Apple and Google have ‘effective duopoly’ in UK says regulator
Liv McMahon & Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporters Getty Images Apple and Google may be required…
Babies in Midlands and North ‘more likely to die around birth’
Getty Images Babies in the Midlands and North of England are more likely to die before, during or shortly after birth than those in the South, a new study has found. Researchers analysed data from 121 maternity services in England to see which centres repeatedly produced outcomes better or worse than the average between 2013…
Livestream: Welcome to the Chinese Century
Whether you realize it or not, you’re already living in the Chinese century. From batteries to milk to electric vehicles, China is undoubtably doing it better—while the rest of us kick our feet up and watch. China is soaring ahead of the US in a space race called by Trump; China is putting up buildings…
Serverless Security Risks 2026: Mitigating Identity & SSRF RCE Threats
Key Takeaways Serverless shifts security risk from infrastructure to identity, permissions, and configuration, where small design choices can have an outsized impact. Short-lived cloud credentials reduce persistence but remain powerful; when exposed, they enable authenticated access, escalation, and lateral movement. The most damaging serverless breaches stem from routine issues such as public invocation, excessive permissions,…
Scale creative asset discovery with Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings unified vector search
Gaming companies face an unprecedented challenge in managing their advertising creative assets. Modern gaming companies produce thousands of video advertisements for A/B testing campaigns, with some organizations maintaining libraries with more than 100,000 video assets that grow by thousands of assets monthly. These assets are critical for user acquisition campaigns, where finding the right creative…
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS trust declares critical incident
Rising demand for services has led an NHS trust serving Suffolk and Essex to declare a critical incident. East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust told the BBC it was facing “significant pressure”, including hospitals in Ipswich and Colchester. Earlier this month, the NHS reported a rise in flu and other winter viruses after…
Former Countess of Chester NHS Trust chief executive awarded £1.4m over unfair dismissal
Michael BuchananSocial affairs correspondent BBC Dr Susan Gilby was forced out of her chief executive role at the Countess of Chester NHS Trust A former NHS chief executive has been awarded £1.4m in damages after suing the health service for unfair dismissal. Dr Susan Gilby took the Countess of Chester NHS Trust to court after…
New Release: Tails 7.4 | The Tor Project
New feature Persistent language and formats You can now save your language, keyboard layout, and formats from the Welcome Screen to the USB stick. These settings will be applied automatically when restarting Tails. If you turn on this option, your language and formats settings are saved unencrypted on the USB stick to help you type…
Former CISA Director Jen Easterly Will Lead RSA Conference
Jen Easterly, a longtime public- and private-sector cybersecurity practitioner who led the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency for more than three years, has been appointed CEO of RSA Conference, known as RSAC. The organization puts on the prominent annual gathering of cybersecurity experts, vendors, and researchers that started in 1991 as a small cryptography…
Harley Street plastic surgeon suspended for liposuction rule breaches
Getty Images Dr Sayed Mia carried out a liposuction procedure he was not registered to perform, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service heard A plastic surgeon who performed liposuction without proper registration and lied to inspectors from the health watchdog has been suspended for 12 months. Dr Sayed Mia, who was based at a private Harley…
Battling Cryptojacking, Botnets, and IABs [Guest Diary]
[This is a Guest Diary by Matthew Presnal, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Cryptojacking and botnets can pose a greater threat than a simple drain of resources. These organizations have been known to engage in “DDoS for Hire” or even selling off footholds, acting as Initial Access Brokers (IABs). To…
