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  • MIL-OSI: Nerdio Manager for Enterprise 7.0 Launches to Enhance Windows 365 and Cloud Desktop Management

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    CHICAGO, April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Nerdio, the automated End-User Computing (EUC) management platform transforming how organizations deploy and manage Microsoft cloud technologies, today launched Nerdio Manager for Enterprise 7.0. The latest version builds on Nerdio’s leadership in helping customers manage Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop with expanded support for Windows 365 and physical endpoints. The latest version builds on Nerdio’s leadership in helping customers manage Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop with expanded support for Windows 365 and physical endpoints. Designed to meet growing demand for additional granularity and depth of controls above and beyond those in the market for Microsoft Intune and Windows 365, version 7.0 adds advanced tools for planning, migration, automation, and cost optimization—along with deeper integration with Intune to simplify the entire cloud desktop lifecycle. Intune to simplify the entire cloud desktop lifecycle.

    “The shift to cloud-first computing has introduced new challenges for IT leaders, from cost predictability to security and endpoint management,” said Nerdio’s CEO, Vadim Vladimirskiy “With Nerdio Manager for Enterprise 7.0, we are introducing its most advanced automation and cost optimization capabilities yet, enhancing the management, efficiency, and scalability of Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop more.”

    Nerdio Manager for Enterprise 7.0 extends management for organizations by: 

    • Accelerating planning and migration with intelligent modeling, app migration tools, and automated workflows that simplify the shift from on-premises infrastructure or existing VDI solutions to Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop.
    • Increasing visibility into environments with enhanced usage dashboards and Intune Insights that surface critical data across endpoints and cloud desktops.
    • Enhancing management through built-in remote support, streamlined image management, and granular RBAC controls for secure, efficient administration at scale.
    • Optimizing costs with AI-powered licensing recommendations and usage analytics that help right-size resources and prevent overspending.

    “Windows 365 gives us the flexibility to provide secure, cloud-based desktops to employees, but managing it efficiently at scale was a challenge—until we implemented Nerdio. With Nerdio Manager for Enterprise 7.0, we now have a centralized, automated approach to managing Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, and Intune. The platform streamlines endpoint security, optimizes costs, and simplifies troubleshooting, saving our IT team countless hours. The new automation and reporting capabilities give us real-time insights, allowing us to proactively manage our cloud environment instead of reacting to issues,” said Brad Ransbury, Systems Administrator at the City of Corona.

    “Windows 365 is designed to give organizations a seamless, scalable, and secure Cloud PC experience,” said Scott Manchester, Vice President of product, Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop, at Microsoft. “With Nerdio Manager for Enterprise 7.0, IT teams now have the automation and optimization tools to accelerate their transition to Windows 365, ensuring efficiency and cost-effectiveness at every stage.”

    With this release, Nerdio is introducing updated pricing and packaging options, including a new pricing model for Windows 365 management, allowing those enterprises managing both Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop greater flexibility across their virtual IT estate.

    For more information, please visit Nerdio Manager for Enterprise.

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  • MIL-OSI Economics: What we shared about Microsoft Azure Storage at KubeCon Europe 2025

    Source: Microsoft

    Headline: What we shared about Microsoft Azure Storage at KubeCon Europe 2025

    Wow, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London was a fantastic time! Our Azure Storage team was thrilled to exchange insights and success stories at this vibrant community event. If you missed it, don’t worry! We are here to share what we showed off at the con: how we are enhancing performance, cost-efficiency, and AI

    Wow, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London was a fantastic time! Our Azure Storage team was thrilled to exchange insights and success stories at this vibrant community event. If you missed it, don’t worry! We are here to share what we showed off at the con: how we are enhancing performance, cost-efficiency, and AI capabilities for your workloads on Azure.

    Optimize your open-source databases with Azure Disks

    Open-source databases such as PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and MySQL are among the most commonly deployed stateful workloads on Kubernetes. For scenarios that demand extremely low latency and high input/output operations per second (IOPS)—such as running these databases for transactional workloads—Azure Container Storage enables you to tap into local ephemeral non-volative memory express (NVMe) drives within your node pool. This provides sub-millisecond latency and up to half a million IOPS, making it a strong fit for performance-critical use cases. In our upcoming v1.3.0 update, we have made significant optimizations specifically for databases.

    Compared to the previous v1.2.0 version, you can expect up to a 5 times increase in transactions per second (TPS) for PostgreSQL and MySQL deployments. If you’re looking for the best balance of durability, performance, and cost for storage, Premium SSD v2 disks remains our recommended default for database workloads. Premium SSD v2 offers a flexible pricing model that charges per gigabyte and includes generous baseline IOPS and throughput for free out of the box. You can dynamically scale IOPS and throughput as needed, allowing you to fine-tune performance while optimizing for price-efficiency.

    At KubeCon, we demonstrated how developers could readily take advantage of local NVMe and Premium SSD v2 Disks to build their highly available and performant PostgreSQL deployments. If you want to follow along yourself, check out the newly republished PostgreSQL on AKS documentation below!

    Deploy PostgreSQL on AKS

    Accelerate your AI workflows with Azure Blob Storage

    Building an AI workflow demands scalable storage to host massive amounts of data—whether it’s raw sensor logs, high-resolution images, or multi-terabyte model checkpoints. Azure Blob Storage and BlobFuse2 with the Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver provide a seamless way to store and retrieve this data at scale. With BlobFuse2, you access blob storage just as a persistent volume, treating it like a local file system. With the latest version of Blobfuse2 – 2.4.1, you can:

    • Speed up model training and inference: BlobFuse2’s enhanced streaming support reduces latency for initial and repeated reads. Using BlobFuse2 to load large datasets or fine-tuned model weights directly from blob storage into local NVMe drives on GPU SKUs effectively optimizes the efficiency of your AI workflow.
    • Simplify data preprocessing: AI workflows often require frequent transformations—such as normalizing images or tokenizing text. By using BlobFuse2’s file-based access, data scientists can preprocess and store results directly in blob storage, keeping pipelines efficient.
    • Ensure data integrity at scale: When handling petabytes of streaming data, integrity checks matter. BlobFuse2 now includes improved CRC64 validation for data stored on local disk, ensuring reliable reads and writes, even when working with distributed AI clusters.
    • Parallel access of massive datasets: Implemented parallel downloads and uploads to significantly decrease the time required for accessing large datasets stored in blobs. This enhancement allows for faster data processing and increased efficiency, ensuring optimal utilization of GPU resources and improving training efficiency.
    Read the BlobFuse2 release notes

    Scale your stateful workloads with Azure Files

    Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, one of the popular stateful workloads, need shared persistent volumes to host artifacts in the repository, where Azure Premium Files is the storage of choice on Azure. These artifacts are stored in small files that incur heavy metadata operations on a file share. To speed up CI/CD workflows, the Azure Files team recently announced the general availability of metadata caching for premium SMB file shares. This new capability reduces metadata latency by up to 50 percent, benefiting metadata-intensive workloads that typically host many small files in a single share. At KubeCon, we showcased how metadata caching can accelerate repetitive build processes on GitHub, refer to the repo and try it out yourself.

    For less performance-demanding stateful workloads, Standard Files with the new Provisioned v2 billing model offers better cost predictability and control as shared persistent volumes. The Provisioned v2 model shifts from usage-based to provisioned billing, allowing you to specify required storage, IOPS, and throughput with greater scale. You can now expand your file share from 32 GiB to 256 TiB, 50,000 IOPS, and 5 GiB/sec throughput as your applications demand.

    Learn about v2 pricing

    KubeCon + CloudNativeCon was a wonderful opportunity to directly interact with developers and learn from our customers. As always, thanks to our customers and partners for contributing to the event’s value and significance, and we look forward to seeing you again in November for KubeCon North America!

    MIL OSI Economics –

  • MIL-OSI USA: Pocan Asks Speaker Johnson to Invite Elon Musk for a Congressional Briefing

    Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Mark Pocan (2nd District of Wisconsin)

    WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Mark Pocan (WI-02) led a letter with 55 of his colleagues urgently requesting Speaker Johnson to facilitate a briefing from Elon Musk for all Members of Congress regarding his role in the Trump administration and his actions as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), including at a minimum details on DOGE’s actions to date, future plans, the authority Mr. Musk believes he has to take such actions, and details on whether or not he intends to adhere to court rulings.

    “Since the start of his tenure as head of DOGE, Elon Musk has used his new position to inflict significant damage on the federal government, withholding funds that have already been appropriated by Congress, firing thousands of federal employees, undermining and even attempting to dismantle entire agencies, accessing sensitive taxpayer data, and threatening devastating cuts to services and promised benefits that everyday Americans rely on and have earned,” the Members wrote. “A number of court orders have already ruled these actions to be unlawful, or even likely unconstitutional in the case of USAID.” 

    “These actions have had a direct impact on people across the country, and our constituents are reaching out in record numbers to express their opposition and outrage over Musk’s role in the federal government and the harm he is causing to their communities,” the Members continued. “Many are also asking for a public contact for DOGE so that they may register their concerns with Mr. Musk and his team directly. Unfortunately, there is no public contact for DOGE, and even Members of Congress are finding it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to get any straight answers for our constituents.” 

    “Therefore, in the interest of communication and transparency, we believe it is critical that Elon Musk come to Congress to provide a briefing and answer any and all questions that Members of Congress have regarding his role in the Trump administration and his actions as the head of DOGE,” the Members concluded.

    A full copy of the letter can be found here. 

    The list of signers includes: Balint, Becca; Barragán, Nanette; Bell, Wesley; Bishop, Sanford; Boyle, Brendan; Carson, André; Casar, Greg; Case, Ed; Chu, Judy; Cleaver, Emanuel; Costa, Jim; Dean, Madeleine; DeGette, Diana; DeSaulnier, Mark; Dexter, Maxine; Evans, Dwight; Fields, Cleo; Fletcher, Lizzie; Garcia, Sylvia; Goodlander, Maggie; Green, Al; Houlahan, Chrissy; Huffman, Jared; Ivey, Glenn; Jackson, Jonathan; Johnson, Henry; Kelly, Robin; Khanna, Ro; Lynch, Stephen; Magaziner, Seth; McCollum, Betty; McGovern, James; McIver, LaMonica; Meng, Grace; Min, Dave; Norton, Eleanor; Olszewski, Johnny; Pingree, Chellie; Pocan, Mark; Ruiz, Raul; Salinas, Andrea; Sánchez, Linda; Schakowsky, Janice; Smith, Adam; Stevens, Haley; Thanedar, Shri; Thompson, Bennie; Titus, Dina; Tlaib, Rashida; Tokuda, Jill; Torres, Norma; Vargas, Juan; Velázquez, Nydia; Waters, Maxine; Watson Coleman, Bonnie; Williams, Nikema

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  • MIL-OSI United Kingdom: The AAIB has sent a team of inspectors to Ashbourne, Derbyshire

    Source: United Kingdom – Executive Government & Departments

    News story

    The AAIB has sent a team of inspectors to Ashbourne, Derbyshire

    A team of inspectors has been sent to begin investigating an accident which occurred on 8 April 2025

    An accident in the Ashbourne area of Derbyshire involving a light aircaft has been notified to the AAIB. An investigation has been launched and a multidisciplinary team of inspectors are on their way to the accident site.

    Media enquiries:
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    Out of office hours 0300 777 7878

    Updates to this page

    Published 8 April 2025

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  • MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Technology and Energy Secretaries chair first meeting of AI Energy Council

    Source: United Kingdom – Government Statements

    News story

    Technology and Energy Secretaries chair first meeting of AI Energy Council

    The UK’s new AI Energy Council held its first meeting in Westminster today (8 April).

    Science, Innovation, and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle, and Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband co-chair the first meeting of the AI Energy Council.

    Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology Peter Kyle and Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Ed Miliband today convened the first meeting of the AI Energy Council in Westminster.

    Joined by industry representatives from across the energy and technology sectors, this inaugural round of discussions centred on how the UK can drive forward its AI and power goals – supporting the growth, jobs and opportunities which are central to the government’s Plan for Change.

    The Technology Secretary reflected on the desire across the country to benefit from the AI revolution – with over 200 applications from local areas putting themselves forward to become AI Growth Zones. Meanwhile the Energy Secretary highlighted how it is not only about making the UK’s energy grid fit for the age of AI, but how AI can serve the energy system too. 

    After delivering opening remarks, the Secretaries of State led discussions which included an agreement on the council’s 5 areas of focus for the coming year. These will be centred on ensuring the UK’s energy system is ready to support the country’s AI and compute infrastructure, promoting sustainability and the use of renewable energy solutions, and placing a strong focus on promoting the safe and secure adoption of AI across the energy system whilst also advising on how AI can be adopted to support the transition to net zero, unlocking opportunities to make the grid more flexible.

    Attendees reflected on the importance of making sure sustainability is at the heart of efforts to take advantage of AI and the need to make sure the UK has what is needed to drive further investment – including quick access to the grid, accelerated planning permission and skills.

    The 5 main areas of focus for the council were agreed, with attendees committing to meet quarterly – with an ambition to bring proposals to the table to make quick progress and deliver for people across the country.

    Updates to this page

    Published 8 April 2025

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  • MIL-OSI USA: Wasserman Schultz Leads House Dems to Demand DHS Restore Oversight Offices, Overhaul Inhumane Detention Conditions

    Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23)

    The Members wrote that, “people detained at Krome have faced alarming conditions, including prolonged confinement in unsanitary environments, lack of medical care, overcrowding, and mistreatment by staff. At least three deaths have occurred in ICE custody and several detained men and women and their families have alleged serious abuses. Immigration advocates have called it an ‘international human rights disaster.’ One detainee labeled Krome ‘a concentration camp.’”

    Washington DC – Today, U.S Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) led 48 other House members who wrote Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to demand an immediate restoration of Congressionally-mandated oversight agencies, and called for an immediate end to the immoral mistreatment of detained individuals. Closure and mass firings at oversight offices within the Department of Homeland Security have coincided with allegations of inhumane conditions and abuses, especially inside Krome Detention Center in South Florida.

    The Members wrote that, “people detained at Krome have faced alarming conditions, including prolonged confinement in unsanitary environments, lack of medical care, overcrowding, and mistreatment by staff. At least three deaths have occurred in ICE custody and several detained men and women and their families have alleged serious abuses. Immigration advocates have called it an ‘international human rights disaster.’ One detainee labeled Krome ‘a concentration camp.’”

