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Interview: Pip & Nut head of sustainability on the brand’s net zero balancing act
Adam Thompson spends most of his time on the numbers behind the UK's biggest nut butter brand. Increasingly, though, he's also the person explaining the maths behind its climate targets, and why rapid growth makes a fixed net zero deadline harder to hit than it looks on paper.
NASA and IBM open source lunar mapping tools
Can help you pick the perfect spot for your future evil lair, or boffins make discoveries about Earth's satellite
AI job cuts could come with a costly undo button
Gartner reckons nearly a third of displaced employees may be rehired by 2029 – at a premium
OpenAI arms devs with AI conversation tool that can talk and listen at the same time
GPT-Live-1 makes speaking to AI models more fluid
Latest Anthropic horror story chills with tales of kamikaze drone swarms and bioweapons research
Everyone from ShinyHunters to Russian freelancers is in on the illicit model fun
Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance
Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line
Acquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'
Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script
Human operator: don't touch CIS orgs. AI agents: look a squirrel!
OpenAI's website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought
New report points finger at OpenAI bots that hijacked a German wiki for improper use of an additional 20 websites, and 14 fetching services
UK gov seeks advice on regulating AI in the energy sector
New doc outlines vision of an AI future where the country's "energy system largely runs itself".
1 month, 5 outages: Databases are under massive strain at GitHub
Peak cache CPU utilisation for GitHub Actions trimmed, temporarily, from a worrying 98% to 80%, MySQL DBs moving to Azure...
Visa, Mastercard, Ant Group band together for agentic commerce framework
Creating a new market of agentic shoppers is a uniting cause.
Azure SQL Data Sync stops taking newcomers before 2027 execution
Existing customers can carry on for now, but Microsoft offers no like-for-like successor
Nscale swallows lion's share of UK datacenter investment
Tracxn credits one AI infrastructure outfit with $3.7B of sector's $5.7B haul
Amanda Ford: Are you communicating or just talking?
Financial planning is a technical profession. But it is also, fundamentally, a people business. You can have an outstanding proposition, brilliant technology and all the qualifications in the world, but much of what makes a great financial adviser great happens in a conversation.
ShinyHunters expose 6.4M in attack on medical supplier McKesson
Have I Been Pwned logs leaked records spanning patients, staff, and providers
d-Matrix drinks the Nvidia Kool-Aid with NVLink Fusion and MGX rack designs
AI infrastructure startup joins Qualcomm, Arm, Marvell, Amazon, Fujitsu, and MediaTek as NVLink true believers
Ministers rejected NATS reimbursement plan before 2,000 UK flights were cancelled
Government orders independent review as carriers demand boss's resignation
Whistles celebrates 50 years with customer-fronted relaunch
Whistles has put 50 customers at the centre of its relaunch, as the TFG London-owned fashion brand celebrates its 50th anniversary with a new website and campaign. Earlier this year, Whistles initiated an open casting call through-out London with over 2,000 women responding.
Mexican fintech Kapital raises $100 million in new financing
Mexico City-based AI-powered platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) Kapital has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round.
Diddly Squat Farm and Blue Diamond Garden Centre’s unveil Christmas collection
Diddly Squat and Blue Diamond Garden Centres have unveiled a new co-produced gifting collection for Christmas, as part of their three-year partnership.
Trezor, BitBox users targeted in newsletter phishing spree
Attackers exploit legitimate mailing channels to demand crypto wallet backups
Runtime: The smallest Patch Tuesday of the rest of your life
+ NATS struggles to recover from Tuesday's massive air-traffic control outage, and Boston Scientific reveals the damage from August's cyberattack.
Nasdaq invests $100m in Payward as part of tokenised equities partnership
The venture capital arm of exchange operator Nasdaq has invested $100 million in Kraken parent Payward as part of a wider partnership on tokenised market infrastructure.
Currys helps customers ‘reduce waste’ in new campaign
Currys has unveiled a new campaign to help customers apply an “energy-saving mindset” to tech in the home. Part of the retailer’s ‘Beyond Techspectations’ brand platform, the campaign uses the ‘dad energy’ trend to showcase how colleagues can help customers under smarter, more…
Debenhams sells Sheffield warehouse to Primark
On the day that Primark announced it will begin home delivery of ecommerce orders, Debenhams has sold its Sheffield distribution centre to the discounter. In a £90m cash deal, Debenhams has sold the automation in the DC and reassigned the lease to Primark.
DHL’s Spencer Conday on how heatwaves are reshaping Christmas run-up
The festive period may be months away, but Christmas calendars are already landing on doorsteps, even as the UK undergoes record heatwaves. It might feel wrong, opening a cardboard advent calendar while the weather forecast app reads something close to 34 degrees, but for the…
Budget: Keep your foot off fuel duty, logistics chief tells Chancellor
For Logistics UK chief executive Ben Fletcher, the Budget is not just about lorries and fuel tanks, but a want for ministers to see his industry as the thread running through every other sector: retail, manufacturing, construction, hospitality, all of which depend on goods moving…
Aberdeen Adviser announces several senior hires to support growth
Aberdeen Adviser has made several senior appointments to support its long-term growth and transformation ambitions. Ranila Ravi-Burslem joins the firm from Lloyds Banking Group as chief distribution officer on 5 October 2026.
Hotel Chocolat brings gifting to customers through Deliveroo
Hotel Chocolat is giving customers a new way to send chocolate gifts when the moment calls for it, as it partners with Deliveroo. Launching initially with five Hotel Chocolat locations – Manchester Cross Street, Chiswick, Staines, St James’s and Wimbledon – customers will be able…