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India’s central bank mandated use of .bank domains to enhance trust – but its registry leaked sensitive info

Open API leaked everything an attacker needs to impersonate bank officials

In 2025, the Reserve Bank of India created the .bank.in subdomain and required all local banks to start using it for their online presences. Indian is home to thousands of banks and the new rule meant all needed to register for and use a bankname.bank.in domain, a move designed to make life harder for phishers and fraudsters.

Now a security researcher has alleged that the entity chosen as the sole registrar of the subdomains – the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) – botched the job and leaked sensitive data.

The allegation came in a report [PDF] and post published yesterday by CashlessConsumer, a group that advocates for India to become a cashless society and which aims to represent citizens to digital payments players.

“The IDRBT Domain Registration Portal (registrar.idrbt.ac.in) – the exclusive registrar for India’s...

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South Korea making its own security-centric AI model

AI AND ML Adapting existing local LLM project for security and sovereignty purposes and hopes to one day match Mythos South Korea is developing its own security-focused AI model and hopes to bring it online by the end of the year, to ensure the nation has sovereign bug-finding capabilities. Deputy

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Google takes aim at Canva and Adobe as its AI image editor Pics gets an official rollout date

* Google Pics is rolling out to Google Workspace users starting August 18 * Pics lets you generate and edit images within Google Workspace apps like Slides, Docs, Sheets and more * Generative AI usage limits will apply starting February 2027 Google Pics, the AI-powered image-generation and editing application the search giant unveiled

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Missed Prime Day? Robot vacuum deals are still going strong on Amazon, with prices from just AU$299

Amazon Prime Day 2026 in Australia had a flurry of discounts across its product portfolio last week (and early this week too), and robot vacuums saw some of the biggest price reductions at the time, with deals of up to a whopping 78% off. That meant that some of the

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Sources: Coatue is leading a $3B investment in Databricks that values the data analytics software company at $188B, a 40% increase from its December valuation

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South Korea making its own security-centric AI model

Google takes aim at Canva and Adobe as its AI image editor Pics gets an official rollout date

Missed Prime Day? Robot vacuum deals are still going strong on Amazon, with prices from just AU$299

Sources: Coatue is leading a $3B investment in Databricks that values the data analytics software company at $188B, a 40% increase from its December valuation