    Wasserman Schultz was joined by fellow Florida Reps. Kathy Castor, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Maxwell Frost, Darren Soto, and Frederica Wilson. Among the other Members signing the letter were U.S. Reps.: Yassamin Ansari; Nanette Barragán; Suzanne Bonamici; André Carson; Troy Carter; Judy Chu; Yvette Clarke; Jason Crow; Danny Davis; Diana DeGette; Veronica Escobar; Adriano Espaillat; Laura Friedman; Jesús García; Robert Garcia; Daniel Goldman; Pablo Hernández; Jonathan Jackson; Pramila Jayapal; Henry Johnson; Robin Kelly; Ro Khanna; Rick Larsen; George Latimer; Betty McCollum; James McGovern; Grace Meng; Seth Moulton; Eleanor Holmes Norton; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Ilhan Omar; Brittany Pettersen; Mark Pocan; Brad Sherman; Marilyn Strickland; Shri Thanedar; Bennie Thompson; Rashida Tlaib; Paul Tonko; Norma Torres; Gabe Vasquez; Marc Veasey; Nydia Velázquez. No Republican House Members signed this letter.

    The Wasserman Schultz-led letter is supported by several immigration and human rights advocacy groups, including the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Americans for Immigrant Justice (AIJ), National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT), Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network, National Immigration Project, and the National Immigrant Justice Center.

    Wasserman Schultz has led Congressional Democrats in the fight to restore Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Venezuelans, and she’s challenged the Trump Administration’s efforts to deport parole recipients from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Wasserman Schultz also sponsored the legal statute guaranteeing Members of Congress access to detention facilities, and has consistently called out the Trump Administration’s failure to prioritize criminals and neglect of migrant detainees.  

    Read the final signed letter here or below:

    The Honorable Kristi Noem

    Secretary of Homeland Security

    U.S. Department of Homeland Security

    2707 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE

    Washington, D.C. 20528

    Secretary Noem:

    We write to express our outrage regarding the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) decision to shut down key oversight offices responsible for ensuring civil rights and humane treatment of migrants in detention. The closure of these offices raises serious questions about DHS’s transparency and compliance with the law, particularly as reports continue to surface detailing inhumane conditions at facilities like Krome Detention Center in Florida. We demand immediate action to restore oversight and halt the immoral mistreatment of detained individuals.

    Recent reporting from the Miami Herald indicates that people detained at Krome have faced alarming conditions, including prolonged confinement in unsanitary environments, lack of medical care, overcrowding, and mistreatment by staff. At least three deaths have occurred in ICE custody and several detained men and women and their families have alleged serious abuses. Immigration advocates have called it an “international human rights disaster.” One detainee labeled Krome “a concentration camp.” 

    Krome is overcrowded far beyond its capacity Advocates have alleged that ICE is underreporting the detained population in public data. As the Administration seeks to unlawfully terminate the legal status of over 1 million TPS and humanitarian parole recipients—all of whom were vetted by DHS upon entry or after applying for protections—conditions will likely worsen.

    Rather than acting in response to dozens of complaints, reports, and lawsuits regarding inhumane conditions and civil rights violations at ICE detention facilities, the Administration has opted to cut off personnel and expertise tasked with ensuring medical, hygiene, mental health, and due process standards. On March 21, DHS effectively closed several oversight offices, the USCIS Ombudsman, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL), and the Immigration Detention Ombudsman (OIDO). This will have impacts far beyond detention: it will cut off avenues for the public to file complaints about DHS policies and practices from airport screenings to

    ICE raids against schools, hospitals, and religious centers.

    The elimination of oversight mechanisms leaves individuals detained at Krome and around the country without recourse, undermines transparency, and erodes public trust in the Department’s ability to uphold basic human rights and responsibly manage billions of taxpayer dollars. This decision is particularly troubling given previous findings of abuse and neglect in DHS facilities, which underscore the necessity of independent oversight.

    DHS has an obligation to ensure that all individuals in its custody are treated with dignity in accordance with the law and that federal spending on private contracts receives appropriate oversight and monitoring. The removal of essential oversight functions—whose activities are mandated by Congress—defies this obligation and places vulnerable populations at even greater risk of abuse. Given these concerns, we request answers to the following questions:

    1.         What was the justification for shutting down oversight offices within DHS that Congress has tasked with ensuring humane conditions and compliance with civil rights laws at DHS detention facilities?

    2.         What specific legal authority has DHS claimed in effectively shutting down internal oversight functions and withholding information from Congress and the public?

    3.         How will funds appropriated by Congress for these offices be utilized going forward?

    4.         What steps, if any, has DHS taken to ensure accountability and oversight in the absence of these offices, particularly in detention contracts with private prison companies?

    5.         How does DHS plan to address the specific issues reported at Krome, including allegations of prolonged solitary confinement, overcrowding, physical abuse, and denial of medical treatment? Have additional medical staff or other personnel been surged to the facility considering reported overcrowding?

    6.         What actions have been taken by DHS or ICE officials to guarantee access to detained persons for their family members and legal counsel?

    7.         Has DHS conducted any internal reviews on the impact of reduced oversight on the conditions within detention centers? If so, what were the findings?

    We demand you reverse this decision and provide Congress with a detailed plan for how DHS will restore humane conditions for detained migrants and provide transparency in detention operations. We look forward to your prompt response to these critical questions to ensure that the Trump Administration’s immigration policy does not devolve further into callous cruelty.

    Sincerely,

    ####

    Wasserman Schultz lidera a los demócratas de la Cámara de Representantes para exigir que el DHS restablezca las oficinas de supervisión y revise las condiciones inhumanas de detención.

    Washington DC – Hoy, la representante estadounidense Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) encabezó a otros 48 miembros de la Cámara de Representantes que escribieron a la secretaria de Seguridad Nacional, Kristi Noem, para exigir el restablecimiento inmediato de las agencias de supervisión establecidas por el Congreso y el fin inmediato del maltrato inmoral a las personas detenidas. El cierre y los despidos masivos de las oficinas de supervisión del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional han coincidido con denuncias de condiciones inhumanas y abusos, especialmente en el Centro de Detención Krome, en el sur de Florida.

    Los miembros escribieron que “las personas detenidas en Krome han enfrentado condiciones alarmantes, incluyendo confinamiento prolongado en entornos insalubres, falta de atención médica, hacinamiento y maltrato por parte del personal. Al menos tres muertes han ocurrido bajo custodia de ICE, varios hombres y mujeres detenidos y sus familias han denunciado graves abusos. Defensores de los derechos de los inmigrantes lo han calificado de “desastre internacional de derechos humanos”. Un detenido calificó a Krome de “campo de concentración”.

    Wasserman Schultz estuvo acompañada por otros representantes de Florida: Kathy Castor, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Maxwell Frost, Darren Soto, and Frederica Wilson. Entre otros miembros que firmaron la carta se encontraban representantes de EE. UU.: Yassamin Ansari; Nanette Barragán; Suzanne Bonamici; André Carson; Troy Carter; Judy Chu; Yvette Clarke; Jason Crow; Danny Davis; Diana DeGette; Veronica Escobar; Adriano Espaillat; Laura Friedman; Jesús García; Robert Garcia; Daniel Goldman; Pablo Hernández; Jonathan Jackson; Pramila Jayapal; Henry Johnson; Robin Kelly; Ro Khanna; Rick Larsen; George Latimer; Betty McCollum; James McGovern; Grace Meng; Seth Moulton; Eleanor Holmes Norton; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Ilhan Omar; Brittany Pettersen; Mark Pocan; Brad Sherman; Marilyn Strickland; Shri Thanedar; Bennie Thompson; Rashida Tlaib; Paul Tonko; Norma Torres; Gabe Vasquez; Marc Veasey; Nydia Velázquez. Ningún miembro republicano de la Cámara de Representantes firmó esta carta.

    La carta, dirigida por Wasserman Schultz, cuenta con el apoyo de varios grupos de defensa de la inmigración y los derechos humanos, entre ellos el Centro Nacional de Derecho de Inmigración, la Coalición de Inmigrantes de Florida, la Unión Americana de Libertades Civiles, Americanos por Justicia Immigrante, la Campaña Religiosa Nacional Contra la Tortura, la Red de Defensa de los Inmigrantes de las Montañas Rocosas, el Proyecto Nacional de Inmigración y el Centro Nacional de Justicia para Inmigrantes.

    Wasserman Schultz ha liderado a los demócratas del Congreso en la lucha por restaurar el Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS) para haitianos y venezolanos, y ha desafiado los esfuerzos de la Administración Trump para deportar a beneficiarios de libertad condicional de Cuba, Haití, Nicaragua y Venezuela. Wasserman Schultz también impulsó el estatuto legal que garantiza a los miembros del Congreso el acceso a los centros de detención, y ha denunciado constantemente la falta de prioridad de la Administración Trump para los delincuentes y la negligencia hacia los detenidos migrantes.

    Lea la carta final firmada aquí o abajo:

    La Honorable Kristi Noem

    Secretaria de Seguridad Nacional

    Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de los Estados Unidos

    2707 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE

    Washington, D.C. 20528

    Secretaria Noem:

    Escribimos para expresar nuestra indignación por la decisión del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) de cerrar oficinas clave de supervisión, responsables de garantizar los derechos civiles y el trato humano a los migrantes detenidos. El cierre de estas oficinas plantea serias dudas sobre la transparencia y el cumplimiento de la ley por parte del DHS, en particular ante la continua aparición de informes que detallan condiciones inhumanas en centros como el Centro de Detención Krome en Florida. Exigimos medidas inmediatas para restablecer la supervisión y poner fin al maltrato inmoral de las personas detenidas.

    Informes recientes del Miami Herald indican que las personas detenidas en Krome han enfrentado condiciones alarmantes, incluyendo confinamiento prolongado en entornos insalubres, falta de atención médica, hacinamiento y maltrato por parte del personal. Al menos tres personas han fallecido bajo custodia del ICE y varios hombres y mujeres detenidos, junto con sus familias, han denunciado graves abusos. Defensores de los derechos de los inmigrantes lo han calificado de “desastre internacional para los derechos humanos”. Un detenido calificó a Krome de “campo de concentración”.

    Krome está sobrepoblado, superando con creces su capacidad. Defensores de derechos han alegado que el ICE no reporta la población detenida en los datos públicos. A medida que el gobierno intenta cancelar ilegalmente el estatus legal de más de un millón de beneficiarios del TPS y de la libertad condicional humanitaria —todos ellos examinados por el DHS al ingresar o después de solicitar protección—, es probable que las condiciones empeoren.

    En lugar de actuar en respuesta a las decenas de quejas, informes y demandas sobre las condiciones inhumanas y las violaciones de los derechos civiles en los centros de detención del ICE, el Gobierno ha optado por recortar el personal y los expertos encargados de garantizar los estándares médicos, de higiene, de salud mental y del debido proceso. El 21 de marzo, el DHS cerró varias oficinas de supervisión: el Defensor del Pueblo de USCIS, la Oficina para los Derechos Civiles y las Libertades Civiles (CRCL) y el Defensor del Pueblo para la Detención de Inmigrantes (OIDO). Esto tendrá consecuencias mucho más allá de la detención: eliminará las vías para que el público presente quejas sobre las políticas y prácticas del DHS, desde los controles en aeropuertos hasta las redadas del ICE en escuelas, hospitales y centros religiosos.

    La eliminación de los mecanismos de supervisión deja a las personas detenidas en Krome y en todo el país sin recursos, socava la transparencia y erosiona la confianza pública en la capacidad del Departamento para defender los derechos humanos fundamentales y gestionar responsablemente miles de millones de dólares de los contribuyentes. Esta decisión es particularmente preocupante, dados los hallazgos previos de abuso y negligencia en las instalaciones del DHS, que subrayan la necesidad de una supervisión independiente.

    El DHS tiene la obligación de garantizar que todas las personas bajo su custodia reciban un trato digno conforme a la ley y que el gasto federal en contratos privados reciba la supervisión y el monitoreo adecuados. La eliminación de las funciones esenciales de supervisión — cuyas actividades son exigidas por el Congreso — contraviene esta obligación y expone a las poblaciones vulnerables a un riesgo aún mayor de abuso. Dadas estas preocupaciones, solicitamos respuestas a las siguientes preguntas:

    ¿Cuál fue la justificación para cerrar las oficinas de supervisión dentro del DHS a las que el Congreso encargó garantizar las condiciones humanas y el cumplimiento de las leyes de derechos civiles en los centros de detención del DHS?

    ¿Qué autoridad legal específica ha reivindicado el DHS para cerrar efectivamente las funciones de supervisión interna y retener información al Congreso y al público?

    ¿Cómo se utilizarán en el futuro los fondos asignados por el Congreso para estas oficinas?

    ¿Qué medidas, si las hubiera, ha adoptado el DHS para garantizar la rendición de cuentas y la supervisión en ausencia de estas oficinas, en los contratos de detención con empresas penitenciarias privadas?

    ¿Cómo planea el DHS abordar los problemas específicos reportados en Krome, incluyendo las acusaciones de aislamiento prolongado, hacinamiento, abuso físico y denegación de tratamiento médico? ¿Se ha incrementado el personal médico u otro personal en las instalaciones considerando el hacinamiento reportado?

    ¿Qué acciones han tomado los funcionarios del DHS o del ICE para garantizar el acceso de sus familiares y abogados a las personas detenidas?

    ¿Ha realizado el DHS alguna revisión interna sobre el impacto de la reducción de la supervisión en las condiciones dentro de los centros de detención? De ser así, ¿cuáles fueron las conclusiones?

    Exigimos que revoque esta decisión y proporcione al Congreso un plan detallado sobre cómo el DHS restaurará las condiciones humanas para los migrantes detenidos y garantizará la transparencia en las operaciones de detención. Esperamos su pronta respuesta a estas preguntas cruciales para garantizar que la política migratoria de la Administración Trump no se convierta en una crueldad aún mayor.

    Atentamente,

    ####

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  • MIL-OSI Global: AI is making elections weird: Lessons from a simulated war-game exercise

    Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Robert Marinov, PhD Candidate in Communication, Concordia University

    A simulated exercise reveals much about the proliferation and circulation of AI-generated content. (Shutterstock)

    On March 8, the Conservative campaign team released a video of Pierre Poilievre on social media that drew unusual questions from some viewers. To many, Poilievre’s French sounded a little too smooth, and his complexion looked a little too perfect. The video had what’s known as an “uncanny valley” effect, causing some to wonder if the Poilievre they were seeing was even real.

    Before long, the comments section filled with speculation: was this video AI-generated? Even a Liberal Party video mocking Poilievre’s comments led followers to ask why the Conservatives’ video sounded “so dubbed” and whether it was made with AI.

    The ability to discern real from fake is seriously in jeopardy.

    Poilievre’s smooth video offers an early answer to an open question: How might generative AI affect our election cycle? Our research team at Concordia University created a simulation to experiment with this question.

    From a deepfake Mark Carney to AI-assisted fact-checkers, our preliminary results suggest that generative AI is not quite going to break elections, but it is likely to make them weirder.

    A war game, but for elections?

    Our simulation continued our past work in developing games to explore the Canadian media system.

