Day: September 30, 2025
Microsoft Launches Security Store and Custom AI Agent Creation Tool
Microsoft has announced the launch of a new Security Store, offering a range of security software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions and AI agents aimed at helping businesses navigate evolving cyber threats, reports 24brussels.
The Security Store will serve as a dedicated platform for security professionals, allowing them to procure and implement SaaS solutions and AI agents from Microsoft and its ecosystem partners, including Darktrace, Illumio, and Netskope. These offerings will encompass critical areas such as threat protection and identity management.
Integrations with existing Microsoft products—such as Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Entra, and Security Copilot—are designed to facilitate seamless onboarding for organizations already entrenched in the Microsoft security environment. This initiative aims to minimize both procurement and implementation timelines for businesses.
In addition to the Security Store, Microsoft is enabling users of Security Copilot to create custom AI agents tailored to their specific needs. This follows the earlier introduction of Microsoft’s own security AI agents. Utilizing a system akin to Copilot Studio, security teams can develop agents through simple prompts without requiring coding skills. These newly constructed agents will also be available through the Security Store.
This strategic move by Microsoft is part of a broader commitment to enhance security measures amid rising cyber threats, aligning with the growing demand for advanced technology solutions in the cybersecurity sector.
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DoorDash
- DoorDash’s Dot delivery robot is making deliveries in Phoenix, the company said.
- Dot can navigate roads and sidewalks to make deliveries, DoorDash said.
- The robot has anthropomorphic features, such as LED lights that look like eyes.
DoorDash has a robot that can traverse sidewalks and roads to deliver dinner to your door.
Importantly, the company says, it’s also cute.
On Tuesday, DoorDash unveiled Dot, its latest self-driving delivery robot. The vehicle sports a red exterior, can carry up to 30 pounds of cargo, and is roomy enough to fit up to six pizza boxes at once. Dot also includes lidar sensors and cameras that are already helping it navigate streets and sidewalks in parts of Phoenix as it makes deliveries from restaurants and Dashmart.
Dot has LED lights that look like eyes and the ability to greet restaurant workers with an “Oh, hello!” as it pulls up to retrieve an order, executives at DoorDash said.
“Beyond the tech details, we’ve also put a lot of thought into the personality and character of Dot,” Ashu Rege, vice president of autonomy and head of DoorDash Labs, said at an event in San Francisco on Monday to unveil the robot. “We really love how cute this little robot is.”
Look online, and you’ll find evidence that DoorDash might be onto something with its focus on cuteness.
One video posted last month on TikTok shows a robot from startup Coco Robotics — which has worked with DoorDash on some autonomous deliveries — trying to cross a street. In the video, a woman can be heard cheering the robot on.
“Oh my god, don’t hit Coco,” the woman says in the video as the robot avoids colliding with cars. “Coco just wants to cross the street.”
Dot is the latest self-driving vehicle to take to the streets and perform a task that’s currently done by human gig workers.
Earlier this year, Uber started offering rides in Waymo’s autonomous vehicles in Atlanta and Austin. Waymo has offered rides in other cities, such as Phoenix and San Francisco, for years through its own app.
Delivering food and other goods through self-driving vehicles is harder, as DoorDash has said before. While rideshare riders can walk up or down a block to get to their robotaxi, getting a burrito or salad into such a vehicle requires more coordination with restaurant workers.
At DoorDash’s San Francisco headquarters on Monday, company executives said that Dot’s design attempts to make that coordination easier.
While existing delivery robots are limited to driving on sidewalks, for example, Dot can switch between hitting speeds of up to 20 miles an hour on roads and slower rates for navigating sidewalks. Videos that DoorDash showed at the event to unveil Dot showed the robot traveling in the bike lanes on roads.
The vehicle weighs 350 pounds, according to DoorDash. It stands four and a half feet tall and, at 29 inches, is slightly wider than many baby strollers.
With those dimensions, Dot can pull right up to a restaurant entrance, allowing a worker to place orders directly inside its protective shell. The robot’s size means that it could also fit through many doorways in future use cases, Rege said.
“It’s a much different technical and operational challenge than ride-hail,” Stanley Tang, one of DoorDash’s co-founders and its chief product officer, said. “People want deliveries right to the door. Solving that last 10 feet isn’t optional.”
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Uzbekistan plans to fully launch a high-capacity nuclear power plant by 2035, according to Azim Akhmedkhadjaev, director of the “Uzatom” agency. Speaking on September 25 at World Atomic Week in Moscow, Akhmedkhadjaev said the first small modular reactor is expected to begin operations in 2029 in the Jizzakh region, followed by a second unit six months later. The large-scale plant will see its first reactor come online in 2033, with full capacity expected by 2035. He noted, however, that final timelines depend on the conclusion of outstanding contract agreements.
Akhmedkhadjaev confirmed that production of reactor equipment is already underway and that the project is proceeding on schedule. Responding to a question from a Spot correspondent, he reiterated the target dates for the larger reactors and emphasized that the timeline will be refined once contracts are finalized.
The announcement aligns with Uzbekistan’s broader nuclear energy strategy. As previously reported by The Times of Central Asia, the country plans to build both small modular and larger reactors at a single integrated nuclear facility. Under a revised agreement with Russia, Uzbekistan intends to construct two large VVER-1000 reactors alongside two smaller RITM-200N units. The initial framework for the project was established in 2018 and updated in 2024.
Earlier this year, The Times of Central Asia reported that Rosatom had begun manufacturing reactor components for the smaller units, with the first steel castings for the RITM-200N already produced in Saint Petersburg.
Uzbekistan’s pivot to nuclear energy is part of its strategy to meet rapidly increasing electricity demand, which is projected to reach 135 billion kWh by 2035, nearly double current consumption levels. To address this, the government is expanding generation capacity and modernizing the national grid.
While the plans are ambitious, challenges remain. As Akhmedkhadjaev acknowledged, the full implementation timeline depends heavily on contract finalization. Nevertheless, Uzbekistan’s dual-track approach, combining scalable small reactors with large base-load units, suggests a strategic commitment to energy security and diversification.
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