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Most security teams don’t suffer from a lack of data. They suffer from a lack of certainty. Vulnerability scanners, annual penetration tests, and compliance assessments can generate thousands of findings. Yet they often fail to answer a simple question: Which risks actually matter? For a global investment firm operating across 18 locations, that question became increasingly important. A small security engineering team was responsible for securing a growing environment while balancing infrastructure projects, identity management, user support, and the countless responsibilities that come with protecting a modern enterprise. The team wasn’t struggling to generate findings. They were struggling to understand…

Hyperscale Data expects revenue to reach as much as $350 million in 2027, although the AI expansion consuming its Bitcoin holdings may contribute less than one-sixth of the total.In a statement this week, the company said that this projected revenue would triple the roughly $102 million generated in 2025. Its Adjusted EBITDA is projected at $60 million to $80 million for the year.Instead, the firm added that most of its revenue for the impending year would come from lending, digital assets and portfolio companies.Executive Chairman Milton “Todd” Ault III said the forecast reflects the combined contribution of Hyperscale’s three operating…

A craving for sweets may have helped set the stage for the evolution of the human brain. Over 4 million years, our lineage’s brains grew from about 300 grams to 1,500 grams. Much of the brain growth occurred before early humans had mastered both fire and cooking, which would have unlocked access to the energy of starches. A new analysis of existing data from human ancestors, as well as chimps, suggests that a large proportion of that energy probably came from sugary foods like fruits and honey. These simple carbohydrates may have played an important, overlooked role in humankind’s evolutionary…

HAMLET, N.C.—Steel skeletons of two-story buildings jut from the landscape strewn with building supplies, the site of a $10 billion Amazon data center touted as the largest economic development project in state history. Yet many residents vehemently oppose it. Richmond County officials secretly crafted the deal, which includes significant tax breaks for Amazon, then sprung it on an area already encumbered by pollution.  Sources in the county include two rock quarries, an asphalt plant, a company that processes wood pellets, a facility that turns railroad and landscaping ties into biochar, a poultry slaughterhouse and a natural gas power plant.  On…

Italian cabling company Prysmian has acquired a training facility for high-voltage cable jointers in Scotland, bringing on board over 20 apprentice jointers and experienced training staff. Located in North Ayrshire, the academy will support installation and inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) operations in the UK and across Europe, helping to ensure the availability of highly trained personnel involved in the delivery of the underground and subsea high-voltage transmission cable projects, Prysmian said. Raul Gil, EVP Transmission, Prysmian: “There is nobody more British in the cable sector than Prysmian – and today we also a little bit more Scottish. The jointers…

Israel is heading into what may be the most pivotal election in its history, but at stake this time isn’t so much its conflict with neighboring countries or its relations with the Palestinians. The core issue in this vote, slated for Oct. 27, is whether Israel will remain the liberal democracy its founders envisioned when it was established in 1948, or move even more vigorously toward a kind of illiberal regime infused by Orthodox Judaism. After presiding over a series of center-right governments for 12 years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took an abrupt rightward shift when he returned to…

Following an emergency meeting Wednesday in Rabat, Morocco, the world football’s governing body acknowledged mistakes in both the handling of the proposal and its response after details were leaked to the media. FIFA said the process “should have been handled differently”, apologised for the errors and pledged to ensure they “do not happen again”. It also confirmed the FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal is now “off the table”. Despite this, European football’s governing body UEFA on Thursday refused to lift its threatened boycott of the World Cup, saying it had lost confidence in FIFA president Gianni Infantino and that the…

The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would move forward with a plan to eliminate hundreds of federal regulations governing Head Start, in what advocates fear is a push to gut a 61-year-old antipoverty program aimed at helping the nation’s most impoverished young children.The proposed plan, detailed in earlier reporting by The New York Times, would remove most of Head Start’s 133 pages of federal requirements for math and literacy curricula, class sizes, medical screenings, home visits. Even a requirement that children brush their teeth after meals would end.Administration officials say the changes will save money by lifting onerous…

Thousands of Southeast Asians, many of them long spared from deportation since the end of the Vietnam War, are being sent back as part of a Trump administration push.As of early March, Immigration and Customs Enforcement had deported more than 1,200 people to Vietnam and 400 to Laos, far more than in the past three presidential terms combined, according to a New York Times analysis of official records released by the Deportation Data Project.Among them is Mong Tran.Born in Vietnam, she arrived in the United States in 1993 as an 11-year-old after living in a refugee camp in the Philippines.…

Few automotive companies are as dependent on breakout hits as Ford. It’s almost as though it’s baked into the company’s DNA: From the Model T and the Taurus to the F-150 and the Explorer, Ford has lurched from one success to another. Recently, though, the automaker has been coming up empty handed. While its U.S. vehicle sales rose 6% year-over-year to 2.08 million in 2025, they’re today less than half their peak of 4.48 million in 2000. Of the new vehicles that Ford has introduced in recent years, none have become a sensation. Ford CEO Jim Farley is betting its…