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Valarian, a British startup selling an isolation-first infrastructure platform to defense and public-sector customers, has exited stealth with a fresh $7 million strategic round led by US investors Scout Ventures and Artis Ventures. The company said the new capital lifts its total seed raise to $20 million. Angel investor Gokul Rajaram also joined the round, alongside earlier backers Molten Ventures, IQ Capital and MD One. Valarian said its flagship platform, called ACRA, segments data and communications into tightly controlled “compartments,” a design the founders say they honed in military and high-finance environments where trust routinely breaks down.  After piloting ACRA…

Law enforcement agencies continue to target DDoS-for-hire services, with Europol announcing more takedowns and arrests this week. For years, law enforcement authorities in North America, Europe and the APAC region have worked together to disrupt services that enable anyone to launch DDoS attacks against specified online services. These DDoS-for-hire services, also known as booter services, enable users to disrupt a website, in some cases for just a few dollars. Dozens of such websites have been shut down over the past years and several individuals have been arrested as part of an operation dubbed PowerOFF. The latest action was announced by…

In an age of heightened financial scrutiny, RegTech is rapidly reshaping compliance norms. Yet, one of its most potent tools—adverse media screening—often flies under the radar. As regulators demand more, firms discover that in quiet lies a powerful compliance edge.Adverse media screening often slips under the radar due to the fact companies still treat it as an optional add-on rather than essential, claims James Hannan – a risk specialist at Opoint.He said, “Most compliance programmes prioritise clear-cut, objective sources, namely sanctions lists or Politically Exposed Persons. But those databases tell you who’s already flagged. Adverse media, on the other hand,…

NEW YORK (AP) — The last time Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman went on a motorcycle adventure, they rode cutting-edge, electric Harley-Davidsons. For their latest trip, they took a trip back in time.The British best friends and actors chose to use vintage bikes this time as they ride through 17 European countries for Apple TV+’s “Long Way Home,” the fourth installment of their popular road trip docuseries. It starts airing Friday.McGregor picked a 1974 Moto Guzzi Eldorado, which was used as a patrol bike by the Los Angeles Police Department and California Highway Patrol. Boorman picked a rusted-out BMW R75/5…

Amazon said Thursday it is releasing a new generative AI-powered tool to help merchants improve their listings with missing details or attributes. Sellers often have hundreds of products listed on Amazon, and they need to update information related to them from time to time, which can be a cumbersome task. The e-commerce tech giant wants sellers to use its new AI-powered tool, called Enhance My Listing, to make the chore easier. The tool automatically suggests product titles, attributes, descriptions, and missing details to sellers based on seasonal trends. Sellers can accept, reject, or modify these suggestions before updating the product…

SonicWall on Wednesday announced patches for three vulnerabilities in its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances that could lead to remote code execution (RCE). The first of the bugs, tracked as CVE-2025-32819 (CVSS score of 8.8), is an arbitrary file delete issue that can be exploited by authenticated attackers with user privileges. An attacker could bypass the device’s path traversal checks and delete an arbitrary file, which could lead to the appliance rebooting to factory default settings, SonicWall explains in its advisory. Rapid7, which warns that CVE-2025-32819 has been exploited as a zero-day, explains that the flaw is likely…

Turns out, telling an AI chatbot to be concise could make it hallucinate more than it otherwise would have. That’s according to a new study from Giskard, a Paris-based AI testing company developing a holistic benchmark for AI models. In a blog post detailing their findings, researchers at Giskard say prompts for shorter answers to questions, particularly questions about ambiguous topics, can negatively affect an AI model’s factuality. “Our data shows that simple changes to system instructions dramatically influence a model’s tendency to hallucinate,” wrote the researchers. “This finding has important implications for deployment, as many applications prioritize concise outputs…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate diversity initiatives on college campuses didn’t stop minority students from staging their own celebration after the University of Kentucky canceled ceremonies to honor its graduates who are Black or from other historically marginalized groups.Chalk it up as a lesson learned on how to think strategically to get a desired result.Several dozen students, adorned in graduation caps and gowns, basked in the limelight Wednesday as their families and friends cheered them at the off-campus celebration. The graduates were honored for their years of academic work, and they received specialty regalia such…

Russian state-sponsored APT group Star Blizzard has been using the ClickFix technique to distribute new information stealer malware, Google warns. Also known as UNC4057, Callisto, Coldriver, and Seaborgium, and active since at least 2019, Star Blizzard was publicly linked to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) by the US in December 2023. In October 2024, over 100 domains the APT used for spear-phishing were seized. Known for targeting academic organizations, NATO governments, NGOs, and think tanks for intelligence collection, mainly from email accounts, the threat actor would deliver malware and attempt to access system files only in select cases. Recent campaigns,…

Canadians have long spent wintertime in Florida, trading in frigid temperatures for the Sunshine State’s sunny beaches and spending money in restaurants and hotels that cater to Canadian tourists. But President Donald Trump’s rhetoric and actions targeting Canada have given some Canadians pause about spending money in the United States. Trump has repeatedly said Canada should become the 51st US state, called then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a “governor” and enacted substantial tariffs. Canadians replied, “excusez-moi?” and, on April 28, elected Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party. And according to a Florida congressman, many Canadians also ditched their Florida travel plans.…