Partner content NHS breach, HSE bug expose healthcare data in the British Isles 16th March 2024 This week, a division of the National Health Service (NHS) Scotland was struck by a cyberattack, potentially disrupting services and exposing patient and employee data. Meanwhile, a researcher disclosed a Salesforce configuration error that exposed millions of Irish citizens’ COVID vaccination data from that country’s Health Service Executive (HSE). The two incidents, separated by a […]
Partner content Transforming smart cities into brilliant, connected hubs 16th March 2024 Alarmingly, 40% of today’s carbon dioxide emissions come from buildings. As the net-zero journey advances, smart city planning has evolved to become an international phenomenon, with markers for success driven by sustainable development measures like the widespread adoption of electric vehicles and energy-efficient building technology. While a “smart city” is what the world strives to achieve for the […]
Partner content Cities and counties expand skills of their technology teams to meet today’s cyberthreats 16th March 2024 Government IT operations are vulnerable. More than a third of IT leaders in state and local governments say their number one challenge heading into 2024 is the possibility of a data breach as a result of inadequate staffing. These findings are from a recent survey from Ensono, a technology consulting and managed service provider. Cities and […]
News FCC approves new rules for satellite-direct-to-phone communications 15th March 2024 FCC commissioners today voted unanimously to approve new rules designed to let commercial wireless carriers more easily partner with satellite companies to provide supplemental coverage from space (SCS) services that could eliminate coverage gaps when users are outside. FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel outlined the importance of SCS—also known as satellite-direct-to-phone technology—which allows users to maintain […]
Partner content ChatGPT spills secrets in novel PoC attack 14th March 2024 A team of researchers from Google DeepMind, Open AI, ETH Zurich, McGill University, and the University of Washington have developed a new attack for extracting key architectural information from proprietary large language models (LLM) such as ChatGPT and Google PaLM-2. The research showcases how adversaries can extract supposedly hidden data from an LLM-enabled chat bot […]
Partner content System enables human-to-humanoid robot operation 13th March 2024 Researchers have developed a new system that allows a human operator to remotely control a humanoid robot, in what the team says is the first known demonstration of whole-body humanoid teleoperation. The team, from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) based the system on reinforcement learning. Utilizing only an RGB camera, similar to those found in webcams, […]
Partner content Verizon deploys new drone for crisis response 13th March 2024 Verizon is using a new drone as part of its Frontline Crisis Response Team. The company has teamed with Skydio to use its X10 as its primary drone which Chris Sanders, a senior manager for the Verizon Frontline Crisis Response Team, said is an AI-enabled drone capable of providing the team with enhanced capabilities, including full or […]
News FirstNet Authority vows to ‘continue to hold AT&T accountable’ in aftermath of outage 13th March 2024 FirstNet Authority officials provided some additional insight into the circumstances surrounding the Feb. 22 outage suffered by contractor AT&T—although no new information about the cause—and proclaimed that the carrier giant would be held “accountable.” Renee Gordon, vice chair of the FirstNet Authority board, outlined the FirstNet Authority’s response to the AT&T outage and noted that […]
Things to know about IWCE 2024: PSAP of the Future exhibit 13th March 2024 What am I most excited about for IWCE 2024? I might say the Drinks, Bites & Insights special event open to ALL BADGE TYPES on Tuesday at 4:15 p.m. where we’ll be talking satellite-direct-to-device service from the perspectives of a satellite provider, a telecom carrier, a device manufacturer and a public-safety expert. Or, I might […]
LMR remains most reliable technology for public-safety communications 13th March 2024 From the early beginnings of the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) concept, the network was considered supplemental to existing land-mobile-radio (LMR) communications systems. Certainly, it could be an important supplement to existing mission-critical systems by providing a variety of additional information to first responders, e.g. blueprints of a building for firefighters. The network was also […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 1 22nd April 2024
Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority? 3 24th March 2024
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