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News – MeriTalk ·
Most civilian agencies have not fully met federal requirements to identify and track networked Internet of Things (IoT) and operational technology (OT) devices, increasing potential cybersecurity risks, the Government Accountability...
News – MeriTalk ·
The General Services Administration (GSA) announced Wednesday it sunsetted the 2nd Generation Information Technology (2GIT) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA), effective Sept. 30 blog post , GSA said the products and services that...
News – MeriTalk ·
30 called for new regulations holding artificial intelligence (AI) companies and users accountable for harm caused by AI agents, saying companies should bear responsibility when their products cause significant damage. “At the end of...
GeekWire ·
Porchlight founder Patrick Donahue’s parents worked in medicine, and hospice care was part of his family’s life. (Photo courtesy of Donahue) When a new caregiver walks into an assisted living room for a shift, they usually hold a chart...
BetaKit ·
Vancouver-based clinic network and healthtech company Well Health is now the proud parent of another publicly traded company. The news: Wellstar, Well Health’s software-focused spin-out, began trading on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV)...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News ·
The China-linked espionage attacks were designed to gain insight into the country’s strategy and regulatory environment.
GeekWire ·
(LinkedIn Photo) Leadership changes at Bellevue, Wash.-based companies are dominating the news in this week’s Tech Moves, plus some notable items in neighboring Redmond. — Former Amazon leader Asic Demberel is now chief technology...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to escalate privileges or overwrite files. The following versions of ABB Protection and Control IED Manager PCM600 are affected: Protection and...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow attackers to manipulate device configurations, trigger unauthorized behaviors, and access sensitive information such as device credentials, owner details,...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain access to sensitive information that could be used to conduct further attacks against the system. The following versions of Johnson Controls...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could enable attackers to gain unauthorized administrative control over vulnerable charging stations or disrupt charging services through denial-of-service attacks. The...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to the database, execute arbitrary code on the host with the highest level of privilege, or gain control of the...
GeekWire ·
Peter Lee, left, and Ryan Roslansky both shared news this week that they’re leaving Microsoft. (LinkedIn Photos) Two top Microsoft executives announced this week that they’re leaving the Redmond, Wash., tech giant: — Peter Lee , the...
BetaKit ·
Shopify has purchased the shop.com domain name in a potentially lucrative deal for US firm Market America. The news: Market America, an e-commerce brokerage company, announced on Tuesday that it had sold the web address to Shopify. The...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News ·
AI is likely to eliminate some entry-level SOC roles, a survey found, but it is also creating opportunities to develop more strategic skills.
GeekWire ·
Ture Armas, left, JPMorganChase’s CTO and head of Commercial Bank Lending Technology and the new leader of its Seattle Tech Center, and Kristine Baker, a JPMorganChase vice president who manages the Seattle Tech Center. (GeekWire Photo...
GeekWire ·
Amazon’s $34.99 Kindle Click remote, shown with the new base Kindle in a purple shade Amazon calls “ube.” (Amazon Photo) Amazon’s Kindle is joining the ranks of TVs and garage doors. The company on Thursday unveiled the Kindle Click , a...
BetaKit ·
Rewind CEO Mike Potter is ready to hit fast-forward after private equity firm H.I.G. Growth Partners took majority ownership of his company over the summer. “I’ve always wanted to have change in my role, and this is another change that...
GeekWire ·
An artist’s conception shows Firefly’s Elytra spacecraft in lunar orbit, with Starcloud’s SC-1 data-processing payload highlighted in purple. (Firefly Aerospace Illustration) Redmond, Wash.-based Starcloud has signed up to send its...
GeekWire ·
The UW’s Global Innovation Exchange program has moved into a new full-time space on the Microsoft campus. (UW Photo) The University of Washington and Microsoft today celebrated the opening of the permanent home of the UW’s Global...
News – MeriTalk ·
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found performance reporting, fraud-risk management, agile development, cybersecurity, and zero trust gaps across 18 major Department of Defense (DOD) IT business programs, according to GAO’s...
