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3.7M breach notification letters set to flood North America's mailboxes

Wed, 2025-10-01 12:24
Allianz Life and WestJet lead the way, along with a niche software shop

A trio of companies disclosed data breaches this week affecting approximately 3.7 million customers and employees across North America.…

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JetBrains wants to train AI models on your code snippets

Wed, 2025-10-01 12:09
Dangles free product licenses in return for code-related data for its training

IDE and developer tools biz JetBrains believes training AI models on public datasets is insufficient, and is offering free product licenses to organizations that are willing to share detailed code-related data.…

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Autonomous AI adoption stalls amid trust and governance crisis

Wed, 2025-10-01 11:25
Only 15% considering deployments and just 7% say it'll replace humans in next four years

Enterprises aren't keen on letting autonomous agents take the wheel amid fears over trust and security as research once again shows that AI hype is crashing against the rocks of reality.…

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Judge dismisses Arm's last legal claim against Qualcomm in licensing spat

Wed, 2025-10-01 10:20
Chip designer tells The Reg it plans to appeal

Qualcomm is claiming complete victory over Arm in their licensing spat, after a court in Delaware ruled it has not breached the terms of any architecture license agreement (ALA) with the chip designer.…

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Imgur yanks Brit access to memes as parent company faces fine

Wed, 2025-10-01 10:07
ICO investigation into platform's lack of age assurance continues

The UK's data watchdog has described Imgur's move to block UK users as "a commercial decision" after signaling plans to fine parent company MediaLab.…

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Explain digital ID or watch it fizzle out, UK PM Starmer told

Wed, 2025-10-01 09:13
Politico avoids the topic at Labour conference speech, homes in on AI instead

UK prime minister Keir Starmer avoided mentioning the mandatory digital ID scheme in his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference amid calls for him to put meat on the bones of the plans or risk it failing fast.…

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Schools are swotting up on security yet still flunk recovery when cyberattacks strike

Wed, 2025-10-01 08:50
Coursework 'gone forever' as 10% report critical damage

Schools and colleges hit by cyberattacks are taking longer to restore their networks — and the consequences are severe, with students' coursework being permanently lost in some cases.…

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UK's digital hospital plan meets analog reality check

Wed, 2025-10-01 08:13
Experts ask: Where will staff come from, and what about gran's flip phone?

The government has announced a new "digital hospital" service in England that will provide online appointments with consultants as an alternative to visiting a National Health Service (NHS) hospital.…

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Away from Oktoberfest, Munich's museums also serve science on tap

Wed, 2025-10-01 07:30
Because sometimes you need a V2 rocket with your schnitzel

Geek's Guide It's September and the German city of Munich is celebrating Oktoberfest. But away from the beer tents, schnitzel, and lederhosen lies a set of museums worth visiting for the price of a few beers.…

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Blockchain just became an utterly mainstream part of the global financial system

Wed, 2025-10-01 06:29
SWIFT and 30 banks promise to bake it into international payment infrastructure

Blockchains are still synonymous with the wild world of cryptocurrencies, but on Monday, 30 banks and SWIFT – the world’s most important cross-border payment service – made them an utterly mainstream part of the global financial system.…

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Taliban impose tele-ban and takes Afghanistan offline

Wed, 2025-10-01 04:23
No internet or phones, which means no banks or commercial aviation, but lots more misery

Afghanistan has dropped off the global internet.…

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Beijing-backed burglars master .NET to target government web servers

Wed, 2025-10-01 02:59
‘Phantom Taurus’ created custom malware to hunt secrets across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East

Threat-hunters at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have decided a gang they spotted two years ago is backed by China, after seeing it sling a new variety of malware.…

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Salesforce users grumble after Agentforce AI replaces search on some help pages

Wed, 2025-10-01 00:17
This is one way to add a lot of AI users in a hurry, which Wall Street wants to see

Salesforce developers have called for the SaaS-y CRM giant to wind back a change that saw the AI-powered Agentforce bot replace basic search functions on some online help pages.…

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Cyborg dreams move closer to reality with low-power artificial neuron

Tue, 2025-09-30 22:53
UMass Amherst research promises better bioelectronic communication

Scientists affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed an artificial neuron that can communicate efficiently with biological neurons, a research advance expected to accelerate the development of bioelectronic devices and interfaces.…

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Fake North Korean IT workers sneaking into healthcare, finance, and AI

Tue, 2025-09-30 22:20
It's not just big tech anymore

The North Korean IT worker threat extends well beyond tech companies, with fraudsters interviewing at a "surprising" number of healthcare orgs, according to Okta Threat Intelligence.…

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Tile trackers are a stalker's dream, say Georgia Tech researchers

Tue, 2025-09-30 21:32
Plaintext transmissions, fixed MAC addresses, rotating 'unique' IDs, and more, make abuse easy

Tile Bluetooth trackers leak identifying data in plain text, giving stalkers an easy way to track victims despite Life360's security promises, a group of Georgia Tech researchers warns.…

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Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name

Tue, 2025-09-30 20:37
Yep, we're sure that will win folks over

Microsoft is testing talking avatars for Copilot to see if users feel more at ease chatting with a face instead of just a text box. Our US Editor tried them out, only to find the digital stare was more creepy than comforting.…

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Google bolts AI into Drive to catch ransomware, but crooks not shaking yet

Tue, 2025-09-30 20:10
Stopping the spread isn't the same as stopping attacks, period

Google on Tuesday rolled out a new AI tool in Drive for desktop that it says will pause syncing to limit ransomware damage, but it won't stop attacks outright.…

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Socket will block it with free malicious package firewall

Tue, 2025-09-30 19:46
"sfw" stands for Socket Firewall, but perhaps also "safe for work."

Software security biz Socket has released a free command line tool to defend developers against supply chain attacks.…

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Second time unlucky for Firefly as an Alpha rocket stage explodes

Tue, 2025-09-30 19:15
Company faces a setback on the test stand

Firefly Aerospace's run of bad luck has continued after the first stage of its Alpha Flight 7 rocket was lost during testing.…

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