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News – MeriTalk ·
As AI becomes part of federal workflows, applications, and mission systems, agencies need a security operating model that can adjust as quickly as the technology and its uses evolve. Models change, data connections expand, and agents...
BetaKit ·
Evolution is a blessing and a curse. The same natural phenomenon that gave humans opposable thumbs also threatens farmers’ crop outputs by giving pests better resistance to pesticides every year. “If you’re getting a flu vaccine, you...
GeekWire ·
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman addresses hundreds of Rocketdyne employees during his stopover at the company’s facility in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) REDMOND, Wash. — NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman came to...
GeekWire ·
Sunny Gupta and the Seattle Seahawks mascot Blitz during a game at Lumen Field. (Photo courtesy of Sunny Gupta) Sunny Gupta has been a diehard Seattle Seahawks fan for almost 20 years, hosting tailgates and sitting in the exact same...
GeekWire ·
The Seattle Seahawks open the 2026 season at Lumen Field on Sept. 9 against the New England Patriots. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The sale of the Seattle Seahawks to the Khosla family officially closed on Thursday, completing...
BetaKit ·
French quantum company Quandela has made its Canada-based photonic quantum computer available to users of the Quantum Computing Sandbox (QCS), Canada’s national program intended to accelerate quantum adoption across academia and...
News – MeriTalk ·
The Group of 20 (G20) members have agreed to a set of emerging technology principles that favor flexible, risk-based regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), including relying on existing sector-specific rules rather than creating...
GeekWire ·
Kevin Owens, co-founder and CEO of Resect AI. (Resect AI Photo) Resect AI , an artificial intelligence startup led by a team of scientists and engineers in Washougal, Wash., launched out of stealth Thursday with $25 million in funding...
GeekWire ·
(LinkedIn Photo) — Aneesh Raman has taken the role of chief economic opportunity officer at Microsoft . He previously held the same title at LinkedIn, a Microsoft subsidiary where he worked for five years. The job is focused on “helping...
News – MeriTalk ·
National Science Foundation (NSF) is establishing a new operations center to serve as the backbone of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR), a public-private effort to expand access to advanced artificial...
GeekWire ·
University of Washington College of Engineering Vice Dean Jihui Yang, right, and professor Xu Chen walk a robot dog on the UW campus. (Photo courtesy of Xu Chen) Robotics jobs in the Pacific Northwest are multiplying faster than...
GeekWire ·
An artist’s conception shows the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter in Martian orbit. (Blue Origin Photo) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has won a contract worth up to $700 million to boost NASA’s telecommunications capability in...
News – MeriTalk ·
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) plans to roll out new general-use artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities aimed at reducing paperwork and manual processes, while increasing investments to help employees effectively adopt the...
News – MeriTalk ·
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will need a strong, interoperable data ecosystem to power its Bio Genesis Mission and accelerate biomedical research, according to Chris Kinsinger, NIH’s assistant director for catalytic data...
CISA Alerts ·
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in memory corruption, a device crash, or a potential remote attack vector without the originating device receiving a CIP error indicating that the request...
CISA Alerts · · Critical severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to perform remote code execution on the computer running the client with elevated privileges. The following versions of IXON VPN Client are...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in a loss of webserver availability or allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts that will be executed when other users access the affected page. The...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could give an attacker the ability to run any commands or code of the attacker's choice on a target machine at the logged-in user's permission level. The following versions...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow for an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack, cause a factory reset, wipe credentials, or retrieve sensitive information. The following...
CISA Alerts · · Critical severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to take control of a high-privilege terminal during installation and run arbitrary commands. The following versions of OPCFoundation OPC UA...
CISA Alerts · · Critical severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow any authenticated user to create projects. The following versions of Inductive Automation Ignition are affected: Ignition <=8.1.53 (CVE-2026-77393) CVSS Vendor...
