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Alexandria, Va. – September 28, 2026 -- ISC2, the nonprofit membership organization representing more than 270,000 certified cybersecurity professionals, has appointed Brionne Dawson as Executive Vice President for Advocacy, tasking her with elevating practitioner voices in policy debates over AI adoption, cyber resilience and workforce development.

Dawson joins ISC2 from Google after leading government affairs across 120-plus markets

Dawson brings more than two decades of experience in technology policy, government affairs and commercial diplomacy. She most recently led international government affairs for emerging markets across more than 120 countries at Google, later serving as Head of Middle East and Africa, where her portfolio covered AI policy, cybersecurity, cloud computing, digital trade and cross-border data flows.

SAN FRANCISCO – September 28, 2026 -- More than 4 in 5 adults in the United States (85%) and United Kingdom (86%) say cost-of-living pressures have stopped them from donating or donating more over the past six months, according to a new Harris Poll survey of over 3,000 adults commissioned by nonprofit lender Kiva.

Despite the squeeze, 77% of U.S. and 80% of UK adults still gave money in some form during the same period, the survey found. The data lands against a backdrop tracked by Giving USA, which recorded record total charitable giving of $617.20 billion even as individual donors' share of that total slid from roughly 80% in past decades to 64% today.

Houston – – September 28, 2026 -- Submer Group has launched Corenix, a modular data center infrastructure company targeting neoclouds, hyperscalers, and AI operators, and named former Johnson Controls executive Martin Renkis as chief executive.

Corenix builds AI data center modules on NVIDIA reference designs

Corenix designs, manufactures, and factory-tests complete data center modules covering IT, power, cooling, and networking before shipping them to project sites for installation, commissioning, and operational readiness. The company positions itself at the deployment layer of AI infrastructure, offering a single accountable team from factory integration through on-site go-live.

Phoenix – September 28, 2026 -- Paze will replace PayPal as the Official Jersey Patch Partner of the Phoenix Suns starting with the 2026-27 NBA season, under a multi-year deal announced by the team and Early Warning Services, LLC, the Arizona-based company behind Paze and Zelle.

Paze logo takes upper-left jersey position previously held by PayPal

The Paze logo will appear on the upper left side of all Suns uniforms once the new season tips off. Suns and Phoenix Mercury CEO Josh Bartelstein said the patch process was competitive, with Early Warning selected for its Arizona roots and payments history spanning Zelle to Paze.

McLean, Va. – September 28, 2026 -- ID.me, the digital identity wallet serving over 170 million users, has appointed Susannah Stroud Wright as Chief Legal Officer and Darragh Whelan as Executive Vice President of Engineering, expanding its executive team as the company scales AI-driven identity verification across federal and state agencies.

San Francisco – September 28, 2026 -- The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP), an open source project hosted by the Linux Foundation, has achieved compliance with IEC 62443-4-1 and IEC 62443-4-2, becoming one of the first open source initiatives to reach this level of industrial cybersecurity alignment.

CIP compliance cuts adopter security work by up to 70%

CIP estimates that manufacturers building on its security processes, technical capabilities and reusable artifacts can reduce their IEC 62443 compliance effort by up to 70%, while retaining responsibility for requirements specific to their own products and deployments.

Charlotte, N.C. – September 28, 2026 -- Parking activity near SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Los Angeles, jumped 100% or more above baseline on several match days during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, according to new data released by curb management technology provider Passport.

The company tracked parking payments, enforcement and permitting activity across five U.S. and Canadian host cities -- Boston, Kansas City, Toronto, Los Angeles and Seattle -- during the tournament, finding sharply divergent patterns in how match days affected local curb operations.

Kansas City parking rose on five of six match days, peaking at 45% on July 11

Kansas City saw parking activity increase above baseline on five of its six World Cup match days, with a 45% spike recorded on July 11. Passport also supported the city's mobile payment operations as it prepared for the six matches.

Boston – September 28, 2026 -- PrescriberPoint has joined athenahealth's Partner Community as a Solution Partner, putting its AI-powered prior authorization tool directly into the e-prescribing workflow of more than 170,000 clinicians on the athenaOne network.

