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Wetherspoon bans Meta smart glasses from 800 pubs over fears they enable "surreptitious surveillance"
The pub giant said it does not permit the recording of customers or employees without consent, and that “Meta glasses seem to breach this code, and common sense, by enabling surreptitious surveillance”.
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Hackers target Wall Street giants in sophisticated attacks on hedge funds and money managers
Hackers attempted a series of sophisticated cyberattacks on major Wall Street financial services firms and ​money managers in recent days, targeting their information systems, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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SpaceX rocket slams into Moon in warning over dangerous space debris
A SpaceX rocket has crashed into the Moon – and experts say it serves as both a warning and a lesson for those of us on Earth.
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Uncontrolled SpaceX rocket stage expected to strike the Moon at 5,400mph
Part of a SpaceX rocket weighing four tonnes is believed to have slammed into the moon.
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Elon Musk’s X latest to block Saudi dissident accounts inside kingdom
Elon Musk’s X has become the latest major US social media company to block the accounts of Saudi Arabian dissidents so they are no longer visible inside the kingdom, following orders from Saudi authorities.
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Russian hackers hijack hotel WiFi networks to spy on business travelers, Microsoft warns
Russian hackers have hijacked hotel and conference WiFi networks worldwide, using fake login portals and software updates to infect travelers with malware and steal sensitive data, Microsoft warned Friday.
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AI now drives 55% of cybercrime across Africa, INTERPOL warns
AI now powers more than half of reported cybercrimes across 26 African nations as phishing and mobile fraud transition into industrialized criminal enterprises, according to INTERPOL.
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Coldcard firmware vulnerability exposes thousands of Bitcoin wallets in $86m breach
A misconfigured macro in Coldcard firmware silently weakened seed entropy for five years, resulting in 1,367 BTC stolen across 4,585 addresses.
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Data of 100,000 United Kingdom police officers leaked after cyberattack on law enforcement database
Cyberattack targeting law enforcement database follows breach last week of Department for Education records
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British drone to use United States engine after BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce dispute
An “all-British” autonomous fighter jet is now expected to use an American engine after a cost-related clash between defence giants BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce.
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Unknown alloy formed in Hiroshima nuclear explosion, scientists find
The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima created a previously unknown material, scientists have discovered.
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Chinese military researchers used OpenAI and Anthropic models to train defence AI, report says
Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading U.S. artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems to advance China’s defence capabilities, according to a Reuters review of more than 80 Chinese academic papers and patents.
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New York introduces mandatory age verification for Instagram, TikTok and other social platforms
New Yorkers who want to see their Instagram or TikTok feed curated by an algorithm, or receive notifications after midnight, will soon have to verify their ages to access those features.
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London’s ageing Hammersmith Bridge could reopen with AI-powered driverless pods
Commuters could soon travel to work or home in a ‘driverless pod’ – if a non-profit gets its way.
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UK Education Department confirms cyberattack exposing 607,000 records
Hackers have obtained more than half a million pieces of data in a cyber-attack on the Department for Education (DfE) in England.
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UK’s first crewed stealth fighter in 40 years reaches major development milestone
The first crewed stealth fighter jet built in the UK for 40 years is nearing completion as the cutting-edge air combat technology seeks to become reality.
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AI model uncovers hundreds of Microsoft vulnerabilities in looming cybersecurity race
On an afternoon in mid-May, dozens of Microsoft engineers and their managers gathered online and in a conference room at the company’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters to discuss Project Glasswing.
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Hugging Face says OpenAI’s AI models carried out 17,600 hacking actions during cyberattack
The powerful artificial intelligence models from OpenAI that went rogue and mounted an unprecedented, autonomous cyberattack earlier this month spent more than four days loose on the internet orchestrating the hack, according to a new analysis from the platform that was breached.
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NASA mission to rescue Swift telescope hits setback after spacecraft malfunction
The spacecraft rushing to the rescue of an aging and sinking NASA telescope has run into its own problem.
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OpenAI says AI agent escaped testing environment and hacked Hugging Face
An autonomous agent powered by OpenAI’s advanced models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of a tech startup, the company said.
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UK’s new IRGC law puts crypto firms and users at risk of 14-year jail terms
The UK’s designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps took effect on July 17, creating a new criminal exposure for UK-linked people and businesses that receive or retain value supplied by or on behalf of the group.
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Oracle exploit drains up to $24m from Ostium liquidity vault in five-minute attack
Ostium, an on-chain perpetuals trading platform, said a five-minute security incident caused losses from its public liquidity vault. Security firms estimated the exploit at up to $24 million.
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Ofcom launches investigation into TikTok’s child safety checks
Ofcom has launched an investigation into the social media platform TikTok over harmful content concerns.
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Apple lawsuit against OpenAI reveals deepening split with former design chief Jony Ive
When Apple sued OpenAI last week, claiming the company behind ChatGPT had sought to steal its trade secrets, one name was conspicuously absent from the lawsuit.
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Inside Europe’s secret AI drone factory supplying Ukraine’s battlefield
At a secret location in southern Germany, the manager of a drone factory owned by Helsing SE — Europe’s most valuable artificial-intelligence defense start-up — hands me a lethal killing machine to cradle in my arms.