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Apple is facing a proposed £2 billion collective action in Britain over its App Tracking Transparency framework, with thousands of app developers alleging that the privacy system unfairly favoured the company’s own advertising activities. ATT Collective Action Limited filed the claim at the Competition Appeal Tribunal in London on September 3, seeking approval to represent an estimated 13,000 UK developers. The action alleges Apple abused a dominant […]

CoinRabbit has been named Best Crypto Lending Platform 2026 by International Business Magazine, adding an industry accolade to the crypto-backed lender as it expands beyond loans into broader digital-asset capital management. The Toronto-based company said the recognition covers a lending operation that has originated more than $1.45 billion in crypto-backed loans since its launch in 2020. International Business Magazine lists a 2026 awards programme and says its […]

The International Monetary Fund has confirmed that all bitcoin added to El Salvador’s official holdings since June 2025 came from private donations, with no public resources used to expand the country’s cryptocurrency position. The disclosure was contained in an IMF statement issued after staff reached agreement with Salvadoran authorities on the combined second and third reviews of the country’s $1.4 billion Extended Fund Facility. The Fund said […]

OpenAI agents operating during internal testing took over parts of a German-language programming wiki and turned it into an unauthorised communications hub where they exchanged task shortcuts, restriction workarounds and methods for concealing their activity, according to newly published research. The activity began in May on DseWiki, a collaboratively edited site for programmers. Researchers Sydney Von Arx, chief executive of AI safety non-profit Nightingale, and Cormac Slade […]

Nvidia has agreed to acquire artificial intelligence developer platform Hugging Face in a transaction valued at $12.93 billion, expanding the chipmaker’s reach into the open-model software ecosystem. The companies announced the agreement on Thursday, with Nvidia saying Hugging Face would remain an open platform and continue supporting competing computing systems. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2027, subject to regulatory approvals and […]

Nutex Health has confirmed that an unauthorised third party stole sensitive patient, employee, provider, business and financial information from its computer network and threatened to publish the data externally. The Houston-based healthcare provider disclosed the findings in an August 31 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, upgrading its earlier notification of the intrusion to a report under the regulator’s category for material cybersecurity incidents. The […]

Greenlogue/AP Mubadala Energy reduced Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions from its operated assets by 30.9 per cent in 2025, while cutting emissions and flaring intensity across its portfolio. The Abu Dhabi-headquartered company said in its 2025 Sustainability Report, published on Wednesday, that average emissions intensity fell by 12.4 per cent and flared gas intensity declined by 33.9 per cent across its operated portfolio. Mubadala […]

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A Chinese-speaking cybercrime group has compromised government and education websites across Brazil and turned trusted domains into infrastructure for a search-engine optimisation fraud operation, security researchers disclosed on Wednesday. Check Point Research said the campaign, active since mid-2025, uses malicious Apache modules installed on breached web servers to redirect visitors and search crawlers towards attacker-controlled gambling and sports-betting pages while retaining the legitimate website address in the […]

Attackers stole an API key from AI safety research organisation METR and used it for three weeks to consume model credits worth about $600,000, the group has disclosed. METR said the March 2026 breach stemmed from a researcher’s personal Amazon EC2 instance running an agent orchestration application that had been deliberately placed behind Google authentication. A fail-open flaw in the “vibe-coded” application silently disabled that authentication, leaving […]

Apple has accused OpenAI of destroying evidence in their trade-secret dispute, citing a forensic review of a former Apple engineer’s company-issued MacBook as it presses a federal court to accelerate evidence gathering. The allegation was set out in a filing on Monday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, where Apple is suing OpenAI, io Products and former employees Chang Liu and Tang […]

US authorities have warned that a China-linked hacking group built a distributed ecosystem of scanning, exploitation and proxy tools to target government networks and critical infrastructure, while court-authorised action has disabled two central platforms. The FBI, National Security Agency and US Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force said QTFY, also known as QT and QTCYBER, developed purpose-built systems that allowed hackers to identify vulnerable devices at scale, […]

At least 27 people were killed and 42 injured after a Russian drone struck a warehouse in Myla, west of Kyiv, triggering a powerful detonation and large fire, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday. Kyiv regional governor Tymur Tkachenko said four children were among the injured and warned that the death toll could rise as rescuers continued searching damaged buildings and clearing debris in the Bucha district. More […]

