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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
📸 With two-tone design: Eintracht Frankfurt unveil new third kit
The home and away jerseys were already known. Now, Eintracht Frankfurt has also presented its new alternate jersey for the 2025/26 season. If regulations and visual purposes require it, the Eagles will wear a two-color pattern in the future. The jersey is colored in onyx gray and black, and the crest has also been colored. The club did not make any further statements about what the pattern is supposed to article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here. 📸 KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV - AFP or licensors
Forbes
06-08-2025
- Business
- Forbes
How Tech Giants Are Reinventing Cybersecurity For The AI Agent Era
As autonomous agents begin making decisions and moving data independently, Cisco, Google, Microsoft and IBM are reengineering enterprise security with AI. (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Agentic AI is no longer confined to pioneering companies. These systems now operate across enterprise environments, accessing resources, making decisions and taking action with minimal human oversight. But with this autonomy comes a new class of risk. Security frameworks built for predictable, human-centric workflows are ill-equipped to handle agents that operate at machine speed, modify APIs and move sensitive data independently. More than half (56%) of enterprise executives named security as their top concern in UiPath's 2025 Agentic AI Report , followed by compliance, cost and integration complexity. Gartner forecasts that by 2027 , more than 40% of agentic AI projects may be scrapped due to weak governance and inadequate risk management. 'Every new AI agent is both an asset and a new risk. Securing agentic AI is a fundamentally new challenge where we need to integrate predictable guardrails and policies into what are, by definition, non-deterministic systems. These are some of the biggest challenges in the history of security,' Jeetu Patel, president and chief product officer at Cisco, told me. 'In conversations with security and infrastructure leaders, the disconnect is often around how quickly legacy security paradigms and teams can evolve to meet this new reality.' Today, the security conversation is shifting from protecting data to safeguarding the decisions AI systems are now making autonomously. As companies rush to upgrade their networks to support agentic AI and IoT, many risk overlooking security in the process. As many as 97% of businesses say network upgrades are essential for the success of their AI and IoT initiatives, according to Cisco's IT Networking Leader Survey 2025 . However, the stakes are high, too; just one severe outage can cost the global economy nearly $160 billion. 'On the enterprise side, awareness is growing fast — but what's less visible is how much activity is happening within business units, often without security teams fully in the loop,' Fernando Montenegro, VP and cybersecurity practice lead at The Futurum Group, told me. 'Many of them already understand the urgency around agentic AI, but security teams need to be in the conversation early.' Legacy defenses are fundamentally incompatible with the demands of agentic AI. As API calls multiply and agent behavior grows more opaque, traditional monitoring tools are struggling to keep pace. Without real-time visibility and control, agents can behave unpredictably or even dangerously. What's needed now are new capabilities: continuous auditability, transparency and rapid remediation. To mitigate the growing security risks of agentic systems, technology giants across the industry are now building governance and security solutions to meet the scale and speed of agentic AI. For instance, Microsoft has launched AI-powered Security Copilots that detect and neutralize threats with limited human intervention. Google Cloud is emphasizing traceability and auditability across its AI services. IBM is applying identity governance to AI systems. Likewise, cloud networking and security company Cisco is embedding security deeper into the network, down to the silicon layer. The company recently introduced its AgenticOps strategy, which combines real-time observability, zero-trust frameworks and AI-native operations into a single enterprise architecture. 'The tech and security community is recognizing that to govern this new ecosystem, we need purpose-built frameworks that combine security, deep cross-domain context and continuous oversight, not just bolt-on controls,' DJ Sampath, SVP of AI software and platform at Cisco, told me. 'Three things are non-negotiable: human-in-the-loop oversight, cross-domain context for every decision and security built in at every layer from silicon to software.' At the heart of this model is Cisco's Deep Network Model, a domain-specific large language model trained on decades of telemetry data (data from remote or hard-to-access systems, whether due to complexity or safety). It aims to equip security teams with natural language tools to monitor, investigate and respond to incidents in real time. In essence, it's AI built to defend against AI. The company has also introduced a Universal Zero Trust Network Access framework that extends identity-based controls to include delegated authorization, which lets users securely grant access to trusted service providers without sharing their credentials; proximity-based phishing resistance, which verifies that a request is coming from a nearby, trusted device; and support for the emerging Model Context Protocol (MCP), a new standard that allows AI systems to securely share context across different applications. 