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When AI security startup HiddenLayer raised its $50 million Series A three years ago, one of the big questions in the space was whether the AI threats the startup was protecting against would manifest in enough quantity to make for a real market. As my former colleague Kyle Wiggers noted at the time, it was difficult to pin down real examples of attacks against AI at scale. How quickly things have changed. Security companies are now scrambling to build products that can monitor not just agents but also the tools and add-ons they use. While there still aren’t many headlines…

Ransomware protection for MSPs should deliver six tested outcomes: reduce exposure, detect activity before encryption, provide 24/7 response, preserve isolated recovery points, recover cleanly and operate consistently across tenants. Backup alone is not enough, and neither is endpoint detection without a rehearsed recovery path. The Acronis Cyberthreats Report identified 143 MSP, IT-service provider and telecom ransomware victims in 2025, with phishing accounting for 52% of initial access cases and unpatched vulnerabilities for 27%. The checklist below turns those failure modes into controls and evidence an MSP should require before calling a service complete. The six things your service must do…

Bitcoin has all the factors in place to a seven-figure price over the next four years, according to BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes.But he’s buying ETH right now, because he believes it could easily do a “3x to 5x pretty quickly.”On the latest episode of Trade Secrets, Hayes says the collapse of the AI bubble, “massive” money printing, and potential US yield curve control are among some of the reasons why Bitcoin could go to $1 million by 2030“We have the ingredients. The time is now. So I think the $58,000 was probably the bottom in Bitcoin, and now it’s going…

A new study finds that a coral-associated damselfish may help hasten the healing of wounded corals.The research showed a 55% faster recovery rate from larger coral wounds in the presence of damselfish, and a 38% faster rate of healing for smaller wounds.Algae living within wounded corals exhibited decreased photosynthetic efficiency, an energy source vital to coral healing, when damselfish were absent.Scientists say the findings could inform conservation management plans, focusing more attention on preserving fish habitats to better protect corals.See All Key Ideas Corals share a close bond with the fish dwelling among them and the algae living…

Cryogenic equipment supplier Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases (Nikkiso CE&IG) Group has secured an order to deliver multiple pumps for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Brunsbüttel, adding to its growing portfolio of equipment for Germany’s LNG import infrastructure. Illustration; Source: German LNG Terminal Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group has secured a significant contract with CS Gas North to provide 16 submerged motor pumps for the German LNG terminal in Brunsbüttel. The company is manufacturing high-pressure, low-pressure, and ship-loading pumps for the project, which is being built by German LNG Terminal and is scheduled to be operational in…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Bryn Schraven is no stranger to death. When Schraven was 19 years old, their dad died in a car accident in the middle of their small Wisconsin town. A mountain of paperwork soon piled up, and so did the comments from well-meaning community members. “It was very tragic and very sudden … I had some issues feeling unheard by the funeral director and funeral company I went with,” Schraven said, “and I felt a little hurt by some of the things that people said to me at that time because people don’t know how to talk…

Keir Starmer exits the British political stage as he entered it: doing the exact opposite of the thing he said he was going to do. It’s only 10 weeks since he pledged to remain as MP for Holborn and St Pancras until the next election, despite stepping down as prime minister. That’s plainly the decent course of action: a dedicated Labour man wouldn’t want to force a byelection. Even if it’s a slam dunk for the party, it inevitably draws focus and resources from more important matters. Someone who takes the business of representing constituents even a 10th as seriously…

The post-World War II era was dominated by idealism that gave birth to a dense architecture of multilateral institutions and Western-led governance frameworks.That order has now reached a decisive historical inflection point. The foreign policy paradigm forged during the two administrations of United States President Donald Trump — marked by unilateralism, transactional nationalism, and a recalibration of historic alliances — represents a sharp break from prior international norms. Combining coercive leverage with strategic media manipulation, this shift has heralded a new foreign policy phenomenon: Trumpism.By combining assertions of national sovereignty with an anti-establishment tone, Trumpism systematically challenges the core assumptions…

A Treasury official, also not one of the cited individuals, said growth would be a dual mission for both the prime minister’s and chancellor’s offices. They added the Treasury would drive growth policy across Whitehall, that every department would have a focus on growth and Burnham’s pledge of “good growth in every postcode” would take the whole government working as one to achieve. Burnham told MPs on Tuesday that he believed growth had to be “driven with the full authority of the very center of government, in close partnership with the Treasury.” Louise Haigh, his first secretary who has previously…

The backdrop to his first few days as prime minister with Westminster in full swing has been the increased cost of borrowing – a global trend but one to which the UK is exposed and which looks likely to limit the chancellor’s room for manoeuvre at the budget come the end of October.Burnham has promised a transformational government but he’s facing many of the same challenges as Sir Keir Starmer, with difficult decisions on defence spending, welfare and social care – to name just a few – hurtling towards him.These are the pressure points his political opponents will seek to…