Gunmen attacked the main airport in Niger’s capital of Niamey early Thursday morning, leading to an exchange of fire and explosions, witnesses and a security official said.
World reacts to US-Iran deal to extend ceasefire, reopen Strait of Hormuz
Several countries welcome deal, as IAEA chief says ‘now the technical work starts’ on Iran’s nuclear programme.
Kaja Kallas responds after Israeli foreign minister says he will ‘sever all contact’ with her
Kallas said she valued “dialogue and engagement” with Israel, but she made no mention of the reported apartheid comment.
Accenture says it will buy a majority stake in Dragos and fully acquire runZero and NetRise in a combined deal for the cybersecurity startups valued at $4.18B (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
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Accenture says it will buy a majority stake in Dragos and fully acquire runZero and NetRise in a combined deal for the cybersecurity startups valued at $4.18B — Consultancy firm Accenture (ACN.N) said on Th…
Clouds of black smoke rise over Moscow after Ukrainian drones hit an oil refinery
Ukraine has hit a major Moscow oil refinery for the second time in a week, disrupting flights at the city’s airports
Embedding Forbidden Text in Spyware to Discourage AI Analysis
At least one malware developer is adding text about nuclear and biological weapons to their spyware, in an effort to stop automatic AI analysis.
The _index.js payload begins with a large JavaScript block comment containing fake system instructions and policy-triggering content. Because it is inside a comment, it does not affect JavaScript execution. The runtime skips it. The real malware begins after the comment with a try{eval(…)} wrapper around a large character-code array and a ROT-style substitution function.
This header appears designed for AI-mediated analysis, not for Node, Bun, or Python. It attempts to derail scanners or analyst copilots that feed the beginning of a file to a language model without clearly isolating the content as untrusted data. In weak pipelines, this can cause refusal behavior, prompt confusion, context pollution, or premature classification before the scanner reaches the actual malware…
Four men rushed to hospital after stabbing outside club in Ayia Napa during brawl as two tourists, 21 & 22, arrested
FOUR men have been rushed to hospital after a horror mid-brawl stabbing outside a club in Ayia Napa – as cops arrest two tourists. The Israeli holidaymakers, aged 21 and 22, were cuffed following the clash in the early hours of Thursday which reportedl…
Bank of England governor warns UK public to expect higher costs this year
Andrew Bailey says ‘still inflationary pressure in pipeline’ despite US and Iran nearing peace deal as interest rates kept on holdBusiness live – latest updatesThe governor of the Bank of England has warned consumers to expect higher costs this year as…
Verse Enterprises, which wants to provide energy-management software for 100 data centers by 2027, raised a $54M Series B from Nvidia and others (Summer Maxwell/Bloomberg)
Summer Maxwell / Bloomberg:
Verse Enterprises, which wants to provide energy-management software for 100 data centers by 2027, raised a $54M Series B from Nvidia and others — Verse Enterprises Inc. is betting batteries and solar can…
Hackers Could Abuse SQL Server 2025 AI Features to Steal Sensitive Data
A new security analysis has revealed that Microsoft SQL Server 2025’s native AI capabilities can be repurposed by attackers to stealthily exfiltrate sensitive data and establish command-and-control (C2) channels directly within the database engine, sig…