F-Droid’s first major redesign in years changes more than its looks

It hosts thousands of unique Android apps not available elsewhere. With Google making significant changes to Android sideloading since the OS's inception, F-Droid is introducing a major visual overhaul to its app store…

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Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will reportedly meet tech CEOs on AI on 29 September

A source also confirmed the date to Reuters, while ABC News said multiple people familiar with the arrangements had described the meeting to it. No outlet has named the companies taking part or published an agenda, and…

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Nearly half of CISOs have been hit by AI deepfake voice calls

That's according to a survey from Gartner, which found that four-in-ten (41%) of CISOs have reported social engineering attempts involving an employee phone call in the last year, with a further 36% seeing the same in a…

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Met Police finally get full funding for national Post Office investigation

But, in May, commander Stephen Clayman, who is leading the operation, said: “We recently received a Home Office Special Grant of £2.8m, which goes some way to supporting our costs, but the reality is that we urgently…

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Huawei Cloud Rolls Out Enterprise AI Products Across the Board, Building an Open Agentic Cloud

He shared Huawei Cloud's latest progress. He announced the global launch of the latest AI Cluster Service (AICS), a key step in Huawei Cloud's strategy to strengthen the silicon bedrock on the cloud and reinforce the…

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SoftBank invests $225M in ASI and forms autonomous construction venture

SoftBank is funding the joint venture to cover several kinds of building work, mainly civil construction and moving materials on site. The size of that funding, who owns what and the name of the venture were not…

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French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging

Four French local authorities have taken part in a trial of a WhatsApp-style messaging service based on the Matrix open source protocol , which will become available to local authorities across France from January 2027.…

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Trump-XI summit aims to head off an AI arms race

Trump told a gathering of world leaders at the US general assembly on Tuesday that, “whoever wins superintelligence wins … and we’re leading now over China by a lot”. Quite how this will help build rapport between the…

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Dreamforce 2026: A question of trust

The supplier behind the conference, Salesforce, has long vaunted its trustworthiness as a software-as-a-service provider. Its thesis is that as a cloud supplier, trusted with its customers’ data and applications…

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OpenAI is reportedly preparing to preview a GPT-6 Cyber security model

Alongside the model, OpenAI plans to launch a new product that helps customers deploy it more securely and automatically, according to Fortune. The product has no name yet, and Fortune says it would be the first of its…

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