KPMG survey reveals belief that artificial intelligence will shake up the finance sector more than the 1986 financial Big Bang
Authentic Brands Group says AI company infringed on rights of songs by the King such as Can’t Help Falling in LoveThe owners of Elvis Presley’s music catalogue are suing artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic for allegedly using Presley’s songs to train their models without permission.Authentic Brands Group, the licensing organization that has ownership of both Presley’s music and likeness, is accusing Anthropic of infringing on the rights of 274 songs by Presley. The lawsuit, first reported by Billboard, was filed on Friday. Continue reading...
State paid consultancy firm $166,000 for feasibility study on merging the three tertiary institutionsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Western Australian government has said it is “extremely disappointed” and is seeking an “expedited” cost recovery from Deloitte after errors were discovered in a report about a potential university merger, including AI-hallucinated references and hundreds of millions of dollars in cost discrepancies.The government paid Deloitte $166,000 for a feasibility study on merging the University of Western Australia, Curtin University and Murdoch University. Continue reading...
The AI boom is pitting local residents against corporate giants seeking to power their energy-hungry networks – but one Welsh city is fighting backDale Johnston opens the gate to his neat suburban garden on the western fringes of Newport in South Wales. There’s a trampoline and a slide on the lawn for his grandchildren, and chairs for him and his wife. He should be enjoying the light draining from the perfect autumnal sky – but almost his entire view is blotted out by a vast expanse of prefabricated panels.The 23 metre-high grey hulk looming over him and his neighbours is a hyperscale datacentre. It is heralded by the area’s Labour politicians as a job creator, yet all Johnston can think about is what he has lost: “Before, the sun used to come around here and it was lovely.” The way residents have been treated is “disgusting”. Continue reading...
After discovery of severe bug in the PHP programming language, executives warn of ‘vulnerability tsunami’Leaders in cybersecurity are sounding the alarm after the discovery of a major vulnerability this week. They are predicting that artificial intelligence tools will expose more fundamental weaknesses in global internet infrastructure in the months to come.“I no longer think we’re going to be able to patch all bugs,” said Sam Altman on Thursday evening, joining the chorus of executives. In the midst of what’s being called “Black October”, for which researchers used AI to help identify critical flaws in a coding language that is used across millions of websites and may have been unpatched for years, tech executives are warning about the ways AI will be used both to identify and exploit security vulnerabilities at an unprecedented scale and pace. Continue reading...
Anthropic claims AI will shift how work gets done and labor demand – but some experts are skeptical of the visionLast year, the Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, warned that artificial intelligence could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs and that in six months it would be writing 90% of code. Neither of those predictions came to pass.Now, in a report Anthropic published on Thursday, the company said it was hiring fewer junior technical workers and that human attention has become the new “bottleneck” as it increasingly relies on its Claude AI agents. Continue reading...
During the London event, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella outlined his view of how agentic AI needs to be managed as part of enterprise IT
Mounting power demands and grid bottlenecks are reshaping the geography of the UK’s digital infrastructure, pushing developers to wherever they can connect fastest
Mohammed Retmi, vice-president of sovereign clouds at Core42, says organisations moving AI into production must address data classification, governance, integration and resilience, while balancing infrastructure costs with performance and regulatory requirements
Commercial AI has not invented new OT attacks, but it has sped up reconnaissance, compressing attackers time to understand targets. Process-specific engineering knowledge remains a barrier
Biggest Apple smartwatch gets better health tracking and new readiness tools with a battery and chip boost in preparation for controversial audio AIAs the Ultra enters its fourth year as Apple’s biggest and beefiest smartwatch it gets the best kind of spec upgrade – longer battery life – while waiting for something potentially more transformative.That’s because several of the key features announced as part of Apple’s new smartwatch lineup for 2026 have yet to be enabled, awaiting updates towards the end of this year. That leaves the £749 (€899/$799/A$1,349) Apple Watch Ultra 4 the top dog, but basically the same as last year’s model.Case size: 49 x 44mmCase thickness: 12mmWeight: 63gProcessor: S11Storage: 64GBOperating system: watchOS 27Water resistance: 100 metres (10ATM)Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.3, wifi 4, 5G RedCap/4G, UWBSensors: HR, ECG, spO2, temp, depth, dual-band GPS, compass, altimeter Continue reading...
The Department for Business and Trade has announced its investigation of faulty software used in Post Office branches before the controversial Horizon system
PM will also announce funding for specialised protective gear and the deployment of military aircraftThe UK government is to create an AI Cobra unit to spot wildfires after this year’s record-breaking summer saw devastating blazes across the country.The country experienced its hottest-ever summer this year, with prolonged dry periods and extreme heat fuelling wildfires that triggered an emergency alert to mobile phones in England and Wales. Figures released on 8 October showed a clear upward trend in the number of fires recorded each year. Continue reading...
As security teams worldwide grapple with the deep impact of the PHP2Shell flaws, the PHP Foundation reveals how a carefully planned vulnerability disclosure process went horribly wrong
German carmaker has migrated to Red Hat’s agentless IT automation platform to manage an HPC cluster comprising 30,000 Linux and Windows servers
Exclusive: Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco taskforce urges ministers to offer areas greater benefits from tech infrastructure amid fears of US-style oppositionAI companies have told ministers they have 12 months to head off public opposition to datacentres in the UK or risk US-style protests that could threaten their construction.Successive dry summers and rising energy bills are increasing public scrutiny of plans for the huge computer warehouses that are used to train and run AI models, says a submission to the Labour government from a group including the AI infrastructure companies Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco. Continue reading...