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Cloudflare tries to outplay Jev with open-weight Clef models
Sure, it costs more, but it can handle images and video and it's available on Hugging Face if you have the hardware horsepower to run it locally
Cloudflare launches Data Platform with bland 'Basin' branding, promise of fewer fees
Serverless data management without egress fees, sort of
AWS offers local, open source leash for agent harnesses
Dogwood Local Engine checks AI tool calls against user-defined temporal rules before they run
AI agents hacked the hackers, stealing email addresses from security research org
Chained Zammad flaws enabled session hijacking, code execution, and root escalation in seconds
True Potential cuts platform fees for larger portfolios
True Potential has introduced tiered platform charging that will reduce fees for clients with portfolios above £150,000, replacing its longstanding flat-rate pricing structure from 1 October.
MI5 warns UK academics their research may have helped Chinese spies
Institutions told to trace who is really financing their work or risk falling foul of national security law
Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP
Homa is a rethink of networks for the AI age
EU’s hodgepodge tech policy exposes members to Chinese vendor risks, says think tank
RUSI wants procurement rethink that could put US suppliers under scrutiny too
Suspected Chinese spies spoofed an Anthropic exec, ex-White House official in AI phishing
Your invite to a fake AI policy advisory committee has strings attached
Nubank rejects Monzo takeover talk
Brazilian digital banking giant Nubank has denied that it is pursuing a $10 billion takeover of Britain's Monzo.
Metrocentre acquired by Landsec in £516m deal
Landsec, which operates Liverpool ONE and Bluewater, has exchanged contracts to acquire a 100 per cent stake in Metrocentre, Gateshead for £516m. The property investment firm takes over ownership of Newcastle’s Metrocentre from Tynehawk Holdings (Jersey) Limited.
Microsoft makes Windows settings backup the default in 26H2
Annual update installed. You're up to date, so nothing seems to have changed. Wait a minute...
Fairstone tops £23bn as acquisition drive accelerates
Fairstone has pushed client assets beyond £23bn after stepping up its acquisition drive, completing nine deals in the first four months of 2026.
14 years after RDR, 78% still fear adviser commission bias
Nearly 14 years after the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) banned commission on retail investment and pension advice, more than three-quarters of consumers who have not paid for advice still believe recommendations could be influenced by commission.
Microsoft catches hackers exploiting Zimbra bug before disclosure
Attackers were probing the mail server flaw weeks before it had a CVE to its name
Synopsys gets OpenAI's help to build chip-design model
The software company will share revenue with OpenAI after its AI tools got a GPT-powered boost.
Robin Powell: The FCA’s targeted support test needs to go beyond take-up
A 33% relative uplift in investment-account openings sounds like success. Lucy Castledine, the FCA’s director of consumer investments, presented Monzo’s figure as "early evidence of the impact" of targeted support in a speech at the Investor Summit on 18 September.
CISO thought he had a 'r3@lg00dp@$$w0rd' but forgot to patch
Replacing letters with symbols still doesn’t make it good.
Exchange Web Services enters the final stretch before Microsoft pulls access
Legacy API begins disappearing from tenants today, with no exceptions after April
Palantir's Tom Watson lectures MP on accuracy, citing selective data
Former Labour deputy challenges Clive Lewis but skips the warnings attached to NHS figures
Barclays ramps up use of Anthropic's Claude
Barclays is extending its use of Anthropic's Claude in an effort to accelerate software development, modernise its legacy systems and boost operational efficiency.
Runtime: The Polycurious CISO; enter Gemini 4; JPMorgan punches holes in NetScaler
Sibos 2026: What does a successful ESG strategy look like?
How can global financial institutions maintain a coherent sustainability strategy with constantly shifting expectations? This was discussed at Sibos Miami 2026 by a panel of experts.
Sibos 2026: Don't just think tech, think talent to achieve broad AI literacy
It’s not just the tech banks need to think about. The talent that is needed to make most organisational AI aspirations a reality is a huge part of the successful AI adoption — per an expert panel at the 2026 Sibos conference in Miami.
The Very Group names new marketing director
The Very Group has named Beckie Crane-Stanion as its new marketing director. Prior to joining The Very Group, Crane-Stanion was consultant global brand director for jewellery brand Abbott Lyon.
Stripe to buy embedded finance platform Parafin
Stripe has agreed to buy embedded financial products platform Parafin. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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European payments groups join forces to take on US giants
Some of Europe's biggest payments groups - Bancomat, Bizum, Wero, Sibs-MB WAY and Vipps MobilePay - have banded together to create a cross-continent network that can take on Visa and Mastercard.
