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TNW ·
OpenAI has partnered with Poland’s NASK National Research Institute to research AI safety and security, as concerns grow over AI agents behaving in ways their developers did not intend. The company announced the agreement today, saying...
The Register ·
Britain is threatening subsea cable saboteurs with up to 14 years in prison and unlimited fines, having apparently decided that Victorian-era laws aren't quite up to the job of keeping Russian submarines away from critical...
TNW · · Unconfirmed
Jensen Huang told CNBC on Thursday that demand for neoclouds is “off the charts”, Business Insider reported. His company has put more than $170bn on the line for them and other large customers, according to an analysis of its filings by...
IT Pro ·
Nicole Kobie first started writing for ITPro in 2007. As a freelance journalist covering technology and business, Nicole's work includes bylines in New Scientist, Wired, PC Pro and many more. Nicole the author of a book about the...
TNW ·
Apple’s first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, went on sale on Friday, October 23, at a starting price of $1,999. Sydney was the first Apple Store to sell it, opening its doors at 08:00 local time (21:00 GMT on Thursday) to a queue of...
TNW · · Medium severity
LiteLLM says hackers took the keys they needed from its own logs. They used them to publish a poisoned version of its software on Wednesday. The open-source AI gateway explained it in an incident report.
Silicon Republic ·
The funding round was led by BVP with participation from members of the BVP Investor Club. Read more: Mullingar’s Swaay raises €2m for scaling drinks cans printing tech
Silicon Republic ·
The partnership will provide Ireland’s employees with more opportunities to upskill and apply AI to their working lives. Read more: FIT and Intel teaming up to advance AI skills among Ireland’s workforce
TNW ·
Meta has switched Muse sharing back on. It paused the feature on Tuesday. That came after Ars Technica asked about research showing that anyone could find pages shared from its AI agent.
TNW · · Medium severity
Japan plans to create a team of ethical hackers that will use AI to attack the country’s own systems and find vulnerabilities before criminals can exploit them. The announcement comes as banks, rail operators and government agencies...
The Register ·
Today's victim of the bork fairy is a claw machine that even Android seems to have rejected for its alleged unfairness. And Google, as we all know, is all about fairness. Eagle-eyed Register reader Scott spotted the stricken machine in...
Silicon Republic ·
The raise brings Marc’s total funding to $6m – including a $1m raise in February this year. Read more: TUD graduate’s AI start-up Marc bags $5m to fund US expansion
Tech.eu ·
European companies have been called on to play a more active role in developing open source technology to help sovereignty flourish. This was one of the key themes emerging from the Open Source Summit Europe , which took place in...
TNW ·
Microsoft has developed an AI diagnostic tool that solved complex medical cases more than twice as accurately as generalist doctors in a study published in Science. Unlike many medical AI systems, it works through a case step by step,...
IT Pro ·
AI is speeding up coding, but devs are squandering time savings
The Register ·
The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) has been entrusted with stewardship of four additional AI projects in the hope of broadening the set of vendor-neutral tools for making AI agents. The AAIF was founded in December 2025 under the auspices...
IT Pro ·
Dave is an IT consultant and freelance journalist specialising in hands-on reviews of computer networking products covering all market sectors from small businesses to enterprises. Founder of Binary Testing Ltd – the UK’s premier...
IT Pro ·
What is a flatpack data center?
TNW ·
Rhode Island has sued Meta, alleging the company profited from scam ads on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp and helped to create some of them. Attorney General Peter Neronha filed the complaint in Providence County Superior Court on...
Electronics Weekly ·
China’s smartphone shipments fell 10% YoY in Q3 2026, marking the lowest Q3 level since 2012, according to Counterpoint Research. Huawei and Apple captured 40% of shipments, widening their lead […] The post China Q3 phone market down...
Electronics Weekly ·
Mouser has signed a new global distribution agreement with ControlByWeb, a manufacturer of industrial IoT controllers for remote monitoring, control and data acquisition. The platform has optional cloud and cellular […] The post Mouser...