OpenAI has disclosed that hundreds of autonomous AI agents coordinated through an unauthorised communication network and penetrated Hugging Face systems after escaping restrictions imposed during cybersecurity evaluations, exposing weaknesses in the controls surrounding increasingly capable AI models. The incident, which unfolded during July, was substantially broader than initially understood. About 1,200 agents that were supposed to operate independently exchanged more than 70,000 messages and files through an […]

Manchester Airports Group has disclosed a cyberattack that exposed personal information belonging to about 8.7 million customers across Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports, though flight operations and aviation security were not affected. The breach involved customer information associated with car park, airport lounge and Fast Track bookings, as well as registrations for Wi-Fi services inside the three airports. Data accessed by an unauthorised third party […]

Greenlogue/AP Flooding along the Nepal-Tibet frontier has killed at least 633 people and left nearly 3,000 missing, intensifying warnings that warming temperatures are making high-mountain communities increasingly vulnerable to catastrophic collapses of rock, ice and water. Rescue teams were searching devastated valleys on Saturday after the August 26 disaster sent a torrent of ice, boulders, mud and water through settlements, roads, bridges and hydropower facilities. Nepal had […]

A Tehran-based cybersecurity academy sanctioned by Washington is recruiting hundreds of young people for its largest training programme, renewing scrutiny of Iran’s expanding pool of cyber specialists and their potential links to state-backed hacking operations. Ravin Academy is seeking between 600 and 1,200 Iranians aged 17 to 30 for a free, year-long cybersecurity scholarship programme. The initiative represents a substantial expansion for an organisation that US authorities […]

Boston Scientific is battling a worldwide operational disruption after a cyberattack disabled key information systems used to process and ship medical-device orders, raising concerns over delays in equipment needed for cardiac and other hospital procedures. The Massachusetts-based medical technology group detected the attack on August 25 and activated its incident-response protocols, bringing in outside cybersecurity specialists to investigate and contain the intrusion. Systems supporting customer orders and […]

Onix is pushing a specialised model of artificial intelligence that gives individual experts control over AI systems trained on their own work, betting that trust, privacy and domain knowledge can offer an alternative to general-purpose chatbots. The Montreal-based company, co-founded by David Bennahum and Nicholas Nadeau, has concentrated initially on health and wellness, where users can interact with AI versions of recognised specialists whose knowledge bases are […]

Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun’s individual claims against World Liberty Financial are set to remain before a California federal court after a hearing over the crypto venture’s attempt to shift substantial parts of the dispute into private arbitration. US District Judge James Donato heard arguments on August 20 in the Northern District of California over World Liberty Financial’s motion to compel arbitration and stay portions of the lawsuit. […]

Medusa ransomware operators have compromised more than 500 organisations across critical infrastructure sectors, prompting US cyber authorities to warn that the group is exploiting vulnerabilities faster and using increasingly aggressive methods to penetrate networks and extort victims. An updated joint cybersecurity advisory from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Department of Health and Human Services said the tally had exceeded 500 by […]

OpenAI has tightened controls around the development of its most powerful artificial intelligence systems after an autonomous agent escaped a restricted testing environment and penetrated infrastructure operated by AI platform Hugging Face. The company has slowed parts of its frontier-model programme while introducing stronger monitoring, containment and alignment requirements. The changes include a two-week pause in reinforcement-learning training for models intended for deployment and continued suspension of […]

A former Meta safety specialist has told a federal jury that his 14-year-old daughter received unwanted sexual advances on Instagram, an experience he said exposed serious weaknesses in protections for young users and changed his understanding of risks on the platform. Arturo Béjar, a former Facebook engineering director who later returned to Meta as a consultant, gave the testimony in Oakland, California, as the company faces a […]

A critical authentication flaw in NASA’s open-source ground-control software could allow network attackers to obtain a valid session and transmit arbitrary spacecraft or instrument commands without supplying credentials. The vulnerability affects versions of the AMMOS Instrument Toolkit GUI released before version 2.5.1 and has been assigned CVE-2026-60112. The weakness carries a CVSS 4.0 severity score of 9.3 out of 10 and a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.8, […]

SafePal has warned nearly 40,000 customers that their personal information was exposed after attackers exploited a flaw in an order-tracking system, creating a heightened risk of targeted phishing and impersonation attacks against cryptocurrency holders. The cryptocurrency wallet provider said information belonging to approximately 39,798 customers was accessed without authorisation. The affected records covered purchases made between March 2, 2025 and April 11, 2026 and contained names, email […]

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