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Today is International Women in Engineering Day (INWED). The occasion is celebrated globally every year on June 23 to honor the achievements, innovation, and contributions of women engineers across the world. This year’s official theme is #EngineeringIntelligence. It spotlights the critical perspectives and leadership that women engineers bring to
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Carl Froggett combines CISO and CIO. He currently occupies both positions at Deep Instinct. Before then, he was CISO at Citi for almost 17 years. Combining CISO and CIO Froggett has long believed the two roles overlap, making a combined role attractive. But it doesn’t work for all companies.
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The defining feature of the AI era is the speed at which AI tools have become a significant part of our working lives. Whether that’s generating content, summarizing data or automating routine tasks, AI’s speed is collapsing timelines that once took hours, days or weeks into seconds. This
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A vulnerability in the FFmpeg media processing framework allows attackers to crash applications and execute arbitrary code remotely, JFrog warns. FFmpeg is used in most media-processing applications across every platform, including desktop video players, Linux file managers, self-hosted media servers, and cloud transcoding pipelines. Tracked as CVE-2026-8461 (CVSS score of
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OpenAI on Monday expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative with a new suite of tools and partnerships, framing the effort around a problem it says has become more pressing than vulnerability discovery itself: getting patches deployed. The company argues that AI models have fundamentally changed the security landscape by accelerating the
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NVIDIA Halos OS brings embedded hardware safety directly to physical AI workloads across industrial deployments. Traditional hazard protocols designed around fixed cages fail when autonomous machines operate alongside human personnel. Agility Robotics currently deploys the Halos OS framework within its Digit humanoid series. Agility integrates the NVIDIA IGX Thor compute
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* Five Eyes alliance warned frontier GenAI models will enable advanced cyberattacks against businesses and governments within months * Statement stressed cyber risk is now a leadership and business continuity issue, requiring whole‑of‑society response * Comes amid concerns over Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and other models already showing offensive potential despite
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A Russian initial access broker (IAB) is targeting over 430,000 FortiGate firewalls as part of the FortiBleed credential-harvesting campaign, SOCRadar reports. Discovered last week, the campaign has been ongoing since at least February, and was initially believed to be Fortinet-exclusive. But it is not. In a fresh report (PDF)
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Two young hackers, reportedly the members of the Scattered Spider hacking group, pleaded guilty under the Computer Misuse Act for their involvement in a £39 million cyberattack on Transport for London (TfL). Specifically, they admitted to conspiring to commit unauthorised acts against TfL’s computer systems, a charge carrying a
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In May, the White House announced that its new app would be automatically downloaded onto the work phones of millions of government employees. The problem: Federal workers hate it and can’t get rid of it. Employees of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the State Department, and the Department
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Artificial intelligence has emerged as the top technology investment priority for U.S. healthcare organizations heading into 2026, but most providers, payers and health-tech firms are still struggling to build the foundations needed to deploy AI at scale, according to a new industry survey. The State of AI in Healthcare
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Canadian electricity provider London Hydro is investigating a data breach that potentially impacted the personal and account information of its customers. London Hydro is a local distribution company serving the City of London, Ontario. It serves roughly 170,000 residential, institutional, commercial, and industrial customers. On June 20, the electricity
