IBM Report: Shadow AI and Poor Governance Linked to Costlier Breaches in 2025
Only 34% of organizations with AI governance audit for misuse, IBM’s 2025 breach report warns. Lack of oversight is raising risks and costs.
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Google Cloud/Forrester Report: Top Challenges to Effective Threat Intelligence
Too many threat intelligence data feeds and not enough skilled analysts top the list of challenges for cybersecurity teams, says a new Google Cloud/Forrester report.
Gartner’s 12 Emerging Tech Disruptors & Why ‘Technology Leaders Must Take Action Now’
A Gartner distinguished VP analyst offers TechRepublic readers advice about which early-stage technologies that will define the future of business systems to prioritize.
Space Force unveils multi-front push to fix its Unified Data Library
The space service’s new “Data & AI Strategic Action Plan” emphasizes overhauling UDL, aiming to finally integrate its private-sector data with operational Space Force systems.
Medusa Ransomware Strikes 300+ Targets: FBI & CISA Urge Immediate Action to #StopRansomware
Medusa ransomware now operates as a RaaS model, recruiting affiliates from criminal forums to launch attacks, encrypt data, and extort victims worldwide.
Amazon’s Controversial Change to Echo’s Privacy Settings Takes Effect Soon
Amazon is mandating cloud-based processing for Echo voice commands, removing local storage and disabling Alexa’s voice ID to expand its generative AI capabilities.
Will Cisco’s Free Tech Training for 1.5M People Help Close EU’s Skills Gap?
Cisco’s training through its Networking Academy will help “build a resilient and skilled workforce ready to meet Europe’s digital transformation and AI objectives.”
UK’s Request to Keep Apple Privacy Case Secret Rejected
The U.K.’s Home Secretary claimed that publishing details about the appeal would be prejudicial to national security, but judges disagreed.
Trained on classified battlefield data, AI multiplies effectiveness of Ukraine’s drones: Report
“These systems can often achieve objectives using just one or two drones per target rather than eight or nine,” Ukrainian-American scholar Kateryna Bondar, a former advisor to Kyiv, writes in a new report released today by CSIS.
Apple Taking Legal Action Against UK Over Backdoor Demands
Apple told TechRepublic it is “gravely disappointed” to remove Advanced Data Protection in the U.K., as it fights government demands for an iCloud backdoor.