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17/10/2025

Breach at US-based cybersecurity provider F5 blamed on China, Bloomberg News reports

Oct 15 (Reuters) - A breach at U.S.-based cybersecurity company F5 (FFIV.O), opens new tab has been blamed on state-backed hackers from China, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Reuters could not immediately verify the report.

F5, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Chinese embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.
Earlier in the day, U.S. government officials said federal networks are being targeted by an unidentified "nation-state cyber threat actor" that's trying to exploit vulnerabilities in products made by F5.

-Reuters

17/10/2025

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16/10/2025

ইয়ামাহা মোটরয়েড ২ ইলেকট্রিক মোটরসাইকেল

During the 2017 Tokyo Motor Show, a veil was removed at the Yamaha booth to reveal a particular machine, the “MOTOROiD.” Using cameras to recognize its owner, it autonomously stood up, moved forward, and retreated, in response to their voice or gestures. At times, when looking at the way that it meandered and frolicked with the owner as if it were dancing, one could not help but get the premonition of the dawn of a new relationship between a man and machine. The MOTOROiD, despite being a concept model, evoked a wide range of responses, such as searches for the vehicle body price; however, included among this was the feedback not expected by the development team—MOTOROiD is so cute!

By pursuing functional and structural optimization, the MOTOROiD has become a machine with rather inorganic styling, lacking elements that would make it applicable as a pet. Despite its appearance, however, people have identified a certain familiarity and affection in its unique, lifelike behavior, engendered by its advanced robotics and intelligent technology.
What is it about the “vitality” of a machine that can capture the human heart?
Once this value further evolves and is realized, what kind of relationships can be established between machines and people?
Yamaha has begun development aimed at its new challenge, the “MOTOROiD2.”

-global.yamaha

16/10/2025

Telegram CEO worried about our privacy: “Dystopian world is approaching fast”

Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of Telegram, is pretty grim about the future and fears that “we are running out of time.”

“I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating,” Durov said in a Telegram message that was published on Friday.

He’s deeply concerned about our privacy and freedom and warns that a “dystopian world” is approaching quickly. To prove his point, he referred to several technological developments that are being implemented to keep people on a short leash.

“What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control. Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU),” Durov says.

He continues by saying that freedom of speech is increasingly under pressure, as Western countries are prosecuting people who criticize the government.

“A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast, while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms and allowed them to be taken away.”

Our privacy and freedom of speech are not the only things at stake – the same goes for traditions, sovereignty, and the free market, values our forefathers fought for.

“By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction, moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological,” Durov adds. That’s why, the founder and CEO of Telegram concludes, he’s not celebrating his birthday.

Back in August 2024, Durov was arrested in France at Le Bourget Airport near Paris because he failed to respond to cybercrime and financial fraud investigation requests on Telegram. Four days after his arrest and paying €5 million in bail, Durov was released from custody but wasn’t allowed to leave the country, because the investigation was still ongoing.

In March 2025, Durov was allowed to leave France. Recently, he spoke about his arrest.

“One year ago, the French police detained me for four days because some people I’d never heard of used Telegram to coordinate crimes. Arresting a CEO of a major platform over the actions of its users was not only unprecedented, it was legally and logically absurd,” Durov said.

“So far, the only outcome of my arrest has been massive damage to France’s image as a free country. One thing is certain: we’ll keep fighting, and we will win,” he added.

-cybernews

16/10/2025

Pro-Russian hackers caught bragging about attack on fake water utility
A pro-Russian hacker group has been caught boasting about a cyberattack that unfolded entirely inside a decoy system set up by researchers.

The relatively new group, known as TwoNet, claimed in September that it had disrupted a Dutch water facility by hacking into its control systems. In reality, the hackers had infiltrated a honeypot — a decoy network designed by cybersecurity firm Forescout to lure attackers and study their behavior.

According to the company, the threat actor, using the alias Barlati, defaced the login page with an message reading “HACKED BY BARLATI, F**K.” The attacker also changed configuration settings and disabled alarms — actions that, if carried out on a real system, could have disrupted operations.

Forescout said the incident illustrates how inexperienced hacktivists are increasingly trying to breach operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) — the computer systems that manage equipment in critical infrastructure such as power plants and water utilities — often without fully understanding what they are attacking.

“Groups moving from DDoS/defacement to OT/ICS often misread targets, trip over honeypots, or overclaim. That doesn’t make them harmless; it shows where they are headed,” researchers said.

