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Department of Energy Deputy CIO Bridget Carper Arnone speaks at the Government Executive Efficiency Summit on July 16, 2026. Zaid Hamid/Nextgov/FCW July 16, 2026 05:18 PM ET The agency is expanding an enterprise data platform to all department elements and increasingly using artificial intelligence in daily operations.
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U.S. beverage maker Coca Cola said one of its dairy subsidiaries was hacked and that it’s shutting down its operations for the foreseeable future. The multinational giant said in a disclosure with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that its Fairlife dairy company was hit by ransomware
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When Nintendo released the highly anticipated Switch 2 last year, it brought along a whole host of upgrades, including improvements to the dock that allows the system to be connected to a television. The new dock includes a LAN port and an active fan that cools off the handheld when
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Democratic congressional candidate for New York’s 17th district Cait Conley fears the Trump administration’s focus on cartels and fentanyl is coming at the expense of U.S. preparedness for threats from China and Russia — a trade-off she likened to Washington’s overinvestment in counterterrorism after the Sept. 11
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Microsoft is the biggest seller of cybersecurity software on the planet. Now it is tearing that business up and rebuilding it around AI. The overhaul means more AI security tools, fewer traditional products, and merged engineering teams. It has already cost several hundred jobs, The Information reported. The driver is
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* Researcher “Chaotic Eclipse” releases new Windows 11 zero‑day dubbed LegacyHive, a local privilege escalation bug targeting user registry hives * Exploit could let attackers elevate low‑privileged accounts, but requires prior device access; no CVE or full PoC was published * Experts caution that skilled actors could weaponize it quickly, urging
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The UK looked set to crack down on VPNs as it tightens the rules for children online. Instead it has backed off, and its own research is the reason why. Online Safety Minister Kanishka Narayan put it plainly on the BBC. “We decided not to limit VPNs,” he said. A
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* Russian hacker “bandcampro” used Google’s Gemini CLI to control an eight‑device botnet at a dental clinic * The attacker tricked the AI by posing as a pen tester, directing it to migrate C2 infrastructure, troubleshoot connectivity, and prepare payload bundles * The AI assisted with daily operations like password guessing
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Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2026. Today, Francis deSouza, COO, Google Cloud and President, Security Products, explains the crucial role that deep context plays in creating an AI advantage for defenders. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the
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Let's learn about Career Development via these 164 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Career development is the process of improving one's professional skills,
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Nearly two years after a cyberattack disrupted Transport for London’s (TfL) online services and exposed customer data, two members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime group have been sentenced to prison. Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 18, each received a prison sentence of five years and six months at
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“Your data is private. Period,” says period tracker Stardust on its website. As new research by Mozilla discovered, some users might find that claim to be a stretch. According to Mozilla’s latest findings examining the privacy practices of period-tracking apps, Stardust was found to be sharing users’ sensitive health
