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• Epstein and Leviathan: How the Financier Opened Doors to Netanyahu and Ehud Barak Amid Israel's Offshore Gas Fight December 29, 2025 10:54 pm Drop Site Thanks to all our readers for a great year. A quick note before the story: Ryan Grim was on Tim Dillon’s final show of 2025, discussing all our Epstein revelations. You can watch that here. And if you haven’t made your end-of-year tax-deductible gifts yet, …
• Ubisoft Shuts Down Rainbow Six Siege After MongoDB Exploit Hits Players December 29, 2025 10:52 pm Hackread Thousands of gamers found themselves locked out of their accounts this week after a major security flaw forced Ubisoft to pull the plug on its hit game, Rainbow Six Siege. For those who don’t follow the gaming world, Siege is a massive tactical shooter …
• AI Use Cases in Healthcare: Growth, Governance and Risk December 29, 2025 10:50 pm Bank Information Security - New Jersey Use cases for artificial intelligence in healthcare will continue to explode in 2026 - including for back-office automation, ambient clinical documentation in exam rooms, claims processing and clinical decision support. So will critical privacy, security, …
• 2026 Calls for a Global Health System Connectivity Compact: EHR/EMR, Interoperability, and Cybersecurity Vendors Urged to Protect Continuity of Care During Conflict and Recovery December 29, 2025 10:49 pm Daily Corinthian - Mississippi Black Book Market Research issues a global operational alert alongside the release of its 2026 "State of Global Healthcare Technology" report, a no-cost, nearly 700-page reference covering 147 countries and 70+ EHR/EMR/EPR, …
• How AI Can Accelerate Zero Trust for Agencies December 29, 2025 10:45 pm FedTech Enterprise networks have changed. In this new network reality, employees work from all sorts of places — home, the office, a coffee shop or anywhere in between. Applications live on-premises, in private clouds or in public cloud environments. Traffic …
• 3 Ways Automation Is Improving Citizen Services December 29, 2025 10:45 pm FedTech Government can apply lessons learned from industry’s success in automating help desk interactions for citizen services. Artificial intelligence–enabled chatbots, for example, have made it easier for travelers to change flights without being caught in an …
• Federal Pay Reality Check: What About 2027 Pay Raise for Federal Employees? December 29, 2025 10:44 pm FedSmith Determining a pay raise, if any, for federal employees is a long, complex process. While President Trump recently issued an Executive Order for pay raises in 2026, the process to determine the 2027 pay raise (if any) will continue throughout 2026. On …
• Reeves drops out of race to challenge Warner December 29, 2025 10:42 pm Z95.1 - Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Bryce Reeves, the highest-profile Republican who was running to unseat Senator Mark Warner next year, has dropped out of the race. He made the announcement in a Sunday Facebook post, citing a “serious family health …
• New candidate launches campaign for Minnesota State Auditor December 29, 2025 10:39 pm WDIO - Minnesota Jay Reeves has announced his campaign for Minnesota State Auditor, highlighting his background as a union member, Army veteran and independent candidate. According to the press release, Reeves was born near the State Capitol, raised in a union household in …
• US, Australia say ‘MongoBleed’ bug being exploited December 29, 2025 10:39 pm The Record U.S. and Australian cyber agencies confirmed that hackers are exploiting a vulnerability that emerged over the Christmas holiday and is impacting data storage systems from the company MongoDB. The issue drew concern on December 25 when a prominent …
• How to Spot the Most Common Crypto Phishing Scams December 29, 2025 10:38 pm Hackread Crypto phishing has gone from geeky corner-case to full-on global headache. According to a 2025 report by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, crypto-related phishing detections surged by 83.4% compared to 2023. That means you, your abuela, or your friend’s kid …
• Outgoing NIST cyber workforce director talks job roles, skills-based hiring, and AI December 29, 2025 10:33 pm Federal News Network - Washington D.C. During his decade of service at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Rodney Petersen has had a front-row seat to the evolving state of the cyber workforce across government, industry and academia. In his role as director of education and …
• Iowa to receive $209M in 1st year from federal rural health care funding program December 29, 2025 10:32 pm The Gazette - Iowa The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. DES MOINES — Iowa will receive $209 million in the next fiscal year from a federal program designed to bolster rural hospitals and clinics, the federal …
• ⚡ Weekly Recap: MongoDB Attacks, Wallet Breaches, Android Spyware, Insider Crime & More December 29, 2025 10:30 pm The Hacker News Dec 29, 2026Ravie LakshmananHacking News / Cybersecurity Last week's cyber news in 2025 was not about one big incident. It was about many small cracks opening at the same time. Tools people trust every day behave in unexpected ways. Old flaws …
• RDB Bank achieves ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification December 29, 2025 10:29 pm Daily FT The certification award ceremony was attended by RDB General Manager/CEO Asanga Tennakoon along with LL-C Certification Sri Lanka Wasantha Gunarathne and KPMG’s Niwantha Fernando, RDB Acting Chief Information Officer Ajantha Ratnayake, and Information …