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Ministers reject proposed red lines and emergency shutdown powers, pointing instead to voluntary safeguards The UK government has rejected proposals from members of the the House of Lords to bring AI vendors within the scope of the Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill. Cybersecurity minister Baroness Lloyd
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Three years after Broadcom completed its acquisition of VMware, the consequences of one of the biggest shake-ups in enterprise software are only now beginning to emerge. When the deal was announced in 2023, much of the discussion centered on what it might mean for VMware’s customers, partners and product
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After 23 years of operation, the Sality peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet has been disrupted as part of an international law enforcement effort. First observed in 2003, Sality has been used for distributing various malware families, including information stealers, proxy services, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) payloads, and more. For the past eight years,
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In January, the Cloud Security Alliance asked security professionals how they handle the identities on which their AI systems run. Fewer than a quarter of organizations had a documented, formally adopted policy for creating or removing one. More than 16% do not track when a new identity is created at
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Only 22% of organizations have successfully scaled AI across multiple business units or adopted an AI-first approach according to a survey by Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. Roughly 11% of organizations are entirely unaware of what their function spent on AI in 2025. A Gartner survey from
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CrowdStrike launched CrowdStrike Falcon IQ. Project QuiltWorks set the standard for securing frontier AI risk, uniting the cybersecurity ecosystem to secure every layer of exposure. Falcon IQ operationalizes and productizes that standard at machine speed. It makes it easier than ever before for CrowdStrike partners to drive more platform adoption
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In this interaction, Venkatesh Thenkarai, Chief Delivery Officer, Bahwan CyberTek, discusses how enterprises can harness agentic AI to transform IT operations and decision-making, build AI-ready data ecosystems, optimise cloud investments through FinOps and intelligent operations, and balance innovation with sovereignty, security and regulatory requirements. Agentic AI is rapidly emerging as
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Cognizant and CrowdStrike announced an expanded collaboration to introduce Cognizant Cybersecurity for Operational Technology, an Operational Technology (OT) security service powered by CrowdStrike Falcon® for XIoT. The service combines Cognizant’s industrial engineering expertise and managed security operations with CrowdStrike’s unified visibility and protection across XIoT and IT environments
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Looking ahead: Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1, making its newest flagship model available through its API, cloud platforms and the Claude desktop app. It also released Mythos 5.1, a version of
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As AI reshapes both sides of the cybersecurity battle — arming attackers with faster, smarter tools while giving defenders new ways to fight back — few markets sit at the center of this shift like India. Home to a booming SMB economy, a growing share of global GCCs, and some of the
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Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, the same model with different safeguards, cutting cache read prices by 75% and reporting 52.6% on a scientific research benchmark against 24.7% for its predecessor. Its outputs carry a watermark required by the EU AI Act, and
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A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning
