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Trump has declared the Strait of Hormuz ‘functional’. But what changes do suppliers need to trust the shipping route again?
President Donald Trump has declared the Strait of Hormuz 'functional' again. Six months on from the start of the conflict, what will it take for suppliers to trust the shipping route again?
Nvidia and Cerebras are selling performance their customers will (probably) never see
Touting batch 1 token generation is a bit like boasting about the top speed of your car
Omarchy distro gains serious backing
Polarizing opinions while tech heavyweights put up $10M
Police investigating possible forgery at AFRINIC election
The regional internet registry is also trying to make it easier to terminate members
Anthropic proposes plumbing spec to link AI agents to lab kit and robots
Say you're trying to enrich Uranium and your centrifuges broke - soon it will be easy to connect an AI to figure out why
CRPx0 hacking service for dummies claims victim count more than quintupled
It's 'built to be operated by a human with no technical background'
Salesforce says AI models won't eat SaaS, as it hands keys to Claude
Time to stop SaaSpocalypse "nonesense" says CEO Benioff.
Cyborg cockroaches may soon deliver life-saving drugs to disaster victims
Just what you want crawling through the rubble to rescue you: A swarm of remote-controlled cockroaches with syringe-shooting guns strapped to their backs
AI girlfriend review site's secrets were exposed to the world for three weeks
Even testing and staging sites need protection from prying eyes
Google forces Android apps to use memory more wisely as RAMpocalypse rages
No one can afford RAM anymore, so we're requiring devs to mind memory usage
RQD* Clearing raises $74 million
Bain Capital has led a $74 million minority growth investment in technology-driven clearing and custody player RQD* Clearing.
Runtime: Mysterious model-making maneuvers, Nvidia marches on, AWS acquires DuckLabs
+ OpenAI releases more details on the Hugging Face incident, and Marc Benioff cozies up to Anthropic.
Hugging Face offers $399 robot duck to help you quack the AI code
Microduck from Pollen Robotics runs on open source software, is just 25cm tall, and is ready to play out of the box
Harvey Nichols shutters Dublin store amid takeover
Harvey Nichols will close its Dundrum store in Dublin this September, according to reports, with staff already informed. Frasers completed its acquisition of Harvey Nichols on 14 August through a pre-pack administration, paying roughly £40m.
Nitter might be no more, but Twitter is back (sort of)
Twitter.now aims to fill the bird-shaped hole left by X. For a fee
Salesforce boasts: 50% of bookings were from 'customers refilling the tank... they consume Flex Credits, they want more'
As SaaS giant gets a boost from Claudeforce, users might want to know how their AI use will be monetized
Dan Wiltshire: The tyranny of AI-generated scrutiny
AI is a great leveller. After a few prompts, we have a superficially detailed take on any topic. I’ve benefited from this amazing new technology while renovating my house recently. I’d never done anything like this before, and I’m both incredibly impractical and hopelessly bad
OpenAI released the full Hugging Face report – with some big security promises
OpenAI teams failed to raise alarms when misaligned agent activity was observed in late May.
Cybercrooks jet off with Manchester Airports Group customer data
UK’s largest airport operator believes 8.7 million customers affected
HP has a solution to expensive AI tokens: Buy a more expensive PC
Rising cloud AI costs are pushing workloads onto pricier PCs – which just happen to be better for PC maker's margins
Swift accepts request to extend structured address migration for ISO 20022 messages
Swift is extending the November deadline for moving from unstructured to structured postal addresses for ISO 20022 payment messages after a host of banks asked for more time to comply.
Savers to open new Northampton distribution centre
Savers is to open a new distribution centre in Northampton in late 2026, as it invests in additional capacity to support the retailer’s growth.
Mike Ashley calls govt ‘delusional’ and asks PM to help turn around Harvey Nichols
Mike Ashley has written to Prime Minister Andy Burnham calling for the government to focus on what he describes as the underlying pressures facing retailers.
Schrödinger's backup: not actually recovered until you try to restore IT
SPONSORED FEATURE: Verify and survive: your backup isn't real 'til you test it
Opinion: Global containers losses surge in 2025 as weather and shipping disruptions mount
Recent analysis of the Containers Lost at Sea Report 2026 by Cleveland Containers, a leading supplier of shipping containers, has uncovered an increase in lost cargo compared to the previous 12 months.
Socure hits $5.2bn valuation on investment; buys AI fraud platform Fravity
Socure, the identity and risk intelligence infrastructure platform, has raised funding from investors including Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Wells Fargo at a $5.2 billion valuation.
US state bankers associations to build industry-owned blockchain network
Bankers associations from 39 US states have banded together to create an industry-owned blockchain network.
How the banking industry can ensure vulnerable adults don’t remain underbanked
The industry often lauds the success of new technologies and rapid advances in real-time payments, but, for some, these changes can create exclusion and leave the most vulnerable underbanked.
How the industry can ensure vulnerable adults don’t remain underbanked
The industry often lauds the success of new technologies and rapid advances in real-time payments, but, for some, these changes can create exclusion and leave the most vulnerable underbanked.
