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Colin Wood

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Colin Wood is StateScoop’s editor in chief. Contact him at colin.wood@statescoop.com or cwood.64 on Signal.

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Josh Stein — North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein talks to reporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court after he attended oral arguments in the Moore v. Harper case Dec. 7, 2022 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Amid ‘rising global threats,’ North Carolina’s tech bureau urges cybersecurity vigilance

Cybersecurity

Texas state capitol building — The Texas State Capitol building stands in Austin. (Getty Images)

Texas promotes AI and innovation chief to CIO role

State

Katie Hobbs — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs speaks on a panel discussion about Innovations in Water Access at the Clinton Global Initiative on Sept. 23, 2024 in New York City. (Alex Kent / Getty Images)

Arizona’s governor unveils (a more careful) efficiency plan: ‘We will not slash and burn’

State

The Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant — The Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant hums along in East Rockaway, New York, on July 1, 2019. (John Keating / Newsday RM via Getty Images)

New York unveils new cyber regulations for water treatment facilities

Cybersecurity

Mikie Sherrill — New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rep. Mikie Sherrill delivers remarks at her election night watch party at the Hilton East Brunswick Hotel on Nov. 4, 2025 in East Brunswick, New Jersey. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / Getty Images)

New Jersey governor’s proposed budget includes ‘significant’ IT upgrades

Modernization

Greg Abbott — Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a primary election night event hosted by the Young Conservatives of Texas and the Texas Young Republicans at Cedar Door Patio Bar & Grill in Austin on March 3, 2026. (Jay Janner / The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images)

Texas governor orders health agencies to address Chinese cyber risk in patient monitoring devices

Cybersecurity

war in Tehran, Iran — Smoke rises after a series of explosions in Tehran, Iran, on March 1, 2026. (Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu via Getty Images)

Iran war will bring wave of ‘low-level cyber activity,’ says intelligence group

Cybersecurity

smiley bots — (Getty Images)

State governments are starting to pursue agentic AI

AI

LIPA power plant — The Long Island Power Authority power plant sits in Northport, New York, on Nov. 7, 2025. (John Paraskevas / Newsday RM via Getty Images)

‘You can’t separate the physical from the cyber,’ says New York’s first security and intelligence director

Cybersecurity