Newscan: New Mexico to launch broadband network for first responders

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, […]

Markets have been left bemused by Ericsson’s $6.2 billion takeover of Vonage at the start of the week. The Swedish firm’s share price fell by nearly 6% on the day the deal was announced, wiping about $2.6 billion off its market capitalization. That was obviously not the immediate reaction CEO Börje Ekholm would have wanted. […]