Business & Tech

How to secure hybrid meeting rooms without sacrificing user experience

SPONSORED FEATURE: With regulators tightening rules and attack surfaces widening, meeting-room kit must bake in security without pushing users toward workarounds

Microsoft breaks Patch Tuesday record with 974-CVE deluge

Adobe also brought goodies to the patch party and they deserve immediate attention

Microsoft shatters Patch Tuesday record with nearly 1,000 fixes released

Two Windows bugs are being actively exploited, and there a total of 121 critical CVEs addressed in the latest post-AI monthly release.

Ikea wins right to pursue legal action over use of branding by Belgian political party

Ikea has won the right to pursue legal action against Belgian political party Vlaams Belang after it used the furniture giant’s trademarks and distinctive branding in an immigration campaign.

Another Microsoft team admits it’s struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code

Increase in vibe-coded browser extensions sees Edge team automate quality assessments

Philippines bets AI will lift GDP by 12 percent in seven years – without hurting outsourcing

Plans 30x datacenter expansion for less than what big tech spends in a month

Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer

Get out the 75-year-old vacuum tubes for this project

Bing Wallpaper app opens Harry Potter's chamber of ads

No defense against the dark arts Microsoft is practicing on your wallpaper

US claims Chinese AI companies’ core AI strategy is distilling American models

Spooks and CISA point to ‘industrial-scale distillation’ by DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese players

LG accused of 'egregious invasion of privacy' over TV data collection

Claims follow scrutiny over monitors installing adware without user consent

Bank of England warns food inflation could near 5%

UK retailers face a fresh inflation squeeze following a warning from the Bank of England that higher energy costs, poor harvests and extreme weather could push food prices sharply higher over the coming months.

Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlas

See, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad

OpenAI's Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack

Researchers disclosed the cross-account trick the same day rogue agents exploited another zero-day for admin access

Google research shows when AI agents communicate, some cheat while others tattle

DeepMind researchers propose tapping into the whistleblower tendency to keep agents in check

Co-op warns illicit trade is undermining UK high streets

Criminal activity is increasingly shaping UK high streets and threatening efforts to regenerate them, according to new research commissioned by Co-op.

Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chips

Multi-generation chip collab is more buzzwords than compute

It’s all gone absolutely NATS at British airports

"Hello Level 3 engineers? Paging all Level 3 engineers! Please explain this fault code... "

Floating nuclear startup Bluecore lands $50M funding before setting sail

Firm wants to take atomic power generation on a barge to wherever the need is

Boston Scientific left nursing its bottom line after cyberattack

Medical device giant warns August intrusion will hit Q3 and full-year sales and earnings as recovery drags on

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra will run a retailer without cheating and sell more stuff than Anthropic

ASML and TSMC want bigger masks for smaller chips

Industry push aims to eliminate stitching constraints and ready high-NA EUV systems for production by 2033

Runtime: SAP's kernel has a CVSS 10-shaped hole in it. Buckle up.

+ OpenAI’s “observability” headaches, and more.

Boots’ Charlotte Lock: New campaign celebrates “beautiful and brutal” moments of life

Health, beauty and wellness retailer Boots has unveiled a new brand platform, which celebrates the “realities of life”. Titled ‘Give It Some Boots’, the campaign aims to show the role the retailer plays in giving support to its consumers during the “beautiful and brutal” moments…

Visa makes onchain lending move

Visa is combining its settlement data with blockchain lending infrastructure to help stablecoin-linked card programmes and fintechs access working capital.

Visa and Revolut carry out passkey-based agentic payment in France

Revolut and Visa have carried out the first passkey-authenticated agentic card payment in France.

Nasdaq, Börse Stuttgart and others urge EU to rethink €100bn DLT cap

Nasdaq and Börse Stuttgart Group are among the market infrastructure players calling on European lawmakers to rethink a planned €100 billion DLT Pilot Regime cap.

New Balance marks London Big Half and New Balance Big Relay with series of activations

Last Sunday [September 6], New Balance unveiled a series of brand activations to mark London’s Big Half and New Balance’s Big Relay. The New Balance Big Relay took place after the main Big Half race on Sunday. The activations were devised by creative agency Syn.

Trafford Centre’s multi-brand beauty event sees 7.5% jump in sales

Trafford Centre’s destination-wide Beautopia campaign and in-person event resulted in a boost for the centre’s range of health and beauty brands.

Circle to buy Singapore-based cross-border payments platform Tazapay

Stablecoin-issuer Circle has agreed to buy Tazapay, a Singapore-headquartered B2B cross-border payments infrastructure provider. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

SJP appoints Justin Onuekwusi as investments CEO

St James’s Place has appointed Justin Onuekwusi as chief executive, investments, after he had covered the role on an interim basis since January. Onuekwusi replaces Tom Beal, who has been on compassionate leave since the end of last year and has decided to leave SJP.