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* NordVPN is now Aston Villa's Official Digital Security Partner * The deal aims to protect fans using public Wi-Fi on matchdays at Villa Park * It echoes a broader trend of top VPNs securing major sports partnerships Aston Villa has officially named NordVPN as its new Official Digital Security Partner.
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AI security startup Mindgard today announced raising $30 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company close to $42 million. The investment round was led by Album VC, with additional support from Karma Ventures and previous investors .406 Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, IQ Capital,
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Manus is leaving Meta. The Chinese agent startup told users this week that it will “soon return to operating as an independent company”. That is not a change of heart. Beijing refused to let the acquisition stand, and Meta chose not to fight it. The unwinding has a cost, and
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* AI‑found Zoom flaws enabled device takeover through malicious annotation messages * Exploits worked across all platforms and required only joining a video call * Researchers warn AI now enables rapid, nation‑state‑level exploit development Experts have warned that Zoom, one of the most popular collaboration tools in the world, carried
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Protiviti Member Firm for India has entered a strategic partnership with KIIT University to establish an AI Center of Excellence (CoE) at the university campus, itself thereby creating an integrated platform to prepare students and working professionals for the rapidly evolving demands of the AI-driven economy. The initiative brings together
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Pathway, an AI lab building Post-Transformer architecture and models, today published benchmark results for BDH-CQ, a 150-million-parameter reasoning model. BDH-CQ scored 29.5% pass@2 on the public ARC-AGI-1 evaluation set at a computed inference cost of $0.0007 per task. BDH-CQ runs approximately 11 times as cheaply per task
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Even as the digital components of so many life-critical systems have proven susceptible to cybersabotage—cars, medical devices, even water utilities and power grids—the computer systems of airplanes have, thankfully, remained uniquely inaccessible to hackers. But one group of academic researchers has spent years testing a different, devious approach
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Shipping and logistics giant Ceva Logistics has had its European operations disrupted after hackers compromised its systems. The disruption occurred on July 29, and the company is still scrambling to restore the impacted services. Eight warehouses across Europe have been affected. On August 1, the company notified the affected customers
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Arctic Wolf, the cybersecurity and AI company, today released its 2026 AI & Cybersecurity Trends Report, revealing a growing disconnect between AI adoption and AI trust. As organizations race to implement AI to keep pace with increasingly sophisticated threats, most remain unwilling to trust AI with autonomous security decisions, leaving
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In June, Keir Starmer announced at London Tech Week that tech firms have until September to introduce device controls that prevent children from sending and receiving sexually explicit images. The plan requires on-device or client-side scanning, and has been framed as a child safety measure. For enterprise security teams, it
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Enterprise AI is rapidly reshaping finance and procurement, moving beyond productivity assistants towards autonomous workflows embedded within core business operations. As organisations look to modernise finance, supply chain and procurement, the conversation is shifting from automating individual tasks to enabling AI systems that can orchestrate end-to-end business processes while operating
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Enterprise internet security vendors and experts have spent many years trying to understand human behavior. As a result, there is now a wide variety of very effective tools and processes that help distinguish legitimate user activity from behavior that may indicate a compromised account or malicious activity. Behavioral analytics has