CISA Alerts · · Critical severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could crash the module. The device requires a restart to recover. The following versions of Rockwell Automation 1756-ENBT Module are affected: 1756-ENBT module vers:all/*...
GeekWire ·
University of Washington computer science professor Stuart Reges. (Twinkle Don’t Blink Photo via Fire.org) The University of Washington has agreed to pay $600,000 to resolve a high-profile First Amendment lawsuit brought by computer...
GeekWire ·
Staff in the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds use machinery in the expanded battery lab. (UW Photo) The University of Washington on Thursday celebrated the opening of a public-access battery manufacturing lab that aims to propel energy...
GeekWire ·
Dara Khosrowshahi, now CEO of Uber, speaks at the 2016 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire File Photo) Uber is laying off 93 Washington state-based employees as part of a sweeping global restructuring that will eliminate roughly 10% of the...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Critical severity
Just weeks after a wave of ransomware attacks, new flaws in SMA1000 series appliances are being exploited.
BetaKit ·
Nearly two dozen AI hyperscalers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, have agreed to the federal government’s new framework for building data centres in Canada. “If you build in Canada, you must build responsibly, transparently and...
BetaKit ·
A decade ago, launching a technology company meant raising significant capital early, hiring engineers quickly, and spending months or even years building before heading to market. AI is rapidly compressing that timeline; Founders can...
CISA Alerts ·
CISA and the Group of Seven (G7) Cyber Security Working Group released Preparing for the Post-Quantum Era: A Call to Action highlighting the urgent need for organizations and governments to begin transitioning to post-quantum...
BetaKit ·
Aspiring Vancouver-based commercial robotics integrator NorBot Technology has secured $1 million CAD in pre-seed funding. The news: NorBot aims to act as “ the bridge ” between the world’s top robotics platforms and Canadian businesses,...
GeekWire ·
Jack Boylan, left, Allen Institute research associate, and Jesse Gray, AI BioDesign executive director of strategy and platform, at the DNA sequencer inside the initiative’s new lab. It reads millions of designed DNA sequences at once,...
BetaKit ·
After seven years in media and venture capital (VC) with Jason Calacanis’ Launch in Silicon Valley, Presh Dineshkumar has returned to Toronto to build a consumer healthtech business. Dineshkumar left Launch in 2024 and teamed up with...
GeekWire ·
Qualtrics Tower in downtown Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo) Qualtrics is cutting 117 jobs connected to its Seattle headquarters, according to a state filing that provides new details of the layoffs that the experience management...
GeekWire ·
Teachally founder Daniel Bernstein is also known in Seattle tech as the founder of Sandlot Games. Daniel Bernstein spent much of the past decade running sale processes for other people’s software companies. Then he ran one for his own,...
GeekWire ·
Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, center, at a game inside Staples Center in 2018. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) The NBA dropped the hammer on Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer on Wednesday, suspending the former...
BetaKit ·
1996 was a big year for tech: Dolly the Sheep, Internet Explorer 3.0, and the launch of the app currently at the heart of Canada’s digital sovereignty battle. The news: Following US President Donald Trump’s trade tirade, Google Maps and...
GeekWire ·
Longtime T-Mobile exec Mike Katz touts the company’s T-Satellite service in Bellevue, Wash., in June 2025, with a slide taking shots at Verizon and AT&T — a tradition dating to the early Un-carrier years. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd...
News – MeriTalk ·
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) USAi platform is no longer free to federal agencies, according to a Sept. GSA launched its USAi platform last year at no cost to agencies, allowing them to experiment with artificial...
GeekWire ·
The housing markets in San Francisco, left, and Seattle have been diverging for the past year. Prices started falling in Seattle on an annual basis about a year ago, while prices in San Francisco have been rising since November....
News – MeriTalk ·
The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs voted unanimously on Sept. 2 to subpoena two Oracle executives after lawmakers from both parties sharply criticized the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the company over a nearly $17...
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