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‘It’s out of our hands anyway’: Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes says there probably isn’t a need to pause AI development despite widespread warnings

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Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes has said he believes there is no immediate need to slow down development of AI, despite several recent high-profile incidents leading to growing calls for such action. Speaking to media at the recent Atlassian Team Europe 2026 event, Cannon-Brookes indicated that the company isn’t planning any changes to its development lifecycle … Read more

NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal teams up with NordVPN, taking over NYC to raise awareness of digital threats

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It’s pretty unusual to find yourself at a cybersecurity event playing basketball in Times Square. Add in NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal as the host, and you’d be describing the stuff of dreams. Yet that’s what a lucky crowd got at NordVPN’s latest event on Thursday. The provider went big on online defence with its ambassador … Read more

Google AI turned my ideas into two playable games

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I have had plenty of video game ideas over the years, but I’ve always faced a somewhat enormous obstacle to turning any of them into reality. I can invent the characters and backstories, even devise some mechanics, but I cannot actually program a video game. Google’s new Playground experiment offers people like me a rather … Read more

In open source cybersecurity, AI is kind of a problem — but it can also be a solution

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The last few years have seen a growing wave of vulnerability disclosures heading towards the cybersecurity industry, and the people working on fixing these flaws are often struggling to keep up. And while AI is a major contributor to this problem, but also an essential part of the solution. Speaking at the recent Linux Foundation … Read more

Why identity needs a heartbeat, not a checkpoint

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Think about what you had to do the last time you needed to prove your identity. Did you present your ID? Snap a selfie? Pass a liveness check? In most cases of enterprise security, that’s all it takes to pass through. From that point, many systems effectively assume that the person who was verified remains … Read more