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Stolen Microsoft 365 sessions beat MFA at 79 organizations, Huntress finds
A 10-week campaign replayed sign-in tokens issued after MFA, so victims who completed MFA handed over access in the same step. In a four-day September burst, the four organizations that turned the attacker away were running Conditional Access
IBM’s Krishna puts open models at a tenth of the cost but sees a skills gap
Open-weight models now deliver 90% of frontier performance at 10–25% of the token cost, IBM’s chief executive told analysts. By his own account, few companies have the engineers to run them
Fintel buys the rest of Mortgage Brain for £38.4m
The Huddersfield-based adviser software group takes full control of the mortgage sourcing and CRM supplier it first backed in 2024, and its chair turns executive to run the integration
Equinix opens liquid cooling test sites in London and four other cities
Enterprises can trial liquid-cooled AI hardware alongside partners before buying it, as the power drawn by a GPU rack outgrows what older data centers were built to handle
Gearset names Mark Johnston chief marketing officer after AI launch
The Cambridge-based Salesforce DevOps company has picked a marketer with an agentic AI product launch on his record as it takes its Cam agent to more enterprise buyers
Mastercard brings its friendly-fraud program to European merchants
Merchants, small businesses included, gain a way to send purchase and delivery evidence to card issuers, with chargeback protection when it meets Mastercard’s new rules
Ocado’s robots move into the freezer at AEON’s new Tokyo warehouse
Ocado and AEON opened a second robotic grocery warehouse in Tokyo on 22 October. Ocado’s headline numbers come from its automated freezer, the part of the building that is hardest on staff
Dext opens practice data to ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot
The IRIS-owned bookkeeping software company’s AI Connector answers plain-language questions on client cash, health scores and staff hours from inside the AI assistants practices already use
Tech supplier breaches account for most victims in Kroll's cases
Finance has the most breached organizations in Kroll's caseload, but a compromise at one technology provider reaches far more people, and insurers are scrutinizing that shared exposure
Chery outsells Ford in Europe in September as Chinese brands gain ground
Chinese car brands are growing fast in Europe’s new car market. September’s registrations show several established volume makers losing ground in a growing market, while a Stellantis-controlled company now distributes a Chinese brand
Bidfood hangs truck charging points above its Slough depot bays
The foodservice wholesaler’s new four-bay gantry leaves its yard layout intact, and the company is considering letting suppliers’ delivery trucks charge there as well
IBM adopts an 80-column punched card that only its machines can read
Inventor Clair D. Lake’s narrow rectangular holes won a contest inside the company because they could go into production quickly, and the cards became a large business for IBM in their own right