'We're future-proofing networks with AI so they can recognize and mediate agent behavior at scale,' Patel explained. 'Security must be as fast and adaptive as the AI agents themselves.' Patel notes that agentic AI is driving unprecedented levels of operational speed and complexity, and while the industry is making headway, the biggest bottlenecks are now surfacing in the network layer. 'Many of the primary limiting factors on AI scale outs like power consumption and inefficient GPU utilization can be directly addressed by more efficient networking and orchestration that makes sure data in where it's needed, when it's needed,' he said. Building on this vision, Cisco is deepening its integrations following the acquisition of Splunk. Telemetry from Cisco firewalls now feeds directly into Splunk's security platform, enabling automated response playbooks and correlating threat signals across the agentic application stack. The organizations that will thrive in this new era are those that embrace a simple truth: if AI is the engine of enterprise innovation, AI-powered security must be its steering system. The most critical work around agentic AI today, Montenegro says, involves building a deep, transparent understanding of two foundational areas: First, how the organization functions, i.e., its key business processes, stakeholder relationships and desired outcomes. And second, how modern AI systems, particularly agents, operate at a technical level, how abstract concepts are translated into math, what infrastructure is needed to support these algorithms and how they interact within a system. 'Once these two foundations are in place, the organization will be in a much stronger position to evaluate and deploy agentic workflows across multiple use cases,' he adds. The next generation of cybersecurity won't be defined by how fast it reacts to threats, but by how intelligently it anticipates them. And that future is already taking shape. 'Pre-training lays the foundation, but in the agentic era it's not enough. We need real-time feedback loops. Systems must continuously learn and harden as agents interact and adapt,' Cisco's Sampath told me. 'AgenticOps flips the script: now AI agents aren't just generating insights, they're proactively defending and adapting the network in real time.'
Irish Daily Mirror
15-07-2025
- Business
- Irish Daily Mirror
Irish workers say AI is increasing opportunities and competition in jobs market
Irish workers say artificial intelligence (AI) is both creating opportunities and intensifying competition in the jobs market, according to a corporate survey. The hiring software firm's survey indicated that half of Irish workers fear for their jobs amid economic uncertainty and nearly two in three are struggling to navigate the jobs market – with AI intensifying competition. Hiring company Greenhouse conducted a survey of 2,200 candidates, including 169 Irish-based workers along with workers from the UK and the US. 73 per cent of Irish workers indicated they are using AI when looking for a new job, mainly for interview preparation (42 per cent), analysing job ads (28 per cent) and generating work samples (25 per cent). A further 54 per cent said AI is making job hunting harder by increasing skill standards and intensifying competition, while 41 per cent said it created and helped uncover new opportunities. The survey also indicated there is a lack of clarity on whether AI can be used when applying for jobs, with 82 per cent of workers stating that employers provided little or no guidance on using AI in interviews. A photo taken on January 2, 2025 shows the letters AI for Artificial Intelligence on a laptop screen (R) next to the logo of the Chat AI application on a smartphone screen in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images) Nearly half of Irish job seekers said they feel insecure in their current role, while 42 per cent said the job market is very competitive. Chief executive of Greenhouse, Daniel Chait, said hiring is "stuck in an AI doom loop". "As this technology advances, it makes it easier than ever to apply, flooding the system with noise," he said. "With 25 per cent of Gen Z saying AI has made it harder for them to stand out, candidates entering the market are up against more applications, more automation, and less clarity." The survey also indicated that 49 per cent of Irish job seekers said they had been asked inappropriate or biased questions during job application processes. The most common of these was about health or disability status (21 per cent), parental responsibilities (20 per cent), and age (18 per cent). A further 69 per cent said they had removed older experience from their CVs to try and avoid age-based assumptions, according to the survey. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news from the Irish Mirror direct to your inbox: Sign up here.