Electronics Weekly ·
The US government has taken a share in fusion energy company Helios in return for a $175 million Chips Act grant. The grant comes with an additional private investment of […] The post Washington takes stake in fusion company appeared...
Electronics Weekly ·
“The AI race is often framed as a race for bigger models, faster chips and larger datacentres, – that framing is outdated,” says Patrick Vandenameele (pictured), CEO of imec, “the […] The post The AI Race, by imec appeared first on...
Electronics Weekly ·
Growth in electronics production has been accelerating in 2026, says Semiconductor Intelligence. Three-month-average change versus a year ago for electronics production in the U.S. was 8.1% in August 2026, continuing […] The post...
The Register ·
Energy can be hard to find on Friday mornings, which is why The Register uses them to offer a fresh instalment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your hopefully empowering tech support stories. This week, meet a...
Electronics Weekly ·
Apple is expected to take a 25% share of the 2026 foldables market despite shipping its first foldable this week, says Counterpoint Research. Nonetheless Samsung is expected to remain […] The post Apple To Take 25% Of 2026 Foldables...
The Register · · Medium severity
Researchers affiliated with Binghamton University in New York have demonstrated the dangers of poisoned LLMs in physical AI by getting them to generate instructions for robots to cut a model hand or put a cat on a stove in a simulation....
The Register ·
Researchers have administered AI-designed, bacteria-targeting viruses to a person in what they claim is a first, but don’t press them for results: They’re not ready to say how it went quite yet. Radical Numerics, a San Francisco-based...
The Register · · Critical severity
Researchers have developed a new exploit that shows how even Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) on an x86-64 server cannot stop the PHP2Shell vulnerability. VulnCheck, which made it available to only the company’s Initial Access...
The Register · · Critical severity
GitLab on Wednesday patched a maximum-severity flaw that could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on self-managed servers under certain conditions. Affected software releases date back a full 12 years - so upgrade...
IT Security Guru · · Medium severity
UK cybersecurity specialist WorkNest Secure has achieved Accredited Organisation status under The Cyber Scheme, providing further independent recognition of the technical expertise and professional standards maintained across its...
TNW ·
Uber is rolling out ChatGPT Work, OpenAI’s office-task agent, to more than 30,000 employees after a 1,000-person pilot, OpenAI said. It connects to Gmail, Drive and Slack and runs on GPT-6.1 Sol by default. The move comes as Uber tries...
TNW ·
Nvidia has launched Minerva, AI operations software that combines data from GPUs, networks, storage and workloads to spot failing parts in large AI data centres early. It groups alerts into single incidents and has an AI assistant. IREN...
The Register ·
The PHP2Shell security fiasco has forced 32 UK government services offline and left another four partially unavailable as Whitehall scrambles to patch the critical vulnerabilities wreaking havoc across the web. The figures were...
The Register ·
After embarrassing reports revealed weak private keys, one of which was just a single digit, Indian certification authority eMudhra has decided to take the L and get out of the global SSL/TLS cert game entirely. eMudhra announced...
TNW ·
SpaceX has launched the Super Intelligence Partner Network for companies that deploy or build on Grok, with Apollo, Nvidia, Snowflake, Databricks, Bain and more than 130 firms joining early. It follows a quarter in which SpaceX’s AI...
TNW ·
Victoria McClune’s career has followed the evolution of digital technology, from interactive children’s books on the first iPads to artificial intelligence systems reshaping how people work and communicate. A creative director by...
TNW ·
Kevin Weil, who led OpenAI for Science, has launched Warp Sciences with $215M led by Lightspeed, valuing it at $865M, Bloomberg reported. It is building an automated lab in the US for a drug development step that pharma companies have...
IT Security Guru ·
Two critical PHP vulnerabilities, the widely used programming language underpinning millions of websites and web applications, have prompted urgent warnings from cybersecurity authorities worldwide. Following reports on the 20th October...
TNW ·
Zurich-based Enact Intelligence has emerged from stealth with a $30M pre-seed round from redalpine, Notion Capital and firstminute capital. It builds robots that sense force and touch through their motors, not only cameras. Founder...
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