News – MeriTalk ·
Key details about the Pentagon’s Golden Dome missile defense system remain largely classified, leaving lawmakers without clear answers about what the planned system will protect, what capabilities it will include, and how much it will...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Hex Encoding Vulnerability. Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager contains a hex encoding vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access an affected system with privileges of the admin...
GeekWire ·
Microsoft’s Charles Lamanna, executive vice president of Copilot, Agents and Platform, left, speaks with Madrona Managing Director Matt McIlwain at Madrona’s IA40 Summit in Seattle on Wednesday. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Charles...
GeekWire ·
Companies building software for the AI boom and advanced machinery for space, energy and defense are remaking the Pacific Northwest’s tech economy, and both trends are showing up in full force on the GeekWire 200 , our ranking of the...
News – MeriTalk ·
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday evening directing executive branch agencies to replace the terms artificial intelligence and AI with super intelligence and SI in official communications, websites, reports,...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News ·
Suspected state-linked actors targeted critical vulnerabilities in the widely used platform, causing widespread disruption across Europe and North America.
GeekWire ·
Stanton Jandrell, CEO and co-founder of Fraxion. (Fraxion Photo) Seattle-based spending management company Fraxion has acquired Yellow Dog Software, which offers inventory management software for the hospitality, sports, food and...
GeekWire ·
Karan Grover is CEO of the new Seattle startup Kanu AI. (Photo via PR Newswire) Seattle-based Kanu AI announced $11.7 million in new funding on Wednesday to expand a platform that automatically turns everyday employee tasks into custom,...
GeekWire ·
Shield AI’s new X-BAT autonomous fighter jet is designed to take off and land vertically. Traditional military air operations rely heavily on fixed, vulnerable targets: long concrete runways and aircraft carriers. Shield AI’s new X-BAT...
News – MeriTalk ·
Kelly Fletcher thinks this may be the best time yet to work in technology. “It’s the coolest time to be a technologist,” the Department of State chief information officer (CIO) told MeriTalk. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is...
BetaKit ·
Concerns over US economic hostility and threats of annexation have turned sovereignty into a buzzword in Canada. But for Indigenous nations, conversations about sovereignty are nothing new. “What we’ve built within Indigenous...
GeekWire ·
Ascerta co-founders, from left: CTO Doron Holan, CEO David Tepper, and COO Erik Winters. (Ascerta Photos) Bellevue, Wash.-based startup Pay-i is rebranding as Ascerta and raising $18 million in new funding to expand its platform beyond...
BetaKit ·
A British Columbia-based startup is trying to turn intent into action when it comes to Indigenous reconciliation with a new app it soft-launched earlier this month. “Right now, only a small percentage of companies on the Toronto Stock...
News – MeriTalk ·
National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said the Trump administration is looking for ways to rapidly deploy and secure advanced artificial intelligence (AI) without imposing broad regulations that could slow technology development....
News – MeriTalk ·
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) and the Defense Department’s (DOD) network of intelligence organizations to prioritize intelligence and cyber capabilities against foreign threats to the 2026...
News – MeriTalk · · Medium severity
A breach of a Pentagon personnel database exposed sensitive personal information belonging to more than 3 million people, including 2.76 million living individuals and 294,000 deceased individuals, a Defense Department (DOD)...
News – MeriTalk ·
President Donald Trump on Sept. 29 unveiled America.gov , a new platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that is designed to give Americans a single digital point of entry for accessing federal government information and...
BetaKit ·
Montréal-based Quantum eMotion (QeM) is looking beyond quantum security by acquiring Victoria-based Plurilock . The news: The two publicly traded Canadian cybersecurity firms announced an acquisition deal on Monday evening. The deal...
GeekWire ·
(Amazon logo via mturk.com ; Claude Opus 5.5 Illustration) An early pillar of the gig economy and the hidden labor behind modern tech is officially coming to an end as Amazon is permanently shuttering Mechanical Turk on Wednesday after...
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