    Red teaming is a type of exercise that allows organizations to simulate attacks on their critical digital infrastructures and processes. It involves two teams — the attacking red team and the defending blue team. These exercises can help uncover vulnerability points within systems or defences and practice ways of correcting them.

    Red-teaming has become a major part of cybersecurity and AI development. Here, developers and organizations stress-test their software and digital systems to understand how hackers or other “bad actors” might try to manipulate or crash them.

    Fraudulent Futures

    Our simulation, called Fraudulent Futures, attempted to evaluate AI’s impact on Canada’s political information cycle.

    Four days into the ongoing federal election campaign, we ran the first test. A group of ex-journalists, cybersecurity experts and graduate students were pitted against each other to see who could leverage free AI tools best to push their agenda in a simulated social media environment based on our past research.

    Hosted on a private Mastodon server securely shielded from public eyes, our two-hour long simulation quickly descended into silence as players played out their different roles on our simulated servers. Some played far-right influencers, others monarchists to make noise or journalists to cover events online. Players and organizers alike learned about generative AI’s capacity to create disinformation, and the difficulties faced by stakeholders trying to combat it.

    Players connected to the server through their laptops and familiarized themselves with the dozens of free AI tools at their disposal. Shortly after, we shared an incriminating voice clone of Carney, created with an easily accessible online AI tool.

    The Red Team was instructed to amplify the disinformation, while the Blue Team was directed to verify its authenticity and, if they determined it to be fake, mitigate the harm.

    The Blue Team began testing the audio through AI detection tools and tried to publicize it was a fake. But for the Red Team, this hardly mattered. Fact-checking posts were quickly drowned out by a constant slew of new memes and fake images of angry Canadian voters denouncing Carney.

    Whether the Carney clip was a deepfake or not didn’t really matter. The fact that we couldn’t tell for sure was enough to fuel endless online attacks.

    Easily available and free AI tools can be used to generate and promote misinformation at an overwhelming rate.
    (Shutterstock)

    Learning from an exercise

    Our simulation purposefully exaggerated the information cycle. Yet the experience of trying to disrupt regular electoral processes was highly informative as a research method. Our research team found three major takeaways from the exercise:

    1. Generative AI is easy to use for disruption

    Many online AI tools claim to safeguard against generating content on elections and public figures. Despite those safeguards, players noted these tools would still generate political content.

    The overall quality of the content produced was easy to distinguish as AI-generated. Yet, one of our players noted how simple it was “to generate and spam as much content as possible in order to muddy the waters on the digital landscape.”

    2. AI detection tools won’t save us

    AI detection tools can only go so far. They are rarely conclusive, and they may even take precedence over common sense. Players noted that even when they knew content was fake, they still felt they “needed to find the tool that would give the answer [they] want” to lend credibility to their interventions.

    Most telling was how journalists on the Blue Team turned toward faulty detection tools over their own investigative work, a sign that users may be letting AI detection usurp journalistic skill.

    With higher-quality content available in real-world situations, there might be a role for specialized AI detection tools in journalistic and election security processes — despite complex challenges — but these tools should not replace other investigative methods.

    However, detection tools will likely only contribute to spreading uncertainty because of the lack of standards and confidence in their assessments.

    3. Quality deepfakes are difficult to make

    High-quality AI-generated content is achievable and has already caused many online and real-world harms and panics. However, our simulation helped confirm that quality deepfakes are difficult and time-consuming to make.

    It is unlikely that the mass availability of generative AI will cause an overwhelming influx of high-quality deceptive content. These types of deepfakes will likely come from more organized, funded and specialized groups engaged in election interference.

    Democracy in the age of AI

    A major takeaway from our simulation was that the proliferation of AI slop and the stoking of uncertainty and distrust are easy to accomplish at a spam-like scale with freely accessible online tools and little to no prior knowledge or preparation.

    Our red-teaming experiment was a first attempt to see how participants might use generative AI in elections. We’ll be working to improve and re-run the simulation to include the broader information cycle, with a particular eye towards better simulating Blue Team co-operation in the hopes of reflecting real-world efforts by journalists, election officials, political parties and others to uphold election integrity.

    We anticipate that the Poilievre debate is just the beginning of a long string of incidents to come, where AI distorts our ability to discern the real from the fake. While everyone can play a role in combatting disinformation, hands-on experience and game-based media literacy have proven to be valuable tools. Our simulation proposes a new and engaging way to explore the impacts of AI on our media ecosystem.

    Robert Marinov received funding from the Center for the Study of Democratic Citizenship and Concordia University’s Applied AI Institute for this research.

    Colleen McCool received funding from the Center for the Study of Democratic Citizenship and Concordia University’s Applied AI Institute for this research.

    Fenwick McKelvey receives funding from the Center for the Study of Democratic Citizenship. Research has been supported Concordia University’s Applied AI Institute and the Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) centre at the Milieux Institute.

    Roxanne Bisson receives funding from the Center for the Study of Democratic Citizenship and Concordia University’s Applied AI Institute for this research.

    – ref. AI is making elections weird: Lessons from a simulated war-game exercise – https://theconversation.com/ai-is-making-elections-weird-lessons-from-a-simulated-war-game-exercise-253433

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  • MIL-OSI: Sunlight Simplify Announces New Partnership with Optimalex

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    ORLANDO, Fla., April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sunlight Simplify is excited to now be partnered with Optimalex, a predictive analytics and workflow automation insurtech.

    “Sunlight Simplify is committed to innovating on behalf of our clients’ most complex challenges,” said Bernadette Leh, President and Co-Founder at Sunlight Simplify. “Enriching our offering with Optimalex gives our clients access to the most recent claims predictive analytics techniques. This integration provides more options for our clients to increase efficiencies.”

    Optimalex’s award-winning predictive analytics and workflow automation solution offers Medical Professional Liability insurance carriers, self-insureds, and attorneys the means to reduce cycle time and optimize outcomes in a variety of claim types.

    “Optimalex is delighted to partner with Sunlight Simplify, a core systems reference in the Medical Professional Liability industry,” said Founder and CEO Frank Giaoui. “We believe this collaboration will be beneficial for Sunlight Simplify, Optimalex, and all future users.”

    About Sunlight Simplify
    Sunlight Simplify is a cloud based, no-code & low-code, Policy Administration software solution for Insurance Carriers and MGAs. The enterprise suite is tailored to support the specific requirements of the Medical Professional Liability Insurance line of business. The highly flexible, multi-language, multi-currency configurable solution allows for quick implementation across states, territories and countries.

    About Optimalex
    Optimalex’s team combines decades of practical business experience, academic law & economics research and data & software engineering development. Its suite of AI workflow assistance and predictive analytics solutions assists P&C insurance carriers, self-insureds and defense attorneys in enhancing efficiency, mitigating risk and achieving the best possible claims outcome. Optimalex’s flagship solution, Agatha, is fueled with millions of data covering the vast majority of the Medical Professional Liability market in all U.S. jurisdictions. It is available alongside other solutions such as data structuring, report generation, and nuclear loss detection.

    Contacts:
    Martin Kowal
    Sunlight Simplify
    mkowal@sunlightsolutions.com        
    708-668-3794

    Frank Giaoui
    Optimalex Solutions 
    contact@optimalexsolutions.com
    646-427-2737

    Photos accompanying this announcement are available at

    https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/c56bc7f1-2ac1-4d76-907a-0a569012e2e8

    https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/611e7085-c4b9-45ef-9f8c-32be9b21129d

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  • MIL-OSI: Renasant Announces 2025 First Quarter Webcast and Conference Call Information

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    TUPELO, Miss., April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Renasant Corporation (NYSE: RNST) (the “Company”) will announce 2025 first quarter results following the NYSE’s closing on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. The Company will hold executive management’s quarterly webcast and conference call with analysts on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, at 10:00 AM Eastern Time (9:00 AM Central Time).

    The webcast is accessible through Renasant’s investor relations website at www.renasant.com or https://event.choruscall.com/mediaframe/webcast.html?webcastid=3wLevIin. To access the conference via telephone, dial 1-877-513-1143 in the United States and request the Renasant Corporation 2025 First Quarter Earnings Webcast and Conference Call. International participants should dial 1-412-902-4145 to access the conference call.

    The webcast will be archived on www.renasant.com and will remain accessible for one year. A replay can be accessed via telephone by dialing 1-877-344-7529 in the United States and entering conference number 6525571 or by dialing 1-412-317-0088 internationally and entering the same conference number. Telephone replay access is available until May 7, 2025.

    ABOUT RENASANT CORPORATION:

    Renasant Corporation is the parent of Renasant Bank, a 121-year-old financial services institution. Renasant has assets of approximately $26.0 billion and operates more than 280 banking, lending, mortgage, and wealth management offices throughout the Southeast as well as factoring and asset-based lending on a nationwide basis.

    NOTE TO INVESTORS:

    This news release may contain, or incorporate by reference, statements which may constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such forward-looking statements usually include words such as “expects,” “projects,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “intends,” “estimates,” “strategy,” “plan,” “potential,” “possible” and other similar expressions.

    Prospective investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees for future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements. Important factors currently known to management that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include significant fluctuations in interest rates, inflation, economic recession, significant changes in the federal and state legal and regulatory environment, significant underperformance in our portfolio of outstanding loans, and competition in our markets. Management believes that the assumptions underlying the Company’s forward-looking statements are reasonable, but any of the assumptions could prove to be inaccurate. Investors are urged to carefully consider the risks described in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) from time to time, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, which are available at www.renasant.com and the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes to future operating results over time.

    Contacts       For Media:
    John S. Oxford
    Senior Vice President
    Chief Marketing Officer
    (662) 680-1219
    joxford@renasant.com    		       For Financials:
    James C. Mabry IV
    Executive Vice President
    Chief Financial Officer
    (662) 680-1281
    jim.mabry@renasant.com
             

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  • MIL-OSI Economics: Samsung Announces Latest SmartThings Update

    Source: Samsung

    Samsung Electronics today announced an update to its global connected living platform, SmartThings — further enhancing the AI Home experience. SmartThings introduces new features and improvements each quarter to deliver a more convenient and seamlessly connected lifestyle for users.
     
    The highlight of this update is the integration of SmartThings with Samsung Health, designed to improve users’ sleep environments while enabling more personalized automation experiences. The update also expands Calm Onboarding to support a wider range of devices and adds compatibility with the Matter 1.4 standard.
     
    “SmartThings’ latest update represents our ongoing efforts to make the smart home more intuitive, connected and personalized,” said Jaeyeon Jung, Executive Vice President and Head of SmartThings at Samsung Electronics. “We’re excited to continue pushing the boundaries of smart home innovation by empowering users though enhanced personalization and automation, including sleep wellness.”
     
    Samsung Newsroom outlines some of the key changes below.
     
    ▲ (Left) A sleep environment summary card displayed in Galaxy Now Briefing, (Right) a detailed sleep environment report
     
    ▲ (Left) The automation routine setup screen with Samsung TV Plus actions, (Right) a broadcasting feature using SmartThings linked speakers
    * The UI in the above image may differ from the actual app screen or may be subject to change.
     
     
    Smarter Sleep Environments With Samsung Health Integration
    Sleep environment reports1 from Samsung Health on Galaxy devices help users create optimal conditions for rest by providing detailed insights into key factors — such as temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide levels and light intensity — through connected devices and sensors. These reports summarize the previous night’s sleep conditions and offer personalized suggestions for improvement.
     
    When paired with a Galaxy Watch or Galaxy Ring, the latest update enables SmartThings to automatically adjust the environment based on the user’s actual sleep and wake times.2 For example, routines can be set to turn off lights and the TV at bedtime or to open curtains and play music in the morning.
     

    Greater Flexibility With SmartThings Routines
    With the latest update, SmartThings now supports automation routines based on recurring schedules — weekly, monthly or annual — offering added flexibility for a variety of scenarios. For instance, users can automatically change the color of smart lights to celebrate special occasions like family birthdays.
     
    In addition, SmartThings routines now integrate with Samsung TV Plus on 2025 Samsung TV models. This allows users to include entertainment preferences in their smart home routines — whether it’s setting the TV to turn on the news in the morning or switching to a favorite channel at a preset time to ensure they don’t miss a show.
     
     
    Broadcasting via SmartThings-Connected Speakers
    A new broadcasting feature allows users to send voice messages across SmartThings-connected speakers, making in-home communication more convenient. For example, if a parent is away and sends a voice message through the SmartThings app — “I’ll be home soon, but have a snack from the fridge if you’re hungry” — it will automatically play on the designated home speaker. With real-time message delivery, families can stay connected no matter where they are.
     

    Expanding Calm Onboarding to More Devices
    Samsung has offered the Calm Onboarding3 feature since late 2023, streamlining setup for Samsung home appliances purchased through Samsung.com or official Samsung stores by linking the entire product journey — from order and delivery to connection with the SmartThings app.
     
    In the latest SmartThings update, Samsung is expanding Calm Onboarding beyond its own products to include compatible third-party smart home devices for a more seamless and intuitive connectivity experience. Users who purchase SmartThings-compatible smart home devices directly from Samsung.com will now receive purchase and delivery updates within the SmartThings app. Additionally, users will receive step-by-step onboarding instructions to simplify product setup. The rollout will begin in Korea, with plans to expand to other countries.4
     

    Matter 1.4 Support
    SmartThings continues to advance the IoT landscape by expanding its support for Matter 1.4. The latest version of the standard includes a wide range of energy management devices — such as water heater, heat pump, solar power device, battery storage device, mounted on/off control switch and mounted dimmable load control device. These newly supported device categories build on existing popular device types like lights, thermostats, switches, air conditioners, air purifiers, fans, door locks and more.
     
    By integrating AI-powered routines, broadening device compatibility and adopting the latest Matter standard, SmartThings reinforces its ongoing commitment to innovation — making the connected home more intelligent, energy-efficient and seamless for users and their families.
     
     
    1 The Sleep environment report feature is available on Samsung Galaxy smartphones running One UI 7.0 or later and Samsung Health version 6.29 or later. Availability may expand in the future. For more information on compatible devices that can measure sleep environments, refer to the Sleep condition report under the “How to Use” section in the SmartThings app.2 Setting routines based on sleep conditions may not be supported in certain countries. This feature is available on Samsung Galaxy smartphones with One UI 7.0 or Samsung Health version 6.29 or later, with plans for future expansion. A connected device capable of detecting sleep and wakefulness — such as Galaxy Watch4/5/6/7, Galaxy Watch Ultra, Galaxy Fit3 and Galaxy Ring — is required. For more information, refer to the “Accessories” section in the sleep tab of the Samsung Health app.3 As of April 2025, the Calm Onboarding feature for Samsung products is available in 14 countries including Korea, the United States, Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. Further expansion is planned throughout the year.4 This support is planned for countries where the IoT Marketplace, which sells SmartThings compatible smart home devices on Samsung.com, is available. It will be first applied in Korea and gradually expanded to other countries.

