Google Hires for AI Answer Quality

Jaguar Land Rover reveals the fiscal results of last year’s cyberattack. A Texas gas station chain suffers a data spill. Taiwan tracks China’s energy-sector attacks. Google and Veeam push patches. Threat actors target obsolete D-Link routers. Sedgwick Government Solutions confirms a data breach. The U.S. Cyber Trust Mark faces an uncertain future. Google looks to hire humans to improve AI search responses. Our guest is Deepen Desai, Chief Security Officer of Zscaler, discussing what’s powering enterprise AI in 2026. AI brings creative cartography to the weather forecast.

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On today’s Industry Voices, we are joined by Deepen Desai, Chief Security Officer of Zscaler, discussing what’s powering enterprise AI in 2026. To learn more on this topic, be sure to check out Zscaler’s report here. Listen to the full conversation here.

Selected Reading

Jaguar Land Rover wholesale volumes plummet 43% in cyberattack aftermath (The Register)

Major Data Breach Hits Company Operating 150 Gas Stations in the US (Hackread)

Taiwan says China's attacks on its energy sector increased tenfold (Bleeping Computer)

Google Patches High-Severity Chrome WebView Flaw CVE-2026-0628 in the Tag Component (Tech Nadu)

Several Code Execution Flaws Patched in Veeam Backup & Replication (SecurityWeek)

New D-Link flaw in legacy DSL routers actively exploited in attacks (Bleeping Computer)

Sedgwick confirms breach at government contractor subsidiary (Bleeping Computer)

FCC Loses Lead Support for Biden-Era IoT Security Labeling (GovInfoSecurity)

Google Search AI hallucinations push Google to hire "AI Answers Quality" engineers (Bleeping Computer)

‘Whata Bod’: An AI-generated NWS map invented fake towns in Idaho (The Washington Post)

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