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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.
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…
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…
Edward Dubrovsky, a longtime cybersecurity executive, was arrested and charged in Pennsylvania last week under conspiracy to extort money.
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 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…
A regional internet provider in southeastern Brazil just posted a networking stat that would turn heads in any data center boardroom: latency cut nearly in half, uptime above 99.9%, all without building a single new backbone. The deal driving it, between national fiber carrier Eletronet and Minas Gerais-based broadband operator Maxx Conectado, is a small…
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…
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…
The Philippine House of Representatives approved a bill on October 12, 2026 that would bar children aged 13 and under from holding social media accounts and would impose new restrictions on teenagers up to age 17, according to reports from the Associated Press via Yahoo News and other outlets. The measure, House Bill No. 11566,…
