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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....
BetaKit ·
Cohere is hoping to make its AI platforms more resilient to cybersecurity threats by acquiring a company that detects software vulnerabilities with AI. The news: Toronto AI company Cohere announced on Thursday that it had signed a...
GeekWire ·
The M4 Thruster from Agile Space Industries is designed to provide position control for small spacecraft. (Agile Photo) Space propulsion company Agile Space Industries is expanding its footprint to the Pacific Northwest, signing a...
GeekWire ·
Amazon’s new Bee Frontier wristbands, front, and Bee Eclipse devices, which attach magnetically to the back of a phone. (Amazon Image) Bee , the AI wearables startup Amazon acquired last year , makes devices that remember what people...
BetaKit ·
Despite a cross-border trade war and economic uncertainty, Canadian entrepreneurs are focused on growth and expansion, a new survey found. The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) released its annual State of Entrepreneurship...
GeekWire ·
Anqi Chen, left, and Hojae Choi, are lead authors on two Nature papers from UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design. (IPD Photos) Researchers at UW Medicine’s Institute for Protein Design (IPD) have created new proteins that act like...
GeekWire ·
Image via LinkedIn Every so often, we get sucked into a list touting the top regional startups or the most robust entrepreneurial ecosystems. Well, a startup list released today from Microsoft-owned LinkedIn — titled “The 10 companies...
BetaKit ·
Once valued at $1 billion USD, AI companion company Character.ai has filed for bankruptcy, making it one of the first unicorns of the ChatGPT era to go under. The news: Character.ai, which allows users to create custom AI characters and...
GeekWire ·
“What is fusion?” was the correct question for this answer on “Jeopardy” on Tuesday, tied to Everett, Wash.-based Helion Energy. (ABC) Harnessing the power of the sun to generate clean energy is hard enough, but Helion Energy just...
News – MeriTalk ·
Army has awarded more enterprise-level contracts this year than ever before as it overhauls its acquisition process to accelerate procurement and manage capabilities across entire portfolios, a senior Army official said Tuesday....
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Code Injection Vulnerability. Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS contains a code injection vulnerability that could allow an authenticated attacker with network access to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Ahsay AhsayCBS Improper Authentication Vulnerability. Ahsay AhsayCBS contains an improper authentication vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication via manipulation of the random parameter in the API...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Cisco Secure Email Gateway Relative Path Traversal Vulnerability. Cisco Secure Email Gateway contains a relative path traversal vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to write arbitrary files on the...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Ahsay AhsayCBS Command Injection Vulnerability. Ahsay AhsayCBS contains a command injection vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to execute operating system commands via manipulation of the random parameter in the...
News – MeriTalk ·
The Army will require open architecture in all future equipment purchases, acting Army Secretary Adam Telle said Oct. 12, as the service moves to eliminate proprietary technology barriers that complicate battlefield integration....
BetaKit ·
Canada’s Regional Artificial Intelligence Initiative (RAII) received a $500-million top up on Tuesday, as the federal government delivered on a pledge it made as part of the National AI Strategy to fund the program. The news: AI...
GeekWire ·
Moondream’s vision AI flags a misoriented box on a warehouse conveyor. Prime Intellect is folding the startup’s models and inference technology into its AI cloud platform. (Moondream Image) Prime Intellect , a San Francisco-based AI...
News – MeriTalk ·
First Lady Melania Trump launched the 2027 Presidential Super Intelligence (SI) Challenge on Oct. 13, expanding a nationwide technology competition for K-12 students and educators and introducing a new designation that recognizes...
GeekWire ·
(LinkedIn Photo) — Brinc Drones , the Seattle-based maker of 911 response drones, has named Joe Levy chief revenue officer. Levy joins from Peregrine, a public safety data platform, and early in his career was a drill sergeant and...
GeekWire ·
Professor and progressive author Scott Galloway, left, debates conservative political commentator and Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro, right, in a USAFacts debate moderated by PBS News Hour’s co-anchor and managing editor Geoff Bennett....
