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ttnews.com - Noël Fletcher - States Court Trucking Industry, Foreign Funding at SelectUSA - TT
States Court Trucking Industry, Foreign Funding at SelectUSA - TT
Transport Topics

SelectUSA 2026 drew 5,500 attendees from 55 states and territories as well as some 100 international markets to National Harbor. (Noel Fletcher/Transport Topics) The 2026 SelectUSA Investment Summit drew 5,500 attendees and produced $56 billion in…

businessinsider.com - Stephen Council - OpenAI and Anthropic kicked off a new arms race for cyber defense
OpenAI and Anthropic kicked off a new arms race for cyber defense
Business Insider

The CISO, or chief information security officer, has suddenly become one of the most high-pressure roles in business. This spring, Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT‑5.5 models sparked a wave of fear that attackers armed with advanced AI…

securityweek.com - Eduard Kovacs - 7-Eleven Data Breach Confirmed After ShinyHunters Ransom Demand
7-Eleven Data Breach Confirmed After ShinyHunters Ransom Demand
SecurityWeek

7-Eleven, the world's largest convenience store chain, has confirmed suffering a data breach after the notorious ShinyHunters hacker group claimed to have stolen information from its systems. The company has started sending out security incident…

itweb.co.za - OpenText - OpenText Summit Africa 2026 to focus on practical, secure enterprise AI adoption
OpenText Summit Africa 2026 to focus on practical, secure enterprise AI adoption
www.itweb.co.za

Allyson Towle, Senior Marketing Manager: Africa, Team Leader Marketing: Central Eastern Europe and SMME Operations Manager, OpenText. (Image: Supplied) OpenText will bring its global Summit series to South Africa on 3 September 2026, with the local…

barchart.com - Sristi Jayaswal - Are Wall Street Analysts Predicting Entergy Corporation Stock Will Climb or Sink?
Are Wall Street Analysts Predicting Entergy Corporation Stock Will Climb or Sink?
Barchart.com

Entergy is a New Orleans-based power utility founded in 1913, serving more than 3 million customers across Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and New Orleans. With a market capitalization of $49.9 billion, the company generates, transmits…

securityweek.com - Ionut Arghire - Researcher Drops MiniPlasma Windows Exploit for Unpatched 2020 CVE
Researcher Drops MiniPlasma Windows Exploit for Unpatched 2020 CVE
SecurityWeek

A security researcher has released an exploit targeting a Windows vulnerability disclosed in 2020, warning that it might have never been patched. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-17103 (CVSS score of 7.0), is described as a privilege escalation issue…

securityweek.com - Eduard Kovacs - Grafana Confirms Breach After Hackers Claim They Stole Data
Grafana Confirms Breach After Hackers Claim They Stole Data
SecurityWeek

Grafana confirmed suffering a data breach on Sunday, two days after a cybercrime group listed the company on its leak website. The open source visualization and analytics software provider said the intrusion was possible due to a compromised token…

globenewswire.com - Novartis Pharma  AG - New PSMAddition data show 58% lower risk of PSA progression with Pluvicto in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer
New PSMAddition data show 58% lower risk of PSA progression with Pluvicto in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer
GlobeNewswire

More durable, deeper PSA response in patients treated with Pluvicto plus standard of care (ARPI + ADT) vs. SoC alone Deep PSA reduction higher in patients receiving Pluvicto combination vs. SoC at 12, 24 and 48 weeks sNDA filed in US, China and…

securityweek.com - Ionut Arghire - First Shai-Hulud Worm Clones Emerge
First Shai-Hulud Worm Clones Emerge
SecurityWeek

The first Shai-Hulud worm clones emerged only days after TeamPCP released the malware's source code on GitHub, Ox Security reports. Shai-Hulud was first used in supply chain attacks against the open source software ecosystem in September 2025, and…

securityweek.com - Ionut Arghire - Exploitation of Critical NGINX Vulnerability Begins
Exploitation of Critical NGINX Vulnerability Begins
SecurityWeek

The first in-the-wild attacks exploiting a critical-severity NGINX vulnerability patched last week have occurred over the weekend, VulnCheck warns. Tracked as CVE-2026-42945 (CVSS score of 9.2) and dubbed Nginx Rift, the flaw is described as a heap…

securityweek.com - Eduard Kovacs - Hackers Earn $1.3 Million at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026
Hackers Earn $1.3 Million at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026
SecurityWeek

Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 has come to an end, and participants earned a total of nearly $1.3 millon for exploits targeting Windows, Linux, VMware, Nvidia, and AI products. According to TrendAI's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), white hat hackers have been…

circleid.com - Abubakari Saddiq Adams - Africa's Data Sovereignty Challenge: Who Really Controls the Continent's Digital Future?
Africa's Data Sovereignty Challenge: Who Really Controls the Continent's Digital Future?
CircleID

Data has become one of the most valuable strategic assets in the modern world. Governments rely on it for decision-making, businesses use it to drive innovation, and digital platforms depend on it to shape economies and societies. As Africa…

infoworld.com - Peter Wayner - 21 LLMs tuned for special domains
21 LLMs tuned for special domains
InfoWorld

Credit: Zamrznuti tonovi / Shutterstock In the beginning, everyone was surprised that large language models (LLMs) could speak in words. Those days are long past, and now the focus is on the depth of knowledge. The best way to deliver this is with…

seekingalpha.com - Hartford Funds - Hartford Capital Appreciation Fund Q1 2026 Commentary (ITHAX)
Hartford Capital Appreciation Fund Q1 2026 Commentary (ITHAX)
Seeking Alpha

Hartford Capital Appreciation Fund underperformed the Russell 3000 Index and the S&P 500 Index during the quarter. Weak selection within the healthcare and information-technology sectors was only partially offset by stronger selection within the…

globenewswire.com - Man Group PLC - Man Group PLC : Form 8.3 - Gamma Communications Plc
Man Group PLC : Form 8.3 - Gamma Communications Plc
GlobeNewswire

PUBLIC OPENING POSITION DISCLOSURE/DEALING DISCLOSURE BY A PERSON WITH INTERESTS IN RELEVANT SECURITIES REPRESENTING 1% OR MORE Rule 8.3 of the Takeover Code (the “Code”) (a) Full name of discloser:Man Group PLC(b) Owner or controller…

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