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News – MeriTalk ·
The Department of Defense (DOD) issued new procurement guidance directing acquisition officials to incorporate the Trump administration’s “unbiased AI” principles into contracts for artificial intelligence systems. The guidance includes...
GeekWire ·
report quarterly earnings under a new financial structure Wednesday. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Microsoft’s earnings report Wednesday will come two days after the company offered buyouts to about 60,000 people , roughly a...
GeekWire ·
Kivo Health co-founders from left: CEO Victor Sadauskas and Chief Technology Officer Vaughn Koch. (Kivo Photos) Seattle-based Kivo Health today announced $10 million in funding to help increase access to its services, which target older...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News ·
The security community has come under increased scrutiny as earlier threat warnings were slow to materialize.
GeekWire ·
Avante CEO Rohan D’Souza in a video announcing his startup’s new funding. (Avante via LinkedIn) Avante , the maker of an AI platform to help companies manage employee health care and other benefits, has landed a $30 million Series A...
BetaKit ·
Long before Dominion Dynamics closed its $139-million Series A round this summer, it faced a more basic financial problem. The Ottawa-based startup was growing fast and quickly becoming a major player in Canadian defence technology. But...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition, corrupt memory, disclose sensitive information, or potentially execute arbitrary code. The following...
CISA Alerts · · Medium severity
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code (CVE-2023-4863), bypass authentication (CVE-2026-16436 and CVE-2026-16437), or perform arbitrary operations...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News ·
Small and rural healthcare organizations are among the most vulnerable critical infrastructure organizations in the nation.
GeekWire ·
Part of the Emerald Nuclear team, from left: Erlend Haugsbø, head of engineering and testing; Hallgeir Juliebø, co-founder and chief commercial officer; and Wesley Deason, co-founder and CEO. (Emerald Nuclear Photo) Emerald Nuclear...
BetaKit ·
Canada’s cleantech sector has a large pipeline of technologies ready for the market, just as the need for them is becoming more urgent. In a federal survey , nearly two-thirds of tech companies reported having a product at the...
GeekWire ·
Chris Jones, director of Seller Assistant at Amazon, left, and Eric Burns of Anthropic’s Applied AI team on stage at Amazon Accelerate in Seattle in September. Anthropic’s IPO filing shows Google getting a bigger share of the AI...
BetaKit ·
In recent years, Newfoundland and Labrador has solidified its reputation as a budding tech hub by producing one blockbuster exit and outclassing the rest of the country on unicorn companies per capita. “There are great companies here...
BetaKit ·
Vancouver-based private credit investor Vistara Growth has officially launched its sixth fund, for which it ultimately hopes to raise $500 million USD ($700 million CAD). Vistara hopes to secure an initial close of between $200 million...
GeekWire ·
A protester interrupts a panel on AI and economic growth at Seattle AI Week at AI House on Monday, as a security guard approaches from across the room, and moderator Randa Minkarah of WTIA tries to regain control of the session....
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
PHP Stale Internal Request-State Vulnerability. PHP contains a stale internal request-state vulnerability that allows for unauthenticated remote code execution. Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions,...
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
PHP Memory Corruption Vulnerability. PHP contains an out-of-memory corruption vulnerability that allows for unauthenticated remote code execution. Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring...
GeekWire ·
Stoke Space’s existing Cape Canaveral launch site in Florida. (Stoke Space Photo) Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space has secured a conditional commitment for a $150 million loan from the Department of War’s Office of Strategic Capital to...
News – MeriTalk ·
After months of teeing up plans to streamline the military’s software approval process, the U.S. Army launched Project Gatekeeper, a new platform designed to accelerate the cybersecurity review and adoption of commercial software. The...
News – MeriTalk ·
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Oct. 26 released a strategy that calls for proactively eliminating adversaries’ footholds in critical infrastructure and concentrating resources on systems whose disruption...
News – MeriTalk ·
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) deployed its new electronic health record (EHR) system at medical centers in Cleveland and Anchorage on Oct. 24, completing its goal of bringing the system to 13 hospitals in 2026. The rollout on...
