VoP Goes Live – and Millions of EU Businesses Aren’t Ready
On 9 October 2025 the EU’s Verification of Payee (VoP) mandate went live, making a name‑IBAN match mandatory for every euro‑denominated SEPA Credit Transfer and Instant Credit Transfer. The rule, enforced across roughly 3,000 banks, PSPs and fintechs, adds a real‑time mismatch alert to curb authorized push‑payment (APP) scams that cost EU businesses over €2.4 billion in 2024. While the system does not automatically block payments, it introduces a friction point that can delay or halt transfers when the account holder’s name does not align, forcing firms to verify or correct data. Many companies, especially SMEs and those outside the Eurozone, were unaware of the rollout and may face payment delays, disputes, or compliance gaps.
Building Your Dream PC Is About to Take Longer and Cost More - Shortages See some Shops Now Limiting SSD,...
Japanese PC retailers in Akihabara have begun capping sales of SSDs, HDDs and RAM as inventories dwindle amid a global shortage of storage and memory chips. The shortage is driven by AI data‑center demand, prompting manufacturers to shift production toward...
Whisper It - Microsoft Uncovers Sneaky New Attack Targeting Top LLMs to Gain Access to Encrypted Traffic
Microsoft disclosed a new side‑channel attack dubbed “Whisper Leak” that can infer the topics of user conversations with large‑language models (LLMs) by analyzing the size and timing of encrypted packets sent during streamed responses. The technique exploits the incremental token...
Microsoft 365 Users Targeted by Major New Phishing Operation - Here's How to Stay Safe
A new phishing-as-a-service platform dubbed “Quantum Route Redirect” automates credential‑theft campaigns against Microsoft 365 users, allowing attackers to spoof brands like DocuSign and launch QR‑code “quishing” attacks without deep technical expertise. The tool detects bots versus humans, redirecting security scanners to...
Black Friday Isn't Even Here yet, and There Are Already some Surprisingly Generous Discounts for Nvidia's RTX GPUs – It's...
Early Black Friday promotions are already slashing prices on Nvidia’s latest RTX GPUs in both the UK and the US. In the UK, MSI’s RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB drops to £409.98, the RTX 5070 12 GB to £499.98 (21% off), and the RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB...
An Incredibly Popular JavaScript Library Might Have some Worrying Malware Issues
Security researcher Jangwoo Choe disclosed a critical remote code execution flaw (CVE‑2025‑12735) in the popular npm JavaScript library expr‑eval, which parses mathematical expressions. The bug, rated 9.8/10, stems from insufficient input validation that lets attackers inject function objects via the...
5 ChatGPT Prompts Based on Expert Productivity Hacks From Viral Self-Help Books
The article lists five ChatGPT prompts that translate classic productivity frameworks—from the Eisenhower Matrix and David Allen’s Getting Things Done to Cal Newport’s Deep Work and Tim Ferriss’s 80/20 rule—into actionable AI‑driven workflows. Each prompt asks the model to categorize...
Leading AI Companies Keep Leaking Their Own Information on GitHub
Wiz researchers scanned GitHub repositories associated with the Forbes top‑50 AI companies and discovered that 65% of them expose verified secrets—API keys, tokens and credentials—often hidden in deleted forks, developer repos and gists. Their proprietary “Depth, Perimeter, and Coverage” methodology...
In the Wake of the Louvre Heist, Proton Steps in to Offer Free Password Protection
Proton, the Swiss privacy firm behind a leading VPN and secure‑email service, is offering two years of its Proton Pass professional password‑manager free to eligible cultural institutions worldwide after the Louvre’s surveillance system was compromised by a default "louvre" password. The...
Why Analytical AI Deserves Equal Attention in the Age of Generative AI
The piece warns that the hype around generative AI is eclipsing the equally vital role of analytical AI, which turns raw data into actionable insights for decision‑making and investor scrutiny. UK data shows ChatGPT spending surged 835% year‑on‑year while only...
Infrastructure Modernization Is Key to AI Success
The United Kingdom, the world’s third‑largest AI market at £72.3 bn in 2024, faces a bottleneck as legacy systems and poor data quality impede AI adoption across sectors from construction to healthcare. Infosys EVP Umashankar Lakshmipathy argues that modern, cloud‑based infrastructure...
