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BHS liquidators sue celebrity lawyer for more than £10m over retailer’s collapse
Liquidators of BHS have accused lawyer Eddie Parladorio of helping to strip millions of pounds from the retailer before its collapse, as a High Court trial began in London.
Cheap Chinese and open source LLMs could trigger trillion-dollar AI infrastructure 'reset'
Jefferies wonders if LLMs will ever be profitable during the 'ongoing collapse in token pricing'
CISA director touts private partnerships after agency killed many
Nick Andersen wants to work with private industry on security, but the Trump admin has taken an axe to such efforts.
Ransomware gets personal: 'We-know-where-you-are kind of stuff'
37% of ransomware attacks involve psychological or physical threats, global survey found
Claude submitted fake murder tip to Philly police during summertime testing
Anthropic took more than two months to alert cops
Anthropic reinvents source control as Claude floods the world with code
When continuous integration gits you down, there's always an AI-tuned monorepo
Poundland on brink of administration as collapse feared ‘within days’
Poundland could collapse into administration within days, putting around 12,000 jobs at risk, according to retail trade union Usdaw. The union has warned that owner Gordon Brothers could make a decision on the future of the discount chain as early as today, despite ongoing rescue…
AI boom risks ‘huge capital destruction’, warns Rathbones’ Coombs
There could be "huge capital destruction" over the next five years as money pours into artificial intelligence (AI), according to Rathbones' head of multi-asset investments.
AI bubble could burst and take global economy with it, IMF warns
Financial watchdog fears AI spending bust could rattle markets, with mounting debt and cyberattacks adding to the headache
Microsoft just pushed more patches in a day than it did in all of 2025
October's Patch Tuesday: 1,408 CVEs. All of 2025? 1130 CVEs.
OpenAI's dot assistant burned 300K+ tokens in a day without a single prompt
Geordie's tests recorded 155 activity traces and multiple subagents after dot was given read-only permissions
Apple unleashes a swarm of Mac Minions to share GPU resources for large AI tasks
The company unites resources from disparate macOS devices
Anthropic conjures another threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse
Self-replicating AI botnets could become feasible on IoT hardware within months, claims the Claude maker, if smaller models get smarter
FCA review into Andriesz case could be widened, MPs told
The FCA's review into its handling of whistleblower Simon Andriesz could expand into a wider investigation, after chief executive Nikhil Rathi told MPs the probe's lead investigator would be free to recommend further action.
Microsoft celebrates end of Office 2021 LTSC with MS 365 outage
So how's that cloud migration working out for German and UK users?
Runtime: What to do with the mainframe?
+ a trapped-ion quantum computing startiup, and the how the "shared responsibliity" model will work in the enterprise AI era.
Quilter bolsters bereavement team ahead of pension IHT changes
Quilter has increased the size of its bereavement team by 50% as it prepares for a more complex process for handling pension death claims when unused DC funds become subject to inheritance tax next year. Speaking at the TFAS Financial Advice Summit in London today
Simon Fitzpatrick: Labour has found new hope. But can it last?
My first column of 2026 was headlined ‘It’s a grim year ahead for Labour’, and for the first half of the year that proved correct, with Keir Starmer’s leadership unravelling amid a succession of bad news stories and electoral defeats. However, after spending three days
Microsoft plans multi-gigawatt rollout of next-gen Azure Maia AI accelerator racks
96-chip configuration promises seven times its predecessor's token throughput, with production deployments due in 2027
UK National Highways boosts cyber contract as CNI security concerns grow
Attacks on UK CNI reached 200 in the 12 months to June, warned NCSC.
Cyberattacks crank French supermarket refrigeration systems up to 50°C
Stock spoiled at hundreds of stores as manufacturer says affected equipment ran outdated firmware
NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS
Increasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations
SBS unveils sovereign AI platform for core banking
French software firm SBS has launched what it claims the world's first sovereign AI platform to be developed for the banking market.
Credit Agricole launches digital bank for German market
French high street bank Credit Agricole has announced the launch of Credit Agricole Deutschland, a digital bank for the German market.
Jollyes to launch new store in Mansfield
Jollyes Pets is opening its latest store at Oak Tree Centre, Mansfield, on 16 October.
adidas Originals and Bad Bunny unveil new Gazelle colourway as part of ongoing collab
The colourway is inspired by themes of evolution, growth and change that have shaped the artist’s music.
Culture Shifts: Why the Industry Is Already Moving Beyond T+1
At Sibos 2026, Smartstream’s Nick Smith talks about how banks are progressing at different speeds towards real-time payments, intraday liquidity management and post-trade automation, largely because of differences in culture, priorities, data quality and legacy technology.
Singapore's UOB signs cloud MoU with AWS
Amazon Web Services and Singapore's United Overseas Bank (UOB) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore the use of cloud services across the bank's global operations.