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Today’s scary story involves government contractors who just had to make their lives easier at the expense of locking down sensitive information. Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network? Share…
It was able to access non-public files and is the first publicly revealed case of an AI agent breaching the defences of a government portal. Full details of the hack haven’t yet been revealed. But the essence of the…
It has plenty of brain power, but unless context is handed to it directly, it knows nothing about your business, your customers , or the decisions that shaped how you operate today. And solving that memory problem is…
It’s called Googlebook , and the first cohort of devices under this branding will be available from 4 October. Not to be confused with Chromebooks, or even Chromebook Plus laptops, which seem to have disappeared from…
The report cites two people with direct knowledge of the matter, and DeepSeek has not commented. It puts the jump down to a recent price rise and to steady demand for the company’s models. DeepSeek warned developers in…
Speaking at an opening ceremony on Tuesday, chief executive Will Marshall said the company had secured launchers from German company Isar Aerospace from the beginning of 2027. Planet Labs’ Earth observation technology…
The residents, from Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, have been told they could be at elevated risk of serious health conditions from the substance, known as PFOA. The village has been under investigation for years by the…
The release of GPT-6 Sol and Luna comes as OpenAI faces intense competition on price and performance from a range of open-weight models developed in China, as well as from Anthropic. Anthropic also this week released an…
It's a single EU directive, but it only takes effect once each country has written it into national law, and member states have moved at very different speeds. In two of them, it is already in force: Germany, since 6th…
Each unit sits inside a hand-built, acoustically tuned wooden cabinet finished in premium black leathercloth, a construction approach more commonly found in higher-end hi-fi separates than compact all-in-one systems.…