Forbes
30-05-2025
- Politics
- Forbes
New U.S. Spacecraft Aims To Find Future Russian Nuclear-Armed Orbiters
Russian nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles roll across Red Square in Moscow, ... More American intelligence agencies have revealed Moscow is now developing a nuclear-armed spacecraft to loft into orbit AFP PHOTO / KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV (Photo credit should read KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/GettyImages) After American intelligence discovered Russia is secretly developing nuclear-armed fighter spacecraft to challenge the Western space powers, a U.S. space defense outfit is testing futuristic inspector craft that could find a warhead hidden inside a capsule circling the planet. The Kremlin's clandestine project to station hyper-powerful weapons in orbit could escalate its nuclear brinkmanship, conducted via a barrage of threats to deploy its atomic arsenal - the world's largest - against any Western ally directly helping Ukraine repel its Russian invaders. Moscow has also warned it could begin shooting down American satellites aiding Ukraine - including SpaceX's broadband-beaming sats - extending its military belligerence into the celestial sphere. Russian envoys to the UN have repeatedly threatened to begin shooting down American satellites ... More aiding Ukraine - including the SpaceX Starlinks that are beaming broadband internet connections to besieged Ukrainian students and soldiers (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) A nuclear blast in low Earth orbit could — in a flash— destroy thousands of satellites and might, depending on its proximity to the International Space Station, endanger the lives of all the ISS astronauts. While the White House has leaked some details on Moscow's covert scheme to loft uranium warheads into orbit, the timing of the first launch is still shrouded in secrecy. Now, ThinkOrbital - co-founded by onetime leaders at the U.S. Space Force and the independent rocket titan SpaceX - is refining its leading-edge X-ray inspector spacecraft to spy inside satellites launched by potentially hostile powers for weapons of mass destruction. ThinkOrbital's inspectors, when launched into low Earth orbit, would be capable of detecting nuclear warheads disguised as civilian satellites, says Lee Rosen, a former Commander of the 4th Space Launch Squadron who now heads the space defense start-up. Colonel Rosen told me in an interview that ThinkOrbital's next-generation inspectors include two partner craft: one emits high-energy X-rays at a satellite speeding through space, while the other records the images the X-rays produce as they pass through the target. 'The detector spacecraft would be positioned on one side of the target, and the X-ray emitter on the other side,' he says. This orbital X-ray system could detect nuclear bombs no matter how intricately they are camouflaged, and even as they speed through space at 28,000 kilometers per hour, Rosen says. The detonation of a powerful nuclear warhead near the International Space Station would kill its ... More astronauts within hours, say American experts on nuclear weaponry. (Photo by Alexander Gerst / ESA via Getty Images) Rosen, who left his last post as a VP of Mission and Launch Operations at SpaceX to form ThinkOrbital, says the Colorado-based outfit is now testing the new detection system, and aims to launch twin demo missions into orbit next year. Development of the world's first X-ray set-up for space-based scouting missions is being partly funded by the U.S. Space Force, Colonel Rosen says, via a series of SpaceWERX contracts as part of the rapidly expanding drive to strengthen American space defenses. ThinkOrbital's twin inspectors, once in orbit, can bolster American 'space domain awareness' and preparations for prospective space clashes of the future, he says. A flotilla of ThinkOrbital's X-ray Imagers peer into satellites speeding through low Earth orbit to ... More check for concealed nuclear warheads and other weaponry in this rendering of future missions The ability to know what each spacecraft launched by a potentially hostile power is doing in orbit, and its payload, is essential for the U.S. Space Force, Rosen adds. Kremlin threats to deploy its nuclear and anti-satellite missiles against Western targets underscore the importance of gathering continuous real-time intelligence on Russian rocket forces. Moscow's stationing fission or fusion bombs in orbit would violate the Outer Space Treaty - the fundamental international pact that governs space missions across the solar system. 