Business & Tech

Bank of England raises interest rates to 4% as retailers face fresh cost pressures

The Bank of England has raised interest rates to 4 per cent in its first increase in more than three years, adding further pressure on UK retailers already grappling with squeezed consumer spending and rising operating costs.

Tobacco company got smoked by leaving secret recipes on a file share

They denied the data was real...then removed it

Anthropic won't fix a Claude Dispatch flaw that could let attackers execute remote commands across corporate boundaries

Bank of England raises interest rates for the first time in three years

The Bank of England has raised interest rates from 3.75% to 4% today (5 November) following a sharp uptick in UK inflation. The rate hike, which was widely predicted by analysts and economists, is the bank's first in more than three years. Annual inflation, as

Copilot Chat has usage caps, and Microsoft would rather you found them by hitting them

Mystery limits expand for users without the paid add-on, with upgrade prompts ready when features run dry

WATCH TK Maxx launches first new Christmas advert in three years

TK Maxx is back on the farm for Christmas 2026, but introducing a new cast of characters to promote its value-led gifting proposition. Titled Festive Crossing, the campaign marks the retailer’s first new Christmas advert in three years, building on the farmyard world first…

The White House is apparently a popular residential proxy exit spot

How it got there is another matter entirely

Finra fines Webull $4.2m for AML and best execution failures

Digital investing platform Webull has been fined $4.2 million by US regulators for failing to roll out "reasonably designed" programmes for anti-money laundering, identity theft prevention and best execution.

October crypto-tracker hack: Access cracked, law enforcement tokens packed

Agentic 'on-path attack' went after Chainalysis's tools, which are routinely called upon to assist police investigations

Get root on a musl Linux system by slamming it with an overly long password

Decade-old vulnerability in OpenSSH is now fixed, so get a-patchin'

After Election Day in the US, the data-center boom is about to look very different

Incoming governors in Texas, Ohio, and Georgia want to pause new data-center construction, and voters have their backs.

openSUSE Leap 16.1 gives Linux users the right to remain immutable

One installer now offers conventional and read-only systems as separate Micro distro bows out

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Cyber, and promises this one stays within 'rules of engagement'

The latest bug hunting model 'avoided exploiting out-of-scope services over 99 percent of the time', claims House of Altman

Runtime: OpenAI's plans to expand its enterprise foothold

+ Railway's hacking misadventure, the Home Office bets big on AWS, and Datadog's growth spurt is slowing down.

AMD CEO: We’re helping customers get data center infrastructure

Lisa Su: "We are selectively investing with our lead partners where we see it's helpful"

Memory makers mint megabucks while buyers beg for mercy

DRAM revenue jumps 369 percent as AI demand keeps supplies tight and prices climbing

Titan Wealth: Quality investing hasn’t failed. It has gone on sale

The market is paying no more for the world’s best businesses than for the average one. That has happened only twice before, and each time proved to be an opportunity rather than a verdict on quality investing. For two years, owning the world’s best businesses

Microsoft fixed Excel 2016 copy-paste bug. Then reintroduced it. Now it's fixed again

All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again. Maybe

Just 11% of consumers that start a protection journey buy policies, finds AMI study

The number of consumers who have never started a protection journey has risen from 65% in 2025 to 72% in 2026, according to the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries’ latest Protection Viewpoint report.

'Stop dirty datacenters': Europe-wide protests planned demanding building moratorium

Curbing compute farms played a big part in recent US elections, now Euro activists are making their feelings known

UK Home Office plans to double its spending on AWS next year

The proposed contract, if extended for four years, would see the Home Office spend £882 million on cloud services from AWS.

New York's Queens Public Library battles ransomware crims: Wi-Fi, checkouts, and website go dark

No gang has claimed the attack on incredible neighborhood resource yet

Norway's aid agency pwned and all users' data is stolen

Norad said it cannot be sure that the details of those in 'conflict areas and authoritarian states' are safe or not

India's NPCI creates tech and innovation unit

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has set up a technology and innovation arm focused on areas including AI and blockchain.

JP Morgan Payments and Mastercard invest in agentic commerce startup firmly

JP Morgan Payments and Mastercard have joined a $15 million Series A funding round for no-code agentic commerce platform firmly.

Early Revolut employees open waitlist for wealth AI startup Haido

A pair of early Revolut employees has opened the waitlist for their new venture, an AI wealth company that has secured backing from UK fintech heavyweights including Eileen Burbidge.

Stablecoin firm Yellow Card target Brazil through GoMoney acquisition

Stablecoin payments infrastructure provider Yellow Card has set its sights on Brazil after acquiring local virtual asset service outfit GoMoney. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Block faces $765m DoJ settlement

Block has reached a preliminary settlement with the US Department of Justice that could see Jack Dorsey's firm pay $764 million over money laundering failures.

Kalepa raises $75m to expand AI underwriting platform

Insurance AI firm Kalepa has raised $75 million in Series B funding at a $470 million valuation, as it looks to expand its AI platform across the insurance value chain and into new markets.

The LEGO Group unveils ‘magical’ Christmas ad

The LEGO Group has unveiled its Christmas ad campaign which invites families to take a peak behind the doors of its holiday workshop. Titled The Holiday Worksho‘, the campaign was directed by Michael Gracey, known for The Greatest Showman and Better Man.