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Syndio CEO Maria Colacurcio at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle in 2019. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong) For the first time in its nine-year history, Syndio has made an acquisition. The Seattle-based pay equity startup announced Tuesday that it acquired Embrace.ai, an agentic AI startup whose founders and technology will help Syndio build out its AI-powered compensation platform. Austin, Texas-based Embrace.ai was built to deploy AI-driven automation across business workflows, with a focus on governance and explainability in enterprise settings. The full team, led by co-founders Derek Butts and Seth Halpern, will join Syndio’s product and go-to-market organization, according…
I know enough about home cinema audiovisual to know there's a lot I don't know. It's conscious incompetence, if you like, which is different to the unconscious incompetence most people have on the topic. That's not to sound derogatory (it's spelled out that way in the competence model), rather it recognises that this is a super specialised area and as soon as you start scratching the surface, things get very complex and very expensive really fast. But it's also exciting, and what we've got in the pipeline for our house expansion will blow you away. More to come soon 😎
Enterprise sales pipelines look perfectly clean on paper. Discovery, demo, proposal, negotiation, close. It is a comforting corporate lie we tell board members so they don’t panic, but the reality is pure chaos. They collapse under their own internal friction. When organizational power shifts from a single, decisive executive to a consensus-driven collective, the sales motion fragments completely. Over 80% of these complex enterprise purchases do not end with a “no” to your product. They just slide into absolute inertia. To break this stagnation, you have to stop treating the target account as a uniform block on a spreadsheet and…
Ravie LakshmananJun 24, 2026Open Source / Supply Chain Security Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new class of CI/CD workflow weakness that allows attackers to hijack workflows and compromise open-source supply chains. The “critical exploitable pattern” has been codenamed Cordyceps by Novee Security. The issue can allow full attacker control of repositories at dozens of the largest organizations worldwide, including Microsoft, Google, Apache, and Cloudflare. “The flaw is exploitable by any unauthenticated user,” Elad Meged, founding engineer and security researcher at Novee Security, said. “No org membership or special privileges; a free account is enough to forge approvals, push code, or…
In 1954, years after he led the project that created the atomic bomb, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was called to testify before the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The ostensible subject of the hearings was Oppenheimer’s position on the hydrogen bomb, a far more destructive version of the atomic bomb that the US had developed and first tested two years earlier.Oppenheimer, who in the years after the war had become increasingly conflicted about atomic weapons, initially opposed work on the hydrogen or thermonuclear bomb, partially for moral reasons and partially because he was skeptical it would work. But he later changed…
If you’ve ever submitted a support ticket to LastPass, that exchange may now be in the hands of hackers. According to TechCrunch, the password manager has confirmed that customer names, contact details, and support case records were exposed in a recent breach at one of its third-party vendors. What the hackers got, and what they didn’t LastPass said its own systems were not compromised and that users’ password vaults remain secure. The exposed data was instead accessed through Klue, a market research company LastPass works with. LastPass While no passwords were stolen, the hackers used their access to Klue’s network…
It’s an odd-seeming move for a company selling an AI writing assistant. GPTZero Superhuman announced that it has acquired GPTZero. This AI identification business offers services such as hallucination and plagiarism detection as well as a nifty little tool that displays how much of the internet is artificial intelligence. Superhuman said it plans to integrate GPTZero into its Superhuman Go AI assistant to improve the reach of its existing efforts around AI and authenticity. Teachers and students will still be the priority audience for Superhuman following the acquisition. For its part, GPTZero emphasized that Superhuman would also…
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OS Credential DumpingT1003Extracts hashes, Kerberos tickets, or plaintext passwords from LSASS, SAM, or AD using credential dumping toolsHoney credentials harvested from memory, then used in an authentication or lateral movement attemptVery highCredential StuffingT1110.004Automated tools replay username and password pairs from prior data breaches against enterprise login portalsAny login attempt against a honey account is confirmed unauthorized access, regardless of successVery highPassword SprayingT1110.003Commonly used passwords tested across many user accounts to avoid per-account lockout thresholdsSpray campaign reaching honey accounts confirms the attacker’s presence and scopeHighKerberoastingT1558.003Service ticket hashes requested from AD for service accounts, then cracked offline to recover passwordsHoney service accounts…
At the recent AI and Society Forum at MIT, experts from across the Institute discussed the potential benefits and dangers of technological innovation on labor, the nature of work, civil discourse, election administration, and other topics.The event featured individual research presentations and panel discussions, as well as a musical performance exploring the use of generative artificial intelligence in the arts.The forum was co-organized by the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) and the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC). It was presented in collaboration with two of MIT’s strategic initiatives: the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium (MGAIC) and the MIT Human Insight Collaborative…