Geordie AI raised $30 million in a Series A led by Balderton Capital, the largest European cybersecurity Series A on record. The London-based startup, which won the RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox in March, has now raised $36.5 million total at a post-money valuation of roughly $180 million. The round closed in late May, but the…
The Nigeria Computer Emergency Response Team (ngCERT) issued an advisory on October 6, 2026, formalizing Ghostjacking as a government-level threat. This marks a shift from academic curiosity to institutional recognition of the risks inherent in autonomous systems. The advisory codifies the threat landscape previously detailed by Tenet Security researchers Barak Sternberg, Nevo Poran, and Ron…
In August 2026, researchers counted approximately 15,930 public Model Context Protocol servers across four registries. The protocol that won the interoperability standard for AI agents – 500 million-plus monthly SDK downloads, 75-plus connectors – is now embedded in federal government data infrastructure. The U.S. Census Bureau publishes an open-source MCP server on GitHub. The GPO…
If you look at how fast companies are rolling out AI agents, it is clear that the traditional pace of IT deployment is a thing of the past. At the SailPoint Navigate 2026 conference in Austin this October, the data confirmed just how aggressive this shift has become. According to the SailPoint Horizons 2026-2027 report,…
It is 7:30 AM on a Tuesday. You are standing in your kitchen, coffee in hand, trying to remember if you locked the front door or if the thermostat is still set to the energy-saving mode you triggered last night. In the current smart home ecosystem, this usually involves opening three different apps, waiting for…
OKX has secured a strategic investment extension at a $25 billion pre-money valuation, drawing in a cohort of backers that suggests the exchange is moving beyond simple spot trading. The capital injection, which extends the ICE-led round from March 2026, arrives as the exchange prepares to operationalize its tokenization pipeline. The participants—Circle, Ripple, Standard Chartered’s…
Administrative Bypass in Dell CSM Six vulnerabilities in Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) allow for the bypass of the csm-authorization security model. According to the Dell security update, these flaws provide unauthenticated access to storage infrastructure across PowerStore, PowerScale, PowerFlex, PowerMax, and Unity XT product families. The affected versions include all releases prior to 1.17.0.…
Ondo Finance is effectively trying to turn the venture capital asset class into a liquid, 24/7 tradable token. It is a bold attempt to bring the most illiquid corner of the market-private company shares-onto the blockchain. But beneath the hood, the engine has been swapped out. While Ondo built its reputation on tokenized public equities…
The October 7 Hardware Pivot The industry is converging on San Francisco for an October 7 event where Microsoft, alongside NVIDIA, is expected to detail the transition of its AI strategy from cloud-based Foundry services to local device execution. While the core of Microsoft’s current AI portfolio was established at Build 2026 in June, the…
When Senator Josh Hawley declared, “If you break it, you pay for it. If you cause damage, you clean it up,” during the September 30 Senate Homeland Security subcommittee hearing, he wasn’t just offering a soundbite. He was drawing a line. The hearing, titled “Rogue AI: Securing the Homeland Against AI Agent Attacks”, marked a…