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Machine is a digital meta-tabloid covering tech, science and ideas. We are non-partisan and apolitical, committed to three principles: freedom, equality and decentralisation. Founder Jasper Hamill is a journalist with 20 years of experience who has served as tech and science editor at two major UK publications, where his articles reached more than 75 million readers. Machine is built in the tradition of the British tabloids. We stand on the side of ordinary people, champion innovators and celebrate changemakers. Machine will be initially funded through selling marketing services such as PR and copywriting. Contact jasper@machine.news for a full portfolio and to find out the results we've delivered for clients in fintech, cybersecurity, enterprise tech and other cutting-edge sectors. Our mission is to develop a new model for journalism based on sharing profits with both readers and writers. We don't like paywalls. Our content will be open and available to anyone, forever. Instead, we want to develop a mechanism called the PayeeWall which distributes benefits to readers without locking our content away. Source

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Agentic AI demands an upgrade to financial system resilience, Bank of England warns

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By Jasper Hamill
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Financial Systems — 5 min read The Bank of England is preparing for a future in which autonomous AI agents reshape cyber risk across tightly interconnected financial systems (Photo: Francais a Londres on Unsplash) The Bank of England has hinted at plans to upgrade resilience requirements to address the growing risk that agentic AI poses to the financial system.
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How cybercriminals are industrialising the trade in stolen healthcare data

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By Jonathan Lee
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Steal a credit card number, and the victim cancels it within hours. Steal a patient's medical history, and you own something that never expires. Their diagnoses, prescriptions, mental health records, surgical notes: none of it can be reissued, reset or revoked.
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Stablecoins could become a systemic risk to global financial stability, central banks warn

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By Jasper Hamill
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Two major central banks have warned that crypto could pose structural risks to the financial system as stablecoins move into systemic use. Governments and financial authorities around the world are laying the legal foundations for stablecoins to enter the mainstream economy as widely accepted forms of digital money.
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Can a digital notepad ever feel as good as real paper? TCL NXTPAPER Note A1 review

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By Ian Williams
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During a conversation I had with TCL last year about innovation in the display space, one idea kept surfacing. The company increasingly sees displays not simply as screens, but as tools that should be designed around different human behaviours. The NXTPAPER range is probably the clearest example of that thinking, and after spending time with the Note A1, it became apparent that by reviewing it next to its predecessor, the 11 Plus, is the best way to understand what TCL is trying to achieve.
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Five Eyes orders "whole of society" response to AI security crisis set to erupt in "months"

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By Jasper Hamill
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AI — 5 min read Western intelligence services have warned that AI could trigger a dangerous escalation in the speed and intensity of cyber attacks on critical systems within “months”. In an unusually urgent warning, the Five Eyes alliance said frontier AI models are advancing so rapidly that existing security practices risk becoming outdated.
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Chinese IoT ‘kill switches’ could disable Britain’s critical systems and infrastructure, MPs warn

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By Jasper Hamill
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Internet-of-things components made in China could contain hidden “kill switches” capable of disabling British energy systems, transport networks, medical devices and other critical infrastructure. That was the warning made during a Commons debate on the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, where parliamentarians urged ministers to widen the proposed legislation beyond conventional cyberattacks and ransomware to cover the risk posed by communications modules hidden inside connected machines.
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The DragonForce ransomware gang just gave us another reason to hate Microsoft Teams

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— 4 min read Has an app icon ever inspired such universal contempt? (Image:Dimitri Karastelev on Unsplash) Of all the nightmarish aspects of modern technology, Microsoft Teams is among the very worst. Now this loathed communication app has become even more loathsome courtesy of a ransomware gang researchers noted for its "exceptionally sophisticated tradecraft".
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Critical systems are moving beyond human control. How can regulated industries respond?

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By Brett Candon
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For decades, highly regulated sectors have taken a cautious approach to cybersecurity, and for organisations in industries such as banking and finance, healthcare, insurance and critical infrastructure, the instinct has been to retain ownership of security operations. That model is now under strain. Escalating cyber threats, regulatory scrutiny, and a growing skills shortage are exposing the limits of traditional Security Operations Centres (SOCs).
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Software complexity is outpacing humans' ability to control it, Datadog warns

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AI — 3 min read Few humans could cope with this level of complexity - but machines can (Image: Unsplash) Datadog has become the latest technology company to acknowledge that modern software systems are growing beyond the limits of direct human control. At its DASH conference, the observability giant unveiled a series of autonomous AI capabilities designed to monitor infrastructure, investigate incidents, and remediate problems in critical systems without human intervention.
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El Niño is a "systemic shock" that could wreck semiconductor supply chains, the WEF warns

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Systemic Risk — 4 min read Water shortages could be disastrous for chip manufacturing and the AI sector that depends on semiconductors produced in vulnerable locations (Image: Unsplash) The World Economic Forum has warned that the emerging El Niño weather pattern could disrupt critical infrastructure, semiconductor production, and the wider AI economy globally. El Niño is the warming phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation climate cycle that forms in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
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