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The House approved a long-delayed measure to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security and end a 76-day shutdown, after the Trump administration warned it had run out of emergency funds to pay workers next week. President Trump signed the bill into law Thursday afternoon. (WSJ)
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First-quarter profit at Check Point Software Technologies jumped 13% compared to the same period last year. Revenue grew 5%. Lower firewall sales led the company to cut its full-year revenue forecast to $2.77 billion to $2.85 billion, down from $2.83 billion-$2.95 billion. (Reuters)
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CISO move: Jacki Monson joined CVS Health as deputy CISO, working with CISO Alan Rosa, who joined in 2023. Previously, Monson spent 13 years at healthcare network Sutter Health, most recently as chief integration officer, CISO and chief privacy officer.
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🎧 What happens when the person you hire to help you against hackers is secretly working with them? We discuss such a case in federal court right now. Also, Texas is getting tough on oil theft. James Rundle hosts.
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‘We Know You Live Right Here’: No Secrets in America’s New Surveillance Dragnet. In the battle against illegal immigration, the U.S. is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on tools that give federal agents easy access to the home and workplace addresses of American citizens, their social-media accounts, vehicle information, flight history, law-enforcement records and other personal information, as well as data to track their daily comings and goings. (WSJ)
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$725 Million
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Estimated cargo theft losses last year in the U.S. and Canada, increasingly driven by hackers working with in-real-life thieves, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
That's up 60% from 2024, the FBI said.
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PHOTO: ELIZABETH FRANTZ/REUTERS
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The Defense Department has completed agreements with six technology companies, including many of the industry’s biggest, to use their artificial-intelligence capabilities in classified settings, boosting the Pentagon’s efforts to gain access to cutting-edge AI tools.
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The department said Friday it is now capable of using in classified settings the technology and models from the ChatGPT maker, OpenAI; Alphabet’s Google; Elon Musk’s SpaceX; Microsoft; Nvidia; and a startup, Reflection AI. SpaceX owns Musk’s AI company, xAI. (WSJ)
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