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itweb.co.za - Kimberly Guest - Top ICT tenders: DPSA targets info security officer training
Top ICT tenders: DPSA targets info security officer training
www.itweb.co.za

The Department of Public Service and Administration wants to establish a training programme for information security officers across the public sector. National Treasury's eTenders Portal offers a mixed bag this week, with a broad range of public…

businessinsider.com - Rya Jetha - First came self-driving cars. Now, Waymo veterans are building autonomous construction equipment.
First came self-driving cars. Now, Waymo veterans are building autonomous construction equipment.
Business Insider

Self-driving cars have spent years learning the rules of the road. Now, several Waymo veterans are trying to apply those lessons to a far less predictable environment: construction sites. San Francisco-based Bedrock Robotics said Monday that…

jpost.com - LT.-COL. (RES.) OFIR AVRAM - Future of military drones isn't more platforms, it's a unified system
Future of military drones isn't more platforms, it's a unified system
The Jerusalem Post

The rapid growth of the military drone market has created a dangerous illusion: that more unmanned platforms automatically mean more operational power. Armed forces can now choose from hundreds of systems, each with different payloads, controllers…

techradar.com - Brandall Nelson - From connection to context: Dispelling the legal industry's biggest myths about MCP
From connection to context: Dispelling the legal industry's biggest myths about MCP
TechRadar

The legal sector's use of AI is maturing, and its use is going beyond simply being an external chatbot or standalone tool. The focus is shifting to embedding AI into everyday legal work, giving it access to the documents, matters, knowledge and…

securityweek.com - Ionut Arghire - 680,000 Impacted by French Tax Authority Data Breach
680,000 Impacted by French Tax Authority Data Breach
SecurityWeek

France's Directorate General of Public Finances (DGFiP) has disclosed a data breach impacting approximately 680,000 individuals. The incident was disclosed after a threat actor boasted on a hacking forum about accessing DGFiP's internal systems and…

securityweek.com - Eduard Kovacs - Conflicting Test Goals Pushed Claude Agents to Deploy Self-Replicating Malware
Conflicting Test Goals Pushed Claude Agents to Deploy Self-Replicating Malware
SecurityWeek

Anthropic has published new research showing that Claude-based AI agents, when placed in situations with competing objectives, deployed self-replicating malware against one another. The finding comes from an experiment designed to mirror behavior…

securityweek.com - Ionut Arghire - Recent macOS Screen Sharing Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks
Recent macOS Screen Sharing Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks
SecurityWeek

Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched macOS vulnerability to gain root access and deploy cryptominers. The exploited bug, tracked as CVE-2026-65400, is a high-severity authentication issue in Screen Sharing that allows remote attackers to…

securityweek.com - Eduard Kovacs - Irregular Details How a Naming Error Let AI Models Attack a Real Company
Irregular Details How a Naming Error Let AI Models Attack a Real Company
SecurityWeek

AI safety testing firm Irregular has published its account of an incident in which models being evaluated inside one of its testing environments took offensive security actions against real systems rather than the simulated targets they were meant…

securityweek.com - Ionut Arghire - Fortune 500 Companies Hit in Azure Data Theft Campaign
Fortune 500 Companies Hit in Azure Data Theft Campaign
SecurityWeek

A threat actor is selling data allegedly stolen directly from the Azure tenants of several Fortune 500 organizations. Using the moniker ‘TheHatman', the threat actor has been offering millions of records apparently stolen from well-known…

securityweek.com - Ionut Arghire - 40,000 Impacted by SafePal Data Breach
40,000 Impacted by SafePal Data Breach
SecurityWeek

Crypto hardware wallet SafePal is notifying roughly 40,000 individuals that their personal information was stolen in a data breach. Hackers, it says, exploited a vulnerability in the order-tracking function of a customer order information plugin to…

androidauthority.com - Aamir Siddiqui - Android 17 QPR 2 Beta 3 takes cell network security to the next level
Android 17 QPR 2 Beta 3 takes cell network security to the next level
Android Authority

Robert Triggs / Android Authority Android 17 QPR 2 Beta 3 introduces a SIM security timeline to track and store records of modem-detected threats, such as IMEI/IMSI access by the cell network. A new SIM security info screen outlines active…

dev.to - Elizabeth Cowell - Why Reading Newsletters Makes You a Sharper, More Focused Developer
Why Reading Newsletters Makes You a Sharper, More Focused Developer
DEV Community

If you're a developer in 2026, you already know the feeling: you close one tab about a new framework, and three more have opened claiming to replace it. New AI tooling drops weekly. Languages get new tooling. Frameworks get rewritten. It's…

globenewswire.com - International Petroleum Corporation - International Petroleum Corporation Announces Results of Normal Course Issuer Bid
International Petroleum Corporation Announces Results of Normal Course Issuer Bid
GlobeNewswire

International Petroleum Corporation (IPC or the Corporation) (TSX, Nasdaq Stockholm: IPCO) is pleased to announce that IPC repurchased a total of 205,334 IPC common shares (ISIN: CA46016U1084) during the period of August 10 to 14, 2026 under IPC's…

barchart.com - Aritra Gangopadhyay - Are Wall Street Analysts Predicting Eaton Corporation Stock Will Climb or Sink?
Are Wall Street Analysts Predicting Eaton Corporation Stock Will Climb or Sink?
Barchart.com

Dublin, Ireland-based Eaton Corporation plc (ETN) operates as a power management company in the United States and internationally. Valued at a market cap of $175.4 billion, the company operates through Electrical Americas, Electrical Global…

forbes.com - Sarah Hernholm - The College Degrees Considered Safest From AI Disruption
The College Degrees Considered Safest From AI Disruption
Forbes

This list looks at degrees that combine strong projected job growth, competitive pay and work that leans on human skills AI can't easily replicate. The degree alone won't guarantee a career. Outcomes still depend on internships, skill development…

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