News – MeriTalk ·
The General Services Administration (GSA) reached its first direct OneGov agreement with a small business, expanding the federal government’s centralized technology purchasing initiative to include Maryland-based artificial intelligence...
BetaKit ·
Cohere has discovered that a popular open-source model can send diagnostic information to China without warning. The news: Toronto-based frontier AI developer Cohere released a blog post on Monday flagging “concerning behaviour” by a...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · High severity
The professional services firm was the subject of a claim by a known ransomware actor.
GeekWire ·
Entire CEO Thomas Dohmke, speaking last month at Madrona’s IA40 Summit in Seattle, says AI agents have made code review a much bigger bottleneck for developers. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) A startup led by former GitHub CEO Thomas...
BetaKit · · Unconfirmed
Zafin has agreed to acquire Palo Alto, Calif.-based Naehas as its bank modernization business reportedly booms in the AI era. The news: Toronto-based Zafin announced the acquisition on Monday, saying in a news release that Naehas will...
BetaKit ·
North Vector Dynamics (NVD) has raised a $20-million USD ($29-million CAD) Series A round that it says will help the defence tech company scale its reach and build out its manufacturing. Announced on Monday, the fundraise brings the...
GeekWire ·
Microsoft’s new buyout offer comes six months after its first-ever voluntary retirement program. (Photo by Dasharath Sunar on Unsplash ) Microsoft is making a new buyout offer to a much broader group of employees, this time including...
GeekWire ·
Seattle Children’s researchers. (Seattle Children’s Photo) Seattle Children’s is announcing today the launch of its Institute for Pediatric Innovation, a $10 million initiative with eight focus areas and a chief innovation officer yet...
BetaKit ·
Burnaby, BC, legaltech firm Clio has acquired Kitchener-Waterloo’s Page , which sells AI-powered government relations software to monitor emerging legislation and regulations. Clio announced the news today in Boston at its annual...
News – MeriTalk ·
Government technology leaders from the U.S. Army, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), General Services Administration (GSA), and other agencies will gather in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 28 for the 2026 Red Hat...
BetaKit ·
Assuming your PHP is up to date, the biggest Canadian tech news this week was new details on the federal government’s $1.75-billion VCAP VCCI Venture and Growth Capital Plan. Ignoring the feds’ confusing commitment to revising naming...
GeekWire ·
T-Mobile’s new T-Mix plans let customers spend “Picks” on perks or a new phone. (Photo by appshunter.io on Unsplash ) T-Mobile is introducing new wireless plans that change how customers get perks and phone deals, giving them a set...
BetaKit ·
From a single drop of blood, you can find a whole world of biological information. One biotech startup is hoping that its miniaturized technology can make scientific research easier and more efficient, even when very little patient...
BetaKit ·
Sudbury, Ontario’s Symx.ai got its start nearly two decades ago as a technology startup called Symboticware that aimed to solve data communication challenges in the mining industry. The company spent nearly 13 years building specialized...
GeekWire ·
AI-generated images from 2026 political ads targeting James Talarico, Mike Mazzei, Peggy Flanagan, Kathy Hochul and Zohran Mamdani. (NRSC; Make Oklahoma Great Again PAC via Oklahoma PBS; North Star Dawn PAC via KSTP; Blakeman for...
GeekWire ·
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire...
GeekWire ·
Shaw, Microsoft’s longtime communications chief, in the GeekWire studio. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The name Frank X. Shaw isn’t as well known outside the company as those of Microsoft’s other senior leaders, and that’s the nature...
GeekWire ·
T-Mobile’s Deeanne King, right, enjoying the Pacific Northwest with family. (Photo courtesy of King) When Deeanne King came to the Pacific Northwest in 2020 — relocating from Kansas after Sprint merged with Bellevue, Wash.-based...
GeekWire ·
Allen Center on the University of Washington’s Seattle campus, home to the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, which a university task force has recommended separating from the College of Engineering. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt...
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