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If you’re looking for a document editor that doesn’t use artificial intelligence, LibreOffice may be just the software for you. The Document Foundation, the nonprofit software maker behind the open source document editor LibreOffice, said in a blog post this week that while it does not reject AI
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Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW October 6, 2026 10:08 AM ET The bureau’s cyber chief blamed a contractor’s failure to apply an available fix for an intrusion that may have exposed sensitive employee information. * FBI * Industry * Data Breaches * Cyber Defense
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Traditional IT security teams defend their organizations' data and technology assets, but executives represent a different level of risk. Senior management and board members have authority that makes them attractive targets for attackers looking to gain access to sensitive systems and data or authorize payments. It's a
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* Microsoft issues fix for CVE-2026-96940, a high-severity Exchange privilege-escalation flaw * Attackers with compromised user credentials could access other employees’ mailboxes and emails * No active exploitation reported, but Microsoft labeled the vulnerability “exploitation more likely" Microsoft has pushed an urgent update for Exchange Server which fixes a high-severity flaw that
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The race between open and closed AI is on, and Europe is still in the mix. On Tuesday, French AI lab Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a new large multimodal model aiming to leapfrog both American and Chinese rivals — following what French president Macron has described as “a
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Mistral has released a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1T model that the Paris-based company says is the most powerful open-weight AI system outside China. Starting today, developers can access it via Mistral’s API. The model weights, which enable anyone to download and run it on their own
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The best requirements management tools for functional safety all protect one thing: the chain of evidence behind a safety case. It runs from a hazard, through the safety requirement that mitigates it, into the design that implements it, and out to the test that proves the design works. Break one
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A recent incident at cybersecurity firm CrowdSec highlights a dangerous blind spot in modern identity management: disabling a corporate email account does not guarantee a developer's access is actually gone. When a departing CrowdSec engineer requested extra time on GitHub to wrap up loose ends, IT granted the
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ZDNET’s key takeaways * Mistral’s open-weight ML4 model Le Chonk is in preview. * ML4 was trained with fewer GPUs than OpenAI’s Astra, but competes. * Open models are positioned as democratic defenders from AI attacks. French AI lab Mistral has shipped its latest model, Mistral Large 4 (ML4) — and
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ChatGPT is the artificial intelligence chatbot that brought generative AI into the mainstream. Launched in November 2022 by OpenAI, the company co-founded by Sam Altman, ChatGPT quickly became the most popular AI application, and the one everyone tried to emulate and one-up. Since then, all the big tech players have
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Consumer Reports' 2026 Consumer Cyber Readiness Report says nine out of 10 Americans have faced at least one cyberattack attempt or online scam. Based on a survey of 4,682 US adults from earlier this year, the report found that 91% of respondents had faced at least one scam
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Thirty-nine cybersecurity-related merger and acquisition (M&A) deals were announced in September 2026. For a detailed view of the more than 420 acquisitions announced in 2025, check out SecurityWeek’s annual M&A report. Here are some of the most important cybersecurity M&A deals announced in
