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Why Outsourcing Security Is a Strategic Move, Not Just an Operational One Cybersecurity Outsourcing: More Than Savings — Why It’s a Strategic Choice, Not Just a Tactical One Handing over information security operations to an outside partner can deliver powerful advantages — but it also introduces serious challenges.How can companies make sure their security is truly in capable hands? How do they strike the right balance between cost savings, operational efficiency, and maintaining control? Drawing from the book “Outsourcing Strategies for Information Security Operations” by Pedro Nuno Trindade dos Santos, this article explores outsourcing frameworks, how to evaluate vendors, the…

Introduction There was a time when being fluent in a programming language was the ultimate edge. If you could code, you held the upper hand — you could craft software and automate tedious processes while everyone else relied on you. Today, that landscape has shifted entirely. Anyone can now build AI-powered solutions without writing a single line of code. AI has grown well beyond simple chatbots. Not long ago, mastering ChatGPT was enough to set you apart from the crowd. By 2025, creating local Agents still mostly required writing Python, with developers leaning on frameworks like LangChain to run open-source…

Microsoft has entered into a 20-year electricity supply deal with Chevron to support a future AI data centre in West Texas.The agreement was formalized between Microsoft and Energy Forge One LLC, a fully owned subsidiary of Chevron. Under the terms, electricity will be supplied exclusively to a Microsoft-run data centre via Project Kilby—a combined power generation and data centre site.Chevron is partnering with Joulent, an energy startup backed by investment firm Engine No. 1, to develop roughly 2.67 gigawatts of power capacity in Reeves County. The initiative will follow a step-by-step, modular design, adding generation capacity incrementally.Spanning over 2,000 acres…

The French electronics engineering firm Nemeus has created an ultra-low-power collar-mounted sensor for monitoring livestock, built around Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF52840 multiprotocol System-on-Chip. Fastened around the neck of grazing animals, the collar device carries out motion and temperature sensing to identify key events tied to the animal’s well-being. Warnings are then sent wirelessly to the farmer, enabling them to keep track of the herd’s health and comfort through a smartphone or web application. Bluetooth LE for short-range data transfer Built for a client specializing in agricultural sensing technology, the collar device transmits sensor readings over long distances using LoRaWAN, while leveraging…

Effective robotics demands more than just datasets. Source: Erika AI, via Adobe Stock Artificial intelligence is rapidly shifting focus from text-based chatbots and image recognition toward systems that can interact with the physical world, such as autonomous vehicles and industrial robots. Although significant progress has been made in training these technologies through vast datasets and computer simulations, a fundamental challenge persists: the disconnect between what a machine perceives and the complexities of reality. An advanced ability to reason is useless without a precise understanding of the current physical conditions. The shift from Physical AI 1.0 to 2.0 Today’s market is…

Jack Wallen/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysAndroid 17 has arrived for Pixel devices.The new update brings some important features.Some features make multitasking much easier.It’s here! Android 17 is officially available!OK, let’s be real — it’s not *that* groundbreaking. Sure, it’s a fresh version of our favorite mobile operating system, but it’s not the kind of dramatic leap we saw going from Android 15 to Android 16. That said, there’s still plenty worth getting excited about. In fact, there’s one particular addition that nearly made me jump out of my chair.Also: Android 17 is out now,…

Search results are emerging as a new vulnerability in crypto attacksSearch engine outcomes have quietly turned into one of the most overlooked weak points in cryptocurrency safety.The standard view of crypto security revolves around safeguarding seed phrases, relying on hardware wallets, turning on multi-factor authentication, and staying wary of dubious links shared via email or direct messages. What frequently gets ignored is the role search engines play as a gateway for attacks.For a long time, platforms like Google have been viewed as neutral entry points to the web. People are accustomed to looking up their bank, go-to restaurant, or a…

Ravie LakshmananJun 23, 2026Supply Chain Attack / Developer Security Security experts have uncovered a group of harmful npm packages crafted to deploy a Windows remote access trojan (RAT) onto victims’ machines. The detected packages are listed below – aes-decode-runner-pro (145 downloads) postcss-minify-selector (256 downloads) postcss-minify-selector-parser (615 downloads) All three packages were uploaded within the last month by an npm account called “abdrizak” and remain downloadable from the npm registry at the time of this report. “Aes-decode-runner-pro and postcss-minify-selector-parser both disguise themselves as layered AES/custom-codec tools and rely on the legitimate postcss-selector-parser library,” JFrog explained in its analysis. “Postcss-minify-selector masquerades as…

Senate legislators are looking to equip the Defense Department with fresh tools in fiscal 2027 for recruiting and keeping cyber professionals, limit the department’s power to execute staff cuts, and create a program aimed at retaining top-performing supervisors and managers throughout the department. The Senate Armed Services Committee’s draft of the fiscal 2027 defense policy bill incorporates multiple Pentagon-supported civilian workforce measures while adding safeguards for civilian staff at certain DoD entities and heightening congressional oversight of workforce downsizing. Drawing in cyber professionals Among the proposals is a measure that would simplify the process for staff transitioning between the cyber…

David Gewirtz/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysGmail Flows can now leverage AI to handle incoming messages.Google Workspace subscribers and paying AI customers gain access to these new capabilities.The monthly processing caps could severely restrict those with high email volumes.Google gives, and Google takes away. I recently discovered a clever new AI-powered feature in Gmail that could be a game-changer for people drowning in email. That’s the giving part. But the feature comes with tight restrictions on how many emails it will actually process before shutting down. That’s the taking away part.Last December, Google unveiled…