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‘A major step forward’: Keir Starmer’s £187 million tech skills drive welcomed by UK industry
The UK government has announced plans to invest £187 million to bolster tech skills across the country in a move welcomed by industry stakeholders. Unveiled on the opening day of London Tech Week, the ‘TechFirst’ program aims to give young people and workers across the UK access to training schemes in areas such as artificial intelligence. The program will see…
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This startup wants to transform the legal profession: Wordsmith AI just raised $25 million to drive agentic AI adoption for general counsels and fuel the rise of ‘legal engineers’
Wordsmith AI, a Scottish startup specializing in AI agents for legal professionals, has raised $25 million in a funding round led by Index Ventures. The investment, which builds on a $5 million seed funding round last year, brings the Edinburgh-based startup’s valuation to $100 million and will be used to scale out its AI infrastructure and drive global expansion. Founded…
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NinjaOne completes $270 million Dropsuite acquisition
Endpoint management provider NinjaOne has completed its acquisition of Dropsuite in a deal valued at $270 million. Founded in 2011, Dropsuite specializes in SaaS backup and data protection for critical workloads, covering cloud backup, archiving, and recovery. Geared towards MSPs, the cloud platform is designed to protect data, ensure business continuity, and simplify compliance. NinjaOne said the acquisition will help…
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Microsoft invests $400 million to expand Swiss data centers
Microsoft has announced plans to invest $400 million in Swiss data centers to expand its cloud and AI infrastructure in the region. The move comes alongside data sovereignty moves — keeping European data in Europe — which has driven billions in Microsoft investment in data centers in the region. Earlier this year, Microsoft said its EU Data Boundary for the…
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US sanctions firm linked to cyber scams behind $200 million in losses
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Funnull Technology, a Philippines-based company that supports hundreds of thousands of malicious websites behind cyber scams linked to over $200 million in losses for Americans. Funnull facilitated virtual currency investment scams (also known as romance baiting and pig butchering) by buying IP addresses in bulk from various cloud service providers. The company sold these…
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A cybersecurity researcher just discovered a treasure trove of leaked accounts: More than 184 million logins were readily available online, with Google, Meta, and Apple users affected
A cybersecurity researcher has uncovered a mysterious, publicly accessible database containing millions of login credentials from services including Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft. The publicly exposed database was not password-protected or encrypted, and contained more than 184 million unique logins and passwords, adding up to 47.42GB of raw credential data. The data included emails, usernames, passwords, and the URL links to…
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App Store stopped $2 billion in fraud, blocked 2 million risky apps in 2024 – Computerworld
Those commitments should, logically, extend to discipline against developers. Apple says that in order to prevent fraud, it terminated over 146,000 developer accounts last year. It also blocked 139,000 developer enrollments. Why are tens of thousands of attempts to overcome App Store security taking place? It could be the sheer number of people using the store, which is currently serving…
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Hacker steals $223 million in Cetus Protocol cryptocurrency heist
The decentralized exchange Cetus Protocol announced that hackers have stolen $223 million in cryptocurrency and is offering a deal to stop all legal action if the funds are returned. The project also announced a $5 million bounty to anyone providing relevant information leading to the identification and arrest of the attacker. Cetus Protocol is a decentralized exchange (DEX) and liquidity…
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Someone Found Over 180 Million User Records in an Unprotected Online Database
If you use the internet, you’ve probably had at least some personal information go missing. It’s just the nature of the web. But this latest discovery, as reported by Wired, is something different. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found a public online database housing over 180 million records (184,162,718 to be exact) which amounted to more than 47GB of data. There…
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SK Telecom says malware breach lasted 3 years, impacted 27 million numbers
SK Telecom says that a recently disclosed cybersecurity incident in April, first occurred all the way back in 2022, ultimately exposing the USIM data of 27 million subscribers. SK Telecom is the largest mobile network operator in South Korea, holding roughly half of the national market. On April 19, 2025, the company detected malware on its networks and responded by isolating…
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