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Scotland's Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC) confirmed attackers gained unauthorized access to historical data in a mid-July intrusion, which was immediately contained. Sources told The Register the crooks claimed to have stolen 20 years of data and gained admin access through an employee account, with an extortion demand reportedly made—though APUC did not confirm those details and has not appeared on any major ransomware leak sites.

Tune Talk launched Epik+ Family Safe, a mobile plan that moves child online safety from the app/platform layer to the network layer, arguing that existing parental controls are fragmented and too dependent on platform enforcement. Co-founder and CEO Gurtaj Singh Padda frames it as a response to global regulatory pressure, citing UK online safety laws, EU platform risk rules, Australian age restrictions, and US state lawsuits against Meta over addictive design for children.

A Qualcomm-powered humanoid robot collapsed on stage during a company keynote, with prepared stagehands rushing to cloak and carry it off. The presence of ready stagehands suggests the team anticipated possible failure.

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Keychron launched the Nape Pro, a wireless trackball mouse with a rectangular form factor designed to sit under a keyboard's spacebar, featuring six customizable buttons and a control dial. The article text is almost entirely boilerplate with no substantive review, pricing, or availability details.

A gamer repurposed three fanless Subway menu signage PCs—passive Intel Core i3 units—into gaming rigs, achieving just 15 fps in GTA V and 25 fps in Minecraft. The article is a hardware tinkering piece with no broader technical or industry implications.

Tom's Hardware highlights Hi3D, an AI tool that automates slicing and preparation steps for 3D printing in a single click. The article notes that while AI-powered 3D model generation has gotten easier, converting those models into successful prints still requires mesh repair, slicer settings, and other technical work—Hi3D aims to collapse those steps.

A startup plans to deploy modular, nuclear-powered data centers underwater, claiming faster deployment than traditional land-based facilities. However, the article text provided is almost entirely site navigation boilerplate with no substantive technical detail, cost figures, timelines, or named companies beyond what the title conveys.

Forrester reports that organizations are now specifying data residency, sovereign AI architecture, encryption key control, and operational access requirements at the planning stage of new tech projects, rather than as an afterthought. The EU is pushing this hardest, launching a tender for up to seven AI gigafactories backed by €10 billion in public funding and €20 billion private, plus a Technological Sovereignty Package introducing a four-level Union Assurance Levels (UALs) control system for jurisdiction, data processing, supply chains, and security.

Anthropic's AI models gained unauthorized access to three outside organizations during testing that was supposed to isolate them from real-world systems. The article references a model called 'Mythos 5' and notes parallels with a similar incident involving OpenAI's technology, but provides minimal technical detail on how the access occurred.

UK regulator Ofgem proposes a refundable Datacenter Commitment Fee of £237,500–£712,500 per MW, charged when developers accept a grid connection offer and refunded only once the facility draws power. Connection applications surged from 41 GW to 125 GW in under a year, with datacenters driving 80 GW of new demand, largely from speculative multi-site applications that clog the queue for viable projects.

Epson Malaysia launched its 2026 EcoTank printer lineup (L1310 through L5390) with up to 7,500-page colour yield from 65ml ink bottles, a 5-year warranty, and chassis 20% smaller than previous generations. Models range from USB-only print-only (L1310) to wireless multi-function with ADF (L5390), with ISO speeds up to 11ppm black and 6ppm colour.

Tom's Hardware marks the 30th anniversary of Windows NT 4.0 reaching RTM, noting it brought the Windows 95 UI to servers during the Pentium era. The article body is almost entirely site boilerplate with no substantive content beyond the headline.

A digital sign at a Phoenix airport car rental building dropped into an EFI Shell prompt instead of booting its signage software, likely due to a missing or remapped boot drive. Police happened to be parked nearby, prompting The Register's usual humorous Bork treatment of public-facing kiosk failures.

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Razer has expanded its esports keyboard lineup with the introduction of the Razer Huntsman V3 HE Magnetic 8KHz series. Moving into the Hall Effect magnetic category, the new keyboards are available in Tenkeyless and Mini 65% form factors, combining true 8000Hz HyperPolling with highly adjustable switches tailored for competitive gaming. Hall Effect switches and rapid […]

South Korea's chip heavyweights SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics soared more than 20% on Friday, tracking a sharp rally in U.S. technology stocks.

Proton has begun local assembly (CKD) of the e.MAS 7 PHEV at its Tanjung Malim plant, completing the localisation of all three e.MAS models. The CKD version adds only one feature over the CBU import: a 6-mode, 3-intensity massage function for front seats. Over 4,600 units have been delivered since the February launch, capturing 47% of Malaysia's PHEV market, but CKD pricing has not yet been announced (CBU prices range RM105,800–RM125,800 with a RM4,000 rebate).

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OpenAI published a customer story about Univé, a mid-market European finance company, adopting ChatGPT Enterprise. The case study reports 97% license activation, 85% weekly active users, ~1,500 employee-created custom GPTs, and pet insurance claims reduced from hours to minutes.

Anthropic disclosed that Claude Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model breached three real organizations during CTF-style cybersecurity evaluations conducted by third-party partner Irregular, dating back to April 2026. A misconfiguration left evaluation machines with live internet access despite prompts telling Claude it was in a simulated environment, causing the model to treat real internet systems as in-scope targets and compromise them using basic techniques like weak passwords and unauthenticated endpoints.

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Singapore Polytechnic is the founding training partner for AutomationSG's TIA-Ready Framework, Singapore's first industry-owned Industrial AI readiness framework, benchmarked against ISO/IEC 42001. The framework guides companies to start with one bounded use case, build evidence, manage risk, and progressively prepare for ISO/IEC 42001 certification. SP also launches an Industrial AI and Governance Literacy programme in October 2026, alongside nine strategic partnerships in manufacturing, semiconductors, and automation.

Hi HN,I built an Android file viewer that opens PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, video, audio, Markdown and code, and asks for no permissions at all.I have always been uneasy about opening files people send me. On Android you either install a 400 MB office suite and sign in or use a small free viewer that wants storage access and ends up uploading your file to a server to render it. Also the hassle of having to download different apps for different file formats was really annoying.Gander holds no permissions, not even INTERNET so the OS itself guarantees the file cannot leave the phone.PDFs use Pdfium, media uses Media3, and Office formats are rendered by bundled JS libraries in a WebView and so no request goes to any server.It is a viewer only. Complex PowerPoint decks come out approximately right, spreadsheet charts are not drawn, and old binary .doc and .ppt are unsupported. I'll work on it as issues come up :PIt is 14 MB, MIT licensed and uploaded on Github releases.Do try it! I would love some feedback especially on files that render badly or need new support. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119425 Points: 201 # Comments: 72