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Legacy Lenovo login opens 5,000 Dropbox accounts to attackers
Cloud storage biz severs old integration and urges victims to reset credentials
Zuck's Muse to Spark joy with open weights release 'soon'
While you wait, Meta says it’s taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often
With Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google reminds everyone it's still in the race
AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet)
Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15
Exeunt zVault stage right; enter FreeCORE and BSDnas
Microsoft will stop finishing your sentences in Word and Outlook
Predictive text remains available, but users will have to invite it into their workflow
Poundland owner launches auction just over a year after £1 takeover
Gordon Brothers has kicked off a formal sale process for Poundland, hiring advisory firm Alvarez & Marsal to sound out potential buyers. Little more than a year after snapping up the discount chain for £1, the private equity firm could sell Poundland within weeks.
VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade
Found the time to focus and ‘corrected’ incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds
Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts say
Cyber Weapon Index finds AI attacks 'imminent'
Microsoft devs rejoice: Union types coming to C# in November
The unsafe keyword will do more heavy lifting, while union types unify disparate forms of data
AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip
Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend
(Human) JFrog Artifactory attackers are minting admin keys
From nobody to admin with One Neat Trick.
Infosec pros say we're not ready to lose control of AI
Nearly two-thirds of US national security pros surveyed believe AI risks, and government posture toward them, are unacceptable
TabaPay closes $155m financing; agrees to buy a bank
Money movement platform TabaPay is set to buy a Denver-based bank after securing $155 million in strategic growth financing led by FTV Capital.
SonicWall's SMA1000 boxes under active attack again
Miscreants use chained zero days to pwn boxen as third-party SOCs say further attacks 'almost certain'
Isio completes Collidr acquisition and expands MPS offering
Isio has completed its acquisition of Collidr, bringing the firms’ investment management and technology capabilities together to expand its offering for financial advisers. The deal, which was agreed in May, has received regulatory approval.
NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science
Instruments reactivated for a final hurrah before reentry
Firefox and Thunderbird hit the fortnightly release treadmill
Don't disable automatic updates if the pace is too much – that's what ESR is for
Victoria Ross: Mentorship is an opportunity for both sides
When I've had a mentor, both when I started out in financial planning and when I was acquired by my current company, the benefits of being a mentee were clear. I gained access to my mentor’s wisdom and way of doing things, exposure to client
Next-gen AI networks may hinge on the telephone switchboard's return
Photonics startups like iPronics are raking in hundreds of millions in funding to make optical circuit switches faster, denser, and cheaper
A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter
The budget was minimal, FedEx was the bottleneck, and DNS was of course the source of trouble
AI agents carried out every step of this ransomware attack – then left the victim an 80-page security audit
Amazon shopping assistant now helps users check if a message is a scam
Amazon has unveiled a new tool in the fight against fraudsters, enabling US customers to ask Alexa for Shopping to verify whether a message, email, phone call, or text actually came from the retail giant.
Anthropic hires architect of UK AI policy as MPs warn of 'clear conflict of interest'
Matt Clifford plans to keep role as ARIA chair while leading the LLM maker's dealings with governments outside North America
Euroclear and HSBC to launch automated FX service for T+1 settlement
Euroclear and HSBC are collaborating on a new automated FX service designed to support clients as they prepare for the upoming shortening of the post-trade settlement cycle to T+1.
Govt pledges £13m funding boost to bring agri-tech innovations closer to farms
The government has opened a new £13m competition to help bring agricultural innovations from the lab to the farm.
Packaging tax ‘an own goal’ for carbon-negative plastics, says Duo
The UK is missing out on potential carbon savings because the Plastic Packaging Tax (PPT) treats bio-based plastics in the same way as virgin plastic, according to packaging firm Duo.
UK's ARIA chair and former AI tsar joins Anthropic
Matt Clifford's decision to remain as chair of funding agency described as a "clear conflict of interest" by MP.
ACI Worldwide to add microservices card switching via Cranium Ventures acquisition
ACI Worldwide has agreed to buy Cranium Ventures, a developer of cloud-native card payment switching technology. Financial terms were not disclosed.
