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What was reported as an industry rumor last week is now official. NVIDIA has formally announced it has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the open-source AI community's primary hub, for $12.93 billion and change ($12,930,300,000, to be precise). The official blog post confirms the
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* 22% expect their policy to offer full coverage, 10% expect it to fall short * Data breaches and reputational damage are major concerns * Companies should look at finances before considering operational recovery readiness New research from Cohesity has revealed that many UK businesses could be significantly overestimating the protection they get
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* Baylor Genetics confirmed a June cyberattack affecting 2.8M patients and employees * Stolen data includes medical test results, insurance info, and some SSNs/financial details * Operations continued; no misuse seen yet, but no group has claimed responsibility Baylor Genetics, a US-based clinical diagnostic laboratory, suffered a cyberattack in which it
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According to Kaspersky’s latest research*, Gen Z is the most active generation of AI users in Asia Pacific (APAC). Half use AI every day or almost every day, while one in three already interact with it as they would with a friend. For many Zoomers, AI has already become
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* UK legislators propose “kill switch” laws to halt runaway AI, citing critical infrastructure risks * Lord Clement‑Jones and MP Alex Sobel push amendments and new bills, backed by ControlAI advocacy group * Similar efforts emerging in US Sam Altman’s fear-based marketing for AI seems to have backfired, as now multiple
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CrowdStrike said on Wednesday that it will run OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Cyber inside a purpose-built cyber harness. That word is doing a great deal of work. It is also the word that made this week’s other cybersecurity story alarming. The expanded OpenAI partnership, announced at the company’s
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* Utah’s SB 73 takes effect today, September 3, but ongoing legal challenges mean strict enforcement could remain paused. * Anyone physically in Utah is legally treated as a resident, even if they use a VPN to mask their location, and websites face a $2,500 penalty per violation. * Leading VPN
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CrowdStrike announced the Falcon platform is coming to the Anthropic Claude Marketplace, giving Anthropic customers a new way to purchase CrowdStrike using a portion of their existing Anthropic commitments. “AI is changing how enterprises operate – and how technology is procured, deployed, and run. Security is leading the charge,” said Daniel
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Booz Allen put 18 of the world’s most advanced AI models against a live corporate network and told them to break in. One of them finished the job. The consulting firm says the ranking it produced is the wrong thing to take away from it. The Cyber Weapon Index,
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Thomson Reuters says an unauthorised party got into files belonging to C-Track, the case management platform its court software business sells to judiciaries. The records involved come from appellate courts in a dozen US jurisdictions and from Ontario, Canada. The company detected the activity in its cloud environment on 30
