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‘The biggest issue is sourcing’: Inside MusicMagpie’s refurbished tech supply chain
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Or at least it is for MusicMagpie. The brand, which was acquired by AO World for £10m in 2024, has increasingly witnessed shoppers turning to more affordable second-hand and refurbished options.
AI model watermarking changes agent behavior
Lasso Security sees differences in tool handling and model refusals
Marvell pushes GlobalFoundries to light up wafer production
It might be the next trillion-dollar company, but it'll need some help on the supply side to do it
AI coding agents' 0-click RCE flaw could hand attackers keys to the kingdom
Plugin4Shell attack affects all the major coding agents, researchers say
Researchers find way to listen in on headphones from afar
Huawei's next-gen Ascend NPUs could become China's best option
960DT is set to arrive early, boasting performance far exceeding anything the West could offer the Middle Kingdom
Microsoft AI chief warns Anthropic not to put ideas in Claude's head
Mustafa Suleyman claims model welfare language could make future systems harder to control – while sparing OpenAI the same scrutiny
DoE seeking fault-tolerant quantum computer ... by 2028
Entrants get $250K upfront to deliver a demo within a year, which sounds totally feasible given quantum computing's track record
China's Salt Typhoon backdoors Latin American orgs with new snooping malware
Beware the SparroWocky, my son! The backdoor that bites…
Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool
Why go through the hassle of reading a study for yourself when you can turn it into an AI agent and tell it to reproduce the analysis for you?
Runtime: Why AI can't defeat every security challenge
+ MCP's push to improve messaging, why HiddenLayer is One To Watch, and AWS's Bahrain region is down and out.
London property manager breach may have exposed bank details and lockbox codes
City Relay says intruders accessed its Metabase Cloud instance twice and extracted customer data
Microsoft configuration change leaves SharePoint pages drawing a blank
Validation? Apparently that comes after deployment
Grassroots coalition asks politicians to choose voters over Big AI's $140M machine
QuitGPT-led pledge targets Leading the Future's push for lighter regulation ahead of the midterms
AI is having a moment, but it's not a danger to cryptography — yet
After Mythos "broke" an algorithm submitted to NIST, how are AI agents impacting the world of cryptography?
Alan Hughes: What the AFH case means for acquisitive advice firms
The increasing amount of consolidation in the financial adviser sector continually raises interesting issues for lawyers. The recent judgment in the case brought by AFH Independent Financial Services Limited (AFH IFS) and AFH Group Limited against an adviser (Ms Baker) from one…
Microsoft patch gives domain-joined Windows PCs trust issues
Machine Identity Isolation policies can reject valid credentials unless controllers meet the Server 2025 functional level
MCP team focused on enabling "agentic messaging" says co-creator
The protocol's first MCPCon in Europe since joining the Linux Foundation provided an overview of its future.
Cisco drops another exploited zero-day, this time a perfect 10
ISE authentication bypass under active attack just days after another Cisco zero-day sent admins scrambling to patch
Tesco builds on successful F&F Online launch with revamped shopping experience
Following the relaunch of F&F Online, Tesco is expanding its fashion ecommerce offer adding more styles and size options, as well as exclusive online ranges.
Greggs overtakes Costa as largest UK coffee destination
Greggs has overtaken Costa Coffee to become the UK’s largest branded coffee shop operator, highlighting the growing influence of food-to-go retailers in the increasingly competitive coffee market.
UK payments firm Ryft raises £20m for European push
Manchester-based payments infrastructure platform Ryft is targeting Europe and the US after raising £20 million in a Series B funding round.
Revolut exploring dual New York and London listing - Storonsky
Revolut is exploring a dual listing in New York and London, says the UK fintech's CEO Nik Storonsky.
‘Get back to old-fashioned barter’: Why are brands trading instead of spending?
With budgets tightening across the business world, marketing is often under pressure to do more with less. But what if a brand could pay for part of a campaign without paying entirely in cash?
The State of Fintech: The Top Insights into European Payments Evolution
In this interview, we break down the results from a recent State of Fintech report, providing a concise overview of the top insights. Recording with FinextraTV from the Visa Direct offices, Olga Ovchinnikova, VP, Head of Visa Direct Europe covers: - How complexity within…
The long tail of El Niño: Why might the food inflation calm be coming to an end?
Imagine stepping into your local supermarket for the weekly shop, only to be met with shortages from the fruit and vegetable aisle to the tea and coffee shelves.
Wealthtech platform Envestnet to acquire Vestmark
Wealthtech platform Envestnet is to acquire portfolio management tech firm Vestmark as consolidation continues in the wealth management software space.
ETFBook raises $13m for global expansion plans
Swiss data and analytics platform ETFBook is set to expand its operations after completing a $13m fundraising round.
