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OpenAI closes gap to artificial general intelligence with GPT-5

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OpenAI has updated its large language model (LLM) in ChatGPT to GPT-5, which it says takes a significant step towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). In a blog post, the company said GPT-5 delivers leaps in accuracy, speed, reasoning, context recognition, structured thinking and problem-solving.  “We anticipate early adoption to drive industry leadership on what’s possible…

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Microsoft’s Autonomous AI Agent Might Detect Malware Without Human Assistance

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Christian de Looper for BGR The arrival of generative AI software like ChatGPT prompted immediate speculation that hackers would use those programs to create and fine-tune malware attacks. Products like ChatGPT and Gemini might be great at coding, but they have guardrails in place to prevent the creation of malicious software. That said, hackers can…

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Scattered Spider victim Clorox sues helpdesk provider

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IT services provider Cognizant is facing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit from one of its customers, which claims lax security procedures enabled the Scattered Spider hacking collective – blamed for the attacks on Marks & Spencer and Co-op Group – to access its systems by convincing a Cognizant helpdesk employee to reset a password. The August 2023…

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SharePoint users hit by Warlock ransomware, says Microsoft

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Multiple organisations have now been hit by Warlock ransomware deployed on their systems via the dangerous ToolShell vulnerability chain in Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft has revealed. Earlier this week, Microsoft said that known Chinese state threat actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon, were among those exploiting two security bypass vulnerabilities – CVE-2025-53770, which bypasses a…

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Interview: Cambridge Consultants CEO Monty Barlow scans for tech surprises

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As university towns, Cambridge and Oxford are oddly disconnected from the UK’s capital when compared with those in other European countries. France’s leading universities are mostly in Paris, by contrast. As David Willetts, former minister for universities and science, and a British Conservative Party politician, writes in his 2017 book, A university education: “England is…

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Nvidia calls time on support for popular GTX 1060 GPU and reveals Windows 10 driver deadline

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Nvidia has announced that support for GTX 10 series GPUs ends in October 2025After that, these graphics cards, including the GTX 1060, will only get security fixesIt also announced that Windows 10 support will run through to October 2026, mirroring Microsoft’s extended support program for the OSNvidia has released a new graphics driver and announced…

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GPT-5 Launch Might Be Imminent: More Leaks Detail Some Of The New AI’s Main Features

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Menlo Ventures AI investor Deedy Das posted the following tweet on X, claiming OpenAI will launch GPT-5 next week. According to information from an anonymous source that provided “reasonable proof,” GPT-5 will support context windows of up to 1 million tokens (input) and up to 100,000 tokens (output). GPT-5 will also support the Model Context…

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Scattered Spider playbook evolving fast, says Microsoft

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Microsoft has rolled out a series of targeted enhancements across its Defender and Sentinel cyber security ecosystem designed to help its customers guard against the possibility of falling victim to Scattered Spider as the cyber gang continues to evolve its playbook. Scattered Spider – referred to in Microsoft’s threat telemetry as Octo Tempest – ramped…

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Is history repeating itself with the government’s push to open public sector cloud deals to SMEs?

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The UK government is on a mission to loosen the grip that legacy IT suppliers have on public sector IT budgets, amid concerns about how police forces, NHS trusts and local councils are wedded to suppliers whose offerings are not good value for money. Technology secretary Peter Kyle outlined the government’s ambitions on this front…

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CISPE criticised over securing preferential cloud pricing on Microsoft products for members

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A European trade body is facing criticism for striking a deal with Microsoft that allows its members to host and resell the software giant’s cloud offerings with preferential pricing terms.   The Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers In Europe (CISPE) trade body has reached an agreement with Microsoft that will see its members offered revised pricing…

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