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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? Good news for fans of Asus routers: the FCC has announced that the Defense Department does not believe they pose a security risk. That means the devices have been granted "
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If you've worked in cybersecurity for as long as I have, then you'll know there are a couple of things you can count on. First, the threats that are out there never stop evolving. And second, sooner or later, you're going to be in
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Cybersecurity firm Check Point this week announced patches for two critical-severity vulnerabilities in its gateway and firewall products using VPN functionality. Tracked as CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103 (CVSS score of 9.8), both security defects could be exploited without authentication for remote code execution (RCE), Check Point warns. The former is
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Artificial intelligence could help financial institutions identify money mule activity in less than a minute, as suspicious transaction patterns are often markedly different from those of genuine account holders, said Yashasvi Yadav, ADG, Cyber Cell, Maharashtra Police on the sidelines of The RealX Box event on real estate tokenization. The
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GPT-6 Astra shipped a few weeks ago as, in OpenAI's own words, its most aligned model yet, the first to hit the "Critical" cybersecurity threshold under the company's Preparedness Framework. That classification is worth taking seriously. It's also worth asking what it
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September is here, and for different people it means different things—kids begin their school years, teens are off to university, and manufacturers of products with digital elements that sell them in the European Union are getting ready for mandatory reporting of actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe security incidents affecting
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Pendulum’s Magnolia Sevenler has spent her career designing rooms—from festival crowds to founder dinners. Her case to technical founders who’d rather ship than schmooze is simple: trust is infrastructure, and most teams under-provision it. Most technical founders don't dislike people. They’ve simply had enough
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VPN and cybersecurity services provider Surfshark this week disclosed a cybersecurity incident impacting certain internal data. The incident, it says, was discovered on August 31, but initially treated as low risk. By September 2, however, the company confirmed the scope and moved to containment and remediation. An internal test server
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* OpenAI for Financial Services comes with built-in premium datasets * Third-party subscription sharing is also in the works * GPT-6 promises 100% on the 256-512K Long Context benchmark OpenAI has lifted the wraps off ChatGPT for Financial Services, its latest industry-specific version of ChatGPT Work designed to give sector professionals access to
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Seed Capital has closed its fifth fund at €130mn and will use it to invest outside Denmark for the first time, backing 15 to 17 companies across the Nordics in fintech, AI-driven B2B and, for the first time, cybersecurity. The Copenhagen firm will write first cheques of €3mn to €6mn
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“If there is a way in, the modern AI threat will find it,” Kevin Mandia wrote in March, in the blog post that launched his cybersecurity startup, Armadin. Six months later, Amazon has elected him to its board of directors. Amazon announced the appointment in a post on its company
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* Spanish GP (September 11-13) * Sunday's race: 2pm BST / 9am ET * Free stream: RTBF Auvio(Belgium) / ORF On(Austria) / Mediaset Infinity (Spain) * Stream safely and securely with NordVPN (try 100% risk-free) Watch the 2026 Spanish Grand Prix live streams to see F1's newest circuit, Madrid's