'States Parties to the Treaty,' the UN space compact declares, 'undertake not to place in orbit around the Earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction, install such weapons on celestial bodies, or station such weapons in outer space in any other manner. ' All the major space powers, including then-Soviet Russia, signed the treaty a generation ago, and violating its ban on atomic warheads in space could threaten the future of spaceflight around the world. The White House moved to confirm Moscow's campaign to position strategic warheads hundreds of kilometers above the Earth when it introduced a UN Security Council resolution last year underscoring this longstanding proscription on nuclear arms in space. The Russian ambassador to the UN quickly vetoed the measure, prompting then-National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to declare: 'We have heard President Putin say publicly that Russia has no intention of deploying nuclear weapons in space. If that were the case, Russia would not have vetoed this resolution.' The ever-expanding threat of advanced missiles and nuclear super-bombs being produced by potential adversaries impelled the White House to propose constructing a Golden Dome missile defense shield around the globe that could hypothetically protect against ICBMs launched from any point on the planet. As the Department of Defense begins building out this supermassive dome, Colonel Rosen says, ThinkOrbital's inspectors could play a pivotal role in safeguarding the myriad Allied sensors and armed interceptors - aimed at detecting and blasting an enemy's ballistic missiles during the first three minutes of their post-launch boost phase - from any nuclear time bombs skulking through the heavens. The White House has leaked sparse details of Russia's top-secret project to launch nuclear warheads ... More on spacecraft that would orbit the planet (Photo by Chris Kleponis - Pool/Getty Images) With the building of the orbital dome, Rosen says, 'that's going to be a big juicy target' for any power challenging U.S. pre-eminence in space. Spenser Warren, a prominent American expert on Moscow's new-millennium race to strengthen its nuclear arsenal, says he strongly backs Colonel Rosen's prediction that the Golden Dome could become a prime target in any future face-off with Russia. 'I do think that Russia may launch a strike against space-based Golden Dome assets, if realized, in the event of a conflict,' Warren, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, tells me in an interview. 'Could it be nuclear? It probably could,' predicts Warren, whose doctoral dissertation was titled, 'Russian Strategic Nuclear Modernization under Vladimir Putin.' 'Any significant conflict with any peer or near-peer adversary,' he adds, 'will undoubtedly have a space dimension.' Vladimir Putin has spent much of his reign modernizing Moscow's nuclear missiles while attempting to ... More push Russia's borders outward through military force and nuclear threats (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images) Colonel Rosen says that to help pre-empt any attacks against the American dome launched from an orbital platform, 'there are multiple uses for our inspector spacecraft.' 'As part of the Golden Dome, we could help protect the protectors.' Fleets of ThinkOrbital inspectors, Rosen says, could patrol the high-traffic rings surrounding the Earth, randomly scanning spacecraft launched by rival powers for concealed weaponry. ThinkOrbital's primary goal, he says, is 'giving our commanders the ability to understand the space battlefield.' 'This will contribute to the whole space war-fighting mission.' ThinkOrbital's mission of adapting X-ray technology to scout for nuclear arms surreptitiously circling the globe could help provide 'protection for all satellites in LEO [low Earth orbit], if that is indeed where the Russians put their satellite with a nuclear warhead, and again, if they end up deploying it,' says Victoria Samson, Chief Director, Space Security and Stability at the Secure World Foundation, one of Washington DC's leading space defense think tanks. 'A nuclear ASAT would be a crude but effective weapon against a very large constellation of satellites, whether it's thousands of [SpaceX] Starlinks or thousands of [DOD] space-based interceptors,' Samson, one of the top space security experts in the U.S., tells me in an interview. While ThinkOrbital's current focus is on lofting its prototype inspectors at the start of 2026, its longer-range goal is to launch a series of orbital modules and ultimately a colossal space station - four times the size of the ISS. Nearly two years ago, ThinkOrbital's founders signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA to collaborate on developing 'single-launch, large-scale orbital platforms that facilitate a wide array of applications in low Earth orbit, including in-space research, manufacturing, and astronaut missions.' ThinkOrbital was one of just seven American space-tech leaders, alongside Blue Origin, SpaceX and Sierra Space, hand-picked by NASA to design independent space stations slated to populate the closest orbital lanes when the ISS is decommissioned, or the spacecraft that will speed government and private astronauts to these new space outposts - as long as the current de facto space truce holds. ThinkOrbital's long-range goal is to launch a series of orbital modules and ultimately a colossal ... More space station - four times the size of the ISS.
