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Flock hit by major security breach as hackers extract 1.6m images from single camera

A hacker collective known as stegan0gram physically dismantled a mounted Flock surveillance camera to reverse-engineer its operating system . By locating a decryption key stored directly on the hardware’s local storage…

Call of Duty's Activision to make next Halo game as Xbox cuts more jobs

Its latest reductions, forming part of a wave of ongoing layoffs, will impact staff at the studio which currently makes Halo - with Call of Duty publisher Activision to take on development of any future games. Jez Corden…

‘Hi, it’s AI speaking’: Base44 just launched AI that can handle phone calls

Launched earlier this month, Superagent can now make and receive phone calls on behalf of the user, with countless potential applications. According to a press release shared with TechRadar Pro, Base44’s Superagent can…

As Ukraine rebuilds amid constant Russian attack, small towns and villages are being sidelined

Makariv, a small settlement of about 10,000 people 36 miles west of Kyiv, sat on their route. The town was wrecked in the month of fighting that ensued. Roughly 40% of the settlement’s infrastructure was destroyed and…

Bangladesh has lost 900 children to measles – a warning to other countries where vaccine rates have slipped

Most of those affected are children. Measles is one of the most infectious diseases known. It can spread rapidly when vaccination rates fall, and the Bangladesh outbreak shows how quickly years of gaps in protection can…

NCSC talks up agents for cyber defense – but there's an 'inconvenient truth' businesses need to accept

"This is an inconvenient truth, as it suggests that the threat from AI-enabled cyber attacks will grow, whilst autonomous / agentic cyber defense might struggle to keep up unless we approach things differently," he said.…

Palo Alto Networks launches always-on AI security testing built on Claude Mythos and GPT-5.6-Cyber

Its threat research and consulting arm, Unit 42, announced the service today, called Continuous Frontier AI Defense. The service is built on models whose access is tightly controlled: Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 and…

Protests for Germany’s car industry as job losses loom

Demonstrators wave flags with the logo of the IG Metall union as they protest against job cuts in front of the commercial cars plant of German car maker Volkswagen (VW) on September 21, 2026 in Hanover, central Germany.…

Digital wingman: 1 in 6 Brits prefer chatbots to friends for advice

The study, commissioned by greeting card marketplace thortful, found that 16.8% of UK adults have turned to AI for comfort , a second opinion, or guidance instead of calling a human mate. Furthermore, 12.8% of…

NVMe vs. SATA SSD: What's the difference between the two drive types?

Both store data on flash memory and will feel much faster than an old spinning hard drive. But they are distinct in how they communicate with your computer. SATA is the older standard and its SATA III specification has a…