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'Near-autonomous' AI agents attack Taiwan's nuclear safety agency
Some say the world will end in fire, some say an agentic swarm
Deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's Tailscale outages
Think your bugs are a pain to track? WAL-Reset took six months of hunting and development of a new logging tool to identify
Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare
Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure
Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn't nebulous
And it'll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there
How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget
Even two-tenths of a watt matters when your spacecraft launched in 1977
OpenAI ad service can bill customers for up to one day after they pause campaigns
ChatGPT Ads, I wish I knew how to quit you
Off the Record: Ian Kloss, head of intermediaries, RBC Brewin Dolphin
As IFA firms grapple with sustainable service fees and cybersecurity challenges, Ian Kloss looks at the importance of good service from third-party providers and whether the cost to service is impacting accessibility to advice.
Exposed: Woeful security at UK criminal records office that led to sensitive data leak
Nobody patched the CMS or read the alerts, and ACRO still cannot tell whether info was exfiltrated
Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible
Eight years on, we're still paying to hide the future glimpsed during speculative execution
Nvidia's latest solution to soaring enterprise AI costs is...a router?
NeMo Switchyard brings GPT-5-style model routing to the mainstream
Lovable raises $400m and doubles valuation; leans into enterprise support
We will be the "most intuitive platform to build and run a business" said its CEO.
OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models
Contributors wanted: 167B transparent tokens have a long way to go against AI giants' trillions
CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B
Neocloud says AI compute demand is becoming continuous, but so is the spending
PE firm WestBridge takes majority stake in Beckett
Private equity firm WestBridge has agreed to take a majority stake in financial planning firm Beckett Investment Management Group, subject to regulatory approval.
Smooth-talking fraudsters clone contactless cards, authorize payments in just 13 minutes
Social engineering and malware combine to enable financial fraud before banks have time to act
Oracle adds "world's most accurate" quantum computer to its cloud service
Oracle linked up with Quantinuum to offer access to its Helios computer.
Uber Freight keeps on trucking after extortion crew breaks in
Helix claims nearly a million files, while the logistics biz says operations never hit the brakes
Franklin Templeton keeps AI overweight despite tech volatility
Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions (FTIS) has maintained its overweight allocation to artificial intelligence-related equities. It argues that recent volatility in technology stocks has created a healthier backdrop for investors rather than undermining the long-term…
Phil Wickenden: With AI, the wrong answer has never sounded better
Three-quarters of advisers now use AI, according to Intelliflo’s 2026 Advice Efficiency Survey. What is striking is not simply the scale of adoption, which is undoubtedly new, but how familiar the work being handed to AI remains. Among advisers using the technology, 87% deploy it
S&P Global data integrated into Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft has struck a deal to integrate S&P Global AI-ready data, insights and analytics into its 365 Copilot workflows and agentic experiences.
Revolut reduces WeWork access for premium members
Revolut premium subscribers have lost access to a host of WeWork offices across Europe after the shared workspace firm increased its fees.
Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows
Bitwise Asset Management axes 14% of jobs
US crypto index fund manager Bitwise Asset Management has becomes the latest digital assets player to take an axe to its workforce, reducing its headcount by around 14%, according to Bloomberg.
Akira ransomware scum blocked victim's security tools – and broke their own encryptor
Foot Locker highlights ‘sneaker culture’ in new brand platform
Foot Locker has launched a new campaign showcasing its role at the “centre of sneaker and basketball culture”. Titled ‘It Always Will be Foot Locker”, the brand platform features a two minute brand anthem narrated by American rapper Method Man.
Sovereign AI overcomes compliance challenges and feeds innovation in public sector and other regulated industries, say HPE and NVIDIA
SPONSORED POST: Sovereign AI is becoming a strategic infrastructure priority, explain HPE's Thierry Pienaar and NVIDIA's Kaushik Shirhatti
HSBC invests in AI modelling firm
HSBC Asset Management (HSBC AM), the high street bank's investment management arm, has provided funding for London-based AI startup Model ML.
Deliveroo partners with Lookfantastic for on-demand beauty delivery
Lookfantastic will offer rapid delivery on more than 300 beauty, skincare, haircare, make-up and wellness products, as it teams up with Deliveroo. The range is available through Deliveroo in cities including London, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, Nottingham and Leeds.
