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Whose security counts in the Pacific?
While climate-related spending gets criticised, billions forked out for security and strategic engagement gets framed as for the “national interest”. The post Whose security counts in the Pacific? appeared first on Crikey.
rashomon-py added to PyPI
Does your conclusion survive every equally-good model? Multiplicity audits for scikit-learn linear models.
Trump trade chief Greer reports higher cash holdings as law firm pay topped $650K
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer reported $1.17 million to $3.75 million in assets and disclosed a prior $10,000 payment from Coupang.
US government, tech giants and Biohub commit $1.8B to AI biology initiative
More than a half-dozen public and private sector organizations are teaming up to develop biology datasets for artificial intelligence models. The consortium, which announced the collaboration today, is committing $1.8 billion to the project. Studying how a ce…
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model and halves Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices
Anthropic PBC today released Claude Haiku 5.5, pricing its newest small model at roughly a quarter of what Haiku 4.5 costs to run. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is getting cheaper as well, since the company is halving what it charges for cache reads on that model. Two we…
Cramer says higher rates are splitting the market in two — and AI stocks have a big advantage
Jim Cramer said higher borrowing costs are splitting the market, putting pressure on credit-sensitive sectors while AI companies remain largely insulated.
An Engineer Extorted His Company for $750,000. A Rookie Cybersecurity Mistake Sent Him to Federal Prison
A digital trail and other missteps helped authorities track the engineer down.
Man Who Spent Millions on Rare Pokémon and Magic Cards Found Guilty of Stealing Over $50 Million in Crypto
He now faces up to 20 years in prison on a money-laundering charge.
Thursdays With Erik: Educating Myself On Proactive Security Platforms
As a research director, I manage a team of analysts who cover a range of technologies outside my primary area of expertise (identity and access management). I’ve had to educate myself on these areas so I can oversee the quality of the analysts’ respective res…
How a (Weirdly Chill) Celebrity Thinks About Personal Cybersecurity
At a recent event for security firm NordVPN, NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal revealed that he got hacked—and warned the public about the need to “have control of their own information.”
Commissionaires and Brassets Group form strategic partnership to advance Canadian security capability
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Oct. 07, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Canadian Corps of Commissionaires (“Commissionaires”), Canada’s only national not-for-profit security company and the country’s largest employer of veterans, announced that it has partnered with Brass…
CrowdStrike vs. Fortinet: Which Cybersecurity Stock Is Poised for Higher Highs?
Cybersecurity stocks continue to benefit from rising enterprise security spending as cloud adoption, artificial intelligence, and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats expand the need for protection. CrowdStrike CRWD) and Fortinet FTNT) have been among the…
Could you stop a rogue AI from escaping? Take our sci-fi security test
OpenAI and Anthropic have huge teams working on this stuff. You’ve got six questions and your cybersecurity instincts. Could you keep a rogue AI contained?
Trump's 'Super Intelligence' AI rebrand is running ahead of the technology
Washington is launching a new AI oversight task force while Elon Musk embraces its “Super Intelligence” branding for no real reason.
China’s AI startups can match the U.S.’s models. They can’t yet match the U.S.’s money
China's AI models are catching up, but its startup funding is a tenth of U.S. levels. Founders will need creative solutions to bridge the gap.
Luxembourg Art, Copyright Advent Calendar, School Book Bans, More: Wednesday ResearchBuzz, October 7, 2026
NEW RESOURCES From the Luxembourg Ministry of Culture and machine-translated from French because the English version of the site doesn’t have this press release yet: Launch of the online catalogue of the […]
CrowdStrike stock is flying — but the valuation math is sending warning signs
It's not difficult to understand why CrowdStrike (CRWD) stock has experienced a meteoric move. But it is becoming difficult to justify the stock's valuations. Shares of the cybersecurity darling now trade at 43.54x forward price-to-sales (P/S). Not only is th…
TekVision and Carahsoft Officially Announce Global Distribution Partnership for AI and Customer Experience Assurance Solutions
TORONTO & RESTON, Va. — TekVision Technologies Inc., a provider of AI and customer experience assurance solutions, and Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®, today announced a global distribution partnership. Under the agre…
OpenAI publishes 722 AI-generated math discoveries in major scientific milestone
OpenAI Group PBC has published 722 math papers that it generated using an unreleased artificial intelligence model. Some of the papers, which were posted to GitHub late Tuesday, prove long-running hypotheses. Others disapprove proposed explanations of mathem…
Cisco broadens agentic features in Webex collaboration platform
Cisco Systems Inc. today detailed a broad expansion of its Webex collaboration portfolio that brings artificial intelligence agents into team conversations, connects office technology with workplace management and enables customer-service agents to continue w…
Aston Martin puts back-end AI to work while keeping agents off its website
Back-end AI gives manufacturers opportunities to improve operations, but choosing where to apply it requires attention to business value. For Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd., that means evaluating operational use cases while preserving its personalized customer exp…
Clear Channel Outdoor Receives CFIUS Clearance for Acquisition by Mubadala Capital
Transaction Expected to Close on or about October 14, 2026 SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCO) (the "Company") today announced it has received clearance from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the Uni…
