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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...
GeekWire ·
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...
GeekWire ·
Latch co-founders Jared Kofron (left) and Stefan Kalb. (Photo via Latch) Seattle startup veteran Stefan Kalb is back with a fresh brand and an ambitious vision for enterprise automation in the AI era. Rebranded earlier this year from...
BetaKit ·
Meta representatives made the case for its $13 billion Sturgeon County data centre during the Alberta Industrial Heartland Association’s (AIHA) annual conference this Thursday. The AIHA is an economic development and investment...
BetaKit ·
Toronto’s Wittington Ventures has closed its third venture capital (VC) fund, securing $180 million CAD to invest in more climate, commerce, consumer, healthcare, and food technology startups at the Series A and B stages. The news:...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
MikroTik RouterOS Missing Authentication for Critical Function Vulnerability. MikroTik RouterOS contains a missing authenticaion for critical function vulnerability which allows kernel memory disclosure and denial of service in the...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
MikroTik RouterOS Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command Vulnerability. MikroTik RouterOS contains an improper neutralization of argument delimiters in a command vulnerability which allows an attacked to change the...
BetaKit ·
We don’t spend much time thinking about the technology behind ordering food through an app, tapping a phone to pay, or using AI to compare products before making a purchase. We simply expect every interaction to be fast, intuitive, and...
GeekWire ·
Pavan Davuluri says Windows will keep serving human users while adding agentic workloads. (Microsoft Photo) GeekWire is profiling over the next few weeks some of the people and teams that are shaping the evolution of Microsoft in what...
News – MeriTalk ·
The Defense Department (DOD) has moved beyond a temporary pause of third-party assessment requirements under the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program and into a binding acquisition instruction that codifies the...
News – MeriTalk ·
The Defense Department needs to treat its information networks and data more like weapon systems – with routine maintenance, upgrades, training, and readiness checks – to strengthen cybersecurity as artificial intelligence (AI) changes...
BetaKit ·
Halifax-based Galaxia Space Systems has raised $4.5 million CAD to build out sovereign compute infrastructure in space. The news: Galaxia announced the funding round, co-led by Montréal-based VC Amiral Ventures and provincial business...
News – MeriTalk ·
The General Services Administration (GSA) is expanding its OneGov partnership with OpenAI through a new 27-month agreement that will give government agencies discounted, consumption-based access to ChatGPT beginning Oct. 10 press...
GeekWire ·
(Amazon press image) The September update for Amazon’s cloud-based gaming service Luna comes with multiple new features, the most prominent of which is one that will allow up to 7 other players to remotely participate in the same gaming...
News – MeriTalk ·
The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) plans to expand the model behind its Project Watershed 250 water cybersecurity pilot into other critical infrastructure sectors, National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said...
GeekWire ·
Michael Jensen, left, and Steven Brugger are leading BrainChild Bio. (Photos via BrainChild Bio) Seattle biotech startup BrainChild Bio has raised $116 million to advance an experimental CAR T cell therapy for one of the deadliest forms...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News ·
A top cybersecurity official said the government was taking a new approach to protecting critical infrastructure.
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Medium severity
A report shows state-linked and criminal hackers are incorporating automation and agentic technology to find new victims and bypass traditional defenses.
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News ·
From the CVE Program to autonomous hacks, everyone is worried about the technology’s next evolution.
News – MeriTalk ·
The nation faces cybersecurity vulnerabilities with potentially devastating consequences for Americans unless government and industry make significant changes quickly, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) acting...
News – MeriTalk ·
Department of Labor Chief Information Officer (CIO) Mangala Kuppa has a clear yardstick for artificial intelligence (AI): Show her the value. Labor has spent the past several years building the governance, tools, workforce literacy, and...
News – MeriTalk · · Medium severity
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is becoming increasingly important as investigators confront rapidly expanding volumes of breach, malware, identity, financial, and communications data. Used effectively, OSINT can help investigative...
BetaKit · · Medium severity
Waterloo Tech Week is returning to Kitchener and Waterloo for its second year, from Sept. The decentralized tech conference’s calendar lists nearly 60 events organized by students, venture capital companies, tech startups, and local...
GeekWire · · Medium severity
New Amazon board member Kevin Mandia is a cybersecurity veteran. (Photo via Amazon) Amazon has named cybersecurity veteran Kevin Mandia to its board of directors , adding new security expertise a few months after former NSA director...
GeekWire ·
The West8 office building in Seattle’s Denny Triangle neighborhood. (Image via West8Seattle.com) General Motors is expanding its presence in the Seattle region with a new downtown office slated to open in early 2027. The automotive...
News – MeriTalk ·
In this episode of MeriTalking, MeriTalk’s Gail Emery sits down with Katherine Hennessey of Everpure to examine how agencies can strengthen cyber resilience as data continues to expand across legacy infrastructure, cloud platforms,...
BetaKit ·
Yet another AI researcher has issued a staggering warning: the cutthroat race to build ever-more-powerful AI systems could wipe out humanity. The news: Jacob Coxon announced on Tuesday that he resigned from his role as a researcher at...
BetaKit ·
Canadian-founded, New York City-based go-to-market (GTM) startup Clay has closed another major financing, securing a $115-million USD ($159 million CAD) Series D round. The news: Clay develops and sells AI software and agents designed...
GeekWire ·
Test equipment measures a chip that uses NLM’s technology, showing how cleanly it carries high-speed data. (NLM Photonics Photo) NLM Photonics , a Seattle-based chip materials startup and University of Washington spinout, announced two...
BetaKit ·
The Toronto Stock Exchange’s (TSX) annual list of top-performing public companies includes Canadian stock star Celestica and four other tech companies across aerospace, defence, and digital infrastructure. The news: The stock exchange...
News – MeriTalk ·
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has begun soliciting bids for the potential 10-year, $21.6 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability Unified Cloud Marketplace (JWCC UCM) Core contract, which will provide the Department of...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Cisco Firewall Management Center Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel Vulnerability. Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software and Cisco Security Cloud Control (SCC) Firewall Management contain an...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Google Chromium V8 Out of Bounds Write Vulnerability. Google Chromium V8 contains an out of bounds write vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page. This...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Fortinet Multiple Products Heap-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Fortinet FortiOS, FortiSwitchManager, and FortiSASE contain a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Citrix NetScaler Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel Vulnerability. Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway contain an authentication-bypass vulnerability involving an alternate path or channel. When the...
News – MeriTalk ·
Outdated data infrastructure, inadequate metadata standards, limited application programming interface (API) access, and policy challenges are among the barriers the Department of Defense (DOD) must overcome to operationalize artificial...
News – MeriTalk ·
9 released a new cyber strategy aimed at helping the bureau keep pace with the speed and scale of cyber threats by bringing its law enforcement, intelligence, and national security authorities to bear on defending the nation’s critical...
BetaKit ·
Ottawa-based Shopify is acquiring Tailwind Labs, the Canadian company behind the popular, free, open-source web development framework Tailwind CSS . The news: Tailwind announced the deal on Wednesday both on X and in a blog post . The...
BetaKit ·
The Government of Canada unveiled its National AI Literacy Initiative Wednesday morning, delivering on a promise outlined in Canada’s broader National Artificial Intelligence Strategy. The initiative was announced by federal AI Minister...
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