Published on: 2025-04-19 21:54:16
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More National Oilwell Varco (NOV) is undergoing a sweeping cybersecurity transformation under CIO Alex Philips, embracing a Zero Trust architecture, strengthening identity defenses and infusing AI into security operations. While the journey is not complete, the results, by all accounts, are dramatic – a 35-fold drop in security events, the elimination of malware-related PC r
Keywords: ai identity nov security zero
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 16:56:00
Getty Images/Zooey Liao, CNET Student loan repayment news is breaking so fast that it's difficult to keep track of all the changes. A recent update to the Department of Education's declarations about how a married borrower's payments are calculated for certain income-based plans led to confusion. Late last week, the Department of Education submitted a court filing that addressed married student loan borrowers enrolled in an income-driven repayment plan who had filed income taxes married but se
Keywords: income loan married payments student
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 06:08:00
What just happened? Google is giving college students across the United States free access to its most advanced Gemini AI tools. The tech giant's Google One AI Premium plan, which typically costs $20 per month, is being offered at no cost to eligible students until the end of June 2026 – provided they sign up before June 30, 2025. Applicants must verify their student status using a valid .edu email address to qualify. Once enrolled, students will receive an email reminder as their complimentary
Keywords: ai gemini google students tools
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 06:54:13
Ever wonder what malware macOS can detect and remove without help from third-party software? Apple continuously adds new malware detection rules to Mac’s built-in XProtect suite. While most rule names (signatures) are obfuscated, with a bit of reversing engineering, security researchers can map them to their common industry names. In this edition of 9to5Mac Security Bite, I revisit a story I started working on in May of 2024. Because Apple is continuously adding new modules to its XProtect suit
Keywords: apple identified macos malware xprotect
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 06:33:08
These days, hackers don't break in — they log in. Using valid credentials, cybercriminals bypass security systems while appearing legitimate to monitoring tools. And the problem is widespread; Google Cloud reports that weak or nonexistent credential protection facilitates 47% of cloud breaches, while IBM X-Force attributes nearly one-third of global cyberattacks to account compromises. So what does this mean for your organization’s defenses? Here’s what you need to know about how to protect y
Keywords: based credential credentials hackers systems
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 18:08:36
Over the week, the Trump administration announced a set of exemptions for its tariffs imposed on products imported into the United States from China. The exemptions cover product categories like smartphones and laptops, giving Apple a huge reprieve for the iPhone, Mac, and more. In comments earlier this week, Trump bragged about how he “helped” Apple with these exemptions. A new report from The Washington Post dives into the inner workings of the Trump administration, particularly as they relat
Keywords: apple cook iphone president trump
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 18:45:22
We're not saying you deserved that gator bite, but... When it comes to gator bites, it turns out we’re the problem (it’s us). Recent research has found that the vast majority of violent alligator incidents in the U.S. are provoked by “risky human behaviors.” Scientists at the University of Florida and Centre College in Kentucky conducted the study, which analyzed recorded human bites from American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) dating back to the 18th century. Nearly all of the time,
Keywords: bite bites gator incidents people
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 22:00:34
Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority TL;DR US college students can now grab the Google One AI Premium plan for free. This limited-time offer gives students access to advanced Gemini features and 2TB storage. Students can sign up for the offer before June 30 and get free access until Spring 2026. Google is giving students a limited-time opportunity to get the full Gemini Advanced experience without spending a dime. The company has announced a new promo for the exam season that gives college st
Keywords: features free gemini google students
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 22:00:42
After previously offering a 50% discount, Google is now giving US college students free Gemini Advanced and Google One AI Premium for 15 months. Officially, Google is framing this as helping students ahead of finals. It’s also competing against similar offers from OpenAI and Perplexity: Students have until June 30, 2025 to sign-up, with free access for 15 months upon activation. They must have an .edu address, but the plan will be activated on their personal Gmail/Google Account. Those that p
Keywords: 50 gemini google students vs
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 22:00:00
Google is the latest AI service provider to court users in higher education. Starting today, college students in the US can sign up for Google’s One AI Premium plan for free, shirking the usual $20 monthly subscription fee until June 30th, 2026. Applicants will need to sign up before the deal expires on June 30th, 2025 according to Google spokesperson Alex Joseph, and will need a valid .edu email address for verification. He told The Verge that students will be emailed toward the end of their p
Keywords: ai gemini google plan students
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 03:23:16
On Wednesday, CISA warned of heightened breach risks after the compromise of legacy Oracle Cloud servers earlier this year and highlighted the significant threat to enterprise networks. CISA said, "the nature of the reported activity presents potential risk to organizations and individuals, particularly where credential material may be exposed, reused across separate, unaffiliated systems, or embedded (i.e., hardcoded into scripts, applications, infrastructure templates, or automation tools),"
