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(Bungie press image) Bungie, the Bellevue, Wash.-based video game studio behind Destiny and Marathon , began its week with an apology from its new studio head, as it tries to win back its audience after several recent missteps. On...
News – MeriTalk ·
House Democrats introduced legislation on Monday that would require the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to conduct a wide-ranging assessment of whether it has enough personnel, training, and resources to fulfill...
News – MeriTalk ·
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is preparing new guidance for critical infrastructure operators that focuses on recovering systems after a cyber incident. The agency is also urging critical infrastructure...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Zyxel GS1900 Series Switches Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Zyxel GS1900 series switches contain a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the CGI program which could allow a LAN-based, unauthenticated attacker to...
GeekWire ·
Truelist founder and CEO Carey Armstrong. (LinkedIn Photo) Seattle-based real estate tech startup Truelist has been acquired by San Francisco-based Mainstay as part of an $18 million growth funding round aimed at expanding AI-powered...
GeekWire ·
Sara Nelson launched the CivicTide website Monday. (Sara Nelson Campaign Photo) Sara Nelson, the former Seattle City Council president, is making her debut as a publisher and commentator, with an eye toward boosting civic engagement,...
GeekWire ·
Matt Blosl, left, CEO of DexCare, and Shailu Verma, co-founder and CEO of Mila Health. (LinkedIn Photos) Seattle health-tech startup DexCare today announced it’s acquiring Mila Health, a fellow Seattle-area company that has built AI...
News – MeriTalk ·
The General Services Administration (GSA) is urging federal agencies to begin preparing now for the next major governmentwide telecommunications transition, warning that waiting until the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS)...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Medium severity
Researchers suspect the hacker employed LLMs to develop custom tools.
BetaKit ·
Toronto-based AI rollup company Beacon Software has made yet another acquisition, this time focused on expanding the capabilities of its operating technology stack. The news: Beacon, which typically buys niche software businesses and...
GeekWire ·
Startup founders who pitched for Plug and Play’s batch four cohort take part in a selection day at UW’s CoMotion Labs. (Plug and Play Photo) Plug and Play Seattle selected 11 startups for the fourth batch of its accelerator program,...
BetaKit ·
There is a point in a tech company’s growth where infrastructure stops being background plumbing and starts consuming meaningful engineering attention. Younger companies have the luxury of relatively few users and an engineering team...
BetaKit ·
Calgary cleantech company Kanin Energy has secured significant capital for its “energy-as-a-service” (EaaS) business. The news: Kanin announced a $138-million CAD new equity financing round on Sept. The round was led by Chicago’s S2G...
BetaKit ·
Altis Labs has new funding to help give drug makers a better look into how treatments can affect more types of cancer. The news: The Toronto-based healthtech startup has closed a $25-million USD ($35-million CAD) Series A round to...
BetaKit ·
Past editions of the Montréal AI conference ALL IN focused on reclaiming Canada’s squandered opportunity in AI. With the global spotlight on Canada this week, this year’s event drew its largest crowd yet and saw Canada retake a...
BetaKit ·
Two ex-Loblaw Digital alumni have raised fresh funding to scale their AI retail platform that helps align business strategy with execution. The news: Thri5 , which is developing an AI execution layer for retail business, says it has...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Medium severity
Vulnerability volume is climbing fast. The exploited ones are old and already patchable.
GeekWire ·
Meta’s promotional images show Muse comparing strollers and asking for approval before placing an order. (Meta Images) Amazon blocked Meta’s new Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com — citing security, privacy, and...
GeekWire ·
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire...
GeekWire ·
Scenes from the live GeekWire Podcast recording at Atmosphere Seattle, with Zillow Senior Vice President of Engineering Toby Roberts, Real Estate At Work host Leka Devatha, and GeekWire co-founders John Cook and Todd Bishop. (GeekWire...
GeekWire ·
Oregon’s first hospital focused on women’s health will be built on the campus of Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland. (Providence Illustration) Providence will receive $1.1 billion — one of the largest gifts ever pledged...