Integration lets providers submit prior authorizations without leaving their e-prescribing workflow

The new listing in the athenahealth Marketplace allows providers to initiate and complete prior authorizations using clinical and patient details pulled automatically into the submission. Denied claims can be advanced with appeals and supporting documentation prepared automatically rather than restarted from scratch.

Colorado Springs – September 28, 2026 -- Century Casinos, Inc. (Nasdaq: CNTY) has agreed to sell the racing and gaming operations of Century Mile Racetrack and Casino in Edmonton and Century Downs Racetrack and Casino in Calgary to Highfield Investment Group for approximately $16.4 million, a 6.1x multiple of FY 2025 EBITDA.

Deal values Alberta racinos at CAD 23.2 million based on current exchange rates

The purchase price translates to CAD 23.2 million using the September 27, 2026 exchange rate of 0.7074 CAD/USD. Century Casinos owns 100% of Century Mile and a 75% stake in Century Downs, with noncontrolling partners holding the remaining 25% of the latter property.

Shanghai – September 28, 2026 -- The9 Limited (Nasdaq: NCTY) said its mobile simulation title "The Greed of Man《大時代》" reached No. 1 in the Simulation Games category on both the Hong Kong Apple App Store and Google Play following its September 24, 2026 launch.

Game built in eight months versus industry-standard two to three years

The title was produced on the9bit, The9's proprietary AI game production platform that orchestrates multiple AI models across development rather than relying on a single foundation model. The platform converts a natural-language or image-based idea into a structured production blueprint, then coordinates content generation, debugging, asset creation and integration across the pipeline. An AI-native editing environment allows creators to refine gameplay elements, parameters and visuals through further natural-language instructions.

Stockholm – – September 28, 2026 -- More than half of senior enterprise leaders, 58%, have delayed, scaled back or added safeguards to strategic initiatives over the past two years due to concerns about their network provider, according to a new report from Arelion.

The Stockholm-based connectivity firm commissioned research firm Savanta to survey 518 senior enterprise network decision-makers across the US, UK, Germany and France, all from organizations with more than 2,000 employees. The findings appear in Arelion's report, 'The trust illusion: Why AI and digital transformation need more than a reliable network.'

Warrenville, Ill. – September 28, 2026 -- Aglocell, Inc. has delivered a Tier-1 U.S. wireless carrier one terabyte of additional daily network capacity through software alone, avoiding an estimated $2.6 million in hardware costs across a single metro deployment.

SpectraMax software lifted peak-hour capacity by 4.1% across 60-plus cell sites

In a live trial spanning more than 60 sites in a major U.S. metropolitan area, Aglocell's SpectraMax platform increased network-wide capacity by 4.1% during peak busy hour, equal to roughly one terabyte of additional data throughput. The company says the gain matches one-third of a full new spectrum layer, a physical buildout that typically costs carriers $43,000 per cell site, or nearly $2.6 million across the tested sites.

North Chicago, Ill. – – September 28, 2026 -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) has secured U.S. FDA approval for JUVMO (tavapadon), the first and only selective D1/D5 receptor agonist for adults with Parkinson's disease, with commercial availability set for October 2026.

JUVMO targets dopamine pathways differently than existing D2/D3 agonists

Roopal Thakkar, AbbVie's chief scientific officer, called the approval the first dopaminergic breakthrough for Parkinson's disease in decades. The once-daily oral tablet can be taken with or without levodopa, positioning it across the full disease continuum rather than a single treatment stage.

Boston – September 28, 2026 -- Duck Creek has made Agentic First Notice of Loss (FNOL) available to early access customers, an AI-driven tool designed to automate claims intake across digital, voice-to-text, and mobile channels.

Agentic AI agents verify coverage and flag anomalies before an adjuster opens the file

Built on the Duck Creek Agentic AI Platform, the solution uses orchestrated AI agents to capture, validate, enrich, and route claims in real time. From the first description of a loss, the system verifies coverage, assesses injury and legal severity, and cross-references reported circumstances, images, and policy data to surface inconsistencies without manual data entry.

