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News · August 18, 2026

National Cyber Agencies and Big Banks Head to Fredericton for UNB's Cybersecurity Summit

PST Cybersecurity Summit 2026 brings speakers from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, Public Safety Canada, DND/CAF Cyber Command, Scotiabank, TD and Mastercard to the Fredericton Convention Centre on Aug. 20 — alongside eight UNB research posters on adversarial AI, malware explainability, agent-protocol security and post-quantum migration.

NB Tech News Staff · 3 min read

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News · August 18, 2026

When the First Canadian Flew to the Moon, Fredericton Was Listening

UNB was the only Canadian university picked to help track Artemis II — the April mission that carried CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen, the first Canadian to fly to the Moon, farther from Earth than any human has ever travelled. Two UNB researchers also sit on the Curiosity rover science team.

NB Tech News Staff · 3 min read

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News · August 11, 2026

N.B. Lawyer Admits Filing AI Briefs With Fake Citations

Denis Sawyer faces a Sept. 3 Law Society discipline hearing after admitting he used generative AI incompetently and filed a Provincial Court brief in which 10 of 12 citations were fictitious.

NB Tech News Staff · 5 min read

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News · July 23, 2026

UNB Stitches Its Startup Machinery Into One Network

The new Network for Entrepreneurship and Innovation puts seven campus programs under one roof, with Dhirendra Shukla as inaugural executive director and a claimed $125.5M spinoff impact.

NB Tech News Staff · 2 min read