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September 26, 2025

Security: U.S. government scrambles to stop new hacking campaign blamed on China

Washington Post
Federal agencies are racing to contain a new wave of sophisticated hacking by suspected Chinese attackers that took advantage of previously undiscovered flaws in widely used security software from networking company Cisco.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a rare emergency directive on Thursday, ordering all civilian agencies to test Cisco firewall equipment before midnight Friday to see if it had been breached. Agencies must immediately disconnect devices that have been compromised, the directive said. Read More

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Healthcare IT: Mobile cerebral palsy app from Melbourne coming to market

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MobiHealthNews

An Australian government research funding programme is helping commercialise a mobile app for screening cerebral palsy in infants at home.

HOW IT WORKS

Developed at the University of Melbourne, the Baby Moves VIEW app allows users to take a video of their baby's movements at home and send the recording to assessors for review.

According to a media release, it has a built-in AI algorithm to assess video quality; it notifies users if a video – such as one showing a baby crying or overdressed – is unusable. Read More

Homeland Security: Secret Service dismantles massive telecom threat near UN headquarters in New York

Homeland Security Today

While close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the UN General Assembly, the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) was quietly dismantling a massive hidden telecom network across the New York area — a system investigators say could have crippled cell towers, jammed 911 calls and flooded networks with chaos at the very moment the city was most vulnerable.

The cache, made up of more than 300 SIM servers packed with over 100,000 SIM cards and clustered within 35 miles of the United Nations, represents one of the most sweeping communications threats uncovered on U.S. soil. Investigators warn the system could have blacked out cellular service in a city that relies on it not only for daily life but for emergency response and counterterrorism. Read More

Transportation: Nissan enters self-driving vehicle race

Transport Topics

TOKYO — Japanese automaker Nissan is developing vehicles with self-driving technology as it works to turn around its struggling auto business.

In a recent demonstration of the technology developed by British company Wayve, a Nissan Ariya sedan outfitted with 11 cameras, five radars and a next-generation sensor called lidar, maneuvered its way through downtown Tokyo, braking for red lights as well as pedestrians and other cars at intersections.

It’s set to be available in 2027, although Nissan did not give the models or other details. Read More

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Human Resources: The H-1B math: How a $100,000 fee changes enterprise IT economics

CIO

President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications has fundamentally altered the economic calculus for enterprise IT departments, with analysts predicting accelerated offshore adoption and restructured vendor relationships as companies adapt to the nearly 500-fold fee increase.

The fee, effective September 21 for new applicants, jumped to $100,000 per visa. For enterprise IT departments relying on H-1B workers for specialized roles in cybersecurity, cloud architecture, data engineering, and artificial intelligence, the change represents more than a budget adjustment. It is reshaping global IT services delivery. Read More

Business & Technology: The AI Hype Index: Cracking the chatbot code

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MIT Technology Review

Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry.

Millions of us use chatbots every day, even though we don’t really know how they work or how using them affects us. In a bid to address this, the FTC recently launched an inquiry into how chatbots affect children and teenagers. Elsewhere, OpenAI has started to shed more light on what people are actually using ChatGPT for, and why it thinks its LLMs are so prone to making stuff up. Read More

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