BT takes over TalkTalk and its 2.5 million customers out of administration
BT takes over TalkTalk and its 2.5 million customers out of administration

BT Group has acquired TalkTalk’s consumer and wholesale businesses out of administration. They have 1.5 million retail customers and 1 million wholesale customers. BT announced the deal on Monday. It said a prolonged sale process for those operations h…

Denmark’s CPR breach: 14 million lookups in ten days, found through a bill
Denmark’s CPR breach: 14 million lookups in ten days, found through a bill

Unknown users have pulled names, addresses and ID numbers on about 8.8 million people from Denmark’s Central Person Register (CPR). They abused a small Danish company’s legal access to the register. Denmark’s digitalisation ministry announced the breac…

Accenture contractor removed from FBI after unpatched system led to breach
Accenture contractor removed from FBI after unpatched system led to breach

An Accenture contractor has been removed from FBI work following a breach that exposed the personal data of thousands of bureau staff. The FBI acted on Monday, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter. A senior FBI official told Reu…

Google, JPMorgan and two governments fixed the same MCP flaw
Google, JPMorgan and two governments fixed the same MCP flaw

Security teams at Google, JPMorgan Chase, Weaviate, France’s interministerial digital directorate (DINUM) and the city government of Tangerang in Indonesia have each fixed the same type of flaw in their Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Independent…

Nokia CEO says data centres would go up twice as fast if supply allowed
Nokia CEO says data centres would go up twice as fast if supply allowed

Nokia’s chief executive Justin Hotard says the industry would build data centres twice as fast if memory and energy supply allowed, and that demand would hold even without a new frontier model for three years. Bain and a paper presented at the Brooking…

Senator Bernie Moreno accuses Anthropic’s Amodei of ‘alarmist’ AI talk
Senator Bernie Moreno accuses Anthropic’s Amodei of ‘alarmist’ AI talk

Republican senator Bernie Moreno has accused Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei of taking an “alarmist approach” to AI. He did so in a letter sent on Monday, ahead of Anthropic’s expected stock market listing. Axios first reported the letter. “I do…

Texas city wants $2.3M for public records on police Flock use
Texas city wants $2.3M for public records on police Flock use

A Fort Worth suburb has told a privacy group it would cost $2.3M to release records on how its police use Flock number plate cameras, a figure reached by estimating 14 years of labour at $15 an hour. Under the EU’s law enforcement directive the same in…

Meta, TikTok and X challenge Ofcom over online safety data, Reuters reports
Meta, TikTok and X challenge Ofcom over online safety data, Reuters reports

Meta, TikTok and X are challenging Ofcom in court over its data demands under the UK’s Online Safety Act, Reuters reported on Monday. The challenge is one of the first brought under the 2023 law. In February, Ofcom sent the companies information notice…

Cheaper EVs are fuelling Europe’s electric car boom, and the rules behind them are up for revision
Cheaper EVs are fuelling Europe’s electric car boom, and the rules behind them are up for revision

Battery-electric sales in the EU reached 1.64 million in the first eight months of 2026, up 45%, with 16 models under EUR 25,000 due on sale by the end of the year. Transport and Environment says the version of the 2035 target proposed by Parliament’s …

Pinterest hires Amazon’s advertising finance chief as CFO
Pinterest hires Amazon’s advertising finance chief as CFO

Pinterest has made James Dibbo its chief financial officer from 26 October, hired out of Amazon where he was finance chief for global entertainment, advertising and corporate development. He replaces Julia Brau Donnelly, who announced her departure in …