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Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images ByEdward Graham, Managing Editor, Nextgov/FCW July 8, 2026 05:36 PM ET DOD Chief Information Officer Kirsten Davies said last month that the apprenticeship had “already generated more than 70,000 inquiries” since it was first announced in late April. * Defense
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Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images ByAlexandra Kelley, Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW July 8, 2026 03:43 PM ET After working alongside government partners for safety evaluations, OpenAI said it is “expanding preview access globally” for its latest powerful model series. * Industry OpenAI announced Tuesday evening that its advanced GPT-5.
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* Two US army websites were defaced on their 404 error pages * The messages included an expletive insult targeting Donald Trump and Tom Barrack * The messages appear to be written by people sympathetic to the Kurdish cause Two pages belonging to the US Army had their error pages defaced with pro-Kurdish
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SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.5, its most capable model yet. It is the company’s first release since going public and buying the AI coding startup Cursor. This is the joint model the two firms had raced to ship. Elon Musk aimed it squarely at coding and agentic work,
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SpaceXAI has released its latest model, Grok 4.5 — the first since the company went public several weeks ago. In a blog post published Wednesday, SpaceXAI characterized its new release as a workhorse that can tackle all of the typical tasks that the AI industry has sought to automate: coding
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* The first agentic ransomware attack has been dubbed JADEPUFFER by researchers at Sysdig * Threat exploited a known vulnerability, adapted to obstacles, and targeted an Alibaba Nacos * Unfortunately for victims, paying up means nothing, as JADEPUFFER fails to back up the data Has ransomware become self-aware? Sysdig researchers have analyzed an
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The cybersecurity talent crisis has moved from a simple numbers problem to a fundamental mismatch between what organizations need and what the workforce can deliver. While 87% of organizations plan to expand their security teams this year, according to Fortinet Training Institute's "2026 Cybersecurity Skills Gap"
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Federal officials are increasingly seeking to adopt new technologies to enhance agency operations. At the Pentagon, the Office of the Chief Information Officer is looking beyond IT transformation to ways it can more effectively get digital capabilities into the hands of warfighters. Pentagon CIO Kirsten Davies recently spoke with Nextgov/
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U.S. insurance provider AssuranceAmerica has confirmed a data breach affecting the personal information and driver’s license numbers of 6.9 million people, making it the largest known spill of Americans’ driver’s license information this year. Founded in 1998, AssuranceAmerica provides car and rental insurance to customers across
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The tech world is currently obsessed with "AI Sovereignty" and compliance. What used to be a niche conversation for legal teams has, by most recent industry accounts, become a board-level concern almost overnight. Every enterprise wants to build an AI wrapper or deploy a local LLM to "
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Claude Cowork turned inbox chaos into usable article research. * Gmail search struggled with context and discernment. * Human verification remains essential before using AI-found quotes. How often have you had to sift through a ton of
