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Texas Governor Greg Abbott gives a thumbs up to supporters before ringing the closing bell to celebrate the grand opening of NYSE Texas on August 27, 2026 in Dallas, Texas. Ron Jenkins/Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW August 31, 2026 10:52 AM ET Project Watershed 250
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NVIDIA is doubling down on its partnership with MediaTek, committing $3.5 billion to purchase convertible bonds issued by the Taiwanese chip design firm. Announced on Monday, the deal deepens the two companies' collaboration across three major areas, including AI infrastructure, local AI computing, and software-defined automotive platforms. A
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Identity-based attack techniques were involved in 85% of ransomware attacks against education institutions, according to Sophos’ State of Ransomware in Education 2026 report. The figure was higher than the 79% cross-sector average. The techniques covered in the report include malicious email, phishing, compromised credentials and brute-force attacks. Malicious email emerged
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Tiger Analytics has been named an OpenAI Select Partner under the OpenAI Partner Network, a global programme through which partners work with OpenAI to build, sell and deliver AI solutions. The partnership will see Tiger Analytics work with OpenAI to support organisations in building and deploying AI applications, with a
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If your people team spent this year reading legislation rather than hiring, that is not a scheduling failure. Three pieces of European employment law took effect in 2026. A fourth arrives in December. They share a design principle most companies have not yet absorbed. The thread running through all of
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Reform UK wants to abolish the UK GDPR. It would replace the regime with a lighter privacy law modelled on New Zealand’s. Nigel Farage and the party’s economy chief Robert Jenrick announced the pledge on Tuesday evening, inside a package aimed at small businesses. Mizy Clifton reported the
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Pollen Robotics has unveiled a bipedal robot called Microduck, at an introductory price of $399 before taxes and shipping. The Bordeaux company is owned by the AI platform Hugging Face. Its new machine has one eye and 15 motors, stands 25cm tall, and weighs under 800g. Preorders opened on Thursday.
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The retro gaming handheld market has seen countless reimaginations of classic ergonomics, but hardware newcomer Yoniq turned heads at Gamescom 2026 by building a portable display and console into the iconic shape of a PlayStation 2 DualShock controller. Relatively new hardware brand Yoniq showcased a working prototype of its upcoming
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Salesforce has announced an expansion of its Headless 360 platform, adding capabilities intended to allow authorised AI agents to discover and use Salesforce business functions across enterprise applications. The expansion includes new Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, Data 360 capabilities, Slack integrations, reusable Skills and developer tools. The company said
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Coforge has announced an AI adoption framework aimed at helping enterprises address organisational and operational challenges associated with scaling agentic software development. The company said the framework is intended to help organisations assess workforce readiness, redesign development operating models and expand the use of AI-powered coding assistants and autonomous development
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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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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AWS News Blog The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the popular open source analytical database that runs in-process and executes SQL directly against files like Parquet, CSV, and JSON.
