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WT joined the Grow with Google pilot program with universities around The Texas A&M University System. Each university receives 500 reusable licenses for 19 professional certifications; once someone ...

Julie Irvin Hartman started her Tuesday with welcome, but confusing news. The application she had submitted weeks ago to renew her business’s certification as a Historically Underutilized Business had ...

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy , and give us feedback . Julie Irvin Hartman started her Tuesday with welcome, but confusing news.

Texas has abruptly rewritten the rules of its state contracting system, stripping women and minority-owned businesses of a long-standing support program and reshaping it entirely around disabled ...

The best new features and fixes in Python 3.14 Released in October 2025, the latest edition of Python makes free-threaded ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) – The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts overhauled a program designed to provide more exposure to historically underutilized businesses in the state procurement process by removing ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Texas’ interim Comptroller Kelly Hancock said he believed the original statute that created the Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) program was unconstitutional and ...

TIOBE Index for December 2025: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent December’s TIOBE Index lands with a quieter top tier but a livelier shuffle just beneath it. The main ...