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The recent cyberattack on MOVEit servers that resulted in some 6 million records at the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles being compromised should prompt local businesses to invest in more robust cybersecurity measures, experts in the field say.

Ten companies from the Greater Baton Rouge area have made this year’s Inc. 5000 list highlighting the fastest growing companies in the U.S.

After years of rapid growth that led to solid majorities in different corners of the state, Republicans are positioned for what can only be described as dominance in Louisiana.

Bollinger Shipyards is closing its operations in New Orleans and plans to shift the work to its larger facilities on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, reports New Orleans City Business.

The Department of Energy has selected Baton Rouge-based professional solutions firm Aptim to deactivate, decommission and remove the Ion Beam Facility, a former nuclear testing site within the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. 

While donors to LSU athletics now can support student-athletes directly through name, image and likeness deals, they don’t seem to be pulling back on their donations to the Tiger Athletic Foundation, according to foundation CEO Matt Borman. 

The cacophony of alarms around generative AI has left business executives disoriented and concerned, particularly given that the technology is available to anyone within their organizations, not just data scientists. 

An apartment complex tucked off of Government Street has been sold to a local investor for $11 million, according to land records. 

Recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found that nearly 7% of jobs in Louisiana are in the construction industry, 1.7 percentage points higher than the national concentration, KTBS reports.

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