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Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself
How to social engineer an AI's reasoning engine
Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 70
Parallel computing pioneer went on to found early British ISP UK Online
Runtime: GitHub falls down, French taxpayers get hacked, Relay CEO runs to Google
+ Google releases a tool for verifying media files on local machines, and what's happening this week in Stacked Up.
Lloyds customers suffer online and mobile outage
Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers reported problems accessing online and mobile services on Tuesday.
Apple plugs image-processing hole ripe for spyware abuse
Patch batch spans current kit, older iGadgets, Macs, and Vision Pro
Hybrid-electric aviation startup Ampaire secures £14m Series B
Hybrid-electric aviation pioneer Ampaire has secured £14m in Series B funding to accelerate the commercialisation, supply chain, and manufacturing of its sustainable aircraft propulsion systems.
Server mode, triggers, and SQL: DuckDB teases V2.0
"This release kicks off the year of DuckDB as a server."
In conversation with: ClearScore’s Brian Cole
Since its 2015 launch, ClearScore has been known as one of the UK’s major providers of credit scores and reports, and while to this day that remains a core aspect of the group’s offering and identity, in 2026, the company believes its role as a financial marketplace and provider…
Royal London: Five state pension questions every adviser must tackle
The state pension is a valuable part of retirement income. Secure, inflation-linked and backed by the state, it can provide a foundation for retirement planning, shaping how clients draw on pensions, Isas and other assets throughout later life.
Microsoft finally fixing File Explorer and the Context Menu
Time to flex that Windows 10 muscle memory
Government Teams users face another ******* month of filtered captions
Officials must wait a little longer before Live Captions tells it like it is
Sir Michael Caine joins project to combat AI deepfakes
Film star Sir Michael Caine has joined a research project that aims to understand how well members of the public can distinguish real voices from AI-generated deepfakes.
FCA bans Beauforce senior manager over dishonesty
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned Howard Roland Duckett from working in financial services after finding that he demonstrated a serious lack of honesty and integrity.
Relay shuts up shop as CEO heads to AI-ify Chrome
Google rehires CEO as VP of Product after five years.
Just Eat to offer laundry services with new partnership
Food delivery service Just Eat is expanding into services with the launch of a laundry offering in the UK via a partnership with Laundryheap. Initially launching in London, Just Eat will allow customers to request laundry and dry cleaning services all through the takeaway…
Leader: The legislation that could scupper targeted support
I’m something of a marketer’s dream, because I rarely opt out of anything. Not because I particularly enjoy being bombarded with emails offering me products and services I don’t want or need, but rather because I am often simply too lazy to wade through the
Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment
Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps
Advisers call for ‘wrapper reset’ as tax changes complicate planning
Tax changes are forcing advisers to rethink how they use tax wrappers, with 88% saying wrapper decisions have become more complex over the past three years. The findings, from research commissioned by AJ Bell and conducted by Ad Lucem, also show strong demand for practical
Universities aren’t set up for commercialisation – Anne Lane, CEO, UCL Ventures
This week’s podcast guest is Dr Anne Lane, chief executive officer of UCL Ventures, who discusses why commercialising research at British universities remains a challenge despite significant will and the enormous impact of spending money on cutting-edge research.
UK puts Google AI on the flight path to fewer contrails
Trial will test whether small route and altitude tweaks can reduce aviation's warming impact
AI models get convenient amnesia about source material as they grow, MIT boffins find
Attributing diffusion model output to a specific input becomes more difficult with more training data
Would I lie to you? ANZ warns of troubling ‘scam-coaching’ trend
ANZ is warning customers about a troubling rise in 'scam‑coaching' – a tactic where criminals train victims to bypass bank security by giving them scripts, cover stories, and instructions on how to respond to bank staff.
Passport out-of-control at French airport
Visa and Mastercard back new Agentic Payments Alliance
Visa, Mastercard, Fiserv, Circle, Solana, and Remitly have joined the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA), a coalition of organisations working together to help guide the development of AI commerce.
How Banks and PSPs Can Ensure Innovation Without Excluding Vulnerable Adults
Joining the FinextraTV studio, Sean Tyrer, CEO and Founder, Money Carer helped to contextualise some of the key obstacles to traditional payments and banking that vulnerable adults face.
Dobbies to axe Antrim store in October
Dobbies is reportedly shutting its Antrim store at The Junction Retail and Leisure Park at the end of October.
Misconception or Magic: What to Know About the Modern Wealth Management World
At the Communify Intelligence Experience, Rupert Baron, co-founder, TechnoWealth, returns to Finextra TV to unpack how the definition of wealth keeps moving and what that means for the industry.
Bugaboo’s CEO Adriaan Thierry: “collaborations are part of our DNA”
Amsterdam-based stroller brand Bugaboo has unveiled a new limited-edition collection of baby products in collaboration with British fashion brand Stella McCartney.
NIFT founder discusses on-demand discovery and delivery
Simone Oloman, CEO and founder of Need It For Tonight (NIFT), is nominated for Women in Leadership at this year’s RG Retail Excellence Awards. She has built a retail model where speed, store stock and local fulfilment work together.