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  • MIL-OSI: Cority Unveils Vision for the Future of EHS and Sustainability

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    TORONTO, April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Newly-minted CEO, Ryan Magee, shared Cority’s vision for the future of EHS & sustainability software at the enterprise software company’s annual Cority Connect event in New Orleans, laying out an AI and mobile-centered strategy he says will help make corporate responsibility a competitive advantage in a range of industries, including those related to energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure.

    “Our customers are facing a perfect storm of ballooning risk and regulatory chaos, and most solutions out there weren’t built to weather it,” Magee said. “That’s why we’re doubling down on our investment to give organizations what they need – a modern, AI and mobile-powered approach to EHS & sustainability that continuously evolves to eliminate risks and drive profitability.”

    Magee highlighted several investments for CorityOne, the company’s all-in-one EHS & sustainability solution, to support that vision including continuing to acquire and integrate the industry’s best solutions, accelerating investment in AI and mobile-focused innovation, an expanded partner ecosystem, and two new executives.

    The company shared more than 20 new enhancements to CorityOne, including:

    • A new unified, mobile-first experience focused on empowering the workforce to see, report, and act on risks of all types consistently. The modernized UX/UI experience brings consistency to navigation, dashboards, and tabular data reporting across all disciplines of EHS and sustainability.
    • Integrated sustainability management, allowing organizations to connect data from EHS and sustainability for a more complete picture of risk and performance.
    • AI-based motion capture for industrial ergonomics, which enables organizations to capture ergonomic risk data quickly and effortlessly in the field using a mobile device. Three-dimensional motion data is analyzed using CorityOne-partner Inseer’s patented risk algorithm, generating a full ergonomic assessment report in mere minutes.
    • AI-driven, real-time safety monitoring, fully integrating computer vision technology from Protex AI into CorityOne. The technology connects directly with existing CCTV (closed-circuit television) infrastructure, allowing it to detect unsafe conditions and behaviors continuously in real-time, without relying on human interaction.
    • Bowtie risk analysis capabilities, allowing customers to more easily visualize the diverse interactions and relationships between operational risk elements, helping organizations improve risk visibility and mitigation, while enabling better risk communication across all levels.
    • Further integration with Microsoft’s productivity tools, including Graph, Outlook, and Teams, furthering interoperability with the tool’s solutions used in day-to-day operations

    “Managing risk in silos can feel overwhelming—like trying to navigate a dark room with just a flashlight. You might spot one hazard or compliance issue, but so much stays hidden,” said Amanda Smith, Cority’s EVP of Strategy. “At Cority, we believe it shouldn’t be that hard. With CorityOne, we’re helping organizations turn on the lights so they can see the whole picture—including how risks connect across EHS and operations—and feel confident knowing they’re protecting their people and doing the right thing for their business.”

    For more specific details on upcoming feature releases on CorityOne, visit Cority.com/cority-one-overview

    About Cority
    Cority gives every employee from the field to the boardroom the power to make a difference, reducing risks and creating a safer, healthier, and more sustainable world. For over 35 years, Cority’s people-first software solutions have been built by EHS and sustainability experts who know the pressures businesses face. Time-tested, scalable, and configurable, CorityOne is the responsible business platform that combines datasets from across the organization to enable improved efficiencies, actionable insights, data-driven decisions, and more accurate reporting on performance. Trusted by over 1,500 organizations worldwide, Cority deeply cares about helping people work toward a better future for everyone. To learn more, visit www.cority.com

    Media Contact

    Natalie Rizk
    RiotMind
    natalier@theriotmind.agency

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  • MIL-OSI: JA Mining’s new cloud mining service is officially launched, helping investors seize the opportunity of low-priced Bitcoin market

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    Warwick, April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — JA Mining, the world’s leading cryptocurrency mining solution provider, has officially announced the launch of a newly upgraded cloud mining service, which aims to help investors seize the golden opportunity in the recent low Bitcoin price market environment and easily accumulate digital asset reserves. The new service not only lowers the participation threshold by simplifying the mining process, optimizing the distribution of income, and providing green mining technology, but also creates an efficient and safe asset appreciation experience for users.

    In response to market fluctuations, the mining industry has ushered in a golden opportunity

    The recent short-term decline in Bitcoin prices has attracted widespread attention in the market. Many investors regard it as a manifestation of market uncertainty, but for the mining industry, it is a rare opportunity. JA Mining encourages investors to accumulate more Bitcoin reserves through cloud mining during the low price period, creating higher returns when prices rebound in the future.

    Through global data center deployment and computing power leasing services, JA Mining allows users to easily participate in mining without purchasing mining machines. Combined with intelligent algorithm optimization strategies, regular distribution of income ensures that users can obtain safe and efficient digital asset value-added services. 

    Core highlights of the new service: Redefining the cloud mining experience

    JA Mining’s new service not only upgrades the mining process, but also redefines industry rules with innovative technology and unique models, providing users with the following core functions:

    • 1 Registration rewards, zero threshold to start

    New users can get a reward worth $100 after registration, without complicated procedures, and start the mining journey immediately.

    • 2 Legality and security guarantee

    JA Mining is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of the United Kingdom, legal and compliant, and provides reliable protection for every investment of users.

    • 3 No equipment required, no worries

    Users do not need to buy mining machines or master complex technologies, just choose the right computing power contract to start mining.

    • 4 All-weather support, professional companionship

    The JA Mining team provides 24-hour online support, whether users are novice or senior investors, they can get professional answers and companionship.

    • 5 Daily income is credited to the account, and it can be realized quickly

    Users’ mining income will be credited to their accounts on time every day, without waiting, fully reflecting the value of time.

    • 6 Green mining technology, environmentally friendly and efficient

    JA Mining adopts low-energy consumption technology and abandons the traditional high-energy consumption mining model, which not only creates benefits for users, but also promotes environmental protection.

    • 7 Alliance plan, share wealth

    Users can get up to 7% referral bonus by inviting friends to join the platform, share value and get rich together.

    How to quickly start the JA Mining cloud mining journey?

    Want to make money easily? JA Mining provides you with a simple and fast cloud mining experience!

    1.  Register an account and receive exclusive rewards

    Users only need to visit the JA Mining official website (https://jamining.com/), complete the registration in a few minutes, and immediately receive a $100 reward to experience the convenience and efficiency of cloud mining.

    2. Choose a personalized computing power contract

    Whether you are a novice or an experienced investor, JA Mining provides a variety of computing power contracts. Choose the solution that suits you best based on your budget and profit goals to get the most value for every penny.For example:

    · Basic cloud computing plan: invest $200, contract period 2 days, potential profit $214

    · Classic cloud computing plan: invest $500, contract period 3 days, potential profit $527

    · Advanced cloud computing plan: invest $1000, contract period 5 days, potential profit $1095

    · Super cloud computing plan: invest $5800, contract period 14 days, potential profit $7424

    In short

    As a leading platform in the cloud mining industry, JA Mining provides users with efficient and safe mining services through technological innovation, green mining and global layout. With its commitment to sustainable development and exploration of the field of crypto finance, JA Mining not only creates long-term and stable returns for users, but also plays an important role in promoting the construction of the digital economic ecosystem, demonstrating its vision and potential in the industry.

    Official website: https://jamining.com/


    Contact email: info@jamining.com

    Disclaimer: The information provided in this press release is not a solicitation for investment, nor is it intended as investment advice, financial advice, or trading advice. Cryptocurrency mining and staking involve risk. There is potential for loss of funds. It is strongly recommended you practice due diligence, including consultation with a professional financial advisor, before investing in or trading cryptocurrency and securities.

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  • MIL-OSI: AutoScheduler.AI Recognized as a Top 100 Logistics & Supply Chain Technology Provider for 2025

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    AUSTIN, Texas, April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AutoScheduler.AI, an innovative Warehouse Orchestration Platform and WMS accelerator, announces that Inbound Logistics has selected the company as a Top 100 Logistics & Supply Chain Technology Provider for 2025. The Top 100 list provides crucial decision support for the Inbound Logistics’ audience, even more important this year considering the need and the innovations coming online.

    “We are honored to be recognized once again as a Top 100 Logistics & Supply Chain Technology Provider by Inbound Logistics magazine,” says Keith Moore, CEO of AutoScheduler.AI. “AutoScheduler is the only solution on the market designed to orchestrate and synchronize every element of the warehouse – inventory, labor, transportation, equipment, and processes – to help businesses meet increased demand in labor, space, and time.”

    “With technology in the logistics and supply chain space evolving rapidly, it’s crucial to recognize and celebrate the companies driving innovation for shippers,” says Felecia Stratton, Editor of Inbound Logistics. “We are excited to uncover the supply chain and logistics tech industry trailblazers whose solutions are transforming the landscape. This recognition honors excellence and provides valuable insights into the evolving technological trends within the supply chain industry.”

    Inbound Logistics develops a list of the Top 100 Logistics IT Providers each year. Inbound Logistics editors research capabilities based on submitted questionnaires and other sources, then select 100 technology providers offering solutions designed to meet business logistics managers’ supply chain challenges. The editorial selection team had their work cut out for them, ultimately selecting only 100 technology solutions leaders from the 400+ candidate pool.

    Inbound Logistics editors value choosing providers whose solutions are central to solving transportation, logistics, and supply chain challenges and whose customer successes are well-documented. This year’s Top 100 Logistics IT Providers include those serving Fortune 1000 companies and small and medium-sized businesses.

    The Top 100 Logistics IT Providers list is published in all the April Inbound Logistics magazine editions and apps.

    About AutoScheduler.AI

    AutoScheduler.AI empowers you to take full control of your warehouse with a cloud-based solution that seamlessly integrates with your existing WMS/LMS/YMS or any other solution. We automate critical tasks like labor scheduling, dock management, and task sequencing, ensuring everything runs smoothly and efficiently. You’ve already invested in the software to run your warehouse—what we do is provide the orchestration layer that ties it all together to make real-time data driven decisions. With AutoScheduler.AI, you get smart orchestration for a smarter, more agile warehouse. For more information, visit: http://www.autoscheduler.ai.

    Contact:
    Becky Boyd
    MediaFirst PR
    Becky@MediaFirst.Net
    Cell: (404) 421-8497  

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  • MIL-OSI USA: RGA Right Direction PAC Launches Five-Figure Digital Campaign in Virginia Gubernatorial Race: The Truth About Abigail Spanberger

    Source: US Republican Governors Association

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    WASHINGTON, D.C. – RGA Right Direction PAC today launched a five-figure digital ad campaign and website in the Virginia gubernatorial race exposing the truth about Abigail Spanberger’s failed record in congress.

    “Abigail Spanberger spent the last six years in Washington, D.C. blindly following the party line regardless of the consequences and it resulted in years of failure that ruined the economy for hardworking American families,” said RGA Rapid Response Director Kollin Crompton. “Spanberger voted for higher costs, less parental involvement in schools, and less individual freedom at every opportunity she had. Now Spanberger wants to bring that failed agenda to Virginia.”

    View the site and video here.

    Read more about Spanberger’s failed agenda: 

    Opposes Securing the Border

    • Spanberger opposed commonsense immigration policies to keep drugs and criminals out of the United States, and opposes securing the border, and supports localities declaring themselves as sanctuary cities.
    • Spanberger voted against the Laken Riley Act.
    • Spanberger voted to allow federal funding for sanctuary cities and she voted to let schools turn their facilities into sanctuaries for illegal immigrants.

    Supporting Higher Taxes and Failed Policies that Drove Up the Cost of Living

    • Spanberger was in lockstep with Joe Biden’s reckless, failed spending agenda that caused the skyrocketing costs Virginia families are still recovering from today.
    • Even worse, Spanberger opposed the 2017 middle-class tax cuts that gave hardworking American families nearly an extra $2,000 a year. She even said putting money back in Americans’ pockets was “irresponsible.”

    Putting Politics Over Children and Parents

    • Spanberger voted AGAINST the Parents Bill of Rights Act, which empowered parents to have a voice in their kids’ education and provided necessary transparency within school districts.
    • Spanberger supports allowing dangerous, irreversible gender transition surgery for children.
    • Spanberger supports schools being able to hide a child’s gender identity from their parents.
    • Spanberger voted to allow biological men to compete in girls’ sports — putting girls’ safety and fairness at risk.
    • Abigail Spanberger twice voted against banning military-operated pre-K-12 schools from including pornographic and radical gender ideology books in their libraries.

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  • MIL-OSI: Forløb af ordinær generalforsamling i Kapitalforeningen BLS Invest

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    Kapitalforeningen BLS Invest har dags dato afholdt ordinær generalforsamling i henhold til tidligere offentliggjort dagsorden.

    Ledelsens beretning og årsrapporten for 2024 herunder de tidligere udbetalte foreløbige udlodninger samt bestyrelsens honorar blev godkendt af generalforsamlingen.

    Der var ikke indkommet forslag fra foreningens investorer. Bestyrelsen havde fremsat en række forslag til ændring af foreningens vedtægter, som alle blev vedtaget. Foreningens gældende vedtægter kan findes på foreningens hjemmeside www.blsinvest.dk

    Hele bestyrelsen var på valg. Bestyrelsen foreslog desuden nyvalg af Poul Steffensen. De indstillede medlemmer blev valgt, og bestyrelsen består nu af Chris Bigler, Søren B. Andersson, Anne Christina Skjønnemand og Poul Steffensen. Bestyrelsen konstituerede sig efterfølgende med Chris Bigler som formand.

    Endelig blev EY Godkendt Revisionspartnerselskab genvalgt som revisor for foreningen.

    Eventuelle henvendelser vedrørende denne meddelelse kan rettes til foreningens ­formand, Chris Bigler, på tlf. 29 74 06 55.

    Med venlig hilsen

    Kapitalforeningen BLS Invest

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  • MIL-OSI: Breaking AI Monopolies: HolmesAI Showcases Its Fully Decentralized AI Infrastructure at HK Web3 Festival 2025

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    HONG KONG, April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — HolmesAI, a one-stop decentralized AI service platform, made a significant impact as the Gold Sponsor of the Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2025, held from April 6-9 at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. The event, hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and HashKey Group, brought together global leaders in Web3, AI, and blockchain, like Vitalik Buterin, He Yi, Lily Liu, etc., to explore the future of decentralized technologies. HolmesAI’s Co-founder and CTO, Ken, delivered a thought-provoking keynote at the Festival’s “AI+Web3” forum, sharing his vision for decentralized AI (DeAI).

