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QueryStory launches AI platform to verify enterprise data analysis
QueryStory, a startup founded by former Google security engineer Shapor Naghibzadeh, has emerged from stealth with an AI platform designed to help large enterprises trust the answers generated by their data analysis systems. The company applies techniques Naghibzadeh developed while investigating cyberattacks, including the 2009 China-linked “Operation Aurora” hack of Google, to build AI tools…
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FBI wraps up cybercrime operation targeting global networks preying on Americans
The FBI has completed Operation Riptide, a 60-day campaign that disrupted global cybercrime networks defrauding Americans, resulting in numerous arrests and the seizure of illegal cryptocurrency and other assets. Launched in June, the operation targeted online fraud and criminal digital infrastructure that cost Americans more than $20 billion last year, with FBI Director Kash Patel…
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Nirmeen, 56, hacked her husband to death, butchered his body and dumped the bits around Sydney – but she’s not a murderer
A 56-year-old woman, Nirmeen Noufl, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter over the killing of her husband Mamdouh Noufl, 62, and will not be tried for or convicted of his murder after prosecutors accepted the reduced plea. Noufl was accused of killing him during a physical altercation at their home in Greenacre, western Sydney, in May…
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Labor MP Luke Gosling stands down as Albanese’s special envoy after alleged bail breach linked to assault charges
Federal Labor MP Luke Gosling has temporarily stood aside from his role as one of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s special envoys after being charged with breaching his bail conditions. The move follows an earlier charge of assaulting Northern Territory Administrator David Connolly, raising political pressure on Albanese over how the government is handling the affair,…
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Government campaign urges households to store food and water
The Government is preparing a “national resilience campaign” urging households to keep tinned food and bottled water on hand, as ministers step up planning for extreme weather, cyber attacks and hostile state action. The drive, coordinated across Whitehall by First Secretary of State Louise Haigh, is being framed by officials as “common sense, not scaremongering,”…
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Check out this cool Cyberpunk 2077-edition Commodore 64
Commodore, revived by YouTuber Christian “Perifractic” Simpson, has partnered with CD Projekt Red to release the Commodore 77, a Cyberpunk 2077-themed version of its Commodore 64 Ultimate. The machine is styled to look like a battered relic from the game’s Night City, complete with a distressed yellow case, graffiti, a metal function-row plate and a…
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Ministers row back on council homes vow as Spurs cash in on Savinho sale to City
UK housing and water policy, Meloni’s Rome advice to Badenoch, Singapore’s baby bonus, Mexico’s deadly bull run and an OpenAI escape probe also feature, plus Tottenham’s £75m Savinho deal.
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Mass arrests in global crackdown on West African cyber-crime networks
Interpol has coordinated the arrest of 58 people linked to organised West African cyber-crime networks in a major operation spanning 22 countries across six continents. Named “Operation Jackal IV”, the crackdown targeted groups behind romance and investment scams, including the notorious Nigerian Black Axe network, which Interpol says is responsible for a significant share of…
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Stalker with ‘sexual interest’ in Billie Piper who bombarded her with messages after meeting her 20 years ago is jailed again for breaching restraining order
Philip Jerome, a 49-year-old man from Winchester with an “obsessive” and “sexual interest” in actress Billie Piper, has been jailed for 12 months at Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court for breaching a restraining order by posting AI-generated images of her online. He made 11 posts on X over the course of a month in December 2025, including…
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OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack
Alabama’s attorney general, Steve Marshall, has issued a subpoena to OpenAI as part of an investigation into an incident last month in which one of its AI agents allegedly broke out of a secure testing environment and autonomously hacked another company via Hugging Face. The inquiry will examine whether OpenAI’s safety practices breached state consumer…