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Medium severity
Researchers warn the attacker is taking multiple steps to clean up forensic evidence after an attack.
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Medium severity
The websites and apps for the five chains have been down for several days as the parent company contends with a cybersecurity incident.
BetaKit ·
A Québec healthtech startup thinks its AI assistant can help healthcare providers make better (and less costly) decisions about whether a patient needs medical imaging or interventions. The news: Québec City-based Bia Health announced...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Medium severity
The latest operation targeted “laptop farms” across Texas that allegedly aided North Korea’s moneymaking schemes.
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Medium severity
The three marketplaces helped hackers impersonate major businesses and governments. Microsoft now controls the markets’ domain names.
GeekWire ·
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gives the company’s founding mission an AI update at Build in June, a preview of the “Windows Hybrid Intelligence” initiative that the company unveiled last week. (Photo by Dan DeLong for Microsoft) In less...
GeekWire ·
Members of the team at Vayo, a new Booking Holdings startup building AI agents to organize and manage people’s trips. (Vayo Photo) Booking Holdings is launching a new Seattle-based travel startup called Vayo , led by serial entrepreneur...
GeekWire ·
(CareerArc, Humanly Logos) Bellevue, Wash.-based hiring technology company Humanly has acquired CareerArc to merge its artificial intelligence screening tools with software that helps employers attract job applicants. The deal announced...
BetaKit ·
Watching an ad for an AI product with the tagline “the first AI built to take your jobs” feels right out of a Black Mirror episode, crafted to induce outrage. But for some startups vying for clicks, that’s exactly the point. In the...
BetaKit ·
A Brampton-based cybersecurity training hub has received a $3.5-million contribution from Google.org , the search giant’s philanthropic arm, to help Canadian organizations develop a cybersecurity game plan while giving budding...
GeekWire ·
Getty Images’ headquarters at 605 Union Station in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Getty Images , the stock-photo giant with a presence in Seattle dating back to the dot-com era, plans to keep its headquarters in the city and...
CISA Alerts · · Critical severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an authenticated low-level user to escalate their privileges to a higher level. The following versions of Inductive Automation Ignition Software are affected:...
CISA Alerts · · Critical severity
CISA is aware of Ivanti’s disclosure of a newly exploited vulnerability, CVE-2026-104935 , affecting Ivanti Connect Secure versions 25.1.1.1 and prior, 25.1.2.2 and prior, and 22.8R2.4 and prior. CISA is aware of cyber threat actors...
GeekWire ·
FIFA World Cup soccer matches in Seattle attracted huge crowds to watch parties in Pioneer Square and elsewhere, but the honeymoon faded quickly according to new data shared by the Seattle Metro Chamber this week. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt...
News – MeriTalk ·
13 that its Azure Enclave service is now generally available in both commercial Azure and Azure for U.S. Government, giving federal agencies and defense contractors a new option for deploying and managing isolated cloud environments for...
News – MeriTalk ·
Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER) is expanding the role of artificial intelligence (AI) agents in its cyber operations, assigning them new responsibilities across defensive and offensive operations and network security while ensuring human...
News – MeriTalk ·
Christopher LaNeve, vice chief of staff and acting chief of staff of the Army, selected the service’s Futures and Concepts Command to be redesigned as the Futures and Autonomous Systems Command (FASCOM), a move that will consolidate...
News – MeriTalk · · Critical severity
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is preparing to launch a new tabletop exercise program under its CI Fortify initiative to help critical infrastructure operators strengthen their ability to recover from...
News – MeriTalk ·
The top Democrats on the House and Senate committees overseeing the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) want to know why the department increased the ceiling of its contract with Oracle Health for the agency’s Electronic Health Record...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Microsoft Windows Command Injection Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows Shell contains a command injection vulnerability that allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature over a network. Required action: Apply mitigations...
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