Looking for an IT Management Tool to Simplify Your Life? Try Rippling IT for Free This Black Friday
Rippling is offering TechRadar readers a free Black‑Friday trial of its Rippling IT platform, an award‑winning tool that consolidates device management, app provisioning, user access and security policies in a single dashboard. The solution works across Windows, macOS and Linux, enabling...
Fake Facebook Business Pages Are Bombarding Users with Phishing Messages - so What Can Be Done?
Cybercriminals are exploiting Facebook Business Suite by sending phishing emails from the legitimate facebookmail.com domain, tricking SMBs and marketers into revealing credentials. Check Point Research recorded more than 40,000 fraudulent messages sent to roughly 5,000 entities, with some victims receiving...
ChatGPT 5.1 Could Launch Soon - 5 Features We’d Love to See From OpenAI’s Next Generation Chatbot
OpenAI is expected to roll out ChatGPT‑5.1 soon, after internal code traces labeled “gpt‑5‑1‑thinking” surfaced. The upgrade targets a smarter long‑term memory that selectively retains relevant context, richer creative multimodality that fuses text, images and audio, and tighter factual grounding...
Google Explains the Gemini Home Rollout 'Confusion' – and Reveals when to Expect a Full Launch
Google clarified that its Gemini AI will replace Google Assistant in the Google Home app, with the rollout beginning in the United States now and expanding to other markets by the first quarter of 2026. The upgrade is applied per...
AI Demand Is Leading to Major Data Center Expansions - but Do They Have the Power to Fully Operate?
AI-driven demand is spurring rapid data‑center expansion across EMEA, with live capacity up 12% and occupancy reaching 91% in Q3 2025. Yet power delivery lagged, totaling only 850 MW in 2025 – 11% below the previous year – and Gartner warns two‑fifths...
Software Budgets Are Being Wasted on Over-Engineered IT Tools
A Freshworks survey of more than 700 IT, CX, finance and operations professionals found that one‑fifth of software budgets – roughly $1 of every $5 spent – is wasted on over‑engineered tools that fail to deliver expected ROI. Over half...
5 Ways AI Is Supercharging DDoS Attacks
NETSCOUT reported a record 8 million DDoS attacks in the first half of 2025, with AI and automation increasingly powering the surge. AI‑driven DDoS‑for‑hire services now let even novices launch attacks by describing objectives to chatbots, automating attack scheduling, vector selection...
Google Will Peel Back a New Era of AI Images with Nano Banana 2
Google previewed Nano Banana 2, the next iteration of its AI image generator, inside the Gemini app. The model introduces a multi‑step workflow that plans an image, detects errors, and iteratively corrects them, delivering sharper angles, more accurate colors and editable text...
Apple's Rumored 'Health+' Subscription Tier with AI Features Is Doomed to Repeat Garmin's Failure
Apple is preparing to launch a paid Health+ tier that will bundle AI‑driven nutrition and medical advice into the Health app, accessible on iPhone and iPad rather than the Watch. The move mirrors Garmin’s recent Connect+ subscription, which sparked user...
Looking to Slice Your Cloud Bill? This New Service Lets You Rent Lenovo Workstations 50% Cheaper than Public Cloud Alternatives
IMSCAD has launched a Workstation‑as‑a‑Service that rents Lenovo ThinkStation P3 Ultra machines, hosted in Equinix data centres, to users needing high‑performance graphics. The dedicated workstations feature up to a 6.0 GHz Gen 9 Intel CPU and Nvidia GPUs with up to 24 GB VRAM, and...
Forget the Robots – This Is the Reason AI Is the Best Thing to Happen Since Smartphone Cameras
Google has integrated its Gemini generative AI model into Google Photos via an "Ask" button, allowing users to query their personal photo libraries with natural language. In a test case, the author, with a 172,000‑image archive, typed "Picture of bay...
Don’t Trust Big Tech with Your Storage? Try This Proton Plan, Now on Sale for an Incredible 60% Off This...
Proton Drive, the Swiss privacy‑focused cloud service, is offering its 200 GB plan for $1.99 a month—a 60% Black Friday discount from the regular $4.99 price. The plan includes end‑to‑end encryption, automatic photo backup, secure file sharing and a 30‑day money‑back guarantee,...
Major AI Agents Are Being Spoofed - and It Could Put Your Site at Risk
Radware research reveals that malicious bots are spoofing popular AI agents such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, masquerading as legitimate agents that require POST permissions for transactional actions like booking or purchasing. The rise of genuine AI agents that can...
