Business & Tech
The latest stories from independent business & tech media.
FCA warns young investors over misplaced trust in AI
Almost half of young investors wrongly believe AI-generated financial information is regulated, according to new data from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Meta's new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads
Faster than Blackwell, but still no replacement for AMD or Nvidia ... yet
The Nvidia train keeps rolling, and the company doesn't expect an AI slowdown
The company expects revenue for fiscal 2028, which doesn't begin until next January, to increase by 70% compared to the current fiscal year.
Stolen valor? How researchers discovered some open-weight models might have cut corners
Might Chinese labs have uncovered this reasoning-block decryption method first?
MNT follows up its open hardware portables with a desktop case
Upgrade the portable, give its old mainboard another job
AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database
Cloud giant expresses love for DuckDB by buying its main support and development company
OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face
Biz describes its act of automated irresponsibility as 'a warning shot'
Young British investors trust AI more than TV or celebs
Younger Brits trust AI tools more than TV and radio, the press, or social media influencers when it comes to investment advice, according to Financial Conduct Authority research.
Gates warns society faces an AI-pocalypse unless we get more socialist
AI and robots are advancing faster than you think, and we're not prepared for a world where the majority may be out of work
SiFive launches first RISC-V data centre server
"RISC-V in the datacenter isn't a distant aspiration anymore."
Flock shock rocks cop cam vendor as protests mount
Database from legal advocacy group details growing unease with warrantless panopticon
More than 100 water systems were hit in July cyberattacks
'These are test runs for a larger-scale attack'
GitHub Actions was down yet again
Another outage puts last week's promises to an early test
Lloyds customers suffer another app outage
Lloyds Banking Group customers have been hit with a second app outage in the space of a fortnight, with thousands of users reporting problems accessing their accounts.
FBI seizes hacking tools it says China used to attack NASA, DOE, US Senate and other critical networks
Meta's proposed $18B settlement in teen harm case throws YouTube and TikTok under the bus, too
Zuckercorp ties $5.3B of its payout to rivals playing along
Carhartt data breach affects 12.9M, half of what ShinyHunters claimed
One AI and two trained eyes delved into the heavily padded leaks
Memory crunch: Cloud operators may be pushed to splurge 68% of capex on DRAM and NAND
Rising costs of new kit due to soaring memory prices likely to feed into cloud service bills
Boston Scientific discloses 'global disruption' in ongoing cyberattack
No timeline to restore IT systems as probe remains ongoing
AWS is acquiring DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB
AWS acquires the team behind smash hit open-source database DuckDB.
Microsoft sketches out a Whiteboard extension
Users have a little more time to migrate from Azure storage to OneDrive
Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v1
K8s 1.37 also unsticks a Metrics API that has been lodged in beta status for nine years
Canadian payment processor Helcim raises C$53m
Helcim, a Canadian payment processor serving small and medium sized businesses, has raised C$53 million in a Series C funding round.
US treasury establishes 'Quantum-Readiness Task Force'
The US treasury department has launched a 'Quantum-Readiness Task Force' to help prepare for the financial sector’s transition to quantum-safe technology.
Castore marks 10 years since launch
The Liverpool-founded sportswear brand is celebrating its 10th anniversary as it looks to build on a decade of growth across elite sport, retail and premium apparel.
Brink's-NCR Atleos deal faces UK competition probe
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an inquiry into cash management giant Brink's' planned $6.6 billion deal to buy ATM operator NCR Atleos.
The Three Key Resilience Risks Often Missed in Strategy Talks
Joining the FinextraTV studio, Wayne Scott, Global Regulatory Compliance Lead, Escode described the things that underpin a resiliency discussion, growing in complexity.
CIOs are on notice – vSphere 8 times out in October 2027
SPONSORED FEATURE: How do you plan for AI and virtualization when the clock is ticking this loudly?