    Backed by HashKey Group and Bitrise, HolmesAI provides comprehensive AI solution for DeAI applications and developers, covering AI computing, open-source models, AI inference, AI post-training, and Blockchain-native services. These offerings lower entry barriers for developers while providing efficient tools to deploy, manage, and scale applications in decentralized environments.

    The rapid evolution of AI and decentralized technologies is reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. But what will be unlocked by their convergence? HolmesAI hosted “Intelligent Chains: Shaping the AI x Web3 Future”, an exclusive luncheon attended by top-tier investors and innovators from top-tier investment organization and projects, to explore the path toward a future where AI is transparent, collaborative, and owned by its users. And the session is co-hosted by HashKey Group and Bitrise.

    As Ken outlined how decentralized technologies are transforming AI from a corporate-controlled resource into an open, community-driven force in his keynote speech, Web3 makes decentralized ownership of data, distributed computing resources, and consensus-based happen, which results to a permissionless, autonomous, and fair AI ecosystem. “The future of AI must be decentralized, transparent, and owned by the people,” declared Ken. “HolmesAI is building the infrastructure to make this vision a reality.”

    HolmesAI has envisioned a decentralized AI ecosystem where resources, ownership, and collaboration are transparently managed on-chain, enabling fair co-creation, automated revenue sharing, and seamless AI development without centralized barriers. This enables all developers to freely build and utilize AI, driving the democratization of the AI industry.

    Throughout the event, HolmesAI showcased its decentralized AI chain and the comprehensive DeAI infrastructure to make AI development more efficient, cost-effective, and open. With HolmesAI, developers will enjoy a fully distributed AI infrastructure where computational power, storage, and models are openly accessible, where blockchain-based ownership mechanisms ensure contributors retain control and receive fair value for their assets. And HolmesAI simplify AI deployment and integration by offering developer-friendly tools that accelerate AI inference, post-training, and decentralized application (Dapp) development.

    About HolmesAI
    A one-stop decentralized AI service platform providing comprehensive DeAI infrastructure to lower entry barriers for dApps developers. Backed by Hashkey Group and Bitrise, HolmesAI is committed to creating an DeAI ecosystem where protocols, data, models, computing resources are accessible and transparently managed on-chain—facilitating fair co-creation, automated revenue sharing, and frictionless AI innovation, free from centralized constraints.

    Media Contact:
    Fandine
    Head of Marketing
    HolmesAI
    Email: fang@holmesai.xyz
    Phone: +86 18801622421
    Website: https://www.holmesai.xyz/

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  • MIL-OSI: BexBack Launches Three Exclusive Promotions and Two Innovative Tools to Revolutionize 100x Crypto Futures Trading

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    SINGAPORE, April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Amid heightened volatility in the global cryptocurrency market, BexBack, a rapidly growing crypto derivatives exchange, today announced the launch of three major promotional offers alongside two innovative trading tools. These initiatives are designed to empower traders with greater flexibility, enhanced capital efficiency, and a superior trading experience.

    Three Exclusive Promotions to Maximize Traders’ Potential

    • 100% Deposit Bonus
      Users who deposit more than 0.001 BTC or 100 USDT per transaction are eligible for a 100% deposit bonus, instantly doubling their trading margin.
      (Note: The bonus itself cannot be withdrawn directly, but profits earned using the bonus are fully withdrawable.)
    • $50 Welcome Bonus
      New users who complete their first trade (open and close a position) will receive a $50 USDT bonus credited to their USDT-M account. The bonus can be used for trading or withdrawal, providing new traders with extra flexibility at the start of their journey.
    • No KYC Requirement
      Upholding the spirit of decentralized finance, BexBack allows users to register and trade without any identity verification, offering a faster, more private onboarding experience for traders worldwide.

    Two New Trading Tools for a Smarter Crypto Trading Experience

    • 100x Leverage Crypto Futures
       Traders can now access up to 100x leverage on Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), Solana (SOL), Cardano (ADA), and over 50 additional major cryptocurrencies.
      Whether the market moves up or down, traders can open long or short positions to seize opportunities in any condition, with adjustable leverage settings to suit different risk appetites.
    • Free Real-Time BTC to USDT Conversion
      BexBack introduces a zero-fee BTC/USDT conversion feature, enabling users to switch between Bitcoin and USDT instantly at real-time prices, optimizing asset allocation without incurring extra costs.

    Why Choose BexBack

    • Headquartered in Singapore, Licensed Under U.S. MSB
    • Over 50 Major Crypto Futures Available
    • Cold Wallet Custody to Protect User Funds
    • Zero Deposit Fees and Fast Withdrawals
    • 10 BTC Demo Account for Strategy Testing
    • 24/7 Multilingual Customer Support

    About BexBack?

    BexBack is a leading cryptocurrency derivatives platform that offers 100x leverage on BTC, ETH, ADA, SOL, and XRP futures contracts. It is headquartered in Singapore with offices in Hong Kong, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Argentina. It holds a US MSB (Money Services Business) license and is trusted by more than 500,000 traders worldwide. Accepts users from the United States, Canada, and Europe. There are no deposit fees, and traders can get the most thoughtful service, including 24/7 customer support.

    Start Trading Smarter Today

    Take advantage of the Double Deposit Bonus, the $50 Welcome Bonus, 100x flexible leverage, and start trading without any KYC requirements.
    Sign up now at www.bexback.com and unlock your full trading potential.

    Website: www.bexback.com

    Contact: business@bexback.com

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  • MIL-OSI: Atsign’s NoPorts Delivers MQTT Security Through Invisibility, Eliminating Open Port Vulnerabilities

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    SAN JOSE, Calif., April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Atsign, the developer of the innovative NoPorts technology, announces NoPorts now makes MQTT broker, gateways, and subscriber devices secure through invisibility by completely eliminating network attack surfaces. Using NoPorts to create an “invisible” MQTT infrastructure virtually eliminates external threats improving overall IoT security.

    MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport), while efficient for IoT messaging, traditionally relies on open ports, creating inherent security risks. Atsign’s NoPorts technology addresses this by establishing secure, peer-to-peer connections without requiring any open inbound ports on any devices. Without open ports, there is nothing for bad actors to find when they scan for vulnerabilities. This “invisibility” provides enhanced protection against unauthorized access and data breaches.

    “The reliance on open ports in traditional MQTT deployments presents a security challenge,” stated Colin Constable, CTO at Atsign. “NoPorts addresses this by removing the need for these ports, rendering the MQTT infrastructure effectively invisible to external scans. This ensures that brokers and subscribers are better protected from external threats, providing a more robust defense against unauthorized access and data breaches.”

    Additional Advantages of Using NoPorts for Invisible MQTT

    Along with making MQTT more secure, NoPorts offers IoT installations several additional advantages:

    • Expedited Deployment: Streamlines IoT deployments by reducing the complexities of port forwarding and firewall configurations.
    • Enhanced Security with Zero Trust Architecture: Aligns with zero trust security principles, ensuring all connections between broker, gateways, and subscriber devices are authenticated and authorized, regardless of network location.
    • Simplified Management with Key Automation: Eliminates the need to manage certificates on all devices by enabling them to cut their own cryptographic keys.

    How NoPorts Creates Invisible MQTT

    Atsign’s NoPorts technology establishes direct, secure connections between MQTT clients and brokers using the Zero Trust architecture of the atPlatform. This eliminates the need for open ports, making the communication less visible to external scanners and attackers. Furthermore, all data transmitted through the NoPorts connection is automatically end-to-end encrypted, ensuring data confidentiality.

    As shown in demonstrations, Atsign’s NoPorts technology allows MQTT communications to occur across disparate networks, even when devices are behind restrictive firewalls or NATs. This capability is useful for IoT deployments in challenging network environments.

    “Atsign’s NoPorts provides a valuable solution for creating invisible MQTT deployments, enhancing overall security,” said Gareth Owen, CRO at Atsign. “By combining the efficiency of MQTT with the robust security of NoPorts, we offer a solution that addresses the critical security considerations facing IoT today.”

    Atsign is dedicated to providing solutions that enhance security and simplify connectivity for people, entities, and things, including IoT and Ai. NoPorts compatibility with MQTT is a significant advancement in securing IoT communications.

    About NoPorts

    NoPorts eliminates network & security vulnerabilities by securing connections between people, entities, and things making them invisible to would-be attackers by eliminating attack network surfaces. Built on Atsign’s atPlatform, NoPorts provides a zero trust architecture, end-to-end encryption, and no reliance on cumbersome security layers, enabling seamless and secure communication across virtually any environment. Organizations gain scalability, operational efficiency, and stronger security—all while reducing costs and complexity. For more information, visit NoPorts.com.

    About Atsign

    At Atsign, we believe that people, entities, and things—including AI—should connect securely and directly, while always being invisible to bad actors. By eliminating the need for open ports and centralized servers, the atPlatform empowers developers and organizations to build applications with “invisible” security built in, placing data and device control back into the hands of their owners. Atsign is the creator of the atPlatform, the most robust infrastructure available for “invisible networking” and secure, private, peer-to-peer connectivity. Learn more at Atsign.com.

    Scott Hetherington
    Atsign
    Scott@Atsign.com
    844-827-0985

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  • MIL-OSI Global: Why Nato is struggling to rebuild itself in an increasingly threatening world

    Source: The Conversation – UK – By Amelia Hadfield, Head of Department of Politics, University of Surrey

    In the years after Nato was formed in 1949, its US and European members had a collective approach to defence with clear goals in common, largely built around the protection of western Europe against the Soviet Union. Throughout this era, the US and Europe both relied on the stability of the international system by creating international cooperation on shared dilemmas.

    Fast forward more than 70 years, and there is now a ticking clock on reinventing the transatlantic alliance.

    European security and US-led Nato security are no longer one and the same. Certainly, recent statements from US leaders that the US will prioritise empowering Europe to own responsibility for its own security has made for tough listening in Europe.

    For some, this may be an overdue opportunity to fundamentally rework the transatlantic security relationship. For others, such statements are worryingly set against the backdrop of Trump’s pro-Russia stance, with Trump’s demands sounding sinister at best.

    Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte recently outlined a need to “build a stronger, a fairer and more lethal NATO”. Global threats were creating a more dangerous world, he argued.

    Mark Rutte, Nato’s secretary-general, speaks at a 2025 meeting in Brussels,

    From its establishment by 12 states on April 4, 1949, until the end of the cold war era, Nato was focused on one big thing: deterring Soviet aggression. Ultimately, Nato had one job, one enemy, one threat, one theatre and one instrument of power.

    It was a partnership that enabled the US to build and maintain a more permanent role in European security. This collective security plan prevented the US from falling back into isolationist foreign policies that it had held before the second world war

    Arguably, US attitudes fluctuated throughout this era. Initially the country sought a temporary role in Nato, with limited military commitment. It also encouraged western European Nato members to take early and primary responsibility for defence.

    However, the huge Soviet nuclear threat hardened US attitudes. And Nato came to be seen as key to the US’s overall ability to prevent a Soviet invasion of western Europe. Equally important was the role of the Marshall Plan, a massive post-war reconstruction plan for Europe, which (in conjunction with Nato) represented the US’s desire to work with European partners to both stabilise the region, and ensure democracy.

    Through the decades that followed, the US saw Nato as a cornerstone of its foreign policy. It is important to remember that transactionality has always been an integral part of the transatlantic relationship, but it was never at the expense of the values that underpinned it, and indeed reinforced both US national and European regional interests in doing so.

    Throughout the 1990s, and well into the 2000s, Nato clearly represented the US’s preferred method of maintaining its military presence in Europe (including US bases, weapons and troops stationed in member countries). The US drove the redefinition of post-cold war Nato, to include former Warsaw Pact countries including Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic.



    Read more:
    US and Russia squabble over Arctic security as melting ice opens up shipping routes

    The question now is whether US leadership in Nato was focused so extensively on security of Europe and pushing back against the Soviets that for a long time the dilemma of who paid for what was essentially set aside.

    Long overdue problems?

    But two wake-up calls were to come. The first was the increasingly clear indications from US administrations from Barack Obama’s presidency onwards that the US was ill at ease with Nato as a whole, and it was unhappy with the lower financial commitment, than the US, coming from European members.

    The second was in 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea. Unfortunately, the first warning sign by Obama was largely ignored; and when Russia invaded Crimea, Nato did not step up to push back against Putin’s expansionism.

    Now, Nato finds itself once again in the crosshairs of US anger about funding, and with Trump furious at European defence spending levels, and determined to massively revise the transatlantic bargain.

    Trump’s first administration put spending from European Nato members firmly on the table. His recent position is merely a continuation of that theme.

    From the European perspective, the US was, and is, a key part of the collective security structure that has empowered European defence and deterrence, but possibly with an out-of-date funding model.

    Trump, meanwhile, appears to see the US’s involvement as politically naïve. He seems to view Nato as strategically futile and defence spending imbalances as an indication that Nato is nothing more than a giant security racket.

    What is stark is the reversal between the US having helped found Nato and as the leading nation backing of a rule-bound global system under international law and Trump’s preference to reject any responsibilities for global leadership and stability.

    What has come as a shock to European members is not perhaps the demands regarding improving defence funding, but the abdication of US leadership and the threat to leave Nato completely, with no ongoing US responsibility to defend the world order.

    The onus is now on European Nato members to make both serious and swift changes. Indications of far more serious financial commitments, including from Germany, are emerging. European defence spending overall increased by 11.7% over the last year to roughly €423.3 billion (£371 billion), representing ten years of consecutive regional growth.

    Next steps include focusing on AI-led technologies, cheap drones, digital tech and improved commitments to joint projects.

    But the hardest task is also the most urgent. Namely, to avoid the chaos of a unilateral US withdrawal from Nato.

    There’s a need to move the financial and military burden to Europe in a way agreeable to the US before the Nato summit in June. Discussions on how to achieve this need to cover everything from nuclear deterrence to challenges arising from the conflict in Ukraine.

    Whether Rutte and European states can indeed preserve and maintain the collective security foundations on which Nato was first built remains to be seen. But, certainly, the current world situation is no less dangerous that the world in which Nato itself was first built.

    Amelia Hadfield does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

    – ref. Why Nato is struggling to rebuild itself in an increasingly threatening world – https://theconversation.com/why-nato-is-struggling-to-rebuild-itself-in-an-increasingly-threatening-world-253494

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  • MIL-OSI Global: Trump thinks tariffs can bring back the glory days of US manufacturing. Here’s why he’s wrong

    Source: The Conversation – UK – By James Scott, Reader in International Politics, King’s College London

    The “liberation day” tariffs announced by US president Donald Trump have one thing in common – they are being applied to goods only. Trade in services between the US and its partners is not affected. This is the perfect example of Trump’s peculiar focus on trade in goods and, by extension, his nostalgic but outdated obsession with manufacturing.

    The fallout from liberation day continues, with markets down around the world. The decision to apply tariffs on a country-by-country basis means that rules about where a product is deemed to come from are now of central importance.

