In a landmark move for both the geospatial and artificial intelligence communities, Esri’s partnership with Microsoft has ushered in a new era of advanced AI capabilities within the ArcGIS ecosystem. The integration of Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service into ArcGIS—Esri’s industry-leading geographic...
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San Diego County's recent third-place recognition in the 2025 Digital Counties Survey underscores its commitment to leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and modernization to enhance public services for its 3.3 million residents.
AI Integration and Digital Modernization
The County Technology...
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Millions of users across the United Kingdom were startled awake to find themselves locked out of their email inboxes as Microsoft Outlook suffered a significant service outage, leaving many unable to access critical communications and disrupting both professional and personal routines. As the...
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The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) has significantly enhanced its public safety operations by streamlining the deployment of ArcGIS, a cloud-based geographic information system (GIS) developed by Esri, in collaboration with Microsoft Azure. This strategic initiative has reduced the...
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When disaster strikes in remote regions, the fault lines in inter-state crisis management, official communication, and the very fabric of Indian federal solidarity come to the surface. Such was the case in recent days as a devastating sequence of rain-induced landslides and flash floods battered...
The landscape of emergency communications is undergoing a significant transformation, as regional 911 centers integrate advanced cloud technologies to better serve growing and dynamic populations. Nowhere is this evolution more evident than in southeastern Massachusetts, where the Southeastern...
The early hours of March 13 saw chaos unfold in Jaipur as a massive fire erupted in a fan belt warehouse near Road No. 12 in the Murlipura police station area. The blaze, first discovered by Circle Inspector Virendra Kuril while on night patrol, has since become a dramatic example of rapid...
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Original release date: February 18, 2020
Summary
Note: This Activity Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK™) framework. See the MITRE ATT&CK for Enterprise and Link Removed frameworks for all referenced threat actor techniques and mitigations.
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More than 70 people are in hospital, and six have died, following the huge fire in west London.
Link RemovedA-Level student helped Grenfell fire victims overnight - then came back after sitting exam
Residents have been quick to point the finger at newly installed cladding on the outside of the...
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The president of Sierra Leone will launch a massive campaign on Wednesday to curb the spread of Ebola in the western areas of the capital Freetown, which will aim to scare people into changing their behaviour.
The “western area surge” will use the sort of tactics that worked in the UK to...
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Ebola has sickened more than 16,000 people of whom nearly 7,000 have died, according to figures released by the Link Removed Friday.
Sierra Leone is now bearing the brunt of the 8-month-old outbreak. In the other hard-hit countries, Liberia and Guinea, WHO says infection rates are stabilizing or...
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Protective suits were running low in Sierra Leone this month, when a Christian charity decided to ship some over. The charity turned to American medical-wear suppliers, which came back with bad news: The suits needed to treat Ebola are running low in America, too.
There’s been some sleepless...
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LONDON - False alarm: British police said Thursday that reports of suspicious activity on a bus, which set off a massive emergency response and forced the closure of a section of a major highway in central England, were unfounded.
The "culprit"? An electronic cigarette.
Armed police evacuated...
Audio recording of the conversation between Capt. Francesco Schettino and Port Authority officials after the doomed Italian luxury cruise liner Costa Concordia struck rocks on January 13, 2012 was released on the morning of January 17, 2012 and reported by ABC News. At least six people were...