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Hello Cyber Builders 🖖This morning, I kicked off the CyGO AI & Cyber Collective Summit. Here is my talk, as written.Twenty-five years ago, I worked in computer security. Back then, the job was simple: protect computers and networks. Now, cybersecurity touches every company. It is about your business, our values, and our democracies.Digital technology runs the world. Things move so fast now that it can make your head spin.So I looked back at just one week of news. Even a single week gives perspective nowadays.You have heard about the refrigeration controllers that run supermarket fridges.Claroty’s Team82 published the Danfoss controller…

Months of speculation over the future of data security company Varonis Systems Inc. ended today when Thoma Bravo-owned cybersecurity firm Proofpoint Inc. agreed to buy it for about $6.3 billion in cash. Bloomberg first reported in June that Varonis was fielding early interest from private equity firms, among them Blackstone Inc., Thoma Bravo and Vista Equity Partners. Proofpoint turned up as the buyer in talks in a second Bloomberg story in early September. Measured against the stock’s price before any of that reporting, the $49.75 a share Proofpoint is paying works out to a 52% premium. The company being sold…

Coway, the brand that nabbed the top two spots on CNET’s best air purifier list after our recent testing, just released a brand-new, compact unit that’s part of its popular Airmega lineup. The Airmega Mighty2 Mini features ultra-quiet operation, a multi-stage filtration system and a compact design that’s 40% smaller than its larger counterpart, the Airmega Mighty2. But the price tag may be the biggest draw. The top two picks on our list, the Airmega 450 and the Airmega 400S, retail for $499 and $680, respectively, while the Mighty2 retails for $270. Yet the Mighty2 Mini comes in as the most…

Lead gen is an exhausted topic, but it’s still what backs your pipeline decisions. With misinformation at large and guessing not an option, how do you find the right numbers? Reading another statistics roundup won’t help repair your pipeline. These numbers won’t tell you what you really need to hear. Imagine. 91% of marketers say lead gen is their priority, and 68% of businesses struggle with driving results from it. So, what precisely are these numbers telling you? Have you ever thought of that? A lead gen framework is crucial, but it doesn’t really work? Your capabilities don’t align with…

As artificial intelligence use becomes more widespread, scholars are working to understand its effects on the people who use it. MIT Professor Eric So offers one of the most complete syntheses yet, in his new book, “The Collision: What AI Does to Us,” published this month by W.W. Norton. Recognizing that AI offers opportunities to complete work faster, and in some cases has been turned into useful domain-specific tools, So nonetheless looks at the costs of relying on it too broadly. He contends that heavy use of AI can lead to a kind of cognitive atrophy, in which people fail…

The company posted a net loss of S$2.15 billion for FY2025/26 French video game publisher Ubisoft said on Wednesday (Oct 14) that it plans to cut 70 jobs in its Singapore studio. According to its website, Ubisoft Singapore employed over 450 employees in 2023. While the studio “remains an important element” of its global operation, the move comes as Ubisoft tries to return to profitability. The company posted a net loss of 1.5 billion euros (S$2.15 billion) for its 2025-26 financial year in May. Since Jan, it has been cutting costs to return to profit. It now aims for at…

“It definitely makes you wonder truly who is the real monster in the situation.”Director Yûta Shimotsu is describing events in a new episode of live-action J-horror anthology show Strange: Junji Ito’s Tales for Sleepless Nights, but he could be referring to almost any episode.The award-winning manga artist of the title, whose macabre short works are adapted into disturbing 30-minute bites, has a way of blurring lines between protagonist and antagonist amid his surreal nightmares.Tales for Sleepless Nights aired its 12-episode first season on TV Tokyo this summer, and now HBO Max is bringing those eerie frights to US audiences. The…

Anqi Chen, left, and Hojae Choi, are lead authors on two Nature papers from UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design. (IPD Photos) Researchers at UW Medicine’s Institute for Protein Design (IPD) have created new proteins that act like molecular scissors, chopping up targets associated with Alzheimer’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. The scientists are using sophisticated AI models developed at IPD to design proteins called proteases — a class of enzymes that cut specific proteins at specific locations in their structure. The proteases can make those cuts over and over again. “You…

Swedish robotics startup 120ft Factory AB launched today with 576,000 euros ($644,000) in new funding from 22 angel investors to build autonomous microfactories run by humanoid robots. 120ft builds and operates small factories that fit inside three 40-foot shipping containers, and the combined length of those containers gives the company its name. Customers never buy a robot. Brands pay for each finished product and keep their existing component suppliers, which send parts to a 120ft site where robots shared among several customers handle final assembly, inspection and packing. The first customers 120ft is chasing are design-led consumer brands, such as…

Ranking on Google is an achievement. Getting the buyer to click is another. The distinction is easy to overlook. Your page moves up, the SEO report turns green, and everyone expects traffic to follow. Sometimes it does. Sometimes the ranking improves, but the clicks barely move. Why? Because a ranking tells you where your result appears. It does not tell you what surrounds it, what the searcher needs, or whether they have a reason to leave Google. Google CTRs by ranking position help explain this gap. But only if you treat the numbers as benchmarks—not promises. What is Google’s organic…