New York – September 28, 2026 -- Lazard, Inc. (NYSE: LAZ) has appointed Pranjal Gambhir as Head of Medical Technology, based in New York, as the advisory firm expands its healthcare coverage.

Gambhir brings two decades of Citi experience to Lazard's healthcare practice

Gambhir joins from Citi, where he most recently served as Managing Director covering Medical Technology companies across multiple sub-sectors. He spent 20 years at Citi in roles based in New York and New Delhi, building coverage across the sector's various segments.

Dubai – September 28, 2026 -- Bybit and Franklin Templeton, a $1.7 trillion asset manager, have launched a collateral program letting institutional clients pledge tokenized money market fund shares to access trading credit on Bybit's exchange.

Institutional clients can now pledge Benji-issued fund shares for USDT or USDC credit lines

Eligible investors use ByCustody, Bybit's institutional custody platform, to pledge shares issued through Franklin Templeton's Benji Technology Platform, a blockchain-integrated recordkeeping and transfer agency infrastructure. The pledged value is mirrored inside Bybit's trading environment while the underlying assets stay off-exchange in custody, allowing clients to continue earning yield on holdings while using them to support trading activity.

Chicago – September 28, 2026 -- Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) has promoted Maxime Jeanniard du Dot to Executive Vice President, Margin Analytics, putting him in charge of the TT Margin business formed after TT's acquisition of OpenGamma in December.

TT consolidates margin analytics under new executive after OpenGamma deal

Jeanniard du Dot spent 10 years as Chief Operating Officer of OpenGamma before the acquisition, giving him direct oversight of the platform now positioned as TT's core margin-analytics offering for hedge funds, asset managers, commodity trading firms and banks.

Tampa, Fla. – – September 28, 2026 -- Universal Parking has secured a new parking management contract for Bayshore Gardens, an office complex along Tampa's Bayshore Boulevard corridor, extending its Southeast footprint in high-traffic mixed-use properties.

Self-park garage adds covered and touchless access near Hillsborough Bay

The facility, with an entrance on S. Ysabella Avenue between Barcelona Wine Bar and Altura Bayshore, includes covered parking, accessible spaces and touchless entry designed for tenants and visitors to the waterfront office campus.

Contract deepens existing partnership with property owner Asana Partners

Justin Kinsey, CPP, Vice President of Operations – Central Florida at Universal Parking, said the company aims to deliver a seamless parking experience for Bayshore Gardens as South Tampa's tenant and visitor base grows.

Detroit Lakes – September 28, 2026 -- SJE, Inc. has acquired Wilson Controls, LLC, a New Hampshire-based automation and control provider for water, wastewater, and environmental applications, expanding SJE's PLC and SCADA systems integration and UL-listed control panel capabilities into New England.

Wilson Controls brings UL 508A and UL 698A panel manufacturing capabilities to SJE's portfolio

Founded in 2012 and based in Lee, New Hampshire, Wilson Controls engineers, programs, integrates, and supports PLC and SCADA systems, instrumentation, and control panels for municipal and industrial customers across New England and select projects beyond the region.

Tokyo – – September 28, 2026 -- TOYO Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: TOYO; OTC: TOYWF) said it expects positive EBITDA for the second half of 2026 despite withholding specific revenue and net income guidance due to unresolved U.S. trade actions affecting its solar cell shipments.

Unresolved US Customs Probe Clouds Financial Visibility

The Tokyo-based solar manufacturer cited a pending U.S. Customs and Border Protection examination of its solar cell shipments as a key source of uncertainty for its second-half performance. TOYO said it will not issue quarterly guidance or specific financial metrics until greater regulatory clarity emerges.

Countervailing Duty Investigation Adds to Policy Risk

Active countervailing duty investigation proceedings compound the regulatory overhang facing the company, according to the statement. TOYO did not disclose a timeline for resolution of either the CBP examination or the CVD case.