Keywords: bleepingcomputer cloud credential data oracle
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 02:57:38
When the spring semester began, Southwestern College professor Elizabeth Smith felt good. Two of her online classes were completely full, boasting 32 students each. Even the classes’ waitlists, which fit 20 students, were maxed out. That had never happened before. “Teachers get excited when there’s a lot of interest in their class. I felt like, ‘Great, I’m going to have a whole bunch of students who are invested and learning,’’ Smith said. “But it quickly became clear that was not the case.” B
Keywords: bots classes college said students
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 13:11:00
Getty Images/CNET Millions of student loan borrowers like myself haven't made a student loan payment since March 2020. However, with the end of the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan imminent, I'm making adjustments to prepare myself for a hefty monthly student loan bill. Like many borrowers, my federal student loans were placed into an emergency forbearance during the start of the pandemic in 2020. Before the pause, my monthly student loan payment was around $40. After moving onto the
Keywords: loan payment payments save student
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 22:07:00
Getty Images/CNET More than 8 million borrowers have seen their credit scores drop because of student loan delinquencies, dragging down the average credit score in the US, according to a FICO analysis released today. The average FICO credit score slipped to 715, a one-point decline from January and a two-point drop since April 2024, according to the Fair Isaac Corporation, one of the major credit models used by lenders. Credit scores are a "lagging indicator of credit health" and could drop f
Keywords: credit loan loans payments student
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 14:26:01
When Victor Spitzer, PhD, director of the Center for Human Simulation at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, talks about his friend Susan Potter, he often describes her as “persistent.” Persistent because she refused to take no for an answer when she volunteered to donate her body to his Visible Human Project. Persistent because, after he accepted her request, she kept pushing when Spitzer initially refused to show her the large freezer where he stores cadavers, and the equipment he
Keywords: human potter said spitzer students
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 17:00:00
VoicePatrol is unveiling its real-time AI voice protection technology for game studios to make gaming communities safer. The company said it has a straightforward, effective approach to real-time voice protection. Partnering with studios like Trass Games, creators of Yeeps: Hide & Seek, VoicePatrol was created to make gaming communities safer without the corporate jargon, the company said. In the world of multiplayer gaming, unchecked extreme toxicity isn’t just annoying—it’s a direct hit to p
Keywords: audio company incidents said voicepatrol
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 02:10:00
While large language models that generate text have exploded in the last three years, a different type of AI, based on what are called diffusion models, is having an unprecedented impact on creative domains. By transforming random noise into coherent patterns, diffusion models can generate new images, videos, or speech, guided by text prompts or other input data. The best ones can create outputs indistinguishable from the work of people, as well as bizarre, surreal results that feel distinctl
Keywords: ai city models read residents
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 11:54:36
Design software startup Figma announced Tuesday it has filed its confidential paperwork for an IPO. We won’t know more until that paperwork becomes public, which, best-case scenario would be in about a month. However, with the stock market in groundhog mode — seeing its shadow with every new gyration of the Trump administration’s trade policies and tariffs — pursuing an IPO right now is surprising, even at an exploratory level. Klarna and StubHub, the two potentially blockbuster tech IPOs that
Keywords: billion confidential figma ipo paperwork
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 17:00:00
They “needed a vision” for the anticipated growth, Ford says. The two convened a group of volunteers with experience in eight areas: economic development, talent, housing, public health, quality of life, tourism, storytelling, and infrastructure. They built a plan to use Pol.is to help write a 25-year plan for the city. The platform is just one of several new technologies used in Europe and increasingly in the US to help make sure that local governance is informed by public opinion. After a mon
Keywords: ideas local people residents says
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 10:00:13
gremlin/Getty Images Fewer than half of business leaders say their data strategies -- how data is collected, managed, stored, and accessed -- are completely aligned with their business priorities. That's according to a 2025 Salesforce survey of more than 550 US senior business leaders of companies with at least 500 employees across multiple industries. The number is down 14% from 2023. Also: Your data's probably not ready for AI - here's how to make it trustworthy The rising importance of da
Keywords: ai business confidence data leaders
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 11:09:00
Bradenton is an attractive place to live and work. The Florida city has adorable cottages, the Riverwalk, the Village of the Arts and plenty of history. It may get humid, but that's a small price to pay for easy access to the coast and the Bishop Museum of Science and Nature, which is best known for giving manatees a helping hand. Whether you're moving to Bradenton or already a resident, you'll want fast, reliable internet service to keep you connected for entertainment, gaming or remote work.
