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Ring’s first smart lock has a clever answer to the dead battery problem

Ring has announced a $249 smart lock with a dial that recharges a dead battery by hand, due in the United States early in 2027. Amazon’s own disclosure says the lock has not been authorised by the Federal Communications Commission and may not be sold until it is, and its remote features run over Amazon […]

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Google opens SynthID Detector to everyone to check for AI-made media

Google has opened its SynthID Detector to everyone. The free website checks whether an image, video or audio file carries Google’s SynthID watermark, a hidden signal its AI tools add to what they create. The tool is available globally in English from Wednesday, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli wrote in a company blog post. It flags […]

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Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model for devices

Google has released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open 740-million-parameter model that maps text, code, images, audio and video into a single space and runs entirely on a phone or a small board. It is licensed under Apache 2.0, has had no safety tuning, and Google says performance is not equal across the 100 languages it supports. […]

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Asos app users get an alert claiming its Snowflake instance was compromised

Asos app users in the UK got a push notification on Tuesday morning in which the senders claimed to have fully compromised the online fashion retailer’s Snowflake instance. The message, titled “ASOS HACKED”, addressed the company’s data protection officer (DPO) and IT team. “Dear ASOS DPO and IT, we have fully compromised the Snowflake instance. […]

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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 breach on Monday. The CPR administration has cut off the company, and the police are investigating. Denmark has about […]

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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 researcher Syed Anas Mohiuddin reported all five, he wrote in an update published this month. MCP is the standard […]

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Florida woman arrested after Anthropic reported her Claude chat to police

Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a woman in Florida after Anthropic reported her Claude conversation to law enforcement. In the chat she allegedly said she would “shoot up” the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. WINK News first reported the arrest on 30 September. According to the arrest report, she wrote the statement on 26 September. In a […]

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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 information has to be logged as a matter of […]

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US judge rules a police Flock search was unconstitutional mass surveillance

A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a deputy’s warrantless search of Flock’s licence plate reader network broke the US Constitution. In an order dated 1 October, Judge Sara Hill called the system “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance”. Jason Koebler of 404 Media first reported the ruling. “It is a tool that collects […]

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RBI chief says the next financial crisis may start with a cyberattack

The next financial crisis may not start in a bank at all, India’s central bank governor has warned. Sanjay Malhotra said it could come from a war, a cyberattack or a tech failure, as Bloomberg reported. He spoke at the Kautilya Economic Conclave in New Delhi on Saturday. “It may begin with a geopolitical event, or cyber […]

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