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For over a year, a Chinese cyber-espionage operation silently infiltrated medical, academic, and military research networks across North America, siphoning off sensitive research data and defense-related emails. The attackers gained access by exploiting a hidden entry point on REDCap research servers to swipe login credentials. What made the data theft particularly distinctive was how they did it: they manipulated their victims’ own Google Workspace email rules to automatically forward any messages containing their keywords to an inbox under their control. In a report released this week, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) detailed the campaign and assigned it a high-confidence link…

Microsoft has reportedly enlisted Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help manage surging demand on GitHub, the popular developer coding platform, after experiencing capacity constraints that strained its infrastructure.According to Business Insider, Microsoft is partnering with Amazon—its top rival in the cloud computing market—to address GitHub’s growing resource needs. Two sources familiar with the arrangement confirmed the collaboration.GitHub adopts a multi-cloud approachMicrosoft purchased GitHub in 2018 with the goal of migrating the platform fully to its own Azure cloud by 2027. However, that timeline may need to be adjusted due to current pressures.GitHub serves as a central hub for developers to…

By Marc Kavinsky, Lead Editor at IoT Business News.Fresh research from IoT Analytics suggests that unplanned downtime in industrial settings is no longer driven solely by equipment breakdowns — it is increasingly fueled by the erosion of hands-on maintenance expertise as veteran technicians head into retirement. The study highlights AI-powered knowledge capture, prescriptive maintenance strategies, and more comprehensive asset-health data as the emerging solutions to this growing challenge.For a long time, the industrial IoT maintenance narrative has centered on forecasting: install sensors, track vibration or temperature readings, spot irregularities, and step in before a line goes down. That reasoning still…

As AI use surges across industries, stress-testing systems against adversarial threats has become essential. This process allows organizations to uncover weaknesses before going live, reinforcing system safety from the ground up. Dive into the essentials of AI red teaming—its purpose, benefits, and the top consulting firms leading the charge.What Is AI Red Teaming?AI red teaming simulates real-world cyberattacks on artificial intelligence systems to reveal hidden security and safety gaps. Through a controlled, methodical approach, it challenges models, agents, and applications with hostile or unexpected inputs to evaluate their resilience. These simulations expose vulnerabilities that might otherwise go unnoticed until they…

A few weeks back, a member of our data team approached us with a request to modify the database schema that one of the tools in our multi-agent system was feeding. The change itself was straightforward: we just needed to add two new columns to an existing table. The challenge was that the tool’s definition wasn’t in one place. One version existed in the agent orchestrator. A second, nearly identical copy was inside the validation agent. A third, slightly different and already outdated version sat in a utility module that had been written three sprints earlier. On top of that,…

Here is the paraphrased version of the article, with the HTML structure preserved and the text rewritten for clarity and readability: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is tackling one of the most severe Ebola outbreaks ever recorded, urging its staff to assist in curbing the virus’s spread abroad. However, the CDC personnel involved in these efforts are experiencing significant burnout and low morale due to substantial staffing reductions and prolonged leadership gaps, as revealed by internal documents and discussions with Federal News Network. The CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), tasked with preventing…

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.Among all the docking stations I’ve put through their paces, the Baseus Spacemate RD1 Pro stands out as one of the most distinctive, packing in features you rarely encounter on competing docks.Also: I tested the best laptop docking stations — here’s what I recommend for your office setupRight away, it sets itself apart with a tilting wireless charging pad on top and a compact, high-resolution screen on the front. The best part? These extras don’t come across as mere novelties — they provide genuinely practical information for demanding work environments, on…

GoFa helps test PSYONIC’s Ability Hand for robotics, combining touch sensing, compliant design, and human-derived training data. Source: ABB Robotics ABB Robotics LLC announced today that it is partnering with PSYONIC to push the boundaries of dexterous robotic manipulation by leveraging real-world data collected from human prosthetic users. The two companies are pairing ABB’s GoFa force- and power-limited collaborative robot with PSYONIC’s Ability Hand to investigate how touch and motion data can be used to train robots to carry out tasks that have traditionally been hard to automate. ABB Robotics noted that manipulation sits at the heart of its “Autonomous…

at making quick implementations. However, now that coding has become a commodity, one of the main bottlenecks that I see is the knowledge transfer between a human brain and the coding agent. If an idea is presented correctly to the coding agent, it is extremely effective at implementing the solution, testing it, and ensuring the correct implementation. However, in a lot of cases, there are a lot of details, and it’s really hard to ensure all the details are included when you prompt the coding agent. This is where alignment comes in, and in this article, I’ll discuss how to…

Bitcoin’s price surged to its highest level in two weeks on Monday, fueled by a U.S.-Iran ceasefire that eased one of the market’s most persistent macroeconomic concerns. This development sent crypto-related stocks soaring ahead of what traders see as the week’s main event: Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s inaugural FOMC meeting. Bitcoin traded around $67,000, marking a 4% gain in 24 hours, following Iran’s confirmation of a memorandum of understanding to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The cryptocurrency broke through the $64,000 resistance level during low-liquidity weekend trading before stabilizing as New York markets opened on Monday. However, Nansen Research…