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Your home Wi-Fi is the front door to everything connected in your house — phones, laptops, smart TVs, cameras, thermostats, even that cheap smart plug. Leave it unlocked, and you’re inviting strangers in. They can steal bandwidth, spy on your traffic, hijack devices, or use your connection for illegal activity
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J Studios/Getty Images ByTravis Rosiek, Public Sector Chief Technology Officer, Rubrik August 20, 2026 04:30 PM ET COMMENTARY | Agencies that align IT, security, data and AI leadership can be prepared for the speed and scale of tomorrow’s AI threats. * Artificial Intelligence * IT Modernization * Cyber Threats AI-enabled attacks
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I traveled to Las Vegas in May to watch the Enhanced Games — a one-of-a-kind sports competition that lets athletes compete while using the kind of performance-enhancing drugs typically banned in professional sports. The games, derided as the “steroid Olympics,” were put on by a telehealth company backed by the likes
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Cybersecurity hiring has an unusual problem: a company can receive hundreds of applications and still struggle to fill a critical role. The reason is often specialization. A security team may not simply need another analyst. ComputerSecurity It may need someone who has investigated cloud identity attacks, built detection pipelines, secured
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Follow the money US Bank says that it's investigating ransomware crew LockBit’s claims that it breached the financial institution and stole data, which the crims threaten to leak on September 3 unless the bank pays an extortion demand. “We’re aware of claims regarding a potential cybersecurity
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Earlier this year, insurance executives gathered in a Times Square conference room to play out a scenario: a Chinese cyberattack knocks out 5,000 US water utilities at once. If you think that’s a far-fetched scenario, think again. WIRED’s Andy Greenberg got rare access to the closed-door war
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If you are a malicious hacker, cybersecurity professionals may very well be the worst people in the world to try to hack, as there is a very good chance they are going to catch you. A person pretending to work for a leading crypto news site targeted several cybersecurity professionals
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Key takeaways * Features: Dynamic Island could be smaller and cameras might have a variable aperture — plus, there are rumors of a bigger battery. However, there’s concern over memory component shortages and their high prices. * Colors: Apple could launch light blue, dark cherry and dark gray versions or variations. * Price:
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Microsoft is celebrating the Xbox’s 25th anniversary in style, as it plans to release a limited edition Xbox Series X25 sporting the classic translucent green colorway that many fans fondly remember. The celebration isn’t stopping there, though, as the company has teamed up with Mattel to deliver a
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NUS Medicine, data centre operator DayOne and Melbourne’s Cortical Labs have unveiled a biological data centre prototype in Singapore, built from a 20-unit rack of neuron-powered CL1 computers. The efficiency claim central to the project comes with no published figures. A rack of computers running on living human neurons
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Adit Singh was a partner at Foundation Capital when he helped source and co-lead the first funding round into then-obscure chip startup Cerebras. By the time Cerebras held its blockbuster IPO in May, Foundation Capital held a roughly 7% stake, making it the third-largest shareholder in the company, which now
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We’re thrilled to unveil the 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 — TechCrunch’s annual, handpicked list of the 200 most promising early-stage startups from around the world. These founders rose to the top from thousands of applications spanning every industry and geography. Their reward? A coveted spot to exhibit at TechCrunch
