Newscan: Axon halts plans for Taser drone as nine on ethics board resign

ZeroEyes recently announced that its gun-detection offering—an artificial intelligence (AI)-based video analytics platform—has earned full SAFETY Act designation from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which eliminates third-party liability for ZeroEyes customers to claims made from acts of terrorism. ZeroEyes co-founder Sam Alaimo explained the legal and financial significance of the company’s new DHS designation […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved a plan from drone-flight management company Anra Technologies and the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to use Anra technology to enable beyond-visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) operations by NYPA’s drones. The FAA Letter of Acceptance (LOA) allows Anra to deploy its strategic conflict detection and aggregated conformance monitoring services, collectively known as strategic […]

Open-source security incidents aren’t going away. The reliance on open-source software (OSS) increases year-over-year, with more than 95% of all software including open source in some capacity. From operating systems to critical libraries to Web applications and more, open-source software (OSS) plays a pivotal role in the current technology landscape. However, this widespread reliance introduces significant […]

Zero-days comprised the majority of the most routinely exploited vulnerabilities last year, an increase from 2022 which allowed cybercriminals to attack higher-priority targets, Five Eyes cyber officials said in a Tuesday advisory. The top five vulnerabilities exploited by attackers in 2023 were found in three vendors across networking devices, remote access servers and firewalls. Two vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-3519 and CVE-2023-4966, […]