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• Dell's latest XPS 13 Plus and XPS 17 laptops should be in the running for man's best friend

  27-07-2023 00:37 via zdnet.com
  
  Dell's XPS 13 Plus 9320 and XPS 17 9730 are great jacks-of-all-trades laptops for people looking for devices able to handle their daily workload and support immersive media.
  
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• Investigative journalist seeks damages from police over unlawful phone surveillance

  25-09-2026 17:35 via computerweekly.com
  Northern Ireland journalist subject to unlawful communications surveillance seeks damages from police in Northern Ireland in high court claim for data protection breaches and harassment
  
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• Expecting cyber attack, Kiteworks tells users to turn off servers

  25-09-2026 17:18 via computerweekly.com
  An as-yet undisclosed zero-day vulnerability has prompted managed file transfer provider Kiteworks to tell users to preemptively switch off their servers.
  
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• Special agents' blood and urine test results stolen in FBI hack

  25-09-2026 15:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Experts say the hack could leave agents vulnerable to scams, blackmail and targeted attacks.
  
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• US backs Elon Musk's bid to overturn €120m EU fine against X

  25-09-2026 11:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The EU had said X "deceives users" by selling blue ticks without "meaningfully verifying" accounts.
  
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• How Meta plans to deliver petabit connectivity between US and France

  25-09-2026 11:45 via computerweekly.com
  Meta is working with NEC, Sumitomo Electric Industries and Orange to deliver petabit transoceanic cabling capacity
  
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• Digital identity – moving forward with ambition

  25-09-2026 10:08 via computerweekly.com
  Despite the UK government's U-turn on a digital identity scheme, the uses and opportunities for digital ID are gathering pace
  
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• Met Police finally get full funding for national Post Office investigation

  25-09-2026 10:04 via computerweekly.com
  The national police investigation into the Post Office IT scandal has now received the full funding it requires
  
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• French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging

  25-09-2026 09:40 via computerweekly.com
  French local authorities to deploy ‘sovereign’ end-to-end encrypted messaging service in a move away from US big tech
  
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• Dreamforce 2026: A question of trust

  25-09-2026 09:15 via computerweekly.com
  Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2026 event tried to focus on trust in AI development, amid current fears about autonomous AI risks. Is AI just the new cloud?
  
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• Consumers want strong independent oversight of banking AI

  25-09-2026 09:04 via computerweekly.com
  Despite strong security foundations, customers using AI want independent eyes to watch over banks
  
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• AI promises a productivity windfall – who will reap the benefits?

  25-09-2026 08:15 via computerweekly.com
  Two previous industrial revolutions suggest gains arrive late and flow to capital first. Meanwhile, a 200-year-old idea – the ‘general intellect’ – holds the key to why
  
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• Microsoft expands Middle East cloud and AI footprint with $10bn commitment

  25-09-2026 06:45 via computerweekly.com
  Regional strategy combines infrastructure investment, cyber security partnerships and skills development to support national AI agendas
  
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• X-planes: Are they needed in the new era of drones?

  25-09-2026 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Where do America's X-plane projects fit in an era of cheap drones?
  
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• Why Australia chose the world's biggest political stage to reveal OpenAI hack

  24-09-2026 20:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Australia, which has strict social media restrictions and has proposed controls on algorithms and smart glasses, announced the breach at the UN.
  
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• Rogue OpenAI agent 'infiltrated' Australian government website in world first

  24-09-2026 17:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Australia criticised OpenAI for taking "too long" to tell them about the breach which happened in June.
  
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• Why did an OpenAI system hack Australia's health system - and can it be stopped in the future?

  24-09-2026 16:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  News that an automated AI agent hacked a government IT system raises big questions about regulating the tech.
  
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• Meta Connect 26: Muse paves the way to global domination

  24-09-2026 14:30 via computerweekly.com
  Given the reach of its platforms, Meta is making its Muse agentic system a platform for orchestrating third-party services on behalf of users
  
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• FBI investigating claim hackers have stolen details of all its agents

  24-09-2026 14:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The hackers claim they have every agent's name, role, badge number and personal details including home address, phone numbers and spouse information.
  
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• Is AI dangerous? Trying to separate hype from fact

  24-09-2026 13:46 via computerweekly.com
  The danger is not a conscious machine, but a dazzling prediction engine that moves faster than we can supervise. The real risk is that we hand over the controls too easily
  
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• Are we back in big tech's 'move fast and break things' era?

  24-09-2026 13:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Despite promises to make safe AI, examples of bots behaving badly are now coming at us thick and fast.
  
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• US military confirms existence of orbital weapons

  24-09-2026 13:00 via computerweekly.com
  The US military has for the first time confirmed the existence of orbital weapons, but has not divulged details of their capabilities or whether they have been integrated with Space Force’s growing arsenal of AI systems
  
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• Interview: Frank Karlitschek is David to Microsoft’s Goliath

  24-09-2026 12:15 via computerweekly.com
  With 170 employees and European Commission endorsement, Nextcloud’s founder is building Europe’s open source answer to Microsoft 365
  
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• GCC organisations must ‘fight AI with AI’ to stay ahead of cyber threats

  24-09-2026 12:00 via computerweekly.com
  Artificial intelligence is lowering the barrier to entry for cyber criminals, accelerating attack speeds and increasing the complexity of threats, prompting organisations to rethink resilience, governance and security operations
  
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• Netherlands designs sovereign cloud but concedes hardware dependency

  24-09-2026 08:00 via computerweekly.com
  A draft architecture published under the Dutch Digitalisation Strategy spells out what full software sovereignty requires and why full hardware sovereignty remains out of reach
  
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• What you need to know about the OpenAI Australian government hack

  24-09-2026 07:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC’s North America technology correspondent Lily Jamali explains how the Medicare breach happened, and why it matters.
  
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• OpenAI agent 'infiltrated' Australian government website, PM says

  24-09-2026 04:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Albanese said he expressed "concern" to OpenAI founder Sam Altman, after authorities were informed three months after the breach in June.
  
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• Indians are discovering the thrill of shopping without paying

  24-09-2026 01:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dopamine sites mimic shopping’s thrill without the spending, turning the ritual of consumption into a digital game.
  
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• US rejects pleas from OpenAI, Anthropic for global AI standards

  24-09-2026 00:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  OpenAI's Sam Altman has called for risk evaluation standards, as have Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Hugging Face's Clement Delangue.
  
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• Pornhub investigated over its age checks

  23-09-2026 17:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The regulator says it has concerns over how the site is relying on third party checks provided by Apple for some users.
  
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