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As Canada pitches itself to global investors this week, the CEO of the country’s AI champion thinks Canada has a potentially “extraordinary” role to play in data centre development. The news: In a conversation with Inovia Capital...
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Three former leaders from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), OMERS, and Creative Destruction Lab are leading a new venture capital fund to find “the next generation of AI founders.” The news: Toronto- and London, UK-based VC...
GeekWire ·
Supreme Court to clarify patent law after courts sided with Google to invalidate his software patent. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Kohler) Jeff Kohler was working as a software engineer in 2005 when he started spending his nights and...
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Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, left, CEO, and Maxim Fateev, CTO. (Temporal Photo) Temporal has raised $550 million in a Series E funding round that values the Bellevue, Wash.-based infrastructure startup at $12.55 billion, more than...
GeekWire ·
(LinkedIn Photo) — Silvia Candiani has been named corporate vice president of Worldwide Telco & Media within the Microsoft Frontier Company, a $2.5 billion initiative launched by the tech giant in July to embed engineers inside...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News ·
The vulnerability could let unauthenticated users access sensitive files from software-development environments.
GeekWire ·
Satya Nadella says Microsoft welcomes the “deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right.” (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) “People matter more than AI.” That’s the premise of a draft code of conduct Microsoft published Monday...
BetaKit ·
Liam Gill is the lead of the Capital Program at MaRS Discovery District, where he helps Canada’s most promising early-stage companies connect with the capital they need to scale. This week, Prime Minister Mark Carney will gather global...
BetaKit ·
When should one look a gift billion in the mouth? Prime Minister Mark Carney has once again cajoled the international spotlight onto Canada, and the nation’s financial sector responded in kind, committing some $100 billion CAD in new...
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Toronto’s Define Capital has completed its fourth acquisition, snapping up Mississauga-based student credential verification software company Synergy Gateway Verified (SGV). Define founder and CEO Narbe Alexandrian shared the news in an...
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More than $50 million in contracts will be doled out to a group of Canadian companies involved in drone manufacturing and engineering, after the Canadian and Ukrainian governments signed deals to advance access to drones for both...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News ·
Zero trust shouldn’t mean sacrificing the stability and flexibility enterprises still depend on.
GeekWire ·
An artist’s conception shows several Sophia Space satellites in orbit. (Sophia Space Illustration) Sophia Space and SLI , an aerospace leasing venture based in Washington, D.C., say they’ve agreed on a $300 million asset-financing...
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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 ·
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: A study commissioned by the City of Seattle says the city is not in decline but is in danger — finding that 10 companies, nine of them in tech, pay three-quarters of the payroll tax on large employers,...
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A Microsoft Surface tablet running Copilot at Lumen Field in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The Microsoft Surface tablets on NFL sidelines — a game-day fixture since 2014 — got a close-up on national television...
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Las Vegas Raiders running back Ashton Jeanty, an investor in Nukleus and a spokesperson for the platform. (Nukleus Photo / Ben Miller) Hector Rivas spent a decade building ThriftBooks into one of the country’s largest used-book sellers,...
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(Polyarc games press image) The Seattle-based video game developer behind the award-winning virtual reality adventure Moss has closed its doors. The announcement was made via Polyarc Games ’ LinkedIn page on Friday afternoon. No...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Canada Investment Summit is bringing 100 of the world’s largest institutional investors to Toronto next week to lure in foreign capital. The conference hopes to catalyze $1 trillion of investment in the...
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Calgary-based regulatory AI company Ultimarii has raised a Series A worth more than $13 million CAD. The news: Ultimarii made the announcement on Thursday, saying it had raised the Series A with equity investment support from the...
News – MeriTalk · · Medium severity
Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has opened an investigation into OpenAI over the July 2026 security incident in which artificial intelligence (AI) agents breached systems operated by Hugging Face. Hawley, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security...
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Québec’s sovereign cloud player Micrologic has raised $45 million CAD from local backers to win more contracts across Canada. The news: Digital cloud provider Micrologic announced on Thursday that it had raised $45 million in financing...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Path Traversal Vulnerability. GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated user to read arbitrary files due to an...
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Sam Berry, chief information officer (CIO) at the Department of Agriculture (USDA), is moving to a new role within the department focused on implementing its One Farmer, One File modernization initiative, USDA told MeriTalk. “Sam Berry...
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Army is returning its experimental drone-warfare battalion to a conventional infantry role after a months-long test of uncrewed systems, but senior officials said on Sept. 9 that the change was planned from the start and does not signal...
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Army is targeting a launch of Victor, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven enterprise data platform, before Christmas, provided the system meets key readiness standards, a senior official told reporters on Sept. Victor is described as...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
JFrog Artifactory Improper Authentication Vulnerability. JFrog Artifactory contains an improper authentication vulnerability that could return an internal anonymous-user token to an unauthenticated caller when anonymous access is...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
JFrog Artifactory Incorrect Authorization Vulnerability. JFrog Artifactory contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability that allows leads to privilege escalation attack due to a validation check of the token signature/issuer and...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
ConnectWise ScreenConnect Improper Privilege Management and Missing Authorization Vulnerability. ConnectWise ScreenConnect contains both an improper privilege management and missing authorization vulnerability that may allow an attacker...
BetaKit ·
On Wednesday, Canada unveiled its National AI Literacy Initiative , announcing free AI training for students, educators, and the Canadian public over the coming year. The initiative is part of Canada’s overarching National AI Strategy...
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Energy sector cyber defenders need to move faster and work more closely with industry as cyber threats to critical infrastructure intensify, Department of Energy (DOE) cybersecurity chief Andrew McClure said Sept. Speaking at the...
GeekWire ·
Shaw addresses the media at Microsoft on May 18, 2025, in advance of the Build conference. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) It’s the end of an era at Microsoft: Frank X. Shaw , the executive who oversaw the tech giant’s communications for...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News ·
A report shows that state CIOs and CISOs need additional funding, personnel and training to protect water, energy and healthcare.
BetaKit ·
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce ( CIBC ) has pledged $2 billion to finance domestic small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) building in defence. The news: CIBC announced the commitment on Thursday. The Toronto-based bank said...
GeekWire ·
Matt Oppenheimer, second from right, at his Dartmouth College Entrepreneur Hall of Fame induction ceremony in San Francisco on Thursday. The Remitly co-founder is joined by school friends and dignitaries, from left, Jeff Crowe , Andrea...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Medium severity
Stung by years of embarrassing hacks, the tech giant overhauled how it approached cybersecurity. Company leaders now say they’re seeing results.
BetaKit ·
There’s an odd transition period when you move away from home where it’s sometimes not clear where “home” really is. Zach Oldham is still in that “weird in-between” phase: he was born in London, England, raised as a teenager in...
GeekWire ·
Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce CEO Joe Nguyen speaks at the Westin Seattle on Thursday. (GeekWire photo) Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce CEO Joe Nguyen delivered a direct message to regional leaders at the...
GeekWire ·
Amazon Quick’s new activity feed on mobile: the morning priority view, left, and the full feed. (Amazon Images) Amazon is adding the Activity Feed and other features from its Quick desktop app to the AI assistant’s mobile apps for iOS...
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Tents in a vacant lot in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) A roster of top Seattle business leaders and regional CEOs is demanding urgent action from City Hall on public safety, calling on Mayor Katie...
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