No Identity, No Recovery: Cyber Resilience Starts With IAM
The proliferation of enterprise apps and the centrality of cloud identity providers requires an identity security rethink.
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Passing the Baton: Dark Reading Names New Editor-in-Chief
Fahmida Y Rashid will keep the momentum going as she leads Dark Reading.
IonQ to buy zero-trust security firm Elisity in deal valued at up to $1.3 billion
The acquisition pairs Elisity’s zero-trust access controls with IonQ’s post-quantum cryptography business as federal agencies and major companies accelerate timelines for quantum-ready encryption. The post IonQ to buy zero-trust security firm Elisity in deal valued at up to $1.3 billion appeared first on CyberScoop.
Hackers Heat French Supermarket Fridges to 50°C [2026]
French prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into a cyberattack that drove supermarket refrigerators and freezers to 50°C overnight, spoiling food and triggering fires at stores run by five of the country’s best-known retail chains. The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed on October 12, 2026 that it is probing a “large-scale cyberattack affecting the refrigerators of…
Realistic AI Photos: Best Generator in 13 Steps [2026]
Every major AI image generator claims it can produce a photo nobody can tell from a real camera shot. In practice, most of them still hand you waxy skin, six-fingered hands, or a background that bends like a funhouse mirror. As of October 2026, three models sit at the top of the human-preference leaderboards for…
Prominent Ransomware Negotiator Faces Extortion Charges
Edward Dubrovsky, a longtime cybersecurity executive, was arrested and charged in Pennsylvania last week under conspiracy to extort money.
FERC OKs PJM Data Center Registry, Nixes Power Cuts [2026]
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission handed the data center industry a split decision this week, and the fallout is already rippling through grid operators well beyond the mid-Atlantic. On October 9, 2026, FERC approved a proposal from PJM Interconnection, the grid operator serving 13 states and Washington, D.C., to build a formal registry tracking large…
AMD’s Helion Rack Packs 32,768 Cores for AI Agents [2026]
AMD used the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit in San Jose on October 12, 2026 to introduce AMD Helion, an open rack-scale reference design built specifically to run autonomous AI agents rather than just large language models. The announcement, styled officially as the AMD Helion™ Agentic AI Rack, marks AMD’s clearest attempt yet to…
CrowdStrike vs SentinelOne vs Defender: 6.3x Share Gap [2026]
Three vendors now dominate every enterprise endpoint security shortlist: CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Security teams comparing them in October 2026 are not just picking an antivirus replacement. They are deciding how much autonomous response they trust a machine to run without a human in the loop, and how much that…
ROG Xbox Ally X20 vs MSI Claw 8 EX AI+: $500 Gap [2026]
Two Windows gaming handhelds are splitting the enthusiast crowd this October, and the gap between them is bigger than most buyers expect. The ROG Xbox Ally X20 lands October 15, 2026 at $1,299.99 with AMD’s new Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme chip, while MSI’s Claw 8 EX AI+ has been shipping since June with Intel’s first…