The honeypot incident also highlights how hacktivists increasingly blur the line between propaganda and genuine cyber operations, inflating their capabilities to gain visibility.

TwoNet, which emerged in early 2025, initially launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks before attempting more sophisticated intrusions targeting systems that control and monitor industrial equipment — a category known as SCADA — in countries it considers hostile to Russia. It is unclear if any of its claimed attacks actually occurred.

The group announced its shutdown in late September — a reminder of the short life cycle of many hacktivist outfits, which often rebrand, merge, or resurface under new names, Forescout said.

Industrial systems in the crosshairs
TwoNet’s claims echo similar boasts by other pro-Russian groups that have allegedly targeted critical infrastructure.

In recent months, groups such as CyberTroops and OverFlame have claimed to compromise control interfaces at solar and hydroelectric facilities across Europe.

Forescout researchers said their honeypots routinely attract attacks from Russia and Iran, but this was the first time a named group had publicly claimed to have breached one of their decoy systems.

While the TwoNet incident caused no harm, some hacktivist operations have had real-world consequences.

In late 2023, the Russian government-aligned group known as the Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR) claimed to have attacked the industrial control systems of multiple U.S. and European critical infrastructure targets.

In January 2024, the group took responsibility for overflowing water storage tanks in Texas, leading to the loss of tens of thousands of gallons of water. CARR also claimed to have compromised the SCADA system of a U.S. energy company, gaining control over alarms and pumps for its tanks.

In June, the U.S. State Department accused Iranians allegedly affiliated with a group known as CyberAv3ngers of targeting critical infrastructure with malware designed to compromise industrial control systems.

“Utilities, especially in the water and power sectors, remain key targets,” Forescout said. “Our water-utility honeypot and affiliates’ solar claims mirror broader exposure in utility environments where security budgets, awareness, or accountability lag.”

-therecord

16/10/2025

How will the EU's new border system work?

The next time you travel from the UK to Europe, you might notice some changes.

The EU's much-delayed new digital border system, the Entry/Exit System or EES, is now being gradually introduced.

The system is meant to strengthen security and ultimately make travel smoother, but there have been concerns there will be queues when people first register.

What is EES and where is it being introduced?
EES is a digital system designed to keep track of when non-EU citizens enter and leave the Schengen Area.

This covers 29 European countries - mainly in the EU - which people can travel across without border controls.

It includes many popular destinations for UK travellers, such as France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece.

Under the new system, fingerprints and a photo have to be registered.

EES will eventually replace the current system of passports being stamped by a border officer.

When will EES start?
After being postponed several times, the European Commission announced in July that EES would begin on 12 October.

It is being gradually phased in over six months.

That means when you first encounter EES will depend where you're travelling to, and when.

At Dover, ferry passengers in coaches have started using the new system, followed by other tourist traffic on 1 November.

At Eurostar terminals, only a small number of business travellers are being invited to use it. More passengers will be directed to it over the coming months.

Eurotunnel, which runs vehicle shuttles through the Channel Tunnel, is also introducing the EES in stages.

Only Eurotunnel's coach passengers and freight will do the new checks to start with. They will be done by a border officer, so not much will change.

Tourists in cars will start using automated kiosks by the end of the year. The company hasn't given an exact date.

EES will also be gradually phased in at European airports. When you first come across it will depend on where you're flying to and when. Look out for any information from your airline.

EES should be active at every Schengen border crossing point in all 29 participating countries by 10 April 2026.

What will passengers have to do under EES?
The first time they use the new system, people from most non-EU countries - including the UK - will have to register biometric information while having their passport scanned.

This may be done with a border officer, or at an automated machine, depending on where people travel to.

Flight passengers will register when they arrive at their destination airport.

But registration will be done as you leave the UK if you are crossing the English Channel by ferry from the port of Dover, taking the Eurotunnel shuttle to France, or getting the Eurostar train.

At these places, most passengers will have to follow the instructions at special kiosks.

The machines will scan each passport, then take fingerprints and a photo.

Children under 12 won't have to provide fingerprints. Staff should be on hand to help.

The screen will also present travellers with four questions about their trip, such as confirming where they will be staying and that they have enough money.

However, at Eurotunnel, those questions will be asked by border officers, on a discretionary basis.

The port of Dover has had to make big changes. It has reclaimed some land from the sea to create an additional processing area.

People will head to this new area, a mile from the ferry terminal, to do their EES checks.