Toronto Sun
27-05-2025
- Toronto Sun
MANDEL: AI "hallucinations" hit second GTA court case in a month
Get the latest from Michele Mandel straight to your inbox A photo taken on November 23, 2023 shows the logo of the ChatGPT application developed by US artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI on a laptop screen (R) and the letters AI on a smartphone screen in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP via Getty Images They're called AI 'hallucinations' and the made-up citations generated by artificial intelligence chatbots have just landed a second Ontario lawyer this month in hot water. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account The latest case involves Ontario Court Justice Joseph Kenkel rejecting written final arguments by defence lawyer Arvin Ross in an aggravated assault trial because he relied on a case that apparently doesn't actually exist. 'Unfortunately, there are serious problems with the defence submissions,' the Newmarket judge wrote in a ruling on Monday. 'One of the cases cited appears to be fictitious. The court was unable to find any case at that citation. There was no case by that name with that content at any other citation. Kenkel instructed him to redraft his submission without using generative AI or commercial legal software that uses GenAI. ' Mr. Ross has done a good job presenting the defence in this case. I'm confident that he will be able to prepare proper submissions within these guidelines,' he concluded. Reached by email, the lawyer declined comment since the matter is before the court. 'I am focused on complying with the court's directions and appreciate your understanding,' Ross wrote. The first court case to deal with the new problem of AI-generated fictions, known as 'hallucinations,' occurred earlier this month in Toronto. Lawyer Jisuh Lee was before Superior Court Justice Fred Myers to argue that her client's divorce should be set aside and a trustee removed when the judge noticed her written materials rested on past decisions where the hyperlinks took him to non-existent cases or to ones which dealt with a completely different area of law. Recommended video Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. He suspected a wonky AI program was at fault but chastised the lawyer for not reviewing her cases before arguing them in court. Myers ordered Lee to appear before him on May 16 to show cause why she shouldn't be cited for contempt. 'A court decision that is based on fake laws would be an outrageous miscarriage of justice to the parties and would reflect very poorly on the court and the civil justice system,' he said. In response, the shocked 30-year veteran lawyer has 'thrown herself on the mercy of the court,' Myers wrote. Lee delivered a letter to the court on May 9 explaining that she's learned that her staff had used ChatGPT to prepare her factum and the non-existent cases were AI hallucinations. She apologized for not verifying their authenticity and asked not to be found in contempt. 'This was a serious lapse in judgment. It does not reflect the standard of diligence and care I have always tried to uphold in my practice, nor does it reflect my respect for this court,' she said in a later statement to the court. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Read More Lee also pledged to take six hours of continuing professional education in the proper use and risks of AI in a law practise. Following her apology and noting the widespread notoriety of the case — the judge said she was bombarded by calls from reporters and colleagues — Myers withdrew the contempt motion. 'In my view, the publicity surrounding this case has served both to publicly denounce inappropriate conduct and as general deterrence to the bar and others who might rely on AI for legal submissions,' he wrote. In the U.S., lawyers who have filed briefs with fake cases generated by AI have been fined $5,000 — but Myers declined to follow suit. 'There had to be someone who was going to be the first lawyer to file AI hallucinations here. It was likely to be someone so junior as to overestimate the infallibility of AI , or someone so senior as to not really yet understand its fallibility. Ms. Lee has suffered a public shaming near the end of an unblemished career. 'The denunciation and deterrent effect produced her immediate and forthright response in a manner far beyond any reasonably expected impact of a small fine.' mmandel@ Toronto Maple Leafs Columnists World Canada World
