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  1. Wired

    The Politics of Solar Energy Are Getting Weird, Mean, and a Little MAGA

    A mysterious super PAC that doubles as a pro-solar-energy outfit is funding some of the most knives-out attack ads of the midterms season.

  2. Help Net Security

    SolarWinds Avior pairs IT automation with human approval and audit trails

    SolarWinds has announced the launch of Avior, a standalone, goal-oriented agentic AI system purpose-built for mission-critical IT environments. Built on the SolarWinds Platform, Avior will help IT teams securely define goals, coordinate specialized agents, and track progress toward measurable...

  3. Help Net Security

    Chainguard Harness uses frontier AI to test running applications for vulnerabilities

    Chainguard has announced Chainguard Harness, a new cyber harness that uses frontier AI models like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5.1 to find and fix exploitable vulnerabilities in an organization’s application code. Harness builds an application from an organization’s source code in an isolated...

  4. Infosecurity Magazine

    Passkey Authentications Double but Adoption Remains Slow

    Dashlane data finds that passkey adoption is growing but not quickly enough

  5. Help Net Security

    Scytale MCP gives AI tools scoped, read-only access to compliance data

    Scytale has announced the launch of Scytale MCP, a Model Context Protocol server that connects a customer’s AI tools directly to their compliance program. With Scytale MCP, tools such as Claude and ChatGPT can query live compliance data and complete routine work through plain language instead of...

  6. Wired

    cool kids are writing in all lowercase now. does that make you mad?

    a certain kind of person writes in all lowercase now. why?

  7. Wired

    Nothing Headphone (1) Pro: Studio Quality

    Nothing’s best headphones yet double down on design, comfort, sound quality, and highly adjustable EQ settings.

  8. CIO

    Spend vs. debt: what’s the bigger security risk?

    With a career built at companies like Visa, Ellie May, and Blackhawk, Selim Aissi, a 2026 CSO hall of fame inductee, understands how boards and executives demand a clear justification for cyber security investment, especially considering today’s difficult economic climate.But getting security...

  9. CIO

    How to move fast with AI and still maintain customer trust

    Companies are moving fast to put AI into chatbots, virtual assistants, and other customer service tools. But for CIOs, that comes with a risk: if the technology gives customers the wrong information, makes biased recommendations, or mishandles data, it can immediately damage the trust companies...

  10. CIO

    Don’t start with AI. Start with the work

    There is a lot of discussion about deploying AI across the enterprise. Most of it starts with the model, the platform or the tool. I start somewhere else: the work. What decision are we trying to improve? What information does a person need at that moment? What gets in the way today? And what...

  11. CIO

    New US CIO appointments, October 2026

    Movers & Shakers is where you can keep up with new CIO appointments and gain valuable insight into the job market and CIO hiring trends. As every company becomes a technology company, CEOs and corporate boards are seeking multi-dimensional CIOs and IT leaders with superior skills in technology...

  12. CIO

    New US CIO appointments, October 2026

    Movers & Shakers is where you can keep up with new CIO appointments and gain valuable insight into the job market and CIO hiring trends. As every company becomes a technology company, CEOs and corporate boards are seeking multi-dimensional CIOs and IT leaders with superior skills in technology...

  13. Wired

    I Ranked 28 Energy Drinks, From Celsius to Black Rifle (2026)

    The future is here, and it is jacked up on B vitamins, red dye, and taurine. These are the best energy drinks to get from tired to wired.

  14. Wired

    Men Can’t Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI

    More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional.

  15. Infosecurity Magazine

    French Supermarket Cyber-Attack Impacts More Refrigeration Controllers

    At least two French supermarkets using temperature regulation devices from Dixell Electronics also experienced food stock disruptions

  16. Help Net Security

    GitHub adopts cheaper AI model to catch secrets developers leave in code

    GitHub has trained a credential classifier to improve generic secret detection and reduce false alerts. The new pipeline cut median post-push scan execution time by 86% and model serving costs by more than 98% compared with its previous large language model (LLM) pipeline. GitHub’s secret scanning...

  17. Wired

    Tesla’s Roadster 2 Is Late—and Entering a Different EV World

    Nine years after its reveal, the overdue Roadster is set to debut on Thursday to an EV market that has grown skeptical of electric hypercars.

  18. Wired

    Cat-Like Whiskers Help Tiny Drones Fly in the Dark

    Researchers took lessons from nocturnal animals to help rescue drones overcome a key challenge: flying in the dark.

  19. NY Times

    22 People Got Together For a Dinner Party. So Did Their A.I. Agents.

    As artificial intelligence bots spread, we are increasingly glimpsing how these digital entities interact and what they talk about with one another.

  20. CSO Online

    Cybersecurity is a leadership problem: Why the management model needs to catch up

    When I started writing regularly about cybersecurity management in 2015, the environment looked very different. Cloud computing was still reshaping enterprise technology. Ransomware had not become the industrialised threat it is today. Artificial intelligence was not driving boardroom discussions...