    The stakes for getting it wrong could be high. Trump has threatened that anyone seeking to avoid tariffs by shifting the supposed origin of a product to a country with lower rates could face a ten-year jail term.

    The White House initially refused to specify how it came up with the tariff levels. But it appears that each country’s rate was arrived at by taking the US goods trade deficit with that country, dividing it by the value of that country’s goods exports to the US and then halving it, with 10% set as the minimum.

    It has been noted that this is effectively the approach suggested by AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude and Grok when asked how to create “an even playing field”.

    Economically, Trump’s fixation on goods makes no sense. This view is not unique to the president (though he feels it unusually strongly). There is a broader fetishisation of manufacturing in many countries. One theory is that it is potentially ingrained in human thinking by pre-historic experiences of finding food, fuel and shelter dominating all other activities.

    But for Trump, the thinking is likely related to a combination of nostalgia for a bygone (somewhat imagined) age of manufacturing, and concern over the loss of quality jobs that provide a solid standard of living for blue collar workers – a core part of his political base.

    Nostalgia is not a sensible basis for forming economic policy. But the role emotions play in international affairs has been receiving more attention. It has been identified as an “emotional turn” (where the importance of emotion is recognised) in the discipline of international relations.

    Of course, that’s not to say that the concern over jobs and the unequal effects of globalisation is misplaced. It is clear that blue-collar workers have suffered in the US (and elsewhere) for the last 40 to 50 years, with governments paying little attention to the decline.

    Many blue-collar workers, like these GM car plant employees in Missouri, have paid a high price for globalisation.
    Jon Rehg/Shutterstock

    Data on weekly earnings in the US split by educational level show that wages for those without a degree have declined or stagnated since around 1973, particularly among men. This is the cohort that disproportionately voted for Trump. Globalisation has created many benefits, not least to the United States, but these tend to be concentrated among the better educated.

    All too often the service-sector jobs that have filled the gap left by declining manufacturing have been precarious. That means low wages, low security, lack of union representation and few opportunities for moving up the ladder. It is unsurprising that there has been a backlash.

    Can’t turn back the clock

    So will Trump’s tariffs plan address this? The great tragedy is that there is little reason to think that they will.

    The loss of manufacturing jobs is partly about globalisation, which Trump is seeking to reverse. But research shows that trade and globalisation are often more of a scapegoat than a driving force, responsible for only a small chunk of job losses (typically said to be about 10%).

    The main cause of manufacturing’s decline is rising productivity. Today it simply requires fewer people to make goods due to the relentless increase in automation and the associated rise in how much each worker produces.

    If the whole US trade deficit were rebalanced through expanding domestic industries, this would increase the share of manufacturing employment within the US by about one percentage point, from about 8% today to 9% according to US Bureau of Labor Statistics figures. This is not going to be transformative.

    The effects of tariffs are also doubled-edged. They will probably shift some manufacturing back to the US – but this could be self-defeating. More US steel production is good for workers, but the higher cost of US steel feeds through to higher prices for the products manufactured with it.

    This includes the cars Trump obsesses about. Less competitive prices means lower exports and a loss of jobs. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.

    The 1950s were a unique time. By the end of the second world war, the US was a manufacturing powerhouse, accounting for one third of the world’s exports while taking only around a tenth of its imports.

    There were few other industrialised countries at the time, and these had been flattened by the war. The US alone had avoided this, creating a world of massive demand for US exports since nowhere else had a significant manufacturing base. That was never going to last forever.

    The other point about that time in history is that the economic system had been shaped by colonialism. European powers had used their position of power to prevent the rest of the world from industrialising. As those empires were dismantled and the shackles came off, those newly independent countries began their own processes of industrialisation.

    As for the US today, President Trump is mistaken if he really believes that tariffs will bring a new golden age of manufacturing. The world has changed.

    James Scott does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

    – ref. Trump thinks tariffs can bring back the glory days of US manufacturing. Here’s why he’s wrong – https://theconversation.com/trump-thinks-tariffs-can-bring-back-the-glory-days-of-us-manufacturing-heres-why-hes-wrong-253991

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  • MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Civil servants get one-stop access to digital skills learning

    Source: United Kingdom – Government Statements

    News story

    Civil servants get one-stop access to digital skills learning

    Government Skills’ curriculum of recommended learning now offers easy access to an expanded range of digital, data and innovation learning.

    Martin Petto, deputy director, Government Skills

    Civil servants can now get easy access to more free digital learning as part of a drive to boost productivity and agility.

    Government Skills’ curriculum of recommended learning now has an expanded range of digital, data and innovation learning that has been specifically curated for civil servants. More tools and learning will be added to the curriculum over time.

    The new offering delivers on the Prime Minister’s pledge last month to give all civil servants better opportunities to develop skills in priority areas such as digital.

    Easy access to digital skills learning

    “It’s the first time we’ve been able to give civil servants such easy access to digital skills learning,” said Martin Petto, deputy director, Government Skills.

    “If staff need help with anything, from understanding AI to simple tips to boost their productivity, such as how to set  up an Excel document, this is where they’ll be able to go for help.

    “It also signposts civil servants to more specialist digital and data learning, such as the pathways – some of which may be chargeable.”

    New digital resources

    The expanded curriculum includes:

    • Microsoft 365 Public Sector Training and Resources Hub which provides resources to help civil servants upskill quickly,  in a way that meets the needs of their job role or job tasks.

    • 12 ‘Pocket Watch’ videos shared by the Department of Work and Pensions outlining how to perform some computing tasks for civil servants using PCs with Windows 10 or 11.

    Existing learning

    The curriculum already included:

    • A wide range of free AI courses, including AI Fundamentals.

    • Masterclasses on data and innovation, developed as part of One Big Thing.

    • The Digital Excellence Programme for senior leaders.

    Martin added: “We want to make things easier for staff by bringing our comprehensive Civil Service-wide digital learning offer into a single online place where they can be confident the learning is quality-assured and relevant to their needs. And we will continue to build this offer.”

    Access digital, data and innovation resources for civil servants.

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    Published 8 April 2025

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  • MIL-OSI: Siili Solutions Plc: Resolutions of the Annual General Meeting and Board of Directors

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    Siili Solutions Plc: Resolutions of the Annual General Meeting and Board of Directors

    Siili Solutions Plc Stock Exchange Release 8 April 2025 at 4:30 pm EEST 

    Siili Solutions Plc’s Annual General Meeting of shareholders was held today 8 April 2025 at 2 p.m. EEST at the address Töölönahdenkatu 2, Helsinki Finland in event venue Eliel, Sanomatalo.

    Adoption of the financial statements and discharge of liability 
    The Annual General Meeting adopted the financial statements for the year 2024 including the consolidated staements and discharged the members of the board of directors and the CEO from liability.

    Dividend
    The General Meeting resolved that, based on the adopted balance sheet for the financial period 2024, a dividend of EUR 0.18 per share will be paid from the Company’s distributable funds, i.e., approximately EUR 1.46 million in total, and that the rest of the distributable funds be retained in equity.

    The dividend will be paid to shareholders who on the dividend record date 10 April 2025 are registered in the Company’s shareholders’ register held by Euroclear Finland Oy. In accordance with the proposal, the dividend will be paid on 17 April 2025.

    Remuneration report 
    The General Meeting adopted the remuneration report of the governing bodies.

    Board composition, remuneration of the board of directors, auditor and remuneration of the auditor
    It was confirmed that the number of members of the Board of Directors to be elected is five (5). The General Meeting resolved, according to the proposal of the Shareholders’ Nomination Board, to re-elect the current members of the Board of Directors Harry Brade, Jesse Maula, Henna Mäkinen and Katarina Cantell. Sebastian Nyström was elected as new member to the Board of Directors.

    In accordance with the Shareholders’ Nomination Board, the General Meeting resolved to keep the Board remuneration unchanged and as follows: The Chair of the Board is paid EUR 3,850 per month, the Deputy Chair EUR 2,500 per month and the Chair of the Audit Committee EUR 2,500 per month and other members EUR 2,000 per month. The Chairs of the Board of Directors’ Committees are paid EUR 200 per month for their work on the Committee, in addition to which all Committee members are paid a meeting fee of EUR 300 per meeting. In addition, the members of the Board of Directors receive compensation for travel expenses in line with the Company’s travel policy.

    Audit firm KPMG Oy Ab was re-elected as the Company’s auditor and assurer of Company’s sustainability reporting for the following term of office. APA, ASA Leenakaisa Winberg will continue as the responsible auditor and Sustainability auditor.

    In accordance with the proposal of the Audit Committee, the General Meeting resolved that the auditor and sustainability assurer of the Company be paid remuneration in accordance with the auditor’s reasonable invoice.

    Board authorizations
    The General Meeting authorised the Board of Directors to resolve on the repurchase and/or acceptance as pledge of the Company’s own shares under the following terms:
    Using the Company’s unrestricted equity, a maximum of 814,000 shares may be repurchased and/or accepted as pledge in one or more tranches, which corresponds to approximately 10% of all shares in the Company.

    The shares will be repurchased in trading on Nasdaq Helsinki Oy’s regulated market at a price formed in public trading on the date of repurchase. The Company’s own shares shall be repurchased to be used for carrying out acquisitions or implementing other arrangements related to the Company’s business, for optimising the Company’s capital structure, for implementing the Company’s incentive scheme or otherwise to be transferred further or cancelled.

    Own shares can be repurchased otherwise than in proportion to the shareholdings of the shareholders (directed repurchase). The share purchase will decrease the Company’s distributable unrestricted equity. The Board of Directors resolves on all other terms and conditions for the repurchase and/or acceptance as pledge of the Company’s own shares.

    The authorisation remains in force until the end of the next Annual General Meeting, however no later than until 30 June 2026. The authorisation revokes earlier unused authorisations to resolve on the repurchase and/or acceptance as pledge of the Company’s own shares.

    Further, the General Meeting authorized the Board of Directors to resolve on the issuance of shares and the issuance of special rights entitling to shares within the meaning of chapter 10, section 1 of the Finnish Limited Liability Companies Act in one or more tranches either against consideration or free of consideration. 

    The number of shares to be issued, including shares received on the basis of the special rights shall not exceed a maximum of 814,000 shares, which corresponds to approximately 10% of all shares in the Company. The Board of Directors may resolve either to issue new shares or to transfer treasury shares held by the Company. The total maximum number of shares to be issued for the purpose of share-based incentive schemes is 162,800 shares, which corresponds to approximately 2.0% of all the shares in the Company. The maximum number of shares intended for the incentive schemes is included in the maximum number of the issuance authorisation referred to above.

    The authorisation entitles the Board of Directors to resolve on all terms of the share issue and the issuance of special rights entitling to shares, including the right to deviate from the shareholders’ pre-emptive subscription right (directed issue). The authorisation may be used to strengthen the Company’s balance sheet and financial position, to pay purchase prices for acquisitions, in share-based incentive schemes or for other purposes resolved by the Board of Directors.

    The authorisation remains in force until the end of the next Annual General Meeting, however no later than until 30 June 2026. The authorisation revokes earlier authorisations concerning share issues and the issuance other special rights entitling to shares.

    Constitutive meeting of the Board of Directors
    In its constitutive meeting held after the General Meeting, the Board of Directors elected Harry Brade as its Chair and Jesse Maula as its Vice Chair.

    The Board of Directors also appointed the members to its committees. Henna Mäkinen, Jesse Maula, Katarina Cantell and Sebastian Nyström were elected to the Audit Committee. Henna Mäkinen was elected as the Chair of the Audit Committee. Harry Brade, Katarina Cantell and Jesse Maula were elected as the members of the HR committee. Harry Brade was elected as the Chair of the HR Committee.

    All members eleccted to the Board of Directors are considered independent of the Company. All members of the Board of Directors, apart from Harry Brade, are considered independent of the significant shareholders of the Company. Harry Brade is the CEO of the Company’s significant shareholder Lamy Oy.

    SIILI SOLUTIONS PLC

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Further information:
    Taru Kovanen, General Counsel
    Phone: +358 (0)40 4176 221
    Email: taru.kovanen(at)siili.com

    Distribution:

    Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd
    Main media
    www.siili.com

    Siili Solutions in brief: 
    Siili Solutions Plc is a forerunner in AI-powered digital development. Siili is the go-to partner for clients seeking growth, efficiency and competitive advantage through digital transformation. Our main markets are Finland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Siili Solutions Plc’s shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Stock Exchange. Siili has grown profitably since its founding in 2005. www.siili.com/en

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  • MIL-OSI: Plarium Announces Second Annual Community Weeks Event In RAID: Shadow Legends

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    TEL AVIV, Israel, April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Plarium, a global leader in developing F2P mobile and PC games with more than 500 million registered gamers worldwide, announced its globally acclaimed role-playing game (RPG) RAID: Shadow Legends is hosting its second Community Weeks event dedicated to celebrating the game’s fans. Beginning today through May 9th, players will enjoy many free gifts as well as exciting in-game and community experiences.

    Headlining the event, Plarium is offering all players a brand-new Legendary Champion, Iudex Artor, who can be obtained for free via the Reward Calendar event. Every day for 25 days, players can log in to receive a special greeting and reward that can include Fragments to obtain Iudex Artor as well as various resources, boosts, and activation keys for different game modes. Players can also vote to determine which one of four powerful Relics will be the final main reward of the Reward Calendar.

    “We’re incredibly grateful to our amazing RAID community for six unforgettable years of support,” said Schraga Mor, CEO of Plarium. “Your passion and endless enthusiasm has played a huge role in making RAID what it is today, and will continue to play a huge role in what it will become. Community Weeks is our way of saying thank you, and we can’t wait to continue delivering incredible experiences in the years to come.”

    Community Weeks will wrap up with a fun event taking place on the official RAID: Shadow Legends YouTube channel on May 8th. Four of RAID’s beloved Content Creators will unite together, answering questions to help all players win in-game prizes.

    RAID: Shadow Legends is available to download on the App Store, Google Play, Galaxy Store and Aptoide. It is also available on PC through the Microsoft Store, Epic Store, Steam, or the Plarium Play platform.

    About Plarium
    Plarium (www.plarium.com) is an international gaming company founded in 2009, headquartered in Israel, with over 1,300 employees across Europe. Plarium has built a global footprint for its games and a resilient business based on popular evergreen IPs. Its flagship title, RAID: Shadow Legends, is one of the top-grossing turn-based RPGs on mobile and PC. The studio also powers its success with PlariumPlay, a direct-to-consumer PC platform, and GoGame, a proprietary user acquisition and marketing platform built into its IT infrastructure.
    To learn more about Plarium, follow @PlariumGames on YouTube, @Plarium on Instagram, and Plarium on LinkedIn.

