Australia’s Leader Takes On Social Media. Can He Win?

The press conference starts like any other: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is grilled on everything from affordable housing and war in the Middle East to his relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump. Then, Lana, 11, picks up the microphone. “Do you think social media has an impact on kids?” asks the suburban Canberra primary-school … Read more

Google bets on unifying security tools to ease CISO pain

Amid a plethora of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and model innovations, customer demonstrations and other cloud announcements at Google Cloud Next, Google this week debuted a new Google Unified Security (GUS) platform, delivering innovations across its steadily-growing cyber portfolio as it seeks to deliver better outcomes and integrate ever-more deeply with its customers’ security … Read more

NSA warns “fast flux” threatens national security. What is fast flux anyway?

A technique that hostile nation-states and financially motivated ransomware groups are using to hide their operations poses a threat to critical infrastructure and national security, the National Security Agency has warned. The technique is known as fast flux. It allows decentralized networks operated by threat actors to hide their infrastructure and survive takedown attempts that … Read more

China Slams Trump’s Tariffs With AI

Leaders around the world have responded to U.S. President Donald Trump’s shocking new tariffs that threaten to upend the global economy with stern words and denunciations. But Chinese state media have offered a different approach. “‘Liberation Day,’ you promised us the stars,” sings a female-sounding voice over images of Trump. “But tariffs killed our cheap … Read more

Google offers open protocol for AI agent connectivity

With support from technology partners, Google has introduced an open agent-to-agent protocol to enable artificial intelligence (AI) agents to communicate securely with one another. Google said it has drawn on internal expertise in scaling agentic systems to design the A2A protocol to address the challenges it identified in deploying large-scale, multi-agent systems for customers.  Google … Read more