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Weekend Essay: Don’t forget to look out for the mini milestones
It’s the big life events and milestones that traditionally prompt people to get financial advice. Things like getting married, divorced or retiring all have financial implications, so that makes sense.
Sainsbury's staff eject wrong shopper after facial recognition alert – again
Facewatch says its technology worked as intended before humans mishandled the result
Chinese AI company Zhipu claims its new model is a better bug-finder than Anthropic, OpenAI
PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; South Korea to fine Apple, Google; India bans some rideshare tips; and more!
Western Union gets New York nod for Intermax acquisition; still face California hurdles
Western Union has committed to maintain its store locations in New York State and cap fee increases for three years in order to head off opposition to its acquisition of rival Intermax.
Polygon joins BofE's Digital Pound Lab to test cross-border settlement
Polygon Labs has joined Nobo Finance and Dun & Bradstreet for phase two of the Bank of England's Digital Pound Lab, testing near-instant cross-border settlement.
Stopping a cyberattack while walking your dog - defensive AI security CEO says it's not ruff to do
Corma CEO tells The Reg it's building 'One ring to rule them all, for the defenders to have this power'
The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments
Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change
ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses
Shai-Hulud variant poisons 444 packages, spreads via tarballs and dev-tool hooks
Runtime: DeepSeek's new coding harness; Grok levels up
+ Grok is getting closer to the frontier, and Writer aims for the frugal AI developer with its new model.
Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine
Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices
Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words
'Shall I compare thee to a summer's afternoon' is the sort of thing this will make, and others look likely to adopt it
Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon
Turns out this space thing really is hard
French tax authority admits data heist after crook touts 2M records
Government disputes claims of continued access as investigators measure damage
DeepSeek's innovative harness treats everything as a plug-in
Chinese AI labs keep moving forward while US labs play defense
For Z.ai's GLM-5.3, post-training is all you need
The new open-weight model is much better at coding and cybersecurity tasks than its predecessor, and while it still trails the frontier models the gap is shrinking.
Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine
Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons
Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age
Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology
Google releases new version of its ‘workhorse’ model Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google pushes out new mid-tier model for agentic work three weeks after the last version.
Autonomous AI attacks pose 'clear and present danger' to critical infrastructure
Weaponized agents could turn digital intrusions into kinetic disasters, experts warn
Less than a year on, Microsoft tells Mico to pipe down
Copilot's gurning blob is leaving Voice for a new career in education
TalkTalk Business and ARO to borg into UK tech services giant
70,000 customers will join the collective, whose name and leader remain unknown
1.6M RingCentral accounts' data dumped after ShinyHunters extortion attack
UK tech funding roundup: This week’s deals from Cambridge Aerospace to FlairMakers
This week’s UK tech funding deals include autonomous air defence system developer Cambridge Aerospace, talent-as-a-service marketplace FlairMakers and more.
Aldi joins forces with Freedom4Girls to urge all UK supermarkets to offer free period products
Aldi has joined its charity partner Freedom4Girls in urging more supermarkets to provide free period products in store toilets. Julia Ashfield, chief commercial officer at the retailer and Tina Leslie MBE, founder of Freedom4Girls have written an joint letter to the chief…
Screwfix names agency for PPC account
Screwfix has named Incubeta to its Pay per Click (PPC) account for the UK and Ireland, following a competitive multi-stage pitch process. The agency will be responsible for fully handling strategic consultancy and account management.
JPMorgan debanked Polymarket - FT
JPMorgan Chase ended its banking relationship with prediction market Polymarket last year over regulatory concerns, according to the Financial Times.
KFC and ‘Chicken Wine’ bring ‘Coq au Vin’ pop up to Shoreditch
Fast food chain KFC has partnered with La Viellie Ferme, more commonly known as the ‘Chicken Wine’ brand, to launch a wine bar over the bank holiday weekend. Only open 28 August to August 31, the pop-up, Coq au Vin, is located at Katchette Amex in Shoreditch, London.
