December 8, 2025
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Harnessing human-AI collaboration for an AI roadmap that moves beyond pilots

Author04 mins

The central challenge, then, lies in rethinking how people, processes, and technology work together. Across industries as different as customer experience and agricultural equipment, the same pattern is emerging: Traditional organizational structures—centralized decision-making, fragmented workflows, data spread across incompatible systems—are proving too rigid to support agentic AI. To unlock value, leaders must rethink how decisions…

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Metasploit Wrap-Up 12/05/2025

Author06 mins

Twonky Auth Bypass, RCEs and RISC-V Reverse Shell Payloads This was another fantastic week in terms of PR contribution to the Metasploit Framework. Rapid7’s very own Ryan Emmons recently disclosed CVE-2025-13315 and CVE-2025-13316 which exist in Twonky Server and allow decrypting admin credentials by reading logs without authentication (which contain them). The auxiliary module Ryan…

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Google AI announcements from November

Author04 mins

We released Gemini 3, AI for a new era of intelligence. Gemini 3 is built to bring any idea to life. It represents the next step in our work to push the frontiers of intelligence, agentic experiences and personalization — so that AI is truly helpful for everyone. Gemini 3 is the best model in…

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Litigation Challenging the 2025 Budget Reconciliation Law’s Provision Blocking Federal Medicaid Payments to Planned Parenthood

Author033 mins

Introduction One of the immediate impacts of the 2025 Federal Budget Reconciliation Law is a provision, Section 71113, that blocks certain reproductive health care providers (who also provide abortions) from receiving federal Medicaid reimbursement for one year. The law impacts three organizations: (1) Planned Parenthood; (2) Maine Family Planning, a network of clinics in Maine, (3) and Health Imperatives, a network of specialized reproductive health clinics based in Massachusetts. Shortly after President…

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Google helps University of Toronto create Hinton Chair

Author01 mins

Today, we are celebrating the extraordinary impact of Nobel Prize-winner Geoffrey Hinton by investing in the future of the field he helped build. Google is proud to support the University of Toronto with $10 million CAD to establish the Hinton Chair in Artificial Intelligence. Geoff’s work on neural networks — spanning his time in academia…

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What to Expect from Rapid7’s Predictions Webinar

Author08 mins

Every year, Rapid7 brings together some of the most experienced minds in cybersecurity to pause, zoom out, and take stock of where the threat landscape is heading. Last year’s predictions webinar sparked lively debate among practitioners, leaders, and researchers alike, and many of those early warnings were proven accurate. We talked about expanding attack surfaces,…

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