Manchester Airports Group revealed that attackers infiltrated its systems and extracted customer information tied to Wi-Fi registrations, car park bookings, lounge access and Fast Track services at Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands airports. Stolen data reportedly includes email addresses, phone numbers, vehicle registration numbers and postcodes, though no payment card details were taken. The company has paused its online booking management tool and shifted customers to phone support while it investigates with outside cybersecurity help and law enforcement.
EDB contends that as enterprises deploy autonomous AI agents capable of acting without human approval, traditional guardrails built into agent instructions or monitoring layers are insufficient to stop unauthorized actions. Instead, the company argues that governance rules must be enforced directly at the operational data layer, in real time, since agents create risk precisely by touching, querying and transforming data.
WIRED announced a livestream Q&A on September 10 where a panel of its reporters will field reader questions about the growing controversy surrounding AI data centers. Readers can submit questions in the comments, with the event covering political, environmental, and business angles on the issue.
ShinyHunters, an extortion group, published roughly 50GB of stolen Carhartt data on the dark web after the apparel maker declined to pay a $3.3 million ransom demand. Have I Been Pwned founder Troy Hunt confirmed the leak stems from a breach of Carhartt's Databricks analytics platform, exposing 12.9 million accounts containing names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses, alongside employee and corporate records.
Bill Gates published an essay urging governments to impose enforceable rules on AI, including a tax on AI token usage to fund support for displaced workers and protected 'Human Reserved' jobs like caregiving. He said tech executives privately worry about AI's disruptive pace but avoid saying so publicly, breaking from the industry's optimistic public stance.
The UK's grid connection queue is overwhelmed with speculative data center projects that are unlikely to ever be built, worsening wait times and complicating energy demand forecasts. Ofgem has proposed requiring developers to post large nonrefundable deposits, potentially reaching hundreds of millions of dollars for the biggest projects, and to demonstrate secured customers and funding before joining the queue. The plan is open for industry feedback until September before being finalized.
Linum has begun detailing its work on Linum v3, the successor to its open-weight text-to-video model released in January, in a new blog series. The company says its focus is on three goals: improving how well outputs follow prompts, speeding up training and inference, and making generated physics more consistent, while arguing that most recent progress in image and video generation comes from better data practices rather than new model architectures.
LAION has published LAION-BVD, a large open video dataset intended to support multimodal research on video, audio, and image models. The organization says the release is meant for non-commercial, academic use only, aimed at improving reproducibility and transparency in a field increasingly dominated by proprietary corporate datasets.
Amazon has announced it will close Mechanical Turk (MTurk), its long-running marketplace connecting businesses with a distributed workforce for microtasks, effective September 30. The platform allowed companies to outsource work like data validation, content moderation, and survey collection to human workers worldwide, tasks often too subjective or complex for automation.
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, the marketplace it launched in 2005 where businesses paid workers small sums to complete tasks like data labeling and surveys. The platform quietly built the infrastructure and workforce model that later became essential for training AI systems on human-generated data.
Nvidia reported second-quarter revenue of $96bn, over twice what it earned a year earlier, driven largely by its data centre business which brought in $89bn, up 117% year-on-year. The company forecasts $108bn in revenue next quarter, and shares rose about 4% in after-hours trading following results that beat Wall Street estimates.
Security researchers have identified GoCaracal, a previously undocumented modular malware framework used by the Dark Caracal cyber espionage group. The tool expands the group's ability to steal data from victims and maintain persistent access to compromised systems.
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