How Zero Trust Can Help Organizations Manage Mounting Agentic AI Security Risk
Agentic AI, which can plan and act autonomously, promises major productivity gains—Gartner forecasts 80% of routine customer‑service issues resolved without humans by 2029, cutting costs 30%—but also introduces new security risks such as indirect prompt‑injection, unchecked actions, and deep access...
I Used AI to Predict Prices of Amazon's 20 Most Popular SSDs for Black Friday and It Doesn't Look Good...
Google Gemini’s AI forecast for Amazon’s 20 best‑selling SSDs predicts only modest Black Friday 2025 price cuts, with most portable drives slipping by £10‑£20 and internal models dropping a similar amount. The SanDisk 2 TB Extreme Portable is expected to fall...
Most Companies Still Lag Behind on AI Targets—How Can They Catch Up?
AI adoption now touches 78% of firms, yet only 25% of initiatives meet expected ROI and just 18% exceed cost of capital. IBM’s study warns that many enterprises operate on ad‑hoc "hybrid‑by‑default" architectures, leading to paused pilots and limited value,...
Incogni Vs. Privacy Bee: Which Data Removal Service Should Keep Your Info Off the Internet?
Incogni, launched by VPN provider Surfshark in 2022, automates removal requests for over 420 data‑broker sites and custom requests for more than 2,000, offering a hands‑off experience, detailed request‑by‑request transparency, and four pricing tiers ranging from $16 to $30 per...
Google Issues Security Alert: Your VPN App Could Be Spyware in Disguise
Google’s November 2025 fraud and scams advisory warns that cyber‑criminals are distributing malicious applications disguised as legitimate VPN services, often via official app stores and even obtaining Google’s security badge. These fake VPNs can exfiltrate browsing history, credentials, financial data and...
Microsoft Is Working on a "New Class” Of AI Agents that Could Change Everything in Your Workforce
Microsoft unveiled its upcoming "Agentic Users" – AI agents that will have distinct identities, dedicated access to Microsoft 365 and Azure Entra directories, and the ability to attend meetings, edit documents, and communicate via email and chat autonomously. The feature,...
Major Privacy Laws - Including GDPR - Could Be Downgraded to Try and Boost AI Growth and Cut Red Tape
New European documents indicate a forthcoming "digital omnibus" package, slated for a 19 November 2025 proposal, that could relax key GDPR provisions to accelerate AI development. The draft would permit AI firms to train models on categories of data now protected—such as...
Meta Says It Wants to Invest $600 Billion in US Infrastructure and Jobs by 2028
Meta announced a $600 billion investment plan through 2028 to expand U.S. infrastructure, AI capabilities and job creation, centered on building additional AI data centers. The company says it has already generated over 30,000 skilled‑trade jobs and $20 billion in business for...
Got a Spare $50,000? Cooling a Single Nvidia Blackwell Ultra NVL72 Rack Costs as Much as a Tesla Model Y...
A Morgan Stanley report shows that liquid‑cooling hardware for Nvidia’s Blackwell Ultra GB300 NVL72 rack costs $49,860—about the price of a Tesla Model Y. The next‑generation Vera Rubin NVL144 rack is projected to need $55,710 of cooling, a 17% increase, driven by higher‑capacity cold...
Better Object Removal, Improved Lighting and More - These "Sneaks" Could Be Adobe's Next Big Leap Forward
Adobe unveiled a slate of experimental AI‑driven tools during the MAX 2025 "Sneaks" showcase, including Project Light Touch for post‑capture lighting adjustments, Project Trace Erase that removes objects along with shadows and reflections, Project Frame Forward that propagates edits across...
What Is iCloud+? And Is It Worth the Money?
Apple’s iCloud+ is the premium, subscription‑based tier of its cloud service, offering expanded storage options ranging from 50 GB to 12 TB and a suite of privacy‑focused tools such as Private Relay, Hide My Email, custom email domains, HomeKit Secure Video, and...
Freepik CEO - No, AI Hasn't Killed the Stock Image Market
Freepik CEO Joaquín Cuenca told TechRadar Pro that, despite a decade of AI image and video tools, the company’s core stock‑photo business remains stable or even growing. Freepik has expanded its offering with AI generators, upscaling utilities and a cloud‑based...
Huawei Is Back in Europe - and It Wants to Help Take Your Small Business to the Next Level, with...
