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Ravie LakshmananJun 24, 2026Money Laundering / Cybercrime On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) revealed that it had taken control of a cloud computing account used by subsidiaries of HuiOne Group, a Cambodia-based corporate conglomerate. Simultaneously, the Treasury Department imposed new sanctions on nine individuals and 26 entities connected to Prince Group. According to the DoJ, these subsidiaries are accused of helping various individuals and organizations move illicit funds stemming from cryptocurrency investment scams, cyber fraud, and other illegal activities across cryptocurrency blockchains, while also enabling the conversion of those illicit proceeds into the legitimate banking system without detection.…

On June 22, 2026, President Trump signed Executive Order 14409, titled “Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks.” The directive establishes a December 31, 2030, cutoff for federal agencies to shift their most sensitive systems to post-quantum encryption, and a December 31, 2031, cutoff for post-quantum authentication. The order also instructs federal contractors to align with post-quantum Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) by the close of 2030.We applaud this executive order. The U.S. government has a well-established history of leveraging federal leadership and procurement power to accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies across the private sector. We’ve witnessed this approach…

By Marc Kavinsky, Lead Editor at IoT Business News.According to Omdia, cellular IoT connections are projected to hit 5.9 billion by 2035, with NB-IoT, 5G Massive IoT, and eRedCap driving the upcoming wave of growth in both modules and connections.The cellular IoT landscape is no longer following a single evolutionary path. For hardware manufacturers and connectivity suppliers, the coming decade is expected to be shaped less by a broad shift to 5G and more by a diversified blend of technologies, where factors like cost, power efficiency, network rollout status, and specific application needs determine which radio standard prevails in each…

Omio has woven OpenAI models into its engineering workflows to speed up the creation of travel products and roll out booking interfaces more rapidly.The multimodal travel platform orchestrates activity across more than 3,000 transport operators spanning 47 countries. Omio firmly dismisses the idea of merely bolting new technology onto old internal habits. The company’s CTO, Tomas Vocetka, insists that every internal function must fundamentally rethink how it carries out its work from scratch, so the entire organisation operates like a true AI-native company.OpenAI Codex integrationVocetka kicked off the internal rollout by giving staff broad access to ChatGPT, building a baseline…

  # Introduction  Chances are, you’ve seen a browser-based AI agent in action at some point over the past year. It clicks a dropdown menu, waits for the DOM to refresh, captures a screenshot, decides its next click, and waits once more. A single task takes five seconds, with a hundred potential points of failure. If a CSS class name shifts, if the dropdown animates slightly differently, or if the page lazy-loads an unexpected element, the entire flow falls apart. That’s not a shortcoming of the models themselves — the models are perfectly capable. The real issue is a protocol gap.…

According to people who previously worked on the project, Ethereum is facing a financial shortfall.This alert has triggered one of the most intense governance discussions on Ethereum in recent months: should the network support developers by imposing a fee on staking returns, or simply depend on affluent Ether supporters to finance the ecosystem?At the heart of this discussion is a divisive idea from Kleros co-founder Clément Lesaege. He proposed diverting as much as 10% of validator earnings to support the ecosystem via a system known as Validator Redirected Revenue.Lesaege claimed this action might be needed to tackle Ethereum’s “coordination failure”…

Carl Froggett holds a dual role as both CISO and CIO at Deep Instinct. Prior to this, he served as CISO at Citi for nearly 17 years. Combining CISO and CIO Froggett has long held the view that the two positions have significant overlap, making a merged role appealing. However, this approach isn’t suitable for every organization. Citi employs over 200,000 people, while Deep Instinct has fewer than 200. Merging the CISO and CIO roles would be unmanageable for a single person at Citi, but functions effectively at Deep Instinct. “At their core, both the CISO and CIO serve the…

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is overhauling its long-running value engineering program, moving it from a standalone function and weaving it directly into everyday project delivery workflows. Critics caution this shift could heighten the risk of wasteful spending, budget overruns, and delays. According to USACE, the transition is already in progress, with full implementation targeted by September 30. “The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is not dissolving, eliminating, or scaling back our dedication to value engineering. On the contrary, we are elevating and modernizing it by transforming it from a separate, parallel compliance effort into a built-in, fully integrated…

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.When mindfulness and wellness come to mind, technology probably isn’t the first thing you think of — yet there’s actually a growing range of modern devices and tools designed to help you stay present, set your phone aside, ease stress, and even improve your sleep.Also: June Prime Day live blog 2026: We’re tracking Amazon deals on SSDs, TVs, laptops and moreAs someone deeply passionate about wellness, I’ve seen firsthand how pricey these gadgets can get. Since today marks the kickoff of Amazon’s Prime Day — a week-long sales event — I’ve…

ExR-2.5 robots are now accessible across North America. Source: ExRobotics ExRobotics B.V. pointed out that oil and gas operators are grappling with a combination of deteriorating infrastructure, severe staffing gaps, and the growing financial toll of unexpected downtime. The company officially introduced its UL-certified ExR-2.5 autonomous inspection robot to the North American market at the Energy Drone & Robotics Summit held in Houston. “The inspection hurdles confronting oil and gas operators are growing more acute — experienced workers are increasingly difficult to recruit, equipment is getting older, and the consequences of failures are escalating rapidly,” said Mark Mildon, CEO of…