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Richard Tice has said he and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage are suing the National Crime Agency (NCA) over the alleged leaking of confidential financial information.The Boston and Skegness MP and Reform deputy leader told Talk TV they believed the NCA had committed “multiple criminal offences” and said they would be seeking an apology and damages.He accused them of leaking “individual bank statements, bank transfers, details of conversations with bank managers from different banks”.Last month Tice wrote to the agency to ask if they would investigate whether they were responsible for the leaking of private financial information to the media.It…

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is changing our daily lives, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here.Long before ChatGPT became a thing, educators and editors frequently used anti-plagiarism tools to see if writers were being honest about their work. These tools work by comparing a written work against a database filled with content from across the web, scholarly articles, and more to check for matching sentences and phrases. Some, like Turnitin,…

Swati KhandelwalAug 07, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Vulnerability A GitHub issue opened by an account with no repository privileges was enough to execute code on the CI runners behind Anthropic’s and Google’s own coding-agent repositories. On OpenAI’s, it was enough to hijack the next agent run. Novee Security ran the attack against each vendor’s agent in the configuration that the vendor ships by default, and presented the work at Black Hat USA on August 5. Two CVEs came out of it. Both are patched. Gemini CLI carries the worst of the two. CVE-2026-12537 (CVSS 4 score: 10.0) is an OS command…

Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 entered its mandatory-signaling phase at block 961,632 on Saturday, with miners signaling support in just 51 of the preceding 2,016 blocks, or 2.53%, well below the 55% threshold required for early activation, according to the BIP-110 monitor.Starting at block 961,632, nodes enforcing BIP-110 began rejecting blocks that did not set version bit 4, while ordinary Bitcoin nodes continued accepting both signaling and non-signaling blocks. A minority BIP-110 branch subsequently emerged, but quickly fell behind the dominant chain.The low signaling rate makes a sustained rival chain unlikely without substantially greater miner participation. With relatively little mining support,…

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Moscow of harming global food security amid a spate of attacks on Odesa’s port.Published On 9 Aug 20269 Aug 2026An overnight Russian attack on an apartment building has killed two people in Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv as Moscow also keeps up its attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.Russian forces hit a high rise in the Saltivskyi district, killing a 50-year-old man and a 66-year-old man, Kharkiv Governor Oleh Syniehubov wrote on Telegram. At least 21 people were wounded.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listPhotos of the scene shared by Syniehubov showed a gaping hole across…

The democratic socialist and his Fox News interrogator circled each other for almost 15 minutes, disagreeing on everything from homeless encampments to whether the U.S. Senate is truly democratic.But it was a question about city-owned grocery stores in New York that left the host speechless.Gustavo Gordillo, co-chair of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, declared that if city-owned stores brought down prices enough to drum people out of business, “then maybe they shouldn’t have been in that business in the first place.”The Fox host, Martha MacCallum, paused for a couple of beats. “Interesting,” she muttered,…

Most people think Britain is not working as it should. For young people, the situation is at its most acute: Only one in four believe that everyone in society has a fair crack. Most think the game is rigged.It is clear why the generation who grew up during the post-2008 crash austerity years and in the shadow of the Covid pandemic are downbeat: the level of public service provision their parents enjoyed is gone, living costs are rising, the AI revolution is changing everything, and the planet is on fire.That is why Alan Milburn’s review into youth unemployment is vital.…

gorodenkoff/iStock/Getty Images PlusFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysAI brings new challenges for hard-working cyber staff.Talented professionals will question almost everything.Work with agents to make decisions that reduce risks.Working in cybersecurity is a tough gig. While security teams work hard to prevent damage to their organizations, ZDNET reported earlier this year that many cyber professionals aren’t receiving the recognition they deserveEmerging technology brings new challenges. AI-assisted vulnerability discovery is accelerating the pace of bug reports, with a growing mismatch between what machines can surface and what humans can realistically triage.Also: AI failed to patch software flaws 74% of the time,…

Swati KhandelwalAug 07, 2026Endpoint Security / Vulnerability Entra ID researcher Dirk-jan Mollema demonstrated that malware already running in a signed-in Windows session can silently use the victim’s Windows Hello for Business key to authenticate to Microsoft Entra ID. The attacker can then establish longer-term cloud access, register a device it controls, obtain a Primary Refresh Token (PRT), and add further authentication methods where tenant policies permit. On TPM-backed systems, the attacker does not extract the private key, recover the PIN, or trigger a biometric prompt. Windows ticketing keeps private-key operations available while the user is interactively signed in, allowing code…

Bitcoin’s BIP-110-enforcing branch stalled at block 961,633 on Sunday after producing only two blocks, while the non-enforcing chain advanced to 961,721, widening the gap to 88 blocks. According to the BIP-110 monitor, updated at 10:19 am UTC, the branch’s latest block had been mined about 12 hours earlier. Ocean records show that a pseudonymous mining group called Roughnecks produced the branch’s first two blocks using Ocean’s Decentralized Alternative Templates for Universal Mining (DATUM) mining protocol. The divergence began after BIP-110 entered mandatory signaling at block 961,632 on Saturday. Only 51 of the preceding 2,016 blocks, or 2.53%, signaled support. During this window,…