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Daniel Rhyne, a former infrastructure engineer, received a 32-month prison sentence after remotely accessing his employer's network, locking thousands of devices, deleting admin accounts, and demanding a ransom. His actions included changing passwords, shutting down servers, and sending threatening emails to co-workers in late 2023.
The Women Presidents’ Organization announced its 19th annual list of the 50 fastest-growing women-owned or led companies, which collectively earned over $8.5 billion and employed more than 23,000 people in 2025. The organization emphasizes the importance of peer networks, mentorship, and community-driven product development for sustained growth. The founder’s journey often involves overcoming isolation and building scalable systems beyond individual effort.
A technology explainer distinguishes bandwidth, throughput and latency as separate measures of internet performance. Bandwidth is the maximum data capacity of a connection, while throughput—commonly called 'internet speed'—is the actual rate of data delivery, which can never exceed bandwidth due to factors like router limitations and network congestion. Latency, measured in milliseconds as ping, reflects the round-trip delay for data to reach a server and return, influenced by physical distance and connection type.
An investigation into Flock Safety's automated license-plate camera system argues that its core design, not isolated misuse, allows police and other agencies to query cameras they never purchased or deployed. The report cites a case in Georgia where a woman's ex-boyfriend appeared to track her movements via the network, suggesting data from local cameras can flow well beyond their intended jurisdiction.
Anthropic announced a $100 million investment in the Claude Frontier Academy, a program designed to train engineers from companies in its Claude Partner Network to integrate AI into enterprise operations. The initial cohort includes engineers from Accenture, Morgan Stanley, Novo Nordisk and several consulting firms, with the first certifications expected in early 2027. Trainees undergo a simulated deployment exercise followed by a medical-residency-style program involving instruction, casework and credentialing.
A 1936 control room built by Swedish firm Asean to manage electricity on the Southern Rail network survives in Woking, featuring an oval white-domed room with a central switchboard and ornate copper light fixtures. It operated until 1997, when a newer substation took over its functions, and is now Grade II listed, with offices in the building still in use.
Dish-owned Sling TV has stopped offering Sling Pass, the feature that let customers buy single-day, weekend, or week-long access to cable channels instead of a full monthly subscription. The company confirmed the discontinuation in a statement on its website and in a note sent to customers, as first reported by The Desk.
Five national payment systems—Bancomat, Bizum, EPI Company/Wero, SIBS-MB WAY and Vipps MobilePay—announced a joint venture called the European Network for Payments, headquartered in Madrid. The network will link their existing systems via a shared technical layer built on European standards and instant account-to-account transfers, serving a combined 130 million users across 13 countries. Rollout will start with cross-border person-to-person payments before expanding to e-commerce and point-of-sale.
A new report from the Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network and the Swiss Commission for Cryosphere Observation found glaciers lost 5.5% of their ice volume in the first eight months of 2026 alone, bringing cumulative losses since 2021 to 19.4%. Glaciologist Matthias Huss of ETH Zurich said some glaciers are now collapsing from internal meltwater cavities rather than just surface melt, and mean glacier thickness dropped 2.5 to 4 meters this year. Separately, MeteoSwiss reported the April-to-September period was the hottest and driest since records began in 1864.
Kiteworks released patches addressing 126 vulnerabilities across its Private Content Network platform, including a critical bug tracked as CVE-2026-54154 affecting its Email Protection Gateway. The flaw, found via Kiteworks' bug bounty program, could let an unauthenticated attacker chain path traversal, code injection, and missing authentication issues to gain root control of an appliance without user interaction. The company also patched 11 other critical flaws spanning authentication bypass, admin takeover, and XSS issues, fixing all affected EPG versions before 9.4.1.
Amazon is selling the Ugreen 10-port gigabit PoE+ switch for $37.79, its lowest price yet. The unmanaged switch supports the IEEE 802.3at standard, delivering up to 30W per port and 60W total across its eight PoE+ ports, with automatic shutdown of lower-priority ports if power draw exceeds that limit.
Cat7 cable raises the frequency rating to 600 MHz versus Cat6's 250 MHz, adding foil shielding around each twisted pair plus an outer shield to reduce crosstalk and interference, and was designed to support 10 Gigabit Ethernet over 100 meters. However, a true Cat7 installation requires compatible GG45 or TERA connectors and a cabling channel that meets the full specification, not just a cable labeled Cat7 plugged into standard RJ45 ports. Meanwhile, TIA guidance indicates Cat6 can support 10GBASE-T reliably up to about 37 meters, and potentially up to 55 meters depending on interference conditions.