now include Web 2.0 guidance
4. Top 200 contractors list released
5. Dorobek Must Reads – August 24
6. More take hardship withdrawals from retirement accounts
7. Dorobek Must Reads – August 25
8. Federal cloud security requirements to debut Oct. 1
9. SBA conference designed to help minority enterprises
10. OMB plans to consolodate government data centers
    

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