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Revolut is facing serious questions tonight after the fintech giant handed over sensitive customer data in response to fraudulent requests made through a legitimate government agency's compromised email domain. The company confirmed the breach but has stayed quiet on exactly how many customers were affected or what specific data was exposed — a troubling silence for a bank built on trust.
Across the Pacific, Beijing is pushing back hard against calls from American AI executives to slow down artificial intelligence development. Chinese officials are labeling those appeals as, quote, fear mongering, framing the slowdown argument as a geopolitical strategy rather than a genuine safety concern. It's a sharp reminder that the AI race carries diplomatic weight far beyond the lab.
And on a more practical note, Windows eleven users woke up this week to a frustrating discovery — Microsoft's September update is killing audio on some machines and appears to have quietly broken the File History backup feature as well. Microsoft says a fix is coming, but offers no timeline, which is cold comfort for anyone who relies on that backup tool to protect their files.
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