Jen Easterly’s confirmation by the Senate in July 2021 to become director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was about as smooth as Senate votes get. With a résumé that includes time in the U.S. Army, on both the National Security Council and National Security Agency, and leading Morgan Stanley’s cybersecurity division, Easterly was seen as wholly qualified and appropriately nonpartisan to lead the five-year-old agency and its 3,400 employees as only its second di
The Securities and Exchange Commission fined four companies on Tuesday with misleading investors about the impact the 2020 hack of SolarWinds had on their own systems.
Unisys, Avaya, Check Point, and Mimecast will each pay civil penalties to settle the agency’s charges that they downplayed the impacts of the hack through their respective public disclosures.
“While public companies may become
Groups in Russia created and helped spread viral disinformation targeting Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, a senior U.S. intelligence official said Tuesday.
The content, which includes baseless accusations ab
Meta Platforms’ Oversight Board on Wednesday told the company to keep up a Facebook post superimposing the faces of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz onto a parody “Dumb and Dumber” movie poster showing the characters pinching each other’s nipples through their clothing.
The U.S.-China tech war is all but certain to heat up no matter whether Republican Donald Trump or Vice President
Whenever I find that midnight has come and gone and I’m still awake, I immediately accomplish a daily ritual:
- I play Wordle, the New York Times’s figure-out-the-five-letter-word puzzle;
- And then I play another Times word game, Connections.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m one of millions who plan their waking hours around these Times games and others such as
If you are not drinking your water infused with the latest miracle vegetable, what are you doing? Slices of lemon or cucumber are out, instead people are infusing their water with chia seeds or, most recently, okra.
Searches for okra water have spiked by 470% on Pinterest, according to the company’s fall trend report. On TikTok, wellness influencers are promoting the slimy beverage’s benef
Everything is more difficult in space, and learning software is no exception. But the pressure to push AI into everything can’t be denied.
U.S. satellite operator Spire will work with Mission Control, a Canadian space software company, on a demo mission to launch in 2025 that will see a Spire-built Earth observation (EO) satellite use Mission Control machine learning models to perform analyses in orbit.
Founded in 2015, Mission Control develops software for autonom
Here’s a tantalizing little paradox to chew over: One of the most interesting up-and-coming productivity apps is also one of the most immediately familiar-feeling—on the surface, at least.
The app is called Capacities. At this point, most of its recognition revolves around the fact that it was recently featured as a top productivity pick by tech jou
Anthropic is giving its new Claude 3.5 Sonnet model the ability to control a user’s computer and access the internet. The move marks a major step in generative AI models’ capabilities—and raises questions about AI companies’ ability to properly mitigate the risks of more autonomous AI.
According to a series of example videos from Anthrop