GeekWire ·
The 2025 “Uncommon Thinkers” award winners, from left: Anindya Roy, co-founder of Lila Biologics; Kiana Ehsani, co-founder of Vercept; Max Blumen of Tin Can representing winner Chet Kittleson, co-founder of Tin Can; Jeff Thornburg,...
GeekWire ·
Elijah Yan, left, and Rudy Heredia-Jantz, members of the Solar Vehicle Team at UW, with Sakura, the solar-powered vehicle the student-led team constructed in their shop at the University of Washington. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)...
News – MeriTalk ·
The Army is moving to field enough small, one-way attack drones to equip every squad by the end of the month, an Army official told reporters on Sept 17, and then will shift its focus from acquiring the systems to training soldiers to...
News – MeriTalk · · Critical severity
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a critical Cisco identity-management vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog after finding evidence that attackers are using the flaw. The...
GeekWire ·
Nate Bek, left, with Ascend founding general partner Kirby Winfield at the firm’s Founders Bash event Thursday night. (GeekWire Photo / John Cook) — Seattle-based venture capital firm Ascend promoted Nate Bek to principal. Bek joined...
BetaKit ·
With its WonderFi acquisition complete , American trading platform Robinhood Markets is expanding its presence in Canada as it opens a new Canadian headquarters in downtown Toronto. Robinhood announced the office on Wednesday, saying it...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Vulnerability. Linux Kernel contains an improper check for unusual or exceptional conditions vulnerability in the TLS receive path which allows a zero-length record...
GeekWire ·
Twin brothers Lucas and Lee Brown co-founded Seattle’s HasOffers in 2009 and rebranded to Tune in 2014. (Instagram / Geeks in the Woods ) Several years after leaving Seattle’s startup scene to build a “tech outpost” in the Alaskan...
GeekWire ·
An artist’s conception shows Gravitics’ Diamondback orbital carrier, which is due to make its debut as early as 2027. (Gravitics Illustration) Marysville, Wash.-based Gravitics , which is developing orbital carriers for government and...
GeekWire ·
Steve Hobbs, secretary of state for Washington, poses at his booth during the 2026 Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo/Thomas Wilde) If you explore the main expo hall during the Penny Arcade Expo, you can often find some...
BetaKit ·
Some Shopify merchants can now directly advertise in the world’s most popular AI chatbot. The news: US AI giant OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Ads inside Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify’s App Store. The free-to-install integration allows...
BetaKit ·
One of Canada’s largest software services firms is partnering with Canada’s AI champion to help enterprises bring AI agents into their businesses. The news: Toronto-based Cohere is working with Waterloo-based software giant OpenText to...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · High severity
Security researchers warned that hackers are using VPN credentials for initial access and deploying RMM tools.
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Medium severity
The agency wants to help companies sort through the AI-fueled avalanche of bug reports.
GeekWire ·
ModernVivo co-founders Colin Small (left) and Ian Levine (right). Seattle-based ModernVivo is using AI to help scientists design preclinical studies for drug discovery. The goal: better experiments that are also faster, cheaper and less...
GeekWire ·
Temporal co-founders Maxim Fateev, CTO (left), and Samar Abbas, CEO. (Temporal Photo) One of the hottest infrastructure companies in AI today is a startup established nearly seven years ago, tracing its roots to work its founders were...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability. Linux Kernel contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the ebtables SNAT target which allows an ARP sender hardware address rewrite to write directly into a nonlinear socket-buffer...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Linux Kernel Race Condition Vulnerability. Linux Kernel contains a race condition vulnerability which allows concurrent writes to the same AF_ALG socket causing data to be unpredictably interleaved and creating inconsistencies in the...
BetaKit ·
Worry about Canadian brain drain to the U.S. is a well-worn topic, but recent reports show it continues to affect our startup ecosystem. Combined with limited immigration numbers, access to highly skilled talent remains a real challenge...
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