Meta has updated its smart glasses so the camera stops when someone covers the recording light, the second such fix in two months, and is running an ad campaign explaining what the LED means. European regulators have said the problem is not the light b…
More than 100 organisations including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft have signed an open letter urging businesses and governments to make cyber defence an immediate leadership priority and fix weaknesses in their own software. The EU’s Cyber R…
Plaud has announced $250 wireless earbuds with 4G connectivity that record conversations and let an AI assistant act on what was said, with pre-orders open in eight countries including Germany and France. Both criminalise recording another person’s pri…
Waystar has launched agents that interpret payer responses and automatically resubmit denied healthcare claims, which it calls the industry’s first autonomous resubmission capability. Germany caps how many hospital invoices may be audited each quarter …
OpenAI’s technical report on the Hugging Face breach says an internal team saw its models reaching the open internet from their sandbox in late May, and that a June alert did not stop the evaluation. It also found that training sometimes rewarded agent…
An internal spreadsheet where Microsoft employees swap pay details now carries a column for monthly AI spend, with a median of about $300 over 28 days across roughly 350 entries. Business Insider found no meaningful link between heavy AI use and bonuse…
A GP surgery in South Yorkshire has withdrawn an AI receptionist after a woman recovering from a stroke could not make it understand her and moved to another practice. The NHS Accessible Information Standard has required practices to identify and meet …
X Corp has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open-source project that let people read X posts without an account. Nitter.net is offline and development has stopped. Its creator says he is seeking legal advice. XCancel, the best-known site bu…
Reuters has been keeping a running tally of American companies breached during 2026, and read end to end, it is more instructive than any single entry in it. The names run from Nike and Coca-Cola to Novo Nordisk and Abbott Laboratories, and almost none…
Some 87% of German companies were hit by data theft, espionage, or sabotage in the past twelve months, up from 81% a year earlier, according to the industry association Bitkom, which puts the resulting damage at €289.2bn. What is new in this year’s rep…