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Warner says passport backlog ‘not sustainable,’ as State Dept aims for pre-pandemic processing times

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) says the current wait times for passports are “not sustainable,” and urged the bureau to take more aggressive steps to address a major backlog.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/SsBspR

Warner says passport backlog ‘not sustainable,’ as State Dept aims for pre-pandemic processing times

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) says the current wait times for passports are “not sustainable,” and urged the bureau to take more aggressive steps to address a major backlog.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/SsBsl4

Hyperscalers bet on costly new data centers to capture growing market

As cloud becomes ubiquitous, AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud are competing to expand their regional reach and localize services.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/SsBltq

Teleskope launches AI-based data protection platform

Teleskope has launched a data protection platform that automates data security, privacy, and compliance at scale, helping organizations comply with regulations like GDPR and CCPA, and reduce the manual and operation burden on security, data, and engineering teams. The company raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding led by Lerer Hippeau. Unlike typical Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) approaches that often result in alert fatigue due to valuable time wasted on false positives, Teleskope uses artificial … More → The post Teleskope launches AI-based data protection platform appeared first on Help Net Security.
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With most agency headquarters at 25% capacity, ‘hard decisions’ coming for federal office holdings

17 of 24 agency headquarters offices are at or below one-quarter of full capacity, the Government Accountability Office found in preliminary findings from 2023 data.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/Ss87C7

With most agency headquarters at 25% capacity, ‘hard decisions’ coming for federal office holdings

17 of 24 agency headquarters offices are at or below one-quarter of full capacity, the Government Accountability Office found in preliminary findings from 2023 data.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/Ss879R

SEO Expert Hired and Fired By Ashley Madison Turned on Company, Promising Revenge

[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.] It was around 9 p.m. on Sunday, July 19, when I received a message through the contact form on KrebsOnSecurity.com that the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com had been hacked. The message contained links to confidential Ashley Madison documents, and included a manifesto that said a hacker group calling itself the Impact Team was prepared to leak data on all 37 million users unless Ashley Madison and a sister property voluntarily closed down within 30 days.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/Ss86w9

NSW gov creates ‘legislation twin’

A different take on the digital twin.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/Ss80y2

Putin’s Potential Successors Part 2: Aleksey Dyumin

Explore Aleksey Dyumin, potential successor to Putin as Russian president, including his political strengths, weaknesses, and implications for Russia’s future.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/Ss75bH

House GOP pushes bill to fast-track firing at VA. Agency leaders doubt it’ll help

Top Republicans on the House Veterans Affairs Committee are leading a bill to let the Department of Veterans Affairs once again fire employees more quickly.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/Ss5KlQ