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Flagright recently secured $4.3m in seed funding to fuel product development and expand its global presence. Central to this growth is its AI Forensics suite, poised to redefine compliance operations, which is a product line that automates workflows for screening, monitoring, governance, and quality assurance. Flagright CEO Baran Ozkan said, “Having already demonstrated exceptional results with AI Forensics for Screening, an AI agent that reduces false positives by 93% and decreases alert investigation time by 80%.”Three more AI agents will debut this year. Monitoring automates alert investigations, explains rule hits, and compiles evidence. Governance manages regulatory changes through automated tracking,…

The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has disclosed a data breach resulting from the inadvertent exposure of attachments submitted through its online complaint form, which were indexed by search engines. The incident occurred between April 3 and April 10, says the independent third-party organization investigating discrimination and human rights breach complaints. “We understand that this affected complaint attachments uploaded to the Commission’s online complaint webform between 24 March 2025 and 10 April 2025. We understand that these documents were made publicly available and accessed between 3 April 2025 and 10 April 2025,” AHRC says. Attachments uploaded for the commission’s National Anti-Racism…

Google on Wednesday announced the release of a Chrome 136 update that resolves four vulnerabilities, warning that an exploit exists in the wild for one of them. The issue, tracked as CVE-2025-4664, is one of the two bugs reported by external researchers that were resolved in this Chrome update. Without providing technical details, Google describes the flaw as an “insufficient policy enforcement issue in Loader”. According to a NIST advisory, the security defect could be exploited by a remote attacker “to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page”. “Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2025-4664 exists…

Legal tech startup Harvey is in discussions to raise more than $250 million in a funding round led by Kleiner Perkins and Coatue that would value it at $5 billion, Reuters reported, citing anonymous sources. Sequoia Capital, which led the startup’s $300 million Series D just three months ago, is also expected to invest in this new round, Reuters reported, adding that investors are mostly drawn to the startup’s quick traction in the market. Harvey has enjoyed fast growth as lawyers and legal firms around the world find ways to use generative AI tech to simplify research, documentation, and quickly…

BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — There’s one word you hear more than any other in Basel during the Eurovision Song Contest: Sauna.The northern Swiss city isn’t known as an epicenter of steamy wood-cabin relaxation, but the small municipality of Vora in Finland is, and three local performers have made saunas synonymous with this year’s Eurovision.KAJ — pronounced “kai” and named for the members’ initials — is bookies’ favorite to win the pan-continental music contest this week with “Bara Bada Bastu,” an ode to steam and heat whose title translates roughly as “just take a sauna.”KAJ is representing Sweden, but the band…

Pretoria says the visit is to ‘reset’ ties with Washington, after the US welcomed dozens of white Afrikaners as refugees.South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will meet United States President Donald Trump at the White House next week in an attempt to “reset” ties between the two countries, Pretoria has said. The reported visit comes after the US welcomed dozens of white Afrikaners as refugees this week, following widely discredited allegations made by Trump that “genocide” is being committed against white farmers in the majority-Black country. “President Ramaphosa will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC…

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump seeks to end diversity, equity and inclusion practices on college campuses, a new poll suggests that while the concept of DEI is divisive, some of the initiatives being affected by his administration’s guidance are less controversial.The poll, conducted earlier this month by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, found about 4 in 10 Americans “strongly” or “somewhat” favor DEI programs in colleges and universities, while about 3 in 10 oppose those initiatives and about 3 in 10 are neutral. Support is higher for courses on racism and scholarships for students of…

NEW YORK (AP) — One week into a new job, Lisa Grouette discovered something missing come Sunday night: the sinking feeling of dread she used to experience before going to work every Monday.Groutte spent 10 years at an insurance agency with a boss whom she alleges screamed at her, slammed his hands on the desk, insulted her appearance and punched things. He falsely accused her of taking money and threatened to withhold an employment recommendation if she quit, she says. Fearing she wouldn’t land another job if she left the toxic workplace, she stayed. “It was this implied, ‘You’re stuck,’”…

NEW YORK (AP) — Christine Farro has cut back on the presents she sends her grandchildren on their birthdays, and she’s put off taking two cats and a dog for their shots. All her clothes come from thrift stores and most of her vegetables come from her garden. At 73, she has cut her costs as much as she can to live on a tight budget.But it’s about to get far tighter.As the Trump administration resumes collections on defaulted student loans, a surprising population has been caught in the crosshairs: Hundreds of thousands of older Americans whose decades-old debts now…

PARIS: Human Rights Watch on Wednesday said grave abuses were being committed on giant construction sites in Saudi Arabia and warned the risks to migrant workers could increase as the building of stadiums for the 2034 World Cup gathers pace. HRW said that “scores of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia die in gruesome yet avoidable workplace-related accidents, including falling from buildings, electrocution, and even decapitation”. The NGO, which has studied nearly 50 cases of deaths in Saudi Arabia, said Saudi authorities had “failed to adequately protect workers from preventable deaths, investigate workplace safety incidents, and ensure timely and adequate compensation…