Newscan: Vermont 911 and AT&T launch text-to-911 trial

[Editor’s note: The following is a statement from Hytera US regarding an IWCE’s Urgent Communications article posted on Nov. 12 about the enactment of the Secure Equipment Act of 2021, which references an FCC list of China-based firms. After Hytera officials expressed their objections about the story’s accuracy, IWCE’s Urgent Communications removed the article from […]

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Congress decimates 911’s digital upgrade Getting ready for the next federal budget showdown FBI’s e-mail system was hacked to send out fake cybersecurity warnings T-Mobile to pay nearly $20 million after outage leads to thousands of 911 calls failing UK announces national-security probe of Nvidia’s $54 billion Arm […]

Now that the system shock to IT systems and organizations from the pandemic (not to mention the horrible human toll) has started to ease up, we’re seeing the emergence of a whole new landscape for cybersecurity. Before last year, most organizations relied mostly on an in-person workforce in company-owned or leased buildings, with remote work […]

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is testing machine learning-enhanced high-definition (HD) cameras to monitor wildfires. The company’s Wildfire Safety Operations Center (WSOC) has installed 138 new cameras as part of a network spanning high fire-threat districts. Of those 138 cameras, 46 are included in the new AI testing program using technology developed by Alchera, […]