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Dryad Wins International XPRIZE Wildfire Award for Autonomous Wildfire Detection and Suppression

eriinfo.com1 week ago06 mins

Silvaguard Observation and Suppression drone and Hangar Dryad Networks, a leader in ultra-early wildfire detection, today announced it has been awarded $800,000 in the XPRIZE Wildfire competition for its performance in the Autonomous Wildfire Response finals in Alaska. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260923024178/en/ Dryad advanced from an original field…

HeadFirst Global Becomes Vertage, Uniting 11 Businesses in a Single Work Orchestration Platform

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago08 mins

Edzard Overbeek, Group CEO at Vertage HeadFirst Global, a leader in work orchestration, today announced it will become Vertage, as it builds a global technology platform that dynamically curates the right mix of expert talent and AI agents to deliver the work outcomes enterprises need. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here:…

Boomi Appoints Mike Hickman as Chief Financial Officer

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago03 mins

Boomi Appoints Mike Hickman as Chief Financial Officer Boomi, the data activation company for AI, today announced the appointment of Mike Hickman as Chief Financial Officer. Hickman will lead Boomi’s global finance and accounting organization, spanning financial planning and analysis, accounting, treasury, tax, and financial reporting. He reports to Boomi Chairman and Chief Executive Officer…

Did you just train your replacement?

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago010 mins

Information security and privacy consultant Anthony Olivier. Consider Nomsa. Over 20 years and three employers, she has become an exceptional compliance specialist. She knows which regulator to telephone, which ambiguity to leave alone, and which minor exception sinks an audit. Her employer asks her to spend 18 months teaching an internal AI agent how she…

Four descriptive gTLDs worth a look when the .co.za you wanted is gone

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago04 mins

gTLDs are descriptive extensions that solve two problems at once. (Image: Domains.co.za) Domains.co.za has reduced new-registration pricing on a number of domain name extensions including .GURU, .PRO, .EXPERT and .NINJA until 31 December 2026. For technical consultancies, independent specialists and development shops, a descriptive extension solves two problems at once. Anyone who has tried to…

Secure doesn’t always mean compliant

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago07 mins

Cyber security defends the systems, cyber compliance proves it. An organisation can have every control in place and still fail an audit. The firewall is running, the laptops are patched, staff have sat through the training and the penetration test came back clean. Then a regulator asks for the written policy, the date it was…

Your SOC cannot outrun AI

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago06 mins

Troye technical director Kurt Goodall. (Image: AI-enhanced) Cyber security has acquired a speed problem. Attackers are increasingly using AI to automate work that once required specialist skills, while security teams are still trying to make sense of thousands of alerts. The uncomfortable question for CISOs is no longer whether the organisation has enough security technology….

Audit-ready EUC: Embedding accountability into asset workflows

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago012 mins

Vickash Bheem, Head of Technology at Nkgwete IT Solutions. Many organisations only discover weaknesses in their asset governance during an audit. By then, the problem may be months old and the people involved are being asked to reconstruct events that were routine at the time. Often, the issue isn’t that an asset is physically missing….

PICS: ITWeb visits Vivo’s headquarters in China

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago04 mins

Vivo’s new global headquarters. (Photograph by Simnikiwe Mzekandaba) Nestled within the leafy suburbs of China’s Shenzhen is the newly-opened global headquarters and campus of smartphone manufacturer Vivo. Shenzhen is considered China’s trading city and is home to some of the country’s major IT firms and brands, including Huawei, Honor, Oppo and now Vivo. See also…

Meta unveils ,300 VR Glasses to challenge Apple in special computing

Meta unveils $1,300 VR Glasses to challenge Apple in special computing

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago05 mins

Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has officially revealed the Meta VR Glasses at the company’s annual Connect event, targeting a Q2 2027 commercial release. Priced at $1,300, the device adopts a lightweight, sunglasses-style form factor paired with a tethered external compute and battery pod. The architecture aims to deliver high-end spatial computing capabilities similar…