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Oregon ‘tech hubs’ left out of $504M federal funding announcement
Corvallis Microfluidics and Pacific Northwest Mass Timber hubs not on Biden administration list of 12 backed in CHIPS Act program.
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Beast chefs’ Cornet Custard lands on Southeast Division
Cornet Custard is a business born from a pandemic pivot by Beast chef de cuisine Mika Paredes.
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Nonprofit pays $4.7M for future headquarters in Old Town
The Portland branch of homeless-services nonprofit CityTeam is relocating to Old Town.
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Adidas inks new partnership with Patrick Mahomes, Texas Tech
The extended partnership includes Adidas becoming the official apparel partner for Mahomes’ alma mater, Texas Tech University, and a new, co-branded apparel line featuring Mahomes’ signature Gladiator logo.
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Wyden town hall talks AI, taxes
THE DALLES — U.S. Sen Ron Wyden spoke of the “local and modest and targeted” help Oregon’s senators have brought to Wasco County at his 1,087th town hall last week in The Dalles.
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Reproductive Freedom rally held in The Dalles
THE DALLES — About 50 people attended the Rally for Reproductive Freedom, held at City Park June 24 to mark the second anniversary of the Dobbs decision that ended Roe v. Wade, or the legal right to an abortion under…
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How MFA Failures are Fueling a 500% Surge in Ransomware Losses
The cybersecurity threat landscape has witnessed a dramatic and alarming rise in the average ransomware payment, an increase exceeding 500%. Sophos, a global leader in cybersecurity, revealed in its annual “State of Ransomware 2024” report that the average ransom payment has increased 500% in the last year with organizations that paid a ransom reporting an…
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New Intel CPU Vulnerability ‘Indirector’ Exposes Sensitive Data
Modern CPUs from Intel, including Raptor Lake and Alder Lake, have been found vulnerable to a new side-channel attack that could be exploited to leak sensitive information from the processors. The attack, codenamed Indirector by security researchers Luyi Li, Hosein Yavarzadeh, and Dean Tullsen, leverages shortcomings identified in Indirect Branch Predictor (IBP) and the Branch…
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Meta’s ‘Pay or Consent’ Approach Faces E.U. Competition Rules Scrutiny
Meta’s decision to offer an ad-free subscription in the European Union (E.U.) has faced a new setback after regulators accused the social media behemoth of breaching the bloc’s competition rules by forcing users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them. The European Commission said the company’s “pay or consent” advertising model is…
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Chinese Hackers Exploiting Cisco Switches Zero-Day to Deliver Malware
A China-nexus cyber espionage group named Velvet Ant has been observed exploiting a zero-day flaw in Cisco NX-OS Software used in its switches to deliver malware. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-20399 (CVSS score: 6.0), concerns a case of command injection that allows an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying…
