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IP intelligence and bot detection company Spur Intelligence announced it has received a $200 million investment from Insight Partners. Founded in 2017 and operating fully bootstrapped for nine years, Spur will use the fresh funding to accelerate and scale its operations. The US-based firm provides real-time intelligence to help organizations
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A server management feature designed to work when a computer’s operating system is unavailable is exposing password-derived authentication data on thousands of internet-facing systems, according to new research from Lava. Researchers identified 36,872 publicly accessible Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) interfaces using the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). Of
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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to place its private detention network beyond the reach of state inspectors, publishing draft contract terms that declare state and local laws “shall not apply” to the facilities, according to federal documents reviewed by WIRED. The new terms were published earlier this month,
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Most fraud strategies fail before a fraudster is ever detected, because they evaluate documents, rather than people. Consider the operational reality: a customer signs up for a fintech service. Their government-issued ID clears every document check. Their selfie matches. Their name passes the database lookup. Onboarding completes. What no one
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The nominations are in - and the finalists for the 2026 edition of the Power 50 can now be revealed. Part of the Mobile Industry Awards 2026, the Power 50 highlights the most important and influential figures in the UK mobile industry during the past year. The finalists for the
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If you’re thinking it’s time to switch mobile phone plans, it can be daunting to research all the options. Do you stick with your current provider or look elsewhere? Or maybe your current provider is raising rates or eliminating the plan you’ve been on for years. We
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In an era increasingly dominated by AI and automation, it’s still incredible just how much construction work remains manual. The contrast is most stark in data centers – facilities built to power cutting-edge technology, but whose delivery is generally still slowed down by major fragmentation and time-consuming manual tasks. One
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You all know what a guitar amplifier is. Big, intimidating stacks of speakers and dials, designed for some nice loud guitar playing. But do they work as well for other people's guitars; i.e., can a big powerful block of music-playing kit double as a home speaker for
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A JFrog zero-day vulnerability was at the core of the recently disclosed OpenAI-Hugging Face hack, OpenAI has confirmed. The incident was disclosed on July 16, when Hugging Face said it was hacked by an autonomous AI agent system. Several days later, OpenAI admitted that its AI models were behind the
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The iPhone 18 is still months away, but leaks suggest a faster A20 chip, camera upgrades, AI improvements, a new launch schedule and possible pricing changes. Apple is still months away from officially unveiling the iPhone 18 series, but leaks and rumours have already painted a clearer picture of what
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Credit ratings and research giant Moody’s isn’t about to fall victim to runaway tokenomics as CFO Noemie Heuland insists: Our internal AI and token cost today is actively governed. We have a variety of tools that we put at disposals of our engineers, our back office teams. We
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PUBLIC SECTOR Splitting up responsibility for digital transformation and procurement while AI gets a seat at Cabinet risks incoherency OPINION A week after becoming the UK's seventh Prime Minister in ten years, Andy Burnham has made some good headlines, but, among the promises to cap bus fares and
