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Most RSAC and Black Hat conference attendees go to network and learn about emerging threats. But Danielle Lewan, Clint Howard II, and 11 long-time chief information security officers (CISOs) arrive with cameras rolling and a different agenda: turning their breach-response stories into compelling television.Last year, Lewan launched Red Mirror Studios, an independent film studio dedicated to cybersecurity, alongside Howard, co-founder and chief creative officer. She founded the studio after working to produce a different docuseries, CISO: The Worst Job I Ever Wanted, while director of global marketing at Nagomi Security in 2025.Now, as Red Mirror Studios founder and CEO, Lewan…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors are green with SOL leading; BTC +0.5% at $64.4k SEC proposes its first formal crypto rules with Regulation Crypto Assets Vlad Tenev posts “Tokenized Stocks in America,” calls on politicians to modernize securities rules Citi to introduce Bitcoin custody for its institutional clients Bitcoin ETFs see $487M in net inflows to start the week 🏛️ SEC Proposes First Formal Crypto Rules for Token FundraisingFor a decade, the SEC regulated crypto fundraising…

There’s a new speed demon in the galaxy. Astronomers spotted a star that reaches top speeds of 25,000 kilometers per second, about 8 percent the speed of light. But the star’s real superpower is its location, researchers report Aug. 19 in Nature. It’s the closest known star to the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, and it could help scientists measure the black hole’s most elusive characteristic: spin. “The star which we have discovered has such a great potential, and we’re really all excited about it,” says astronomer Stefan Gillessen of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in…

Five new marine protected areas (MPAs) came into effect in Aotearoa New Zealand in July after more than a decade of grassroots and governmental work — and a sixth is expected to open in the near future.The MPAs are no-take marine reserves, areas where all extractive activities are banned, co-managed by the regional Māori tribe Kāi Tahu and the Department of Conservation.The reserves are the first in the country to be co-managed by Indigenous people and the government through shared decision-making and a joint ranger team.The reserves are the first part of a planned network, called Te Au Roa…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—At 19, Emmanuel was caring for three siblings when he was forced last year to join Viv Ansanm, a coalition of gangs that controls large swaths of Port-au-Prince. Their father had left Haiti for Brazil to find work, and Emmanuel had been waiting for the promise of a job at a livestock program run by Sakala, a local youth development organization in the capital’s densely populated Cité Soleil neighborhood. “We lost him because he couldn’t wait any longer,” Daniel Tillias, the co-founder of Sakala, told the New Humanitarian and Foreign Policy, adding that Emmanuel—whose name has been changed for…

Israel’s military will open internal investigations over its troops’ high-profile killings in Gaza ​of five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab in January 2024 and 15 emergency and aid workers in March 2025, it said on Wednesday, although rights groups said such probes rarely lead to convictions. Hind’s body was recovered from a car riddled with bullets in Gaza City days after she was last heard from in a desperate, hours-long phone call to the Palestinian Red Crescent on January 29, 2024. “Following review of the findings and due to alleged failures in the coordination of the movement of the Palestine Red…

“SMEs active in the press sector play an essential role in safeguarding media pluralism, cultural and linguistic diversity, democratic participation and citizens’ access to reliable information, particularly at local and regional level,” the Commission writes, highlighting structural challenges arising from the digital transformation of media markets. To qualify for assistance, beneficiaries would need to fulfil at least one item in a Commission checklist that includes preserving media pluralism and diversity of opinion, transitioning to digital content while also preserving print editions.  “The exemption covers aid pursuing cultural objectives — including linguistic diversity, the digitalization of press publications or the promotion of…

Andy Burnham has said government money alone may not be enough to get rough sleepers off the streets by Christmas, as he issued a “rallying call” for councils, charities and communities to help solve the problem.Speaking on a visit to the north-east of England, he said he felt “very passionately” about tackling homelessness and wanted the wider society to play a part in wiping it out.The prime minister acknowledged that not every rough sleeper might take the offer “for their own reasons”. But he said a nationwide effort to stop as much rough sleeping as possible by Christmas was the…

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Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival is the next step in a deliberate move at VentureBeat toward deeper specialization: analysis built for the technical decision-makers — the directors, VPs, CIOs, and CTOs — who are evaluating, buying, and deploying enterprise AI.The enterprise AI stack is being rewritten in real time, and the decision-makers I talk with are starved for objective, defendable data. Rob Strechay has the mix of technical rigor and operating experience needed to dissect the…