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Cheri Hotman, Managing Partner of Hotman Group, works as a vCISO and vGRC leader. In this Help Net Security video, she talks about holding coverage steady when the CFO asks for a flat budget or a 12% cut. Her advice is to stop trimming every line by the same percentage. Instead, sort each security expense into four buckets: what works and protects something the business cares about, what could add value but was never operationalized, … More →

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New AWS customers can now sign up with a Google, GitHub, or Apple login, start with $100 in Free Tier credits, and build inside a “project” where AWS and coding agents set up permissions automatically. Paid projects get a monthly spend limit, starting at $20, and a project that reaches its limit is halted instead of running up more charges. Owners who later need multiple Regions or central governance can turn on the full AWS … More →

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GNOME 51, the new version of the Linux desktop, came out on September 16 under the codename A Coruña. The release adds offline maps and live transit information to Maps, new login options at the login screen, hand-drawn signatures in the Papers document viewer, and smoother animations when the system is under load. Fedora 45 and Ubuntu 26.10 will ship it. The update also takes something away. Owners of older NVIDIA graphics cards, such as … More →

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AI coding tools are making open source software harder to maintain and secure, according to six authors writing for the Association for Computing Machinery’s Technology Policy Council, among them Simson Garfinkel and Josiah Dykstra. The tools write code and find security flaws quickly. The maintainers who decide what enters a project’s official release still have to judge that output themselves. That burden reaches anyone who runs software. Open source code sits inside phones, cars, cloud … More →

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AI is transforming warfare and international conflict. Autonomous weapon systems pose a genuine threat to civilians. The war in Ukraine has become a proving ground for weapons that can navigate, identify targets, resist electronic countermeasures, and pursue and engage targets autonomously without the need for human control. That evolution should concern technology professionals, regulators, policymakers, and citizens everywhere. Recent reporting by The New York Times documented a particularly disturbing development. In July 2026, a Russian … More →

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Microsoft is investigating reports that the Windows 11 KB5124008 security update is breaking Active Directory domain trust on some enterprise computers, leaving users unable to sign in with valid credentials. The problem appears linked to Machine Identity Isolation, although Microsoft has not confirmed the root cause or published an official workaround. Released on September 8, […]

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