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Google delivered its excellent Pixel Buds 2a and Pixel Buds Pro 2 last year, and the company is continuing to put in the work to make these earbuds even better. An upcoming software update will bring a bevy of new features that will have something for just about every user,
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The Bold Bureau/Getty Images ByAlexandra Kelley, Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW August 13, 2026 03:09 PM ET Nick Marinos, the managing director of IT and cybersecurity issues at GAO, said leveraging existing avenues for cybersecurity information sharing can expedite getting AI safety policies into law. * Artificial Intelligence * GAO * Congress
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The Trump administration is launching a new program that will allow private firms to perform cyberattacks against foreign criminals, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The private firms would operate “under the control and oversight” of the federal government, giving them permission to surveil and disrupt criminal networks, according to a
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What happens when you pit AI agents against each other? According to Anthropic’s testing, things get messy fast. On Thursday, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published new research examining how groups of AI agents behave when they encounter each other in the wild. The findings provide a glimpse into
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Start with the money, because it is the part every developer noticed. From 16 August, a million output tokens through DeepSeek-V4-Pro costs $3.96 at peak, up from $0.87. V4-Flash goes from $0.28 to $1.32, Bloomberg reported. Off-peak rates are half the new peak, so $1.98
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US President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up before boarding Air Force One en route back to Washington, DC, at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland, Ohio on August 11, 2026. Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images ByChristian Robles, Technology Reporter, Nextgov/FCW August 13, 2026 12:40 PM ET
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* Nightmare Eclipse discloses ShieldBreak, a new Windows privilege‑escalation zero‑day * Flaw bypasses a recent patch and works on fully updated Windows 11 systems * Researcher’s ongoing exploit spree leaves multiple Windows vulnerabilities still unpatched Nightmare Eclipse has struck again! The notorious zero-day researcher with a Microsoft grudge disclosed its
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Quick Heal Technologies has appointed Rajiv Sreekantan as Senior Vice President – Enterprise Sales, as the cybersecurity company looks to expand Seqrite’s enterprise business in India and international markets. Sreekantan will lead enterprise sales globally, with responsibility for customer acquisition, retention and expansion across small and medium businesses, large enterprises,
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Orient Technologies reported a sharp sequential improvement in operating profitability in the first quarter of FY27, with consolidated EBITDA rising 161% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) to ₹15.42 crore from ₹5.91 crore in Q4 FY26. Consolidated revenue from operations increased 9.70% QoQ to ₹201.92 crore from ₹184.07 crore.
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Donald Trump is allowing government agencies to contract private cybersecurity companies to carry out operations against cyber-enabled transnational criminal organizations (CE-TCOs). The US President signed a memo on Wednesday confirming a strategy hinted at earlier this year, saying participating companies can support national operations against criminals, including cyber surveillance and
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* WindRelay campaign used vishing plus custom malware to turn phones into POS skimmers * Victims installed personalized RATs and NFC malware, enabling real‑time card theft * Attacks were highly targeted across Eastern Europe, with only a few individuals hit Hackers are turning people’s smartphones into malicious Point of Sale (POS)
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Custom tools harvested whatever over-permissioned guest accounts would surrender Someone has spent more than a year rifling through Salesforce and ServiceNow portals around the world, harvesting data that organizations accidentally left open to anyone who came looking. Researchers at Reco have named the operation "City-Forum" after a domain
