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ByEdward Graham, Managing Editor, Nextgov/FCW July 16, 2026 06:39 PM ET A Pentagon official told Nextgov/FCW that the agency is “rolling out additional apprenticeship positions over the next few weeks.” * Defense * Cyber Defense * Workforce The Pentagon prematurely closed the job listing for its new Cyber Registered Apprenticeship
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* Excel continues to grow as a popular esport * The Microsoft Excel World Championship’s (MEWC) inaugural Landmark Battle took place on the weekend of July 11th, 2026 * Four competitors went to cell-to-cell, but there was only one winner The Microsoft Excel World Championship’s (MEWC) inaugural Landmark Battle has declared
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valerybrozhinsky - stock.adobe.c Modern software runs on open source. Nearly all codebases -- 98% -- contain open source code, according to a 2026 report from cybersecurity vendor Black Duck, which scanned 947 codebases and analyzed nearly 3,000 individual projects between November 2024 and October 2025. Those open
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This week on Uncanny Valley, the team discusses the details behind Apple suing OpenAI over alleged stolen hardware secrets. And the company’s headaches don’t stop there—a group of OpenAI employees just started a Super PAC to advocate for stronger AI guardrails. Plus, New York’s first-in-the-nation data
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Health plans are losing Star ratings because insights arrive too late to change outcomes. AI closes that gap by getting the right insight to the right person while there is still time to act. More Data Isn’t the Missing Piece Health plans no longer have a data problem. Most
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TL;DR NTSB says the driver, not FSD, caused the fatal Texas Tesla crash by flooring the accelerator to 100 percent on a residential street. The driver of a Tesla that crashed into a Texas home and killed a 76-year-old woman had manually overrode Full Self-Driving by pressing the accelerator
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TL;DR Moia launched a pilot autonomous ride-pooling service in Hamburg with VW ID Buzz vans and plans US launches with Uber and Beep this year. Volkswagen’s autonomous mobility subsidiary Moia has begun offering rides in self-driving ID Buzz vans to preregistered residents in Hamburg, marking the first time
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TL;DR 1Password for Claude lets the AI agent use your logins via biometric approval without the credentials ever reaching the model or Anthropic’s systems. 1Password has launched a browser integration that lets Anthropic’s Claude use stored credentials to complete tasks on the web without the passwords ever
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* Belkin has launched a new power bank that also includes a light * This can function as a night light, a fill light, or even an SOS signal * The power bank has a 10,000mAh capacity, but currently it's only available in China It can be hard to stand
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The movement to preserve online privacy runs counter to the business model of many big tech companies, which have devised profitable business models that hinge on capitalizing on personal data users surrender by using their platforms. This reality cannot be divorced from the facts that prominent figures, like former Google
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CISOs and their teams are expected to demonstrate compliance with a range of regulations, frameworks and standards. With an alphabet soup of frameworks -- NIST, ISO, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR and many other country- or sector-specific mandates -- there is a growing risk of duplicating effort, control gaps and audit
