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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 Oct. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire...
GeekWire ·
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we start by opening the listener mailbag, highlighting some recent comments that set a new standard for critical feedback, in different ways. We discuss Vayo , the AI travel venture Booking Holdings is...
GeekWire ·
Amazon Bee’s recording light is easy to miss, says a former AWS security engineer. (Amazon Image) Amazon’s new Bee AI devices ask the wrong person for consent, according to a privacy and security veteran who previously worked as a...
CISA Alerts · · Critical severity
CISA is aware of critical authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2026-102764 , affecting BeyondTrust Remote Support (formerly Bomgar) versions 26.2.3 and earlier. Patches are available for supported versions (24.3.1 and later);...
BetaKit ·
Landing an exit was a winding, eight-year journey for Toronto-based enterprise mentorship software startup 10KC (Ten Thousand Coffees) that featured plenty of bumps in the road. Two years before securing a $75-million CAD majority...
GeekWire ·
Inrix co-founder and CEO Bryan Mistele above rush-hour traffic on Interstate 5 in Seattle in 2011. After more than two decades of turning traffic data into a business, Inrix has agreed to sell substantially all of its assets to Arity, a...
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The AI slap: forwarding AI-generated text without reading it. (GeekWire Illustration / GPT-6) We’ve all encountered the phrase AI slop, but what’s an AI slap ? Following up on my glossary of AI , which demystified AI jargon, Prof.
News – MeriTalk ·
The National Security Agency (NSA) released new guidance on Oct. 8 for applying zero trust security principles to operational technology (OT) systems supporting defense, national security, and critical infrastructure missions. The...
News – MeriTalk ·
The Marine Corps University (MCU) is launching a wargaming tournament that will pit military personnel against an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered adversary to test tactical decision-making, battlefield strategies, and whether...
News – MeriTalk ·
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is putting artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity at the center of its oversight priorities for the next five years, while also planning to expand its own use of emerging technologies...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Fortinet Multiple Products Path Traversal Vulnerability. FortiOS, FortiPAM, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager contain a path traversal vulnerability that may allow an authenticated attacker with admin profile and at least read-write...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
BeyondTrust Remote Support Authentication Bypass by Spoofing Vulnerability. BeyondTrust Remote Support contains an authentication bypass by spoofing vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to perform file operations on the...
BetaKit ·
Toronto residents might start spotting Waymo robotaxis on the road, but with humans behind the wheel until at least 2028. The news: Waymo, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, announced on Friday that it’s bringing its autonomous...
CISA Alerts ·
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Security Agency’s Super Intelligence Security Center (NSA SISC) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published Key Practices for Incident...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Critical severity
Researchers say the hacker is harvesting credentials and stealing sensitive information.
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Medium severity
Developers should coordinate security work to make the most of their interconnected ecosystem, IBM said in a new report.
News – MeriTalk ·
The 2027–2028 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form is delivering aid eligibility estimates to many students almost immediately, a shift that was enabled by new real-time data connections and a more iterative approach to...
GeekWire ·
Darko Mesaros, a distinguished developer advocate for Amazon Web Services, is surrounded by vintage computer equipment in the garage of his Maple Valley, Wash., home. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Darko Mesaros used to park a car in...
BetaKit ·
The Senate Committee on Banking, Commerce and the Economy recently tabled eight recommendations to improve “the backbone of the Canadian economy.” Canada’s long-term prosperity, productivity, and competitiveness rely on its small and...
GeekWire ·
A Prime 360 replay shows a Lakers-Pacers play from a court-level angle. (Amazon Image) Amazon is bringing a new AI-powered camera system to the court as the tech giant gets ready to tip off its second season of basketball coverage on...
GeekWire ·
TriMagnetix co-founders Madison Hanberry, left, and Lucas Hahn at the Plug and Play Semiconductor Accelerator kickoff. (Plug and Play Photo) Seattle-based TriMagnetix has raised up to $1 million in new funding to continue developing a...
GeekWire ·
President Trump at the White House ballroom construction site in May. Microsoft, Amazon and T-Mobile have committed $20 million to the project, according to the Washington Post. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N.
BetaKit ·
A liquid cooling startup spearheaded by former CoolIT alumnus Steve Walton has merged with the UK’s Datalec Precision Installations to create a multifaceted data centre services platform. The news: The merger was announced on Oct. 14,...
News – MeriTalk ·
13 expanded international participation in its unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) marketplace to 29 nations, with eight additional countries signing statements of intent to join the procurement platform. The expansion, announced during the...
News – MeriTalk ·
A group of 23 House Democrats is calling on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) deployment of two air traffic control management platforms, citing concerns about...
BetaKit · · Medium severity
Researchers at the University of Toronto have identified, for the first time, a spyware hack run simply through targeted ads—no clicking necessary. The news: A joint report by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab and cybersecurity...
News – MeriTalk ·
The Federal Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Council has established a new working group focused on artificial intelligence (AI) security governance as the government looks to strengthen its cyber defenses ahead of emerging...
News – MeriTalk ·
Artificial intelligence (AI) can help the Department of the Air Force (DAF) analyze cyber threats and respond faster, but human judgment must remain central to cybersecurity operations, according to Wanda Jones-Heath, the department’s...
News – MeriTalk ·
Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao appointed Christopher Miller on Oct. 13 to lead the Navy’s robotic and autonomous systems acquisition portfolio, bringing previously fragmented efforts under a unified structure aimed at accelerating the...
GeekWire ·
Microsoft President Brad Smith, shown speaking at a Microsoft event last year, told Politico this week that the Trump administration’s claims about the company’s foreign workers were “completely off base.” (GeekWire File Photo / Todd...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Atlassian Multiple Products Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties Vulnerability. Multiple Atlassian products (Bitbucket Data Center ,Confluence Data Center, Jira Service Management Data Center, Jira Software Data Center,...
BetaKit ·
Toronto-based AgTech startup Molagri has emerged from Y Combinator with investor backing to hire more scientists. The news: Molagri, which is developing easily updatable pesticides to “evolve” alongside pest resistance, announced this...
GeekWire ·
Zeacon co-founders Kris Naidu, left, and Jay Gounder. (Zeacon Photo) Businesses spend heavily to attract visitors to their websites, but traffic doesn’t necessarily translate into sales. Bellevue, Wash.-based Zeacon is building AI tools...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Medium severity
The investigation points to a much wider risk for industrial systems across the globe.
GeekWire ·
Hundreds of Lime e-bikes and scooters staged in a parking lot in the Pioneer Square neighborhood during the FIFA World Cup match between USA and Australia in Seattle this summer. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Lime riders in Seattle...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Medium severity
Vulnerability disclosures and hacking campaigns haven’t made much of a dent in the amount of important infrastructure left online, a new report found.
BetaKit · · Unconfirmed
Superwhisper is partnering with Cohere to launch a local meeting recorder, a move the consumer AI dictation tool hopes will put it in competition with enterprise meeting assistant companies like Granola and Otter. The companies, which...
GeekWire ·
Innovations from Seattle startups that made Time’s Best Inventions list, clockwise from top left: Tin Can’s landline-style phone; OneCourt’s tactile tablet for low-vision sports fans; Seattle Ultrasonics chef’s knife; Yoodli’s “Create”...
BetaKit ·
While teenagers are glad to see that the government’s new social media legislation, Bill C-34, aims to hold technology companies more accountable for online youth safety, some fear an outright ban for youth could do more harm than good....
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