The Dutch government has imposed a “complete prohibition” on the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider, by Kyndryl, the American IT infrastructure company spun out of IBM in 2021. The deal, valued at roughly €100 million, would have given a US-headquartered firm control over the platform that runs DigiD, the digital identity system used […]
The European Central Bank is calling banks in for a meeting on Tuesday to address the cybersecurity risks created by a new generation of AI models that can find and exploit software vulnerabilities faster than any human team. The meeting follows months of growing anxiety across European finance about Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, the frontier AI […]
Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, has withheld its vote on the reappointment of John Elkann to Meta’s board of directors. The fund said it believes the Stellantis chairman and Exor CEO does not have enough time to devote to the role. Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages the $2.3 […]
OpenAI has announced two new measures designed to help the public determine whether an image was created by its AI models. The company is formally joining the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) open standard while simultaneously partnering with Google to embed its invisible SynthID watermark across OpenAI’s image outputs. The moves represent a […]
New York City Health and Hospitals, the largest public healthcare system in the United States, has disclosed that hackers stole personal data, medical records, and biometric information, including fingerprints, in a breach affecting at least 1.8 million people. The organisation reported the figure to the US Department of Health and Human Services, making the […]
Apple’s first standalone Siri app, coming in iOS 27, will include an auto-delete function for chat histories that borrows from the Messages app. Users will be able to configure the app to retain conversations for 30 days, one year, or indefinitely. The feature, reported by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his Power On newsletter on Sunday, […]
In short: Every time you visit LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, a hidden JavaScript routine silently probes your browser for more than 6,000 installed extensions, collects 48 hardware and software characteristics about your device, encrypts the resulting fingerprint, and attaches it to every API request you make during your session. The practice, labelled “BrowserGate” by researchers, […]