Huawei unveiled its eKit 4+10+N SME intelligence structure at the Connect 2025 event in Madrid, introducing a portfolio of 26 devices and ten pre‑configured solution packages aimed at European small‑ and medium‑size businesses. The offering bundles routers, switches, wireless and AI‑enhanced collaboration...
Interview: Freepik Boss Tells Us the Limits of AI, Why Storytelling Matters, and How Not to Tangle Yourself up in...
At Freepik’s Upscale event in Malaga, CEO Joaquín Cuenca outlined how the company is positioning AI as a collaborative tool for a new class of "creative engineers," supported by the Freepik Spaces platform that blends workflow, feedback and storytelling. He...
Could the AI Bubble Be Real? This Sage of the 2008 Market Crash and Central Character of The Big Short,...
Michael Burry’s Scion Asset Management has taken large option positions on AI‑heavy stocks Nvidia and Palantir, with a notional exposure exceeding $1 billion, signaling he sees downside risk in the sector. The moves come amid growing debate over whether AI valuations...
VDI, SaaS, and DaaS Uncovered: What Businesses Need to Know
The article outlines four primary application delivery models—local applications, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), software‑as‑a‑service (SaaS), and desktop‑as‑a‑service (DaaS)—and explains their strengths, trade‑offs, and typical use cases. It highlights that most enterprises now employ a hybrid mix, with 85% using SaaS...
Perplexity Upgrades Comet to Multitask Across Your Tabs
Perplexity has upgraded its Comet Assistant AI to operate across multiple browser tabs, giving it a longer attention span and the ability to multitask on complex, multi‑step tasks such as simultaneous price comparisons or data extraction. The new version adds...
Why Sonos Can't Afford to Lose the Music Intelligence Race
Sonos’ 2024 app redesign caused widespread user frustration, prompting many customers to abandon the app and rely on native streaming services for speaker control. As the redesign stabilizes, the company now faces a new competitive threat from AI‑enhanced music assistants...
Elon Musk Says Tesla Is "Almost Ready" To Allow Texting when Behind the Wheel with Its Full Self-Driving System
Elon Musk told investors that Tesla is "almost comfortable" with letting drivers text while using its Full Self‑Driving (FSD) system and expects an unsupervised FSD rollout in the next month or two. The company has not outlined a clear path...
Malicious AI-Made Extension with Ransomware Capabilities Sneaks on to Microsoft's Official VS Code Marketplace - so Devs Beware
A malicious Visual Studio Code extension named “susvsex” was published on Microsoft’s official marketplace, openly advertising that it would zip, upload and encrypt files from a user’s public folder. Security researcher John Tuckner discovered the extension was ransomware‑like, used GitHub...
Design.com Logo Maker Review
TechRadar’s review finds Design.com to be an AI‑powered branding platform that offers a vast library of templates for logos, business cards, social media graphics, websites and more, but most of the content is locked behind a subscription. Free templates are...
The 5 Key Takeaways Creative Teams Need to Know About Freepik Spaces
Freepik has launched Spaces, a cloud‑based, node‑driven platform that lets creative teams build and refine AI‑generated assets directly in the browser, sidestepping the heavy hardware demands of tools like ComfyUI. The interface offers an auto‑mode and an Assistant node that...
Spiraling Costs of Downtime Tell Us It's Time for a New Engineering Mindset
Research from New Relic shows that high‑impact IT outages cost EMEA firms a median $102 million annually – roughly $2 million per hour, or $33,000 per minute – and 37% of respondents experience such events at least weekly. The report finds that...
The Unbearable Lightness of Getting Scammed: Future of Full Scale Cybersecurity
The article warns that cyber‑threats have moved from traditional malware to credential‑based intrusions and AI‑driven emotional scams, with 79% of detections now malware‑free. Scams targeting vulnerable users—especially older adults—have surged, evidenced by a 442% rise in vishing, $16 billion in U.S....
4 Ways to Boost Personal Productivity in a Distributed World
Atlassian’s Head of Product for Trello, Gaurav Kataria, outlines five ways personal productivity tools are evolving for hybrid and distributed workforces. He highlights the need to surface tasks across multiple apps, allow users to organize work in their preferred style,...
Fitbit Is Working on Hypertension and ‘Unusual Trend' Detection for Pixel Watch Owners – Here's How You Can Sign up...
Fitbit is expanding its AI‑powered personal coach app with two new experiments for Pixel Watch users: a Hypertension Study Lab and an Unusual Trend Detection tool, both run through the Fitbit Labs program. The hypertension trial, limited to US participants,...