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Attackers cracked 75,000 Fortinet firewalls with old passwords, not a zero-day

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Security researchers have uncovered a sprawling cache of stolen credentials for Fortinet firewalls, exposing login details for tens of thousands of organisations around the world. The dataset, dubbed “FortiBleed,” contains plaintext usernames, emails and passwords for 73,932 unique Fortinet FortiGate firewall and VPN devices across 194 countries, touching more than 21,000 domains. Researchers estimate that […]

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EU tells Big Tech to align AI data centres with climate goals or stay away

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The European Union’s energy chief has told the AI industry it is welcome in Europe, but only on the bloc’s terms. In an interview with Politico, Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen said companies must demonstrate commitment to the EU’s energy, climate, and environmental goals if they want to build data centres on the continent. That means supporting […]

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ECB’s Lagarde says AI could trigger financial crises and calls for Cold War-style non-proliferation governance

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ECB President Christine Lagarde warned on Wednesday that artificial intelligence could trigger dangerous financial crises and called for global AI governance modelled on the Cold War-era non-proliferation agreements that kept the world safe from nuclear weapons. She spoke in Venice, the sharpest framing yet from a central bank chief on the systemic risks AI poses […]

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China pitches free AI for the developing world as the G7 debates who gets access to American models

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China’s top diplomat Wang Yi announced on Wednesday that Beijing is “accelerating the establishment of a global AI cooperation organization” and invited all countries to join. The comments came as the G7 summit in France wrapped up with discussions about giving “trusted partners” access to leading US AI models, according to Reuters. Two competing visions […]

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FTC freezes sprawling subscription enterprise built on Cyprus and Delaware shells

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A federal court has temporarily shut down what the US Federal Trade Commission describes as a sprawling enterprise of deceptive subscription apps, freezing the operations of 15 corporations and eight individuals accused of charging consumers without permission and making cancellation deliberately hard. The order, granted at the agency’s request, came alongside a complaint filed on […]

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France breaks EDF’s grip on hydropower with law to auction 6 GW a year

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France’s Parliament adopted a bill on Tuesday that dismantles the monopoly Électricité de France has held over the country’s hydropower market for decades, according to Bloomberg. The law converts EDF’s hydropower concessions into permits and requires the state-owned utility to auction 6 gigawatts of capacity each year under the supervision of France’s energy regulator, CRE. EDF […]

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Anthropic and Google DeepMind called for a US-led AI coalition at the G7, and Canada said yes

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis used a closed-door lunch at the G7 summit on Wednesday to call for a US-led coalition that would shape international rules and standards for artificial intelligence, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions who spoke to CNBC on condition of anonymity. Canadian Prime Minister […]

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Meloni says banning kids from social media is not a solution on its own

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Wednesday that her government would not take the initiative to introduce a social media ban for teens, breaking from the approach taken by Britain and France. “I am not against a social media ban for under-16s, but I am not either convinced that this proposal alone can solve […]

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Britain lobbied Trump for an exemption from the Anthropic AI ban. The answer was no.

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Sir Keir Starmer’s government spent the weekend lobbying the White House to restore British access to Anthropic’s most capable AI models. A source close to President Trump told The Telegraph there was “zero chance” of a UK carve-out. The rejection lands as Starmer meets Trump at the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, where the ban is […]

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China’s new five-year plan makes tracking AI’s hit to jobs a national priority

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China has spent two years telling the world it intends to win the AI race. Its new five-year employment plan is the quieter admission that winning it could cost a lot of people their jobs. The State Council, effectively China’s cabinet, has issued its blueprint for employment policy from 2026 to 2030. Buried in a […]

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