Microsoft expands Windows 365 Cloud PC thin clients to Asus and Dell hardware

Microsoft has announced that two new devices are joining its Cloud PC program. Asus and Dell will begin offering systems designed to deliver the cloud-based Windows ...
InfoQ

Microsoft Agent Framework RC Simplifies Agentic Development in .NET and Python

Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. This milestone indicates that the API surface is stable and feature-complete ...
InfoQ

Cilium at Ten Years: Stronger Encryption, Safer Policies, and Clearer Visibility for Large Clusters

Cilium 1.19 has been released, marking ten years of development for the eBPF-based networking and security project. There isn’t a flagship feature in this release; instead, it focuses on security ...
Microsoft

Developer-targeting campaign using malicious Next.js repositories

A developer-targeting campaign leveraged malicious Next.js repositories to trigger a covert RCE-to-C2 chain through standard ...
KOIN 6

Federal agents use tear gas on Portland ‘ICE Out’ protesters, including children

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — What began as a peaceful demonstration in South Portland unraveled after federal agents deployed tear gas on protesters, including children. This all happened as the Rose City ...
Reuters

Pentagon readies 1,500 troops for potential Minnesota deployment, US officials say

WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers in Alaska to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, the site of large protests against the ...
The Hill

Trump threatens to deploy troops to Minnesota: What is the Insurrection Act?

President Trump has threatened to deploy more federal troops to Minnesota using a seldom-used law passed by Congress over 200 years ago. The Insurrection Act of 1807, in conjunction with several other ...
The Washington Post

Trump threatens Insurrection Act deployment to quell Minnesota ICE protests

MINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota on Thursday, raising the prospect of sending U.S. troops into Minneapolis, despite opposition from state and ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Hackers Use Fake PayPal Notices to Steal Credentials, Deploy RMMs

A new wave of phishing-led intrusions abusing legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools has been documented, with attackers using fake PayPal alerts to gain both personal and corporate ...
Wired

At CES 2026, Everything Is AI. What Matters Is How You Use It

The New Year’s Eve champagne isn’t even warm yet, and CES week is already upon us. The giant annual celebration of consumer tech kicks off the first full week of January as companies across the world ...
TechCrunch

In 2026, AI will move from hype to pragmatism

If 2025 was the year AI got a vibe check, 2026 will be the year the tech gets practical. The focus is already shifting away from building ever-larger language models and toward the harder work of ...
Defense One

Trump gives up on National Guard deployment in 3 cities

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will back off his plans to use National Guard troops in the Democratic-led cities of Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. The move follows the ...