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Have you considered a password manager yet? We're all urged to protect ourselves and our personal data by using -- and remembering! -- a complex and unique password for each of our many, many online accounts. It's a lot. But these security solutions can vastly reduce
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While today's OS defenses are better than they were a decade or so ago, it's still useful to have standalone, dedicated antivirus software for your desktop PC, laptop, and mobile devices. This allows you to run real-time scans if you think you might be infected with
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The past two years have seen unprecedented adoption of generative AI. This was driven largely by LLM platforms such as Claude, which reported 28 million paying US customers in March. Senior VP of Engineering at Vanta. In the corporate world and startups, this has put the pressure on companies to
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As governments and organizations rethink their reliance on foreign-owned IT infrastructure, data sovereignty has become a boardroom priority. However, the conversation has become overly focused on where data is stored, overlooking the legal, operational and resilience factors that determine whether organizations are truly in control. Whether through misunderstanding or a
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Factory data often sits inside operational systems that are separate from enterprise IT. Cisco and Rockwell Automation are targeting that divide with a software-defined manufacturing architecture that links plant-floor systems with higher-level computing environments. The companies’ Full-Stack Software-Defined Manufacturing architecture combines Cisco’s software-defined networking with Rockwell Automation’s software-defined
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IBM is preparing to deploy a large NVIDIA-based AI computing cluster on IBM Cloud under a multiyear agreement with Together AI worth $240 million. The cluster is expected to become available in the first quarter of 2027 and will use NVIDIA HGX B300 systems connected through NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking.
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July’s cyber threat landscape was shaped by pressure across multiple fronts. Global cyber attacks continued to rise, ransomware activity broke from the more stable pattern seen earlier in the year, and GenAI exposure became a clearer operational risk as employees used more tools and generated more prompts across the
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Security researcher Nightmare Eclipse has dropped a fresh zero-day exploit leading to privilege escalation on Windows. Also known as Chaotic Eclipse, the disgruntled researcher released multiple zero-day exploits targeting Microsoft products over the past several months, usually right after the Patch Tuesday security updates. Right on cue, the new proof-of-concept
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Meta has deactivated 756,000 Australian accounts it believes belonged to under-16s, a figure it disclosed as the country’s world-first social media ban moves from threat to enforcement. The company says 462,000 of those accounts were on Instagram and 294,000 on Facebook, all removed between December 2025
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President Donald Trump has signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum authorising US federal law enforcement to conduct offensive cyber operations against transnational criminal organisations operating abroad. Washington, in short, is giving itself formal permission to hack the hackers, and it is roughly as consequential as that sounds. The memorandum takes
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Anthropic is reportedly in talks to acquire Decart, an Israeli AI startup, for roughly $6bn, according to reports attributed to Reuters. If it happens, it would be the largest deal in Anthropic’s history. The talks are not final, both companies declined to comment, and the whole thing could still
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SpaceX’s Starlink has begun taking orders for its satellite-internet service in Vietnam, opening one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing markets to Elon Musk’s orbital broadband. It is a notable win for a business that has become SpaceX’s cash machine, though this time the company is arriving very
