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Elon Musk's solar ambitions have shifted from powering homes to powering Tesla's AI era
About a decade ago, Tesla entered its solar-for-homes era with its contentious acquisition of SolarCity. Now, Tesla's solar dreams are taking a different shape as the company enters its AI era. Tesla has inked two long-term agreements to purchase…
Cyber security expert latest guest speaker confirmed for Abta Travel Convention
Jul 29, 202606:22 GMT by Phil Davies Cyber security expert Jenny Radcliffe is the latest guest speaker confirmed for the Abta Travel Convention in Madeira. Known as ‘The People Hacker', Radcliffe has spent her career testing the security of…
International Standards Bodies Seek To Keep Pace With The AI Wave
Standards: the invisible infrastructure Standards can be called the “invisible infrastructure” – the guidelines and specifications that make our world, especially our technology world, tick. But can standards bodies keep up…
V Kamakoti: Education, Career And Complete Profile Of IIT Madras Director
Professor V Kamakoti joined IIT Madras as a faculty member in 2001. Who is V Kamakoti? Professor V Kamakoti, Director of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) and a member of the Prime Minister's newly constituted High-Power Task…
Mate Security Raises $35 Million for Agentic SOC
AI-powered Security Operations Center (SOC) startup Mate Security has announced raising $35 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to over $50 million. Led by Canaan Partners, with additional support from…
Critical VM Escape Vulnerability Patched in VMware ESXi
Broadcom published a new security advisory on Wednesday, informing VMware product users that patches are available for several vulnerabilities affecting ESXi, vCenter, Workstation, and Fusion. Three of the vulnerabilities have been assigned a…
ThreatLocker Raises $190 Million in Series F Funding
Florida-based zero trust endpoint security company ThreatLocker announced on Wednesday that it has raised $190 million in a Series F funding round. The company previously raised $20 million in Series B funding, $100 million in Series C funding, and…
US Bans Foreign-Made Humanoid Robots, Targeting China Over National Security
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is banning imports of new foreign-made humanoid robots and power inverters, citing national security risks, in a move that targets China. Beijing quickly accused the U.S. of protectionism. The measures are…
Spur Raises $200 Million for IP Intelligence Platform
IP intelligence and bot detection company Spur Intelligence announced it has received a $200 million investment from Insight Partners. Founded in 2017 and operating fully bootstrapped for nine years, Spur will use the fresh funding to accelerate…
Minnesota water systems hit with cyberattack, state officials say
More than 30 water systems in Minnesota were targeted in a cyberattack, state officials revealed Tuesday. Minnesota IT (MNIT) Services did not disclose further details about the attacks that took place on Sunday and Monday but said there were no…
Jaguar Uranium Launches U.S. Government Strategy with Manifest Industries and Adds General Charles Flynn as Advisor
General Charles Flynn is a retired U.S. Army General with a proven track record in strategic leadership, Army modernization, and advancing U.S. national security interests through government-private sector collaboration. The U.S. Government is…
ShinyHunters Claims Ernst & Young Hack
The infamous ShinyHunters extortion group has claimed responsibility for the recently disclosed Ernst & Young (EY) data breach. Earlier this month, the professional services giant reported to the Attorney General's Offices in several states that…
Canada accelerates digital healthcare with AI, connected care, and virtual medicine
Canada's healthcare system is undergoing one of the most significant digital transformations in its history. Faced with an aging population, healthcare workforce shortages, long waiting times and growing demand for services, governments, healthcare…
OpenAI's Rogue AI Ventured Beyond Hugging Face
New information has come to light following the investigations conducted by OpenAI and Hugging Face into the recent incident involving rogue AI models. The ML collaboration platform Hugging Face revealed on July 16 that it had detected a…
JFrog Zero-Days Exploited in OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack
A JFrog zero-day vulnerability was at the core of the recently disclosed OpenAI-Hugging Face hack, OpenAI has confirmed. The incident was disclosed on July 16, when Hugging Face said it was hacked by an autonomous AI agent system. Several days…
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