Keywords: bradenton fiber frontier internet providers
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 14:00:00
They “needed a vision” for the anticipated growth, Ford says. The two convened a group of volunteers with experience in eight areas: economic development, talent, housing, public health, quality of life, tourism, storytelling, and infrastructure. They built a plan to use Pol.is to help write a 25-year plan for the city. The platform is just one of several new technologies used in Europe and increasingly in the US to help make sure that local governance is informed by public opinion. After a mon
Keywords: ideas local people residents says
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 10:30:53
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR With the upcoming Android 16 update, more Android phones will be getting access to Android’s Identity Check feature. Currently, only Pixel and Samsung phones have this feature. When Identity Check is enabled, biometric authentication will be required to change many critical security settings when the device is outside of a trusted location. Smartphones are increasingly being targeted by thieves not for their monetary value but for the wealth of private
Keywords: android check feature identity phones
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 10:44:52
Anthony Denier, CEO fo Webull, speaks during an interview on CNBC on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., June 1, 2022. Shares of Webull soared nearly 375% on Monday, the second day on the market for the stock-trading app, which completed its merger last week with SK Growth Opportunities Corp., a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The rally gives Webull a market cap of almost $30 billion. Webull competes with Robinhood , Charles Schwab and E-Trade.
Keywords: company denier market webull year
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 21:45:23
Google apparently has one weird trick to hoard its talent from poachers: paying them to not work. As Business Insider reports, some United Kingdom-based employees at Google's DeepMind AI lab are paid to do nothing for six months — or, in fewer cases, up to a year — after they quit their jobs. Known as "garden leave," this type of cushy clause is the luckier stepsister to so-called "noncompete" agreements, which prohibit employees and contractors from working with a competitor for a designated
Keywords: deepmind employees garden leave noncompetes
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 15:52:09
Bitwise Spot Bitcoin ETF (BITB) signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, with trading commencing on the first US exchange-traded funds that invest directly in the biggest cryptocurrency. If the vision of Larry Fink — CEO of BlackRock , the world's biggest money manager — becomes reality, all assets from stocks to bonds to real estate and more would be tradable online, on a blockchain. "Every asset — can be tokenized," Fink wrote in
Keywords: data digital identity said technology
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 02:32:14
From left, U.S. President Donald Trump, Senator Dave McCormick, his wife Dina Powell McCormick and Elon Musk watch the men's NCAA wrestling competition at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 22, 2025. Meta on Friday announced that it was expanding its board of directors with two new members, including Dina Powell McCormick, a part of President Donald Trump's first administration. Powell McCormick served as a deputy national security advisor to Trump from 2017 to 2018
Keywords: mccormick meta powell president trump
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 13:08:49
On Wednesday, a team of researchers from China used a paper published in Nature to describe a 32-bit RISC-V processor built using molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon as the semiconductor. For those not up on their chemistry, molybdenum disulfide is a bit like graphene: a single molecule of MoS 2 is a sheet that is only a bit over a single atom thick, due to the angles between its chemical bonds. But unlike graphene, molybdenum disulfide is a semiconductor. The material has been used in a va
Keywords: bit bonds disulfide graphene molybdenum
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 06:37:46
A little bit about compute in Varnish Cache and some Deno JS benchmarks Hey all. I recently wrote about TinyKVM, a sandbox with native performance. This time I want to write about how you can try it out as a compute framework in Varnish Cache. I’ve also been very anxious (to say the least) about whether or not my theories hold up in practice. Is TinyKVM really the fastest way to sandbox compute workloads? What about per-request isolation? I’ve invited Laurence Rowe to write with me about his
Keywords: deno isolation program request tinykvm
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 14:35:12
Colleges and universities across Pennsylvania and the country continue to report international student visas being revoked. Seven current and recent graduates at Carnegie Mellon University were notified that their service was terminated, including Jayson Ma's, who moved to the U.S. from China on a student visa in 2016. (Photo: KDKA) "I first came to the U.S. in 2016 for high school and it was a decision that was made by my parents, you know, just recognizing that, there's a lot of great educa
Keywords: know ma said student university
Find related items on AmazonGo K’awiil is a project by nerdhub.co that curates technology news from a variety of trusted sources. We built this site because, although news aggregation is incredibly useful, many platforms are cluttered with intrusive ads and heavy JavaScript that can make mobile browsing a hassle. By hand-selecting our favorite tech news outlets, we’ve created a cleaner, more mobile-friendly experience.
Your privacy is important to us. Go K’awiil does not use analytics tools such as Facebook Pixel or Google Analytics. The only tracking occurs through affiliate links to amazon.com, which are tagged with our Amazon affiliate code, helping us earn a small commission.
We are not currently offering ad space. However, if you’re interested in advertising with us, please get in touch at [email protected] and we’ll be happy to review your submission.