Because the French border has in effect been moved to a coach processing building in this new area, coaches will be sealed after passengers have completed their checks. They will then drive over to catch their ferry.

The port's boss says groups of schoolchildren will be able to do some of their registration in advance, so they will only need to present their passports at the border.

Eurostar has installed 49 EES kiosks in three areas around its London St Pancras terminal. Passengers will use them before presenting their ticket at the departures area.

But it says all passports will continue to be stamped manually until EES is fully rolled out in 2026.

Eurotunnel has installed more than a hundred kiosks at each side of the Channel.

Customers who are travelling in cars will be directed to drive up to a kiosk bearing their registration number, and provide their biometric information there. Coach passengers will go through the process with a border officer.

A mobile phone app has been developed to enable passengers to do part of the process before reaching the border. However, this won't be widely used when EES is first introduced.

The EES registration will be valid for three years, with the details verified on each trip during that period.

What are the concerns about the introduction of EES?
Concerns have repeatedly been raised that the extra couple of minutes it takes for each traveller to complete the registration process could lead to big queues, particularly at space-constrained Dover.

However, bosses at cross-Channel travel hubs hope that the decision to introduce EES gradually, instead of with a "big bang" start, will reduce the risk of disruption.

Eurotunnel chief executive Yann Leriche says there will be no "chaos" or queues at the Channel tunnel, insisting his company has done extensive modelling and is fully prepared.

Similarly, Eurostar hopes its decision to limit EES initially to some business travellers before expanding its use will help prevent queues.

What is ETIAS and when is that coming?
The EU is also introducing a new visa waiver system linked to passports called the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS), which will build on the EES.

Citizens of non-EU countries who don't need a visa to enter the EU - including people from the UK - will be able to apply online for authorisation before they travel.

ETIAS isn't due to start until the end of 2026, but the final date has not yet been confirmed.

It will cost €20 (£17.47) per application, and will be valid for three years.

People aged under 18 and over 70 will need to apply, but won't have to pay.

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-BBC

16/10/2025

ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, says OpenAI boss!

OpenAI plans to allow a wider range of content, including erotica, on its popular chatbot ChatGPT as part of its push to "treat adult users like adults", says its boss Sam Altman.

In a post on X on Tuesday, Mr Altman said upcoming versions of the popular chatbot would enable it to behave in a more human-like way - "but only if you want it, not because we are usage maxxing".

The move, reminiscent of Elon Musk's xAI's recent introduction of two sexually explicit chatbots to Grok, could help OpenAI attract more paying subscribers.

It is also likely to intensify pressure on lawmakers to introduce tighter restrictions on chatbot companions.

OpenAI did not respond to the BBC's requests for comment.

Mr Altman said OpenAI had previously made ChatGPT "pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues".

These changes were announced in a blog post in August, which no longer appears on OpenAI's website.

"We realise this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right," Mr Altman posted on Tuesday.

He said ChatGPT could soon relax the restrictions "now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools".

He added: "In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults."

The changes come after OpenAI was sued earlier this year by parents of a US teen who took his own life.

The lawsuit filed by Matt and Maria Raine, who are the parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine, was the first legal action accusing OpenAI of wrongful death.

The family included chat logs between Adam, who died in April, and ChatGPT that show him explaining he has suicidal thoughts.

In a statement given at the time, OpenAI told the BBC it was reviewing the filing.

"We extend our deepest sympathies to the Raine family during this difficult time," the company said.

Child safety concerns
Written erotica does not require age verification in the UK under the Online Safety Act.

However, pornographic images, including those generated by AI, would require users to prove they are over 18.

In the US, critics say OpenAI's decision to allow erotica on the platform shows the need for more regulation at the federal and state levels.

"How are they going to make sure that children are not able to access the portions of ChatGPT that are adult-only and provide erotica?" said Jenny Kim, a partner at the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner.

Ms Kim is involved in a lawsuit against Meta that claims the company's Instagram's algorithm harms the mental health of teen users.

"OpenAI, like most of big tech in this space, is just using people like guinea pigs," she said.

In April, TechCrunch reported that OpenAI was allowing accounts in which a user had registered as a minor to generate graphic erotica.

OpenAI said at the time that the company was rolling out a fix to limit such content.

A survey published this month by the nonprofit Centre for Democracy and Technology (CDT) found that one in five students report that they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with AI.

On Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill passed by the state legislature that would have blocked developers from offering AI chatbots companions to children unless the companies could guarantee the software wouldn't breed harmful behaviour.