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  • MIL-OSI: Plotly Announces Dash Enterprise 5.7: Building Smarter, Safer Data Apps in the AI Era

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    MONTREAL, April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Plotly, the premier Data App platform for Python, is excited to announce the release of Dash Enterprise (DE) 5.7, a significant update to the company’s platform used for building interactive data applications and data visualization dashboards. The latest enhancements improve the platform’s AI-powered development capabilities, strengthen enterprise security, and improve user experience. This release builds upon Plotly’s commitment to empowering data scientists, analysts, and developers to create sophisticated, interactive data applications with unprecedented ease and efficiency.

    “Dash Enterprise 5.7 represents a significant leap forward in AI-powered data application development,” said Jim McIntosh, Plotly CEO. “By integrating advanced AI capabilities and improving the overall user experience, we’re enabling organizations to transform complex data into intuitive, business-focused dashboards that drive measurable ROI.”

    Plotly’s Dash Enterprise empowers data scientists and data analysts to build interactive analytical applications using Python, eliminating the need for extensive front-end development skills and significantly reducing development time, allowing organizations to quickly turn insights into actionable decisions.

    Key Features of Dash Enterprise 5.7: Advancing AI-Powered Development

    • Enhanced AI Code Completion and Editing: DE 5.7 introduces an advanced AI code assistant that seamlessly integrates into the development workspace. This feature boosts productivity through intelligent code completions, personalized suggestions, and a chat experience within the Integrated Development Environment (in-IDE), all while maintaining enterprise-grade security and privacy.
    • Explore Mode Table Editor: A new visual editor for data shaping and data transformation enables users to easily filter, group, aggregate, and sort large datasets through an intuitive, visual interface.
    • Python Version Switching: Developers can now instantly switch between Python versions (v3.9-v3.12) in App Studio’s workspace and data applications, eliminating complex environment setups and accelerating development workflows.

    Strengthened Enterprise Features

    • Secure White-labeling: Organizations can now deliver secure, personalized portal experiences while maintaining strict access control. The platform automatically enforces user permissions, ensuring viewers can access only authorized data, content, and applications.
    • Enhanced Data Source Authentication: Azure and AWS integration enhances data security through role-based access control (RBAC) and attribute-based access control (ABAC) systems, with Keycloak serving as an Identity Provider (IdP) for AWS to enable centralized authentication and permission management across cloud resources.
    • Improved Single Sign-On (SSO): A robust authentication and authorization framework ensures seamless integration and verification across multiple identity providers and protocols, with built-in support for secure credential rotation, SAML federation, and LDAP synchronization.

    Improved User Experience and Development Tools

    • Easy Layout Editing: App development is streamlined with intuitive sidebar controls and drag-and-drop functionality, reducing editing time while maintaining precise component placement.
    • Modified Apps Deployment: Users can now modify and redeploy App Studio applications after converting them to Dash code, maintaining a direct one-to-one relationship between each workspace and its corresponding deployment.
    • Dash Design Kit: A comprehensive GUI-based design system with pre-built templates, customizable themes, and responsive layouts enables developers to create professional data applications without writing CSS or HTML, significantly reducing development time.

    About Plotly
    Plotly is a leading provider of open-source graphing libraries and enterprise-grade analytics solutions. Its flagship product, Dash Enterprise, enables organizations to build scalable and interactive data apps that drive impactful decision-making. To learn more about Plotly, visit our website at http://www.plotly.com

    For media inquiries:
    Brigit Valencia
    For Plotly
    brigit@compel-pr.com

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  • MIL-OSI: New Report Finds Long Concession Lines at MLB Games Cause Fans to Miss Crucial Plays, Vendors to Lose Revenue

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    PALO ALTO, Calif., April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mashgin, the AI-powered checkout company, today released data revealing the impact that concession lines at Major League Baseball (MLB) games have on the fan experience, leaving fans frustrated and vendor revenue on the table. Over half (53%) of the MLB fans surveyed estimated that they wait 15 minutes or more in line each time they go to the concession stand, meaning they are missing close to one full inning every time they leave their seat for food and beverage items. The wait time has an impact on fans: 79% say that they’ve missed a crucial or memorable play during a game because they were waiting in a concessions line.

    The new report, Beyond the Bases: The Impact of Concession Lines on the MLB Fan Experience, surveyed over 530 baseball fans who have attended a game in the last two seasons. It illustrates that, while the MLB continues to modernize the on-field experience with in-game technology, there remains a significant opportunity to use in-stadium technologies to expedite and improve aspects of the fan experience that take away from enjoying the game.

    Concession Lines Resulting in Fan FOMO
    Food and drinks are essential aspects of the game-day experience — hot dogs, beers, peanuts, Cracker Jacks, sunflower seeds, and more are all staples found at every MLB stadium. 67% of survey respondents said that enjoying food and beverage is one of their favorite parts of attending a game, second only to socializing with friends and family (78%).

    However, 56% of fans surveyed said they feel rushed when they leave their seat for the concession stand because they’re anxious about missing the game. The fear of missing out is real, with over 80% of fans saying that they have abandoned a concessions purchase because the line was taking too long. This taps into an unfortunate shared experience amongst fans — missing a home run, double play or big hit and hearing the roar of the crowd from afar.

    Concessionaires leaving money on the table
    Fans estimate that they spend an average of $56 per game on concessions. However, that number could be higher — 77% of fans said that they would buy more food and/or beverages if concession wait times were shorter. And these lines are the least favorite part of attending a game, according to 71% of fans. They dislike it even more than parking and transportation (68%), dirty/unpleasant restrooms (61%), and waiting in line to enter the stadium (53%).

    Technology can help solve all of these problems, and fans are reporting that they are starting to use them more often. 46% said they have used automated or self-checkout machines at concessions, 38% have used mobile apps to order ahead for food and beverage, and 29% have used facial ID to gain entry to the park.

    Mashgin AI-powered checkout systems use powerful computer vision technology and practical AI to significantly reduce transaction times. Mashgin kiosks are deployed at 20 out of 30 MLB stadiums, allowing fans to spend less time waiting in line and more time watching the game, while increasing revenue opportunities for concessionaires. During the 2024 MLB season, Mashgin delivered a median transaction time of under 15 seconds across over 3.6 million transactions and $88M in concession sales.

    “MLB has done a great job making the game faster and more entertaining. As the league continues to build an even better fan experience, I predict some focus will shift from the field to the promenade,” said Brandon Scott, vice president of sales at Mashgin. “Implementing AI-powered technologies that can expedite food and beverage transactions will drive higher satisfaction for both fans and vendors. It’s truly a win-win.”

    The full report can be downloaded here: https://www.mashgin.com/content/reports/mlb-report-2025.

    About Mashgin

    Mashgin is the world’s fastest checkout system, powered by AI and computer vision. By eliminating barcode scanning, Mashgin allows customers to simply place items on the tray, pay, and be on their way in under 10 seconds. With checkout speeds up to four times faster than traditional systems, Mashgin not only enhances customer satisfaction but also boosts revenue for retailers by reducing wait times and streamlining operations. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Mashgin is a privately held company backed by NEA, Matrix Partners, Susa Ventures, and Y Combinator. Follow Mashgin on LinkedIn or learn more about Mashgin at www.mashgin.com.

    Press Contact:
    Quinn Trask
    104 West on behalf of Mashgin
    Quinn.Trask@104west.com

    A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/077aed84-48bb-4858-8455-18f94d6acd27

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  • MIL-OSI: ESO Releases Fire Service Index: Reports 28% Increase in Wildland Fire Incidents, Calls for Improvements in Decontamination Efforts

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    AUSTIN, Texas, April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ESO, a leading data services and software provider for EMS, fire departments, hospitals, and state and federal agencies, released its 2025 Fire Service Index, which illustrates the staggering impact of nationwide wildland fires as well as the demand for broader decontamination efforts. Now in its sixth year, the index analyzed 7,919,600 incidents from calendar year 2024 from 2,739 participating agencies nationwide that use ESO services.

    “The Fire Service Index represents our commitment to protecting those who protect us,” said Antonio Fernandez, PhD, NRP, principal research scientist for ESO. “The insights we uncover can guide agencies to direct prevention resources where they’re needed most. By making these data freely accessible, we’re empowering fire departments nationwide to benchmark performance, identify critical trends and take proactive measures in their communities.”

    Notable findings from the analysis include:

    • 54,489 wildland fire incidents were reported in 2024 (up 28% year over year), totaling 1.78 million total acres burned—a 650% increase in acreage from 2023.
    • Wildland fire incidents were frequent throughout most of the year—not just in warmer months.
    • Fire departments continue to respond to more EMS calls than fire incidents. EMS incidents accounted for the majority of all incidents (63%), while fire responses accounted for just 3% of all calls.
    • 19% of firefighters did not document a decontamination procedure (e.g. cleaning exposed areas, dry-brushing gear, using wet wipes, etc.) after fire exposure, which can drastically increase long-term health risks such as cancer.

    “The intensifying frequency of wildland fires across the country is yet another reason why proper decontamination has become critical to safeguarding the health and lives of our nation’s firefighters,” said Bill Gardner, executive director of fire and EMS for ESO. “We’re encouraged that 80% of departments are documenting one decontamination method after exposure, but we cannot stress enough the importance of increasing that number to 100% and establishing multiple decontamination procedures as the gold standard.”

    Decontamination metrics are now available in ESO’s static benchmarking dashboards. This enhancement allows fire departments nationwide to compare themselves with peers and enables ESO to better monitor prevention effectiveness.

    The release of the 2025 Fire Service Index follows ESO’s receipt of the National Emergency Response Information System (NERIS) V1 Compatible Badge, which ensures Fire Incident customers remain compliant with the new standard. To access the 2025 ESO Fire Service Index, click here. To learn more about ESO, visit www.eso.com.

    Methodology and Limitations
    The dataset for the 2025 ESO Fire Service Index report is real-world data, compiled and aggregated from 7,919,600 incidents that occurred in calendar year 2024 across the United States. There are no universal rules designed around these trends. The purpose of the Index is to be informative and directional, but it is not intended to be a scientific study—nor is it intended to be comprehensive in nature. ESO hopes this Index serves as a body of literature that adds to the discussion and conversation around best practices for each of the selected metrics to help improve community health and safety.

    About ESO
    ESO (ESO Solutions, Inc.) is dedicated to improving community health and safety through the power of data. Since its founding in 2004, the company continues to pioneer innovative, user-friendly software to meet the changing needs of today’s EMS agencies, fire departments, hospitals, and state and federal offices. ESO currently serves thousands of customers across the globe with a broad software portfolio, including the state-of-the-art Logis IDS CAD solution, industry-leading ESO Electronic Health Record (EHR), the next-generation ePCR; ESO Health Data Exchange (HDE), the first-of-its-kind health care interoperability platform; ESO Fire RMS, the modern fire Record Management System; ESO Patient Registry (trauma, burn and stroke registry software); and ESO State Repository. ESO is headquartered in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.eso.com.

    Media Contact:
    For ESO,
    Hope Sander
    Red Fan Communications
    eso@redfancommunications.com
    737-280-8783

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  • MIL-OSI: Sophos Names Chris Bell as Senior Vice President of Global Channel, Alliances and Corporate Development to Lead Next Evolution of Global Channel Strategy

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    OXFORD, United Kingdom, April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, today announced it has named Chris Bell as senior vice president of global channel, alliances and corporate development, where he will lead the evolution of Sophos’ global channel strategy. This key appointment reinforces Sophos’ channel-first commitment to deliver a world-class partner experience.

    Bell joined Sophos following its acquisition of Secureworks, where he served as chief strategy officer, responsible for long-term vision, strategic partnerships, corporate development and strategy. Building on his career of more than two decades working in the technology industry, including nearly a decade in cybersecurity and channel; Bell’s leadership will focus on developing and executing a channel strategy that prioritizes expanding reach, empowering partners and driving growth. Key priorities for Bell at Sophos will include:

    • Enhancing Sophos Partner Experience to make it seamless for partners to do business with Sophos at high velocity, while streamlining operations.
    • Continued Innovation for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) with Sophos’ industry-leading cybersecurity platform, enabling superior cybersecurity outcomes for customers, enhancing operational efficiency for security analysts, and boosting profitability for partners.
    • Fueling Partner Growth with service delivery competencies, expanded partner enablement programs including persona-based training and fast-track training to expand partners cybersecurity expertise.
    • Increasing Sophos’ Market Reach by leveraging the unified portfolio of Sophos and Secureworks to deliver best-in-class security technologies and services, empowering partners to enhance cybersecurity and strengthen the security posture of organizations, from commercial to enterprise.
    • Expanding Routes to Market by bolstering Sophos’ presence across technology alliances, marketplaces and the cyber insurance ecosystem. Sophos will also continue to maintain its focus across resellers, service providers, and OEM channels.

    “Partners need adaptable strategies that prioritize flexibility to stay ahead of the increasingly complex threat landscape,” said Bell. “Unifying Sophos’ and Secureworks’ portfolios presents a unique opportunity to accelerate a future-ready channel program that arms partners with the technology, services, insights, and enablement needed to protect customers and fuel long-term growth.”

    A core piece of Sophos’ channel strategy is to better equip partners in addressing the evolving security challenges faced by businesses of all sizes. By aligning more closely with partner needs and prioritizing an open ecosystem, Sophos aims to create a stronger partner network that supports customers from strategy to technology and deployment.

    “Evolving our channel business to consistently deliver excellent customer outcomes is at the core of our partner go-to-market approach,” said Torjus Gylstorff, chief revenue officer at Sophos. “We are thrilled to have Chris’ strategic vision and deep channel and cybersecurity expertise to shape Sophos’ channel strategy and build programs to empower partners to scale their security business.”

    Sophos consistently expands its service delivery capabilities and is recognized for its leadership in implementing partner feedback into its products and enablement offerings. Following the acquisition of Secureworks, Sophos is the leading pure-play cybersecurity vendor of managed detection and response services, protecting more than 28,000 global customers. Sophos also strives to streamline partner operations through initiatives like Sophos Partner Care, a 24×7 team dedicated to providing quoting, licensing and general partner account support, and Sophos Customer Success, a single point of contact for maximizing customer onboarding, retention and growth throughout the post-sales experience.

    Sophos Channel Recognition
    Sophos has been recognized as a Champion in the Canalys Global Cybersecurity Leadership Matrix 2025, underscoring its excellence in channel management and market performance. Additionally, Sophos received a 5-Star Award in the 2025 CRN Partner Program Guide and has been a recipient of the 5-Star Award for the past 12 years. The CRN Partner Program Guide is a key resource that helps solution providers identify vendor programs aligned with their business goals and committed to delivering high partner value.

    To learn more about the Sophos Partner Program, visit: www.sophos.com/partners.

