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“As cyber threats evolve alongside AI, hybrid cloud, and increasingly complex digital operations, enterprise security can no longer be an afterthought,” commented Michael Hughes, Head of Conference. “Cyber Security & Cloud Congress North America 2026 brings together the industry’s top leaders to share practical strategies, from Zero Trust frameworks to AI-driven threat detection, empowering organizations to stay ahead of attacks and protect what matters most.”The Cyber Security & Cloud Congress North America 2026 will be held on May 18-19, 2026 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, uniting CISOs, enterprise security architects, cloud security leaders, and infrastructure specialists to tackle…

Signal, the encrypted messaging app trusted by security-savvy users around the world, has confirmed that hackers have managed to takeover accounts — with government officials and journalists among those being targeted.The warning came earlier this week, when Signal posted on Bluesky that attacks had taken place, while underlining that its encryption and underlying central infrastructure remained intact and uncompromised.The problem is not with Signal itself, but rather with its users being tricked into handing over the keys to their accounts.On the same day, the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) and Defence Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) published a…

Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. When the Ford Motor Company hit the brakes on its electrification plan last fall, General Motors was quick to remind everyone of its own commitment to electric cars. “Electric vehicles are General Motors’ ‘North Star,’” the company effused through its in-house media outlet, GM News. Now GM News has invoked the memory of the company’s 1990’s EV1 electric car to troll Ford again, while taking a poke at Tesla for good measure. EV1 And The Return Of The Chevy Bolt The latest missive from GM News focuses on the restoration…

5/29/18 2:20 PM · 1 min read This time let’s talk about the simple factory design pattern to encapsulate object creation in a really simple way using Swift. Simple factory implementation using switch-caseThe goal of this pattern is to encapsulate something that can often vary. Imagine a color palette for an application. You might have to change the colors according to the latest habit of the designer on a daily basis. I’d be really inconvenient if you had to search & replace every single instance of the color code by hand. So let’s make a simple factory in Swift that can…

If you wander deep enough into the Appennino Tosco-Emiliano National Park in Northern Tuscany, you’ll find the village of Apella. It is a place where the air smells of chestnut trees and wild rosemary, and the “Zero-KM” philosophy is a way of life. At the Montagna Verde agritourism complex, the honey is local, the meat is raised on-site, and the history is etched into 800-year-old stone walls. But until recently, there was one thing you couldn’t find in this medieval paradise, no matter how hard you looked: cellular signal. In the tech world, we often talk about the “digital divide”…

Google is introducing a new Gemini AI feature to the Google Maps app on Thursday called Ask Maps. Described as a “conversational experience,” the feature allows users to interact naturally with the app — asking follow-up questions, rephrasing queries and exploring new prompts — similar to Gemini for Home devices. While Google Maps has long offered route-based voice navigation, Ask Maps goes much deeper to answer questions about trip details and the surrounding area. In one case, Google suggests using Ask Maps to find a nearby charging station if your phone’s battery is dying. In another, Ask Maps can be used to find a well-lit tennis court for…

Cancer chemotherapy has experienced fast developments during the last decades, but the current clinical data revealed only modest therapeutic efficacy, partially due to inadequate drug accumulation and penetration in tumors [1], [2]. In this regard, liposomes, gold nanoparticles and polymeric micelles have emerged as an attractive approach for targeted delivery of therapeutic agents to tumors, accompanied by prolonged circulation time and reduced toxicity [3], [4]. The tumor-targeting effect of nanoparticles (NPs) can be derived from the size-determined enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect, or the biorecognition-based active-targeting bioactive antibodies [5], [6], peptides [7], [8], oligonucleotide aptamers [9], [10] and small…

I’m not sure when I first heard this quote, but it’s something that has stayed with me over the years. How do you create services for situations you can’t imagine? Or design products that work on devices yet to be invented? Article Continues Below Flash, Photoshop, and responsive design#section2 When I first started designing websites, my go-to software was Photoshop. I created a 960px canvas and set about creating a layout that I would later drop content in. The development phase was about attaining pixel-perfect accuracy using fixed widths, fixed heights, and absolute positioning. Ethan Marcotte’s talk at An Event…

Post-training gets your model to behave the way you want it to. As AMD VP of AI Sharon Zhou explains to Ben on this episode, the frontier labs are convinced, but the average developer is still figuring out how post-training works under the hood and why they should care. In their focused discussion, Sharon and Ben get into the process and trade-offs, techniques like supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, in-context learning, and RAG, and why we still need post-training in the age of agents. (It’s how to get the agent to actually work.) Check it out.About the Generative AI in the…

Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, has become a foundational approach to building production AI systems. However, deploying RAG in practice can be complex and costly. Developers typically have to manage vector databases, chunking strategies, embedding models, and indexing infrastructure. Designing effective RAG systems is also a moving target, as techniques and best practices evolve in step with rapidly advancing language models. Google DeepMind recently released the File Search Tool, a fully managed RAG system built directly into the Gemini API. File Search abstracts away the retrieval pipeline, allowing developers to upload documents, code, and other text data, automatically generate embeddings, and…