Newsom said it was "imperative that adolescents learn how to safely interact with AI systems" in a message that accompanied his veto.

At the nationwide level, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an inquiry into how AI chatbots interact with children.

In the US Senate last month, bipartisan legislation was introduced that would chatbot users to file liability claims against their developers.

Why introduce erotica?
Mr Altman's announcement on Tuesday comes as sceptics have been questioning the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies.

OpenAI's revenue is growing, but it has never been profitable.

Tulane University business professor Rob Lalka, author of The Venture Alchemists, said the major AI companies find themselves in a battle for market share.

"No company has ever had the kind of adoption that OpenAI saw with ChatGPT," Prof Lalka told BBC News.

"They needed to continue to push along that exponential growth curve, achieving market domination as much as they can," he added.

Artificial intelligence, Technology
-BBC

16/10/2025

চীনে, মঞ্চে নৃত্যশিল্পীদের সাথে যোগ দিল রোবটরা!
In China, robots joined human dancers on stage during the curtain call for the 100th performance of the dance drama "The Exploitation of Nature's Works" ("Tian Gong Kai Wu").

15/10/2025

Apple unveils new 14‑inch MacBook Pro powered by the M5 chip, delivering the next big leap in AI for the Mac!

With up to 3.5x more performance for AI workflows, faster storage, up to a phenomenal 24 hours of battery life, and macOS Tahoe, the 14-inch MacBook Pro gets even better.

Apple today unveiled a new 14-inch MacBook Pro, featuring the incredibly powerful M5 chip. With M5, the 14-inch MacBook Pro gets even faster, more capable, and delivers a huge leap in AI performance. The M5 chip features a next-generation GPU with a Neural Accelerator in each core, delivering up to 3.5x the AI performance1 and up to 1.6x faster graphics2 than the previous generation. M5 also includes a faster and more efficient CPU, an enhanced Neural Engine, and higher memory bandwidth that accelerates everything from launching apps to running large language models (LLMs) on device. Additionally, it offers phenomenal battery life of up to 24 hours, so users can take their pro workflows anywhere.1 With the latest storage technology, the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 brings faster SSD performance than the previous generation for tasks like importing RAW image files or exporting large videos.2 Renowned features — including a gorgeous Liquid Retina XDR display with a nano-texture option, a 12MP Center Stage camera, a six-speaker sound system, a wide array of ports, Apple Intelligence capabilities, and the unrivaled power of macOS Tahoe — complete the MacBook Pro experience. Altogether, the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 delivers an industry-leading combination of capabilities for the same starting price of $1,599 — making it an even better value and upgrade for current and new Mac users. Available in space black and silver, the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 is available to pre-order today, with availability beginning Wednesday, October 22.

“MacBook Pro continues to be the world’s best pro laptop, and today, the 14-inch MacBook Pro gets even better with the arrival of the M5 chip,” said John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering. “M5 marks the next big leap in AI for the Mac and delivers a huge boost in graphics performance, accelerating demanding workflows for everyone from students to creatives, developers to business professionals, and more. With its amazing performance, extraordinary battery life, and unrivaled display, M5 takes the new 14-inch MacBook Pro to another level.”

M5: The Next Big Leap in AI for the Mac
Apple silicon leads the industry with blazing performance, advanced technologies, power efficiency, and AI capabilities. With its advanced CPU, GPU, and faster Neural Engine, M5 propels the capabilities of the new 14-inch MacBook Pro even higher and takes the next big leap in AI for the Mac. Featuring a next-generation 10-core GPU — with a Neural Accelerator in each core — it delivers up to 3.5x faster AI performance than M4, and up to 6x faster performance than M1.1 From college students transcribing lecture notes, to creators storyboarding a new project with AI tools, to business users uncovering insights by running local models in webAI, the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 is the ultimate laptop for everyday AI workflows and so much more. Users will experience faster text-to-image generation when running diffusion models in apps like Draw Things, and LLMs will run even faster in popular apps like LM Studio. The M5 chip also speeds up a wide variety of pro workflows, like deep learning, data modeling, and AI video enhancement. A faster 16-core Neural Engine further accelerates on-device, AI-driven tasks and enhances performance of the generative models that power Apple Intelligence. Additionally, with up to 2x faster SSD performance than the prior generation, the new 14-inch MacBook Pro lets users load a local LLM faster, and they can now choose up to 4TB of storage.2

A lifestyle photo shows a person working with the new 14-inch MacBook Pro, an external display, and recording equipment.
A user works on the new 14-inch MacBook Pro while waiting at an airport.
A lifestyle photo shows two people working with the new 14-inch MacBook Pro as well as various sketches and architectural models.
A group works on multiple MacBook Pro devices in a conference room setting.

