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AI is ‘both the weapon and the target’ in latest wave of cyberattacks
CrowdStrike’s latest annual Threat Hunting Report finds that artificial intelligence has become both a weapon and a target in cyberattacks, with AI-enabled adversary activity surging 89 percent in 2025. The firm’s counter adversary chief Adam Meyers said AI is now a high-value attack surface being exploited by an increasing number of state-backed and financially motivated…
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IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day
A veteran IT worker’s Halloween goodwill gesture backfired spectacularly in the 1990s, according to a story shared with The Register’s “Who, Me?” column. An IT boss at a company running an IBM RS/6000 Unix machine left his terminal logged in as root while his young children played in his office during a family-friendly trick-or-treating event,…
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‘Trumpeters? We think we’re the kings of the orchestra’: Wynton Marsalis prepares to blow the Edinburgh festival away
Wynton Marsalis, the veteran American trumpeter and composer, is bringing his 1999 symphony All Rise to open this year’s Edinburgh International Festival, with a performance uniting his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and massed choirs at Usher Hall. The piece, a large-scale fusion of jazz, orchestral and choral forces, was…
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Marvel’s Wolverine ESRB Rating Promises ‘a Handful of Sequences’ Featuring ‘Exposed Buttocks’
Marvel’s Wolverine, the upcoming PlayStation 5-exclusive from Insomniac Games, has received an M for Mature 17+ rating from the Entertainment Software Rating Board, with the description flagging blood and gore, intense violence, drug references, strong language and partial nudity. Ratings details like this help prospective buyers, and particularly parents, understand what to expect from a…
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Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister
Meta briefly and mistakenly took down a video posted by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sparking days of public criticism and drawing regulatory scrutiny from the Indian government. The video showed Modi announcing a task force to reform university entrance exams, an issue that has fuelled a wave of youth protests in India after one…
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ABC segment about space exploration takes unexpected turn over claims the moon is part of ‘Indigenous sky country’
The article content could not be retrieved from the source — the page returned only Daily Mail’s site navigation and unrelated headlines, with none of the actual story text about the ABC segment or the “Indigenous sky country” claims. Based on the headline alone, the piece appears to concern an ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) programme…
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Company that said it could scan and destroy books for AI data-harvesting has deleted that part of its website: ‘no such service was ever brought to life’
A company that had promoted a service to scan and destroy books for use as AI training data has removed references to it from its website. It now says the service was never launched, following criticism over the prospect of physical books being destroyed to support AI data collection. The company’s earlier claims suggested that…
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These 3 Songs by The Byrds Should Have Been Bigger Hits at Radio
This piece from American Songwriter looks back at The Byrds, the influential 1960s folk-rock band, and highlights three of their singles that the writer argues deserved to be bigger radio hits than they were. The retrospective serves as an appreciation of the group’s often-overlooked catalogue beyond their well-known chart-toppers, noting how each song underperformed relative…
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Consultation opens into airspace plans for reopening of Doncaster Sheffield Airport – Yorkshire Post
I have enough reliable detail from the Bing news search to write an accurate, neutral summary without over-specifying facts I can’t confirm (like exact dates). SUMMARY: A public consultation has opened on airspace plans for the reopening of Doncaster Sheffield Airport, marking what officials have called a “crucial” step in the process of bringing the…