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Scott Van Vliet, Xbox’s chief technology officer, will lead the new Xbox Labs team. (LinkedIn Photo) Xbox is creating a new team to experiment with technologies that are changing how games are made, ported and played — including some...
BetaKit ·
Dominion Dynamics has struck a partnership that will send uncrewed ground vehicles from Canada to Ukraine’s front lines. The news: The Ottawa-based defence contractor signed a memorandum of understanding with Ukrainian defence tech firm...
GeekWire ·
Peter Lee, president of Microsoft Science, is trading research labs for racetracks. (GeekWire File Photo / Clare McGrane) When Peter Lee announced two weeks ago that he was leaving Microsoft, he said only that his next job would fulfill...
GeekWire ·
Apple’s HomeView smart display, shown with faces for a clock, FaceTime, photos, smart home controls and music. (Apple Image) Apple is going after Amazon’s smart home business on several fronts at once. The iPhone maker on Tuesday...
BetaKit · · Medium severity
More than 400 members of the scientific community are pushing for an international AI regulator to curb cybersecurity incidents. The news: The open letter , released on Tuesday, calls for the creation of an international body to...
GeekWire ·
Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering is part of the University of Washington’s College of Engineering. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The University of Washington’s College of Engineering has received a $12 million gift...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Medium severity
Hundreds of French supermarkets faced a sophisticated hack where industrial controls were manipulated.
CISA Alerts · · Critical severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to view video information without authentication. The following versions of Swann Communications SWIFI-SE2KIC are affected: SWIFI-SE2KIC firmware...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Medium severity
Risks are growing at a time when companies are relying more than ever on vendors for cybersecurity, according to a new report.
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Ivanti Connect Secure Authentication Bypass by Spoofing Vulnerability. Ivanti Connect Secure contains an authentication bypass by spoofing vulnerability that allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands....
BetaKit ·
Two years ago, Canada’s then-governing Liberal Party proposed a capital gains tax inclusion rate hike, and much of the country’s tech sector freaked out . While this plan was scrapped after Mark Carney replaced Justin Trudeau as party...
BetaKit ·
Toronto-based construction tech startup Promise Robotics is ready to grow south of the border after landing its first United States (US) customer: DR Horton , the nation’s largest homebuilder in terms of volume. Through the multi-year...
GeekWire ·
The trade secrets case between Flexport and Freightmate centered on the use of shipping documents. (Unsplash Photo / Rinson Chory ) Freightmate AI has settled a trade secrets lawsuit filed by San Francisco-based freight forwarder...
GeekWire ·
Tally, an inventory robot, scans shelves at a Fred Meyer store in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Shoppers navigating aisles of chips and cookies at a Fred Meyer store in Seattle’s Greenwood...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Medium severity
The company said it took some systems offline as part of “precautionary measures.” Websites for all five of the grocer’s U.S. banners were down Monday morning.
News – MeriTalk ·
Tom Barrett, R-Mich., introduced legislation on Oct. 9 that would establish a Cabinet-level office within the White House to oversee artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technology threats, creating a central authority to...
News – MeriTalk ·
The White House’s newly formed Super Intelligence (SI) Force is working to develop recommendations that keep the United States competitive in artificial intelligence (AI) while ensuring the technology is developed and deployed...
News – MeriTalk · · Critical severity
The Justice Department (DOJ) and FBI announced on Oct. 8 that they seized two hacking tools used by the China state-sponsored hacking group Flax Typhoon to target critical infrastructure and other networks in the United States and...
News – MeriTalk ·
Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle announced on Oct. 12 that the service plans to hold a “manufacturing rodeo” early next year to test the defense industrial base’s production capacity, identify supply-chain weaknesses, and determine...
GeekWire ·
Not Werner: Decart’s real-time video model turns AWS Senior Vice President Peter DeSantis into a cartoon of Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, live on stage, at the start of DeSantis’ re:Invent keynote in Las Vegas last December. (AWS Video...
BetaKit ·
This week, we’re talking with Canada’s newest fintech unicorn, Koho. Earlier this year, Koho raised $130 million CAD as part of its quest to move from challenger bank to an actual bank. “I think that we will look back on prediction...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News ·
A newly discovered critical vulnerability is adding to the workload of customers mitigating other recent flaws.
GeekWire ·
“Spider-Noir” streamed for one season before being canceled. (Amazon Prime Video Image) Nicolas Cage is drawing a hard line in the digital sand against artificial intelligence, revealing that he likely won’t work with Amazon again after...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Medium severity
The company urged customers to upgrade to the latest versions of its flagship products.
GeekWire ·
A prototype of Microsoft’s Azure Maia 300 chip, which the company plans to begin deploying at scale in 2027. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft plans to run most of its AI services on chips it designs itself, a shift that could save the...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News ·
Agentic AI is transforming cybersecurity — but rogue agents, shadow AI, and third-party risks demand stronger guardrails.
GeekWire ·
Oren Etzioni, left, and Max Tegmark debated the risks of AI in a New York Post video. Etzioni actually considers himself a realist, not an optimist, as he notes in this piece. (New York Post via YouTube) Regular readers of this column...
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...
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Seth Paul of Front Burner Studios and security startup Qinsay at the studio near Pike Place Market. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) This week, we take the GeekWire Podcast to Front Burner Studios in Seattle, where we’re hosted by studio...
GeekWire ·
(Source: Amir Zand for Wizards of the Coast) Wizards of the Coast plans to revisit the Star Wars universe as its next big cross-company collaboration for Dungeons & Dragons . On the first day of New York Comic Con 2026, one of the...
GeekWire ·
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is interviewed by Bret Baier of Fox News in Florida. (Screen grab via Fox News) When Jeff Bezos sat down on Blue Origin’s Cape Canaveral factory floor for an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier earlier this...
News – MeriTalk · · Medium severity
The FBI has arrested another suspected co-conspirator linked to the ShinyHunters hacking group, FBI Director Kash Patel announced Oct. 9, as authorities continue an international investigation into the cybercrime network. 9 statement ,...
News – MeriTalk ·
Troy Carter Sr., D-La., and Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., reintroduced legislation on Oct. 8 that would establish a task force within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to coordinate federal efforts to address...
BetaKit ·
A Calgary philanthropist has donated $30 million to the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) to develop a training facility for autonomous and remotely piloted aircraft, also known as drones. The news: On Thursday, SAIT...
GeekWire ·
Kapta Space co-founders Adam Bily (left) and Milton Perque. (Kapta Photo) Kapta Space , a Seattle startup building lower-cost, steerable radar sensors for satellites, has raised $24 million in a Series A funding round to scale...
BetaKit ·
Founders looking to ride the wave of the next tech boom should look to AgTech, according to a group of panellists at Edmonton Startup Week. Douglas Mills, the vice-president of external relations at the Canadian Agri-food Automation and...
GeekWire ·
President Trump applauds the six recipients of this year’s National Medals of Science and National Medals of Technology and Innovation on Thursday in Washington, D.C. Five were born outside the U.S., including Microsoft CEO Satya...
News – MeriTalk ·
NASA is moving to treat data and software as strategic assets under a new agency directive aimed at accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) development and improving access to information across its scientific, engineering, and...
BetaKit ·
Travel technology company Hopper appears to have laid off staff on its enterprise side, following the departure of the company’s co-founder last month. 28, Hopper co-founder Dakota Smith announced on LinkedIn that he was leaving the...
News – MeriTalk ·
Adam Schiff, D-Calif., called for stronger federal oversight of artificial intelligence (AI) on Oct. 8, arguing that AI companies cannot be relied upon to police themselves as increasingly powerful models are developed. Speaking at a...
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