“You should never leverage technology for technology’s sake. It has to solve a problem.”
That’s what Dr. Sumbul Ahmad Desai, vice president for health and fitness at Apple, said during her keynote conversation during the 2026 HIMSS Global Health Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas in March.
She’s been at the tech giant for nearly a decade and has overseen the development of its wearables as they become more clinically useful, helping to support monitoring for heart health, sleep and more. “We don’t want to just empower you. We want to empower you to have a better relationship with…

Splunk Enterprise Pre-Auth RCE Chain Exposes Database With Zero Authentication
A critical vulnerability chain in Splunk Enterprise has been disclosed, enabling unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution (RCE) through a misconfigured PostgreSQL sidecar service.


