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IBM study reveals how AI, automation protect enterprises against data breaches

The more integrated AI, automation and threat intelligence are across tech stacks and SecOps teams, the stronger they make an enterprise against breaches. Follow-on benefits include greater cyber-resilience, and spending less on data breaches than enterprises with no AI or automation defenses at all. IBM Security’s 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report provides compelling evidence that investing in…
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Looking for OpenAI skills? Upwork wants to help

Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT dramatically entered the AI scene in November 2022, there has been an explosion of interest and demand in AI skills — and particularly OpenAI skills. A new partnership announced today (July 31) between OpenAI and Upwork aims to help meet the…
DefenseNews

US Army developing LASSO tank-killing drone for infantry

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army kicked off a program to quickly provide soldiers a portable, tank-busting drone, amid ballooning use of similar equipment in the Russia-Ukraine war. The service’s Program Executive Office Soldier, or PEO Soldier, this month announced the Low Altitude Stalking and Strike Ordnance venture, or LASSO, and a responsibility for lethal unmanned systems, adding that the need…
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Army Futures Command drafting next operating concept

FORT LIBERTY, North Carolina — The U.S. Army four-star command tasked with modernizing the force is preparing to release this fall a warfighting concept for operations in 2040, according to the AFC commander. The concept would closely follow last year’s release of the…
Cleantech & EV'sNews

The US announces 4-8 GW of new offshore wind areas in the Atlantic

The US government today designated three new offshore wind areas in the Central Atlantic that could potentially host 4 to 8 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy production. More US offshore wind in the Atlantic The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) three new Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) are off the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. The WEAs together total about 356,550 acres: The…
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Toyota plans to build 'competitive' local EVs in China as it looks to play catchup

As Japanese automakers fall behind in the surging Chinese EV market, Toyota looks to turn things around. Toyota announced Monday it will boost local development of tech and software in China to produce “electrified vehicles that are competitive” where EVs are taking over the market. Toyota boosts local EV development in China A market once dominated by foreign automakers like Toyota and…
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