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Artificial intelligence, automation, and digital transformation are reshaping the skills employees need at a pace that many organisations struggle to match. Job roles are shifting, workflows are growing more technical, and teams are under pressure to master new tools, systems, and customer demands faster than ever before. Workforce development can no longer be treated as a periodic HR checkbox.Ongoing learning has become a hallmark of a workforce prepared for the future. Companies need people who can pick up new skills, put existing knowledge into practice quickly, and adapt with confidence as business needs change. For this reason, investing in training…

In brief Publicly traded companies are now accumulating Solana alongside Bitcoin and Ethereum. The leading firms have collectively gathered over $1 billion worth of SOL. The frontrunner, Forward Industries, holds more than 7 million SOL on its own. Michael Saylor pioneered the digital asset treasury concept when his company Strategy started purchasing Bitcoin in 2020, accumulating over $53 billion worth of BTC over the years—and sparking a trend among other companies.Today, publicly traded companies are venturing further along the risk spectrum and diversifying their balance sheets with various crypto tokens, including Ethereum and XRP.This shift includes building treasury strategies focused…

Innovators Spotlight: Converting OT Cyber Risk Into Financial Terms With Centrii If you’re overwhelmed by dashboards flashing red alerts constantly, this article is for you. Over the past ten years, the OT and energy industries have been layering on cybersecurity tools as if decorating a race car with stickers. Each new vendor promises greater visibility, more alerts, and deeper context. The outcome is entirely predictable: more noise than useful signals, more alarms than actual actions, and a collection of costly technology that still fails to answer the one question that truly matters to your board: How much money could we…

ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 Aura Edition pros and cons Pros Remarkably lightweight.Modular “Space Frame” design enhances repairability.Outstanding display quality.The definitive premium ThinkPad experience. Cons RAM is soldered to the motherboard.Battery life is just average.Upgrades can get expensive quickly. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.Lenovo unveiled the 14th-generation ThinkPad X1 Carbon at CES 2026 to significant excitement, snagging the Best Laptop of CES award thanks to its innovative modular architecture and strong focus on repairability. It also earned a stellar 9/10 score from the repairability experts at iFixit.It’s unmistakably a ThinkPad, packed with the high-end features…

For a long time, building a medallion architecture in Microsoft Fabric meant connecting a range of separate components: notebooks to handle transformations, pipelines to orchestrate workflows, schedules to manage refreshes, custom code for data-quality checks, and the Monitor Hub to verify that everything ran successfully. Each layer functioned well enough, but when one failed, you had to identify which layer broke, understand why, and determine which downstream layers were impacted. If you’ve ever troubleshot a silver layer that didn’t update because the bronze notebook had failed hours earlier, you know the frustration firsthand. Then, at FabCon Atlanta in March 2026,…

 The National Endowment for the Arts is preparing to roll out a brand-new grants platform in the year ahead. What sets this initiative apart isn’t simply that it will take over from a decade-old system the agency had pieced together over time. What truly distinguishes this new platform is that a single NEA engineer built it with the help of an artificial intelligence agent — and finished the job in just one week. Jim Tunnessen, who serves as both chief information officer and chief artificial intelligence officer at NEA, explained that within days the engineer produced a fully functional…

Powered by digital twin technology and custom-built AI models for each customer, Cumulo responds to GCHQ’s recent call for an AI Cyber Shield, allowing threats and vulnerabilities to be spotted before any incident takes placeAbingdon, U.K., 19 June – SOC-as-a-service provider e2e-assure has today unveiled the latest version of Cumulo, the U.K.’s only sovereign, AI-native SOC platform that connects IT and OT environments. The platform is purpose-built to help organisations protect themselves against a rising wave of AI-powered threats, where attackers are operating with a level of speed and autonomy that legacy SOC models simply were not designed to handle.The…

On Thursday, the Federal Reserve put forward a proposal requiring payment stablecoin issuers to establish formal written customer identification programs. This step underscores Washington’s intent to subject digital asset markets to the same anti-money laundering standards that have governed traditional banks for years — all while regulators work to finalize rules ahead of a January statutory deadline. Under the proposal, permitted payment stablecoin issuers (PPSIs) would need to gather specific information from every new customer before opening an account: a legal name, date of birth or date of formation, a physical address, and a government-issued identification number. The Federal Reserve’s…

The ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation known as The Gentlemen is continuously building and refining a collection of tools designed to take down endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions. These tools are then distributed to affiliates, who use them to cripple security defenses before launching the ransomware encryptor. This well-developed lineup of EDR-disabling utilities is built around a core framework called GentleKiller. “The group also makes use of third-party or leaked tools, including HexKiller, ThrottleBlood, and HavocKiller,” explained Jakub Souček, a security researcher at ESET, in a report shared with The Hacker News. “These tools are unified through a common defense-evasion layer…