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Watchdog probing force over handling of requests from public amid rise in data breaches
Police Scotland is being investigated by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over its handling of Subject Access Requests, according to internal documents obtained by the Mail. The force’s compliance with both SAR and freedom of information (FOI) requests has fallen sharply, alongside a marked rise in serious data breaches, prompting Scottish Conservative justice spokesman Stephen…
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Leslie Bibb Stars In ‘The Rush Whisperer’ Sorority Recruitment Dark Comedy In Works At HBO
Leslie Bibb is set to star in and executive produce “The Rush Whisperer”, a dark comedy about sorority recruitment now in development at HBO. The project extends Bibb’s strong run with the network, following her Emmy-nominated turn in The White Lotus Season 3 and a recent Emmy-nominated guest role on Hacks, and reportedly beat out…
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Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers’ consent
Apple’s new Watch Series 12 includes “Audio Intelligence” features, notably Live Rewind and Siri Recap, which allow the device to process and transcribe nearby conversations without requiring consent from everyone involved. Privacy advocates, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, have criticised the move, arguing that bystanders have no practical way to consent or opt out, potentially…
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Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US
Meta’s new AI agent app, Muse, has climbed to the No. 2 spot on the US Apple App Store, boosting investor confidence just days after its Tuesday launch. The app forms a key part of Meta’s push into agentic AI, an emerging field the company believes will reshape how people get everyday tasks done, though…
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Schools are catching on to Big Tech’s playbook
A new book by New York Times reporter Natasha Singer, titled Coding Kids, argues that the tech industry has spent the past 15 years embedding itself in schools by promoting computer science education, and is now using the same playbook to push AI into classrooms. Singer contends that earlier promises linking coding skills to secure,…
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Ministers eye tourist tax as SNSM shadows migrant dinghy to Portsmouth, Trump pledges $5,000 tariff payout
A busy briefing: devolved powers could let English mayors levy hotel stays, French rescuers refused to board 120 migrants near Portsmouth, and Trump promised Americans a $5,000 payout if Republicans hold Congress. Also: Iceland opens in the Falklands, heatwaves threaten Britain’s beer, and Tilda Swinton returns to t…
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Europe will go it alone on Venus mission after NASA yanks radar instrument
The European Space Agency is pressing ahead alone on its Envision mission to Venus after NASA signalled it likely cannot deliver a US-built radar instrument it had promised, due to budget pressures from the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to NASA science funding. Envision will map the Venusian surface at ten times the resolution of NASA’s…
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Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script
An unidentified attacker deployed hundreds of AI agents to exploit two vulnerabilities in PaperCut’s print management software, compromising at least 395 organisations across 48 countries, primarily in the US education sector. According to threat-intelligence firm GreyNoise, the agents—built on OpenAI’s Codex harness and a DeepSeek model—enabled the attacker to move from an empty workspace to…
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Android can now securely migrate your logins between password managers
Google has introduced a system that allows Android users to securely transfer their passwords and passkeys directly between password manager apps, removing the need to manually re-enter credentials or export them as an unencrypted CSV file. The feature matters because it removes a significant barrier to switching password managers, which previously required either tedious manual…
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IDScan is offering free credit monitoring and ID protection after leaking driver’s licenses
IDScan.net, an ID fraud protection platform, is offering free credit monitoring and identity protection services to customers affected by a data security incident, days after being linked to an FBI investigation into a dark web marketplace selling scanned identity documents. The company has not explicitly confirmed a connection between the breach and reports that its…