Next-Level Performance with M5
The M5 chip also brings even faster systemwide performance and more capabilities to the 14-inch MacBook Pro. With the new GPU in M5, the 14-inch MacBook Pro delivers up to 1.6x faster graphics performance in pro apps and enables up to 1.6x higher frame rates in games compared to the M4 model.2 The M5 CPU features the world’s fastest CPU core for even more responsiveness.1 The 10-core design delivers up to 20 percent faster multithreaded performance versus M4 for workloads like code compiling, and is perfect for multitasking or speeding through creative applications.1 The new 14-inch MacBook Pro is great for data analysts querying databases in Python and for professionals like product designers, who routinely multitask across applications like Rhino, Notion, and Jira. Additionally, with over 150GB/s of unified memory bandwidth, users can work with large AI models on device or manipulate massive scenes in 3D apps.

14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 delivers:
Up to 7.7x faster AI video-enhancing performance in Topaz Video when compared to the 13‑inch MacBook Pro with M1, and up to 1.8x faster than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4.1

Up to 6.8x faster 3D rendering in Blender when compared to the 13‑inch MacBook Pro with M1, and up to 1.7x faster than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4.1

Up to 3.2x higher frame rates in games when compared to the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1,3 and up to 1.6x faster than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4.2

Up to 2.1x faster build performance when compiling code in Xcode when compared to the 13‑inch MacBook Pro with M1, and up to 1.2x faster than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4.1

-Apple

15/10/2025

Google to invest $15 billion to build data center hub in India; largest outside of the U.S.

Google will invest $15 billion to build data center capacity for a new artificial intelligence hub in southern India, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian announced at an event Tuesday.

The investment will roll out over the next five years, and will be Google’s largest AI hub in the world outside of the U.S, Kurian added.

Earlier on Monday, the Minister for Human Resources Development of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Nara Lokesh, put the 1-gigawatt project at $10 billion.

The deal comes after “a year of intense discussions and relentless effort,” and “is just the beginning,” Lokesh said in a post on the social media platform X.

The Indian outlet Economic Times previously reported that the investment would be made by Google’s Indian subsidiary Raiden Infotech, which plans to develop three campuses across the city of Visakhapatnam.

According to another report from ET on Tuesday, state officials planned to continue doubling down on such projects and to significantly scale up the state’s computing capacity over the next three years.

Companies are amping up investments in infrastructure to keep pace with surging global demand for cloud services as AI services become increasingly popular.

As part of its second-quarter earnings in July, Google increased its forecast for capital expenditures in 2025 to $85 billion, up from $75 billion in February, due to “strong and growing demand for our Cloud products and services.”

That same month, the company also announced plans to invest $25 billion in data center and artificial intelligence infrastructure over the next two years in states across the biggest electric grid in the U.S.

India is increasingly attracting multinational players, such as Microsoft and AWS, to invest in the country’s cloud and AI infrastructure.

-cnbc

15/10/2025

বাংলাদেশের প্রথম এয়ার ট্যাক্সি “Ovtion Prime” 🇧🇩✈️

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বাংলাদেশ ও চীনের যৌথ সহযোগিতায় তৈরি হচ্ছে এই অত্যাধুনিক এয়ার ট্যাক্সিটি, যা একজন যাত্রীকে প্রায় ৪০ মিনিট পর্যন্ত আকাশে ভ্রমণের সুযোগ দেবে।
বাংলাদেশের জন্য সীমিতভাবে মাত্র ২০টি ইউনিট তৈরি করা হবে এই বিশেষ Bangladeshi Air Taxi Ovtion Prime মডেলের। 🚀🇧🇩

-Avion Aerospace Group

15/10/2025

IZAKAYA পরীক্ষামূলকভাবে একদিনের জন্য বাংলাদেশের ঢাকায় ড্রোনের মাধ্যমে খাবার ডেলিভারি করেছে। যা চমকে দিয়েছে সবাইকে। অনেক প্রতিকূলতা থাকা সত্ত্বেও তারা পরিক্ষায় সফল হয়েছে মনে করা হচ্ছে।
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