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The classic “castle and moat” model of cybersecurity is losing its effectiveness. As the boundaries between physical and digital worlds merge, adopting thorough, all-encompassing security measures has become absolutely essential. As technology grows more intricate and widespread, so do the avenues for cyberattacks. Nowadays, cybercriminals are more frequently exploiting hardware and restricted entry points to circumvent digital defenses. Radio frequency identification (RFID) has emerged as a vital tool for closing these critical gaps, empowering organizations to counter physical security threats with greater efficiency. The Evolving Threat Landscape: The Convergence of Digital and Physical Security While software-based cybersecurity is crucial, it…

The HPPH gripper is engineered to cut down on wiring and weight while ensuringsafe performance. | Credit: Festo Festo Corp. has unveiled the HPPH two-finger pneumatic parallel gripper, a lightweight solution built to tackle collaborative robot payload and wiring limitations by embedding the controls, sensing, and certified safety features right into the gripper body. The company also provided an update on its GripperAI software. Force- and power-limited robot arms generally work within tight payload and mounting limits, Festo explained. Pneumatic grippers that depend on external components add extra weight, take up more space, and make routing more complicated on compact…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The views and analysis shared here are his own and may not align with those of Decrypt. Also, don’t miss our new daily news show that covers all the biggest stories in just 5 minutes—available on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.GM!Here are today’s top stories: Major cryptocurrencies keep sliding, dropping another 3–5%; BTC now at $66,800 Altcoins rally strongly, led by LIT, WLD, ENA, NEAR, and ZEC Coinbase makes a market purchase of the ENA token as both firms gear up for a new partnership The Wall Street Journal highlights Hyperliquid…

The Fragmented State of Modern Enterprise Identity Enterprise identity and access management (IAM) is nearing a critical threshold. As companies grow, identity data scatters across countless applications, independent teams, machine accounts, and automated systems. This creates what’s known as Identity Dark Matter—identity-related actions that fall outside the oversight of centralized IAM systems and remain invisible to security teams. Research from Orchid Security reveals that 46% of all enterprise identity activity happens beyond the reach of centralized IAM monitoring. Essentially, close to half of the identity landscape may be operating without oversight. This hidden segment includes unmanaged software, local user accounts,…

AI could cost you your job. Perhaps it already has. Maybe you’re finding it harder to break into a field that’s hiring fewer entry-level workers. And even if you manage to keep your position, the landscape is shifting: there are fewer roles available, the bar is higher, and you have less room to negotiate. That said, AI by itself isn’t the real threat. The real issue is AI being rolled out in an economy where employees have almost no say in how the benefits of increased productivity get divided up. Worrying About AI Makes Perfect Sense Every major technological shift…

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Conventional cybersecurity defenses are no longer sufficient. AI-driven autonomous systems can create zero-day exploits instantly, and defense organizations struggle to patch vulnerabilities quickly enough to keep up. Bureaucratic procurement processes, institutional inertia, and a lack of deep technical expertise have created a major imbalance, with adversaries facing no practical limits on how aggressively they can escalate. AI-fueled attacks routed through space-based platforms or software-based channels bypass traditional attribution methods and overwhelm standard response protocols. The U.S. cannot simply overpower this threat through force. Success in today’s agentic warfare will be measured not by the strength of a counterattack, but by…

By Marc Kavinsky, Lead Editor at IoT Business News.The LoRa Alliance has released a three-year technical roadmap that focuses on simplifying how LoRaWAN is integrated and managed. The plan covers application integrations, device onboarding, network interfaces, coverage expansion, and certification. It signals a move beyond basic connectivity toward streamlined deployment and lifecycle management across the entire ecosystem.In many large-scale IoT projects, the wireless connection itself is rarely the biggest challenge. The real difficulties tend to lie in other areas: getting devices onboarded, decoding data payloads, linking servers together, migrating between networks, and filling coverage gaps at the edges of infrastructure.…

Nous Research has launched Hermes Desktop in public preview. This native app works on macOS, Windows, and Linux, giving the open-source Hermes Agent a proper visual interface. Previously, users could only interact with Hermes through a command-line interface or messaging platforms. The current version running behind the scenes is Hermes Agent v0.15.2. According to Nous Research’s official documentation, the desktop version taps into the exact same agent engine. Your settings, API keys, conversation history, learned skills, and stored memory all sync between the desktop app and the CLI or messaging gateway. Think of the desktop as just another window into…

AI-driven robots today can do a lot of things, but they’re still a long way from replacing people because they struggle to adapt to new conditions, according to experts.Last month, robotics firm Figure demonstrated humanoid robots doing simple chores like cleaning, while nine straight days of its robots sorting packages fueled debate over how quickly robots might take over jobs.Oliver Obst, an associate professor of robotics at Australia’s University of New South Wales, told Cointelegraph that highly routine roles, especially physical work in structured settings, are currently the most at risk. He added that office-based administrative and document-related work may…