    About Sophos
    Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos’ complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform. Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other every day and state-sponsored cybercrimes. The solutions are powered by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

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  • MIL-OSI: Fortinet Expands FortiAI Across its Security Fabric Platform

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    SUNNYVALE, Calif. and BERLIN, April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Accelerate 2025

    News Summary

    Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced significant FortiAI innovations embedded across the Fortinet Security Fabric platform to enhance protection against new and emerging threats, simplify and automate security and network operations, and secure employee use of AI-enabled services.

    “Fortinet’s AI advantage stems from the breadth and depth of our AI ecosystem—shaped by over a decade of AI innovation and reinforced by more patents than any other cybersecurity vendor,” said Michael Xie, Founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer at Fortinet. “By embedding FortiAI across the Fortinet Security Fabric platform, including new agentic AI capabilities, we’re empowering our customers to reduce the workload on their security and network analysts while improving the efficiency, speed, and accuracy of their security and networking operations. In parallel, we’ve added coverage across the Fabric ecosystem to enable customers to monitor and control the use of GenAI-enabled services within their organization.”

    The Need for AI-Driven Protection and Security for AI Systems

    Enterprises must leverage security solutions that use AI to defend against increasingly advanced threats—especially those that use AI to bypass defenses, automate attacks, and exploit vulnerabilities. At the same time, organizations must secure their own AI systems from data poisoning, adversarial manipulation, and unauthorized access. Without robust protection, AI can become both a target and a weapon for cybercriminals. Fortinet has you covered, with more than 500 AI patents issued and pending, and more than 15 years of AI innovation, delivering AI-driven security to stop advanced threats while ensuring AI systems remain protected and trustworthy.

    New AI Innovations from Fortinet

    FortiAI has now expanded to encompass Fortinet’s entire AI-driven approach across security and network operations, protecting environments, and securing AI models and LLMs. Integrated into the Fortinet Security Fabric platform, it delivers intelligent, autonomous capabilities to stop advanced threats, streamline operations, and support secure AI adoption.

    This expansion of FortiAI introduces new capabilities across two key areas:

    FortiAI-Assist combines GenAI, agentic AI, and AIOps to simplify and transform security and network operations with intelligent automation and analytics. New capabilities include:

    • Agentic AI Applications for Network Operations
      • Autonomous network management initiated through the GenAI assistant enables the creation of network configuration and security policy updates, validation and correction of existing configurations, and troubleshooting and remediation of network issues without human intervention.
      • Automated network optimization and troubleshooting using GenAI and AIOps enhance network operations for wired, wireless, and SD-WAN, and proactively identify and offer remediation of issues before users are impacted.
    • Agentic AI Applications for Security Operations
      • Automated alert triage prioritizes notifications based on risk, context, and historical patterns, suppresses duplicate alerts, and only flags high-confidence threats within the system or directly to the threat analyst, depending on the organization’s preferences.
      • Adaptive threat hunting scans logs, network traffic, and user behavior to search for threats without waiting for human input.
      • Root-cause tracing uses AI-driven reasoning to identify an attack’s origin, method, and impact.
      • Threat intelligence enrichment enhances security intelligence by correlating attack patterns and attributing adversary tactics, improving proactive defense.

    FortiAI-Protect enhances security with AI-driven threat detection, enabling the identification of advanced and unknown threats. It also provides contextual risk assessments to strengthen security and enforce access controls for third-party GenAI applications. These enhancements further increase the value of FortiGuard AI-powered Security Services for both new and existing customers. New capabilities include:

    • Detecting AI application usage for over 6,500 AI URLs, including GenAI applications. Security teams also gain added context around the use cases, the model used for training, and the location of where the data goes.
    • Controlling access and content to GenAI using zero-trust principles allows security teams to block shadow AI or high-risk AI application usage. Visibility into AI application lists and additional context, such as geolocation and training models, also allows admins to define organization-wide AI usage policies.
    • Enhancing threat analysis and malware protection by expanding machine learning and large-scale data analysis to detect and neutralize emerging malware threats. Continued refinement of contextual correlation with known threat indicators further reduces false positives, ensuring precise threat identification while maintaining operational efficiency.
    • Improving safeguards against sophisticated attacks by continuing to train the intrusion prevention system (IPS) machine learning models to adapt and detect new attack techniques.

    Fortinet Helps Organizations Secure their AI Models, Infrastructure, and Data

    Organizations can also securely adopt AI with FortiAI-SecureAI by leveraging capabilities that span the Fortinet Security Fabric platform to protect AI infrastructure from network-based threats, secure web applications and APIs, and defend cloud-native AI workloads across major providers. FortiAI-SecureAI ensures data integrity, prevents LLM data leakage, safeguards AI models and intellectual property, enforces zero-trust access, and enables early attack detection and response.

    FortiAI Prioritizes Data Privacy for Organizations

    FortiAI uses a multi-layered data protection approach to enforce strict privacy controls, preventing data that is shared with the Fortinet GenAI assistant from training the LLM. Queries are also processed locally, ensuring data never leaves the network, while sensitive information is blocked or masked before reaching the language model.

    With FortiAI-Assist, FortiAI-Protect, and FortiAI-SecureAI, Fortinet continues to lead in AI-driven cybersecurity to help organizations stay ahead of evolving threats.

    Additional Resources

    About Fortinet
    Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT) is a driving force in the evolution of cybersecurity and the convergence of networking and security. Our mission is to secure people, devices, and data everywhere, and today we deliver cybersecurity everywhere our customers need it with the largest integrated portfolio of over 50 enterprise-grade products. Well over half a million customers trust Fortinet’s solutions, which are among the most deployed, most patented, and most validated in the industry. The Fortinet Training Institute, one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry, is dedicated to making cybersecurity training and new career opportunities available to everyone. Collaboration with esteemed organizations from both the public and private sectors, including Computer Emergency Response Teams (“CERTS”), government entities, and academia, is a fundamental aspect of Fortinet’s commitment to enhance cyber resilience globally. FortiGuard Labs, Fortinet’s elite threat intelligence and research organization, develops and utilizes leading-edge machine learning and AI technologies to provide customers with timely and consistently top-rated protection and actionable threat intelligence. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, and FortiGuard Labs.

    Copyright © 2025 Fortinet, Inc. All rights reserved. The symbols ® and ™ denote respectively federally registered trademarks and common law trademarks of Fortinet, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates. Fortinet’s trademarks include, but are not limited to, the following: Fortinet, the Fortinet logo, FortiGate, FortiOS, FortiGuard, FortiCare, FortiAnalyzer, FortiManager, FortiASIC, FortiClient, FortiCloud, FortiMail, FortiSandbox, FortiADC, FortiAI, FortiAIOps, FortiAgent, FortiAntenna, FortiAP, FortiAPCam, FortiAuthenticator, FortiCache, FortiCall, FortiCam, FortiCamera, FortiCarrier, FortiCASB, FortiCentral, FortiCNP, FortiConnect, FortiController, FortiConverter, FortiCSPM, FortiCWP, FortiDAST, FortiDB, FortiDDoS, FortiDeceptor, FortiDeploy, FortiDevSec, FortiDLP, FortiEdge, FortiEDR, FortiExplorer, FortiExtender, FortiFirewall, FortiFlex FortiFone, FortiGSLB, FortiGuest, FortiHypervisor, FortiInsight, FortiIsolator, FortiLAN, FortiLink, FortiMonitor, FortiNAC, FortiNDR, FortiPAM, FortiPenTest, FortiPhish, FortiPoint, FortiPolicy, FortiPortal, FortiPresence, FortiProxy, FortiRecon, FortiRecorder, FortiSASE, FortiScanner, FortiSDNConnector, FortiSIEM, FortiSMS, FortiSOAR, FortiSRA, FortiStack, FortiSwitch, FortiTester, FortiToken, FortiTrust, FortiVoice, FortiWAN, FortiWeb, FortiWiFi, FortiWLC, FortiWLM, FortiXDR and Lacework FortiCNAPP. Other trademarks belong to their respective owners. Fortinet has not independently verified statements or certifications herein attributed to third parties and Fortinet does not independently endorse such statements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, nothing herein constitutes a warranty, guarantee, contract, binding specification or other binding commitment by Fortinet or any indication of intent related to a binding commitment, and performance and other specification information herein may be unique to certain environments.

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  • MIL-OSI: AI Tools Struggle to “Cheat” Soft Skills Assessments Designed to Identify Top Talent, New Cangrade Research Finds

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    WATERTOWN, Mass., April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cangrade today announced the results of its first AI-Enabled Candidates in Hiring Report, exploring the performance of AI tools, like ChatGPT, “cheating” the interview process. The findings suggest that while job seekers are leveraging generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance their applications, AI tools struggled to successfully navigate Cangrade’s soft skills assessments designed to identify top talent.

    AI is reshaping the job market, making it easier for both recruiters to market roles and for candidates to apply to jobs. This has resulted in a significant increase in the number of applicants per role, but a decrease in serious, qualified candidates. To stand out among the masses, people are turning to AI to draft resumes, generate interview responses, and complete skills assessments.

    Although it seems to be a smart solution to highlight keywords and metrics desirable to recruiters for a specific role, AI may actually be doing job seekers a disservice. In fact, Cangrade’s research showed that AI-assisted applicants fail to effectively perform on hiring assessments designed to measure job-relevant personality traits.

    Other key findings include:

    • AI-generated responses had only a 12% success rate in passing Cangrade’s hiring assessment, a figure comparable to acceptance rates at top universities.
    • ChatGPT consistently avoided extreme responses, favoring cautious agreement over strong opinions. If a role that requires high attention to detail, like an accountant, “slightly agrees” with the statement, “I find it hard to focus,” this could negatively impact the candidates’ chances of moving forward.
    • AI prioritized traits like persistence, goal achievement, and prosocial behavior, while steering clear of “negative” interpersonal traits. This would be counterproductive for jobs focused on individual contributions vs. teams.
    • AI struggled with job-specific nuances, leading to misalignment with role requirements, reducing its effectiveness in passing assessments.

    The study underscores the need for HR professionals to adapt their hiring processes to identify and mitigate AI-enabled application inflation. While banning AI outright is impractical, organizations can implement key strategies to ensure hiring accuracy, including:

    • Leveraging soft skills assessments that lack clear “right” or “wrong” answers.
    • Implementing AI-resistant hiring techniques, such as time-limited assessments, video interviews, and AI-detection tools.
    • Reducing reliance on resumes and cover letters, which are easily manipulated by AI.

    “As AI becomes more embedded in the job application process, HR teams need to evolve their hiring strategies to distinguish genuine top talent from AI-enhanced applications,” said Gershon Goren, founder and CEO, Cangrade. “Our research shows that well-designed soft skills assessments remain an effective first line of defense against AI-enabled job seekers overstating their abilities.”

    To access the full report, click here. For more information about Cangrade’s AI-powered, bias-free hiring and talent management solutions, visit www.cangrade.com.

    About Cangrade
    For HR leaders, Cangrade is the bias-free, AI-powered talent intelligence platform. By integrating data into talent acquisition and management processes, Cangrade enables businesses to make strategic and efficient decisions from initial screening through the entire employee lifecycle. Delivering 10x more accurate predictions of talent success and retention than traditional methods, the company’s Pre-Hire Assessment has helped organizations like Wayfair, FDNY, Lamar Advertising, and Applied Industrial Technologies make the right hiring decisions for over 10 million candidates and counting. For more information, visit www.cangrade.com.

    Media Contact:
    Gina Devine
    Public Relations
    press@cangrade.com

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  • MIL-OSI: Syncfusion® Releases Essential Studio® 2025 Volume 1

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Syncfusion®, Inc., the enterprise technology partner of choice, announces the release of Essential Studio® 2025 Volume 1. This release introduces a new SpeechToText component for the JavaScript and Blazor platforms, plus enhancements to the AI AssistView component and the file-format libraries. Also, several .NET MAUI and Blazor components have been fine-tuned and are now ready for production environments.

    “As software developers continue to explore artificial intelligence solutions for problems in business applications, they need tools that deliver or integrate with the AI features their end users demand,” said Syncfusion CEO Daniel Jebaraj. “With the new SpeechToText component and improvements to the AI AssistView, Essential Studio is further cemented as a key part of the AI-savvy developer’s toolkit.”

    AI and web control updates
    The AI AssistView, an intuitive interface for conversational AI services, now supports streaming. This update to our Essential JS 2 and Blazor toolkits allows prompt responses to be delivered piece by piece as they’re generated.

    2025 Volume 1 also provides these platforms a new SpeechToText control. This powerful tool offers:

    • Real-time transcription.
    • Multilingual support.
    • Predefined and customizable UI styles.

    Essential® JS 2
    The JavaScript Charts component has received many enhancements, including:

    • Tooltips for data points closest to the cursor.
    • Total values in stacked charts.
    • Additional scrollbar position options.
    • An event for customizing charts when exporting them to Excel.

    .NET MAUI
    The Toolbar is a new control that provides a collection of common text editing actions represented by minimalist icons, text labels, or both. Its uncluttered presentation is perfect for any mobile app, adapting to both vertical and horizontal orientations and supporting touch gestures.

    Additional .NET MAUI updates include:

    File-format libraries
    The PDF Library now supports the creation of PDF documents compliant with PDF/UA-2 accessibility requirements and well-tagged PDF specifications. The Word Library now ensures SmartArt graphics in Word files render accurately when converted to PDF and image formats. During PowerPoint-to-PDF conversion with the PowerPoint Library, shapes can be converted into editable PDF form fields, providing users with an alternative way to create interactive digital forms.

    Upgrade today
    Essential Studio 2025 Volume 1 includes many more new features and enhancements. Read about them in the Volume 1 blog, What’s New page, or release notes. Current subscribers can download the new version from the License and Downloads page after logging in.

    About Syncfusion, Inc.
    Syncfusion® is the enterprise technology partner of choice for software development and business intelligence, delivering an ecosystem of compatible developer control suites, embeddable BI platforms, and business software. Headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC, Syncfusion has established itself as a trusted partner worldwide for use in mission-critical applications through its service-oriented approach. The Syncfusion Essential Studio® suite has expanded from one data grid at its launch in 2001, to over 1,900 controls for web, mobile, and desktop development. After nearly two decades of helping developers build business software with Essential Studio, the company channeled this expertise into its own line of enterprise products: Bold BI® and Bold Reports® for embedded business intelligence, data analysis, and visualization; BoldSign®, an embeddable e-signing solution; and most recently, BoldDesk®, a customer support platform. Today, Syncfusion has more than 35,000 customers, including large financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies, and global IT consultancies, relying on Essential Studio and Bold products for their business success.

    Contact: Brittany Kearns
    Phone: 919-270-8054
    Email: brittany@crossroadsb2b.com

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