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Chloe Dalton was taking a winter walk near her farmhouse when she encountered it: a tiny baby hare — known as a leveret — lying huddled and alone in the middle of a narrow country lane.A London political adviser who was living in the English countryside during the pandemic, Dalton knew next to nothing about hares. Yet when she found that the leveret hadn’t moved for hours, she decided to take it home and try to save it — despite her fears that by interfering she might hurt its ability to return to the wild.What follows, as recounted in the…

Socure has introduced one of their first AI-powered assistants for Global Watchlist Screening and Monitoring.This pioneering solution is set to redefine how financial institutions, FinTech companies, and global businesses manage compliance challenges associated with sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEP), and adverse media screenings.The catalyst behind this innovation stems from the ongoing inefficiencies plaguing traditional watchlist screening processes, such as high rates of false positives, burdensome manual reviews, and complex regulatory demands. These challenges have intensified with escalating penalties for non-compliance, which have surpassed $8bn globally in recent years.Socure’s core capabilities are centred around harnessing the power of AI to enhance…

Jolla, the erstwhile mobile maker turned privacy-centric AI business — via sister startup, Venho.ai — has taken the wraps off an AI assistant it says is a “fully private” alternative to data-mining cloud giants crawling all over your personal information.   The AI assistant is designed to integrate with apps like email, calendar, and social media accounts to provide the user with a conversational power tool that can surface information but also perform actions on the user’s behalf. This means stuff like summarizing emails and documents, booking meetings, filtering social media feeds and performing web look-ups. But they say the…

Following Google’s Willow in December 2024, we now have two additional new quantum chips announced in the final week of February 2025: Microsoft’s Majorana 1, and now Amazon’s Ocelot.  “AWS researchers,” claims Amazon, “have, for the first time, combined cat qubit technology and additional quantum error correction components onto a microchip that can be manufactured in a scalable fashion using processes borrowed from the microelectronics industry.” Three new quantum chips from three separate quantum manufacturers in the space of three short months is a dramatic development. They all seek to solve the fundamental problem in quantum computing: the fragility of…

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has declared a “coalition of the willing” would come together to draw up a peace plan to end the war in Ukraine and present it to United States President Donald Trump for his support, days after a public spat between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House signalled a rupture in Washington’s support for Kyiv. By contrast, Zelenskyy received assurances of support on Sunday from his European allies at a security summit in London hurriedly arranged by Starmer, who greeted the Ukrainian leader with a hug. On Friday, a meeting between Trump…

Ransomware defense company Mimic has announced raising $50 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $77 million. The new investment round was led by Google Ventures (GV) and Menlo Ventures, with additional support from existing investors Ballistic Ventures, Shield Capital, Team8, and Wing Ventures. Founded in 2023, the Palo Alto, California-based startup has built a ransomware-focused platform that can detect attacks early and stop them in real time, before they can harm critical enterprise assets. Relying on detection technology that targets ransomware exclusively and focused on combating cyber extortion, the company…

Browser company Opera has unveiled a new AI agent called Browser Operator that can complete tasks for you on different websites. In a demo video, the company showed the AI agent finding a pair of socks from Walmart; securing tickets for a football match from the club’s site; and looking up a flight and a hotel for a trip on Booking.com. Opera said that the feature will be available to users through its Feature Drop program soon. It’s not clear if the agent can work on individual websites or if it can understand and accomplish wider queries like, “Find me…

The US government last week announced that it has seized roughly $31 million worth of cryptocurrency stolen in April 2021 from Uranium Finance. Uranium Finance was hacked twice in April 2021, with the total losses amounting to over $53 million, making it one of the largest hacks in decentralized finance (DeFi) at the time. According to blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs, which investigated the transactions linked to the heist and helped authorities trace the stolen funds, the attackers exploited vulnerabilities in Uranium Finance’s smart contract code to steal various tokens. In the first incident, which occurred between April 6 and…

Rohit plays down venue advantage, says Dubai “not our home” ground so team expects “some nervy times”. Blessed with a venue advantage and with a depleted Australia at their disposal, India will be gunning for revenge when the familiar foes clash in the first semi-final of the Champions Trophy on Tuesday. India have stuck to their position of not touring Pakistan because of the strained political relations between the Asian neighbours, who play each other only in global events. The International Cricket Council (ICC), headed by former Indian board secretary Jay Shah, has drawn flak for allowing India to play…

Twenty-eight cybersecurity-related merger and acquisition (M&A) deals were announced in February 2025.  An analysis conducted by SecurityWeek shows that 405 cybersecurity-related mergers and acquisitions were announced in 2024. Check out the detailed report.  Here is a list of the most important cybersecurity M&A deals announced in February 2025: A10 Networks acquires ThreatX Protect Network security and application delivery solutions provider A10 Networks has acquired ThreatX Protect to expand its cybersecurity portfolio with web application and API protection (WAAP) capabilities. A10 has acquired the ThreatX brand and the TX Protect WaaP solution, and the remaining ThreatX assets will be rebranded as…