New York Times sues Perplexity AI for 'illegal' copying of content
New York Times sues Perplexity AI for 'illegal' copying of content - CNA
The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Friday (Dec 5), claiming that the artificial intelligence startup was copying, distributing and displaying millions of its articles without permission.The startup has become a target of multiple legal disputes and faces similar accusations ..
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/new-york-times-sues-perplexity-ai-illegal-copying-content-5564191Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity
Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity | TechCrunch
The newspaper is alleging copyright infringement and calling out Perplexity's Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) as a culprit.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/04/chicago-tribune-sues-perplexity/Man who drove into crowd at Liverpool football parade pleads guilty to 31 charges
Man who drove into crowd at Liverpool football parade pleads guilty to 31 charges - CNA
LONDON: A British man who injured more than 130 people by ploughing his car into a crowd of Liverpool football fans during
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/liverpool-football-parade-man-drove-car-pleads-guilty-5491591
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OpenAI and Perplexity are launching AI shopping assistants, but competing startups aren’t sweating it
OpenAI and Perplexity are launching AI shopping assistants, but competing startups aren't sweating it | TechCrunch
Startup founders building AI shopping tools think general-purpose models are too broad to deliver truly personalized shopping experiences.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/25/openai-and-perplexity-are-launching-ai-shopping-assistants-but-competing-startups-arent-sweating-it/Trial of man accused of Liverpool parade crash to open
Trial of man accused of Liverpool parade crash to open - CNA
LONDON: A British man is due to go on trial on Tuesday (Nov 25), accused of driving his car into crowds at Liverpool Football Club's Premier League victory parade in May and injuring dozens
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/liverpool-victory-parade-crash-trial-uk-football-paul-doyle-5488931Trial to open of man accused of Liverpool parade crash
Trial to open of man accused of Liverpool parade crash - CNA
LONDON: A British man is due to go on trial on Tuesday (Nov 25) accused of driving his car into crowds at Liverpool Football Club's Premier League victory parade in May and injuring dozens
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/liverpool-victory-parade-crash-trial-uk-football-5488931
🌐 Why Major Banks Still Get Hacked — And Why They Often Don’t Know It in Time
Every time a major U.S. financial institution reports a breach, people ask the same question:
“How can a multi-billion-dollar bank NOT know it was hacked until after the damage is done?”
The answer is brutally simple:
Banks don’t run one secure, unified network.
They run 20+ networks stitched together across 40 years of technology — and a single weakness anywhere becomes the attacker’s doorway.
Here’s the reality no one likes to talk about:
⸻
1️⃣ Banks Are Not One System — They Are a Franken-Network
A modern Tier-1 bank is an ecosystem of:
• 1970s COBOL mainframes
• Private data centers
• AWS/Azure hybrid cloud
• Third-party vendor systems
• Thousands of internal apps
• Thousands of contractors with varying access
• Branch networks
• Legacy infrastructure no one has touched in 15 years
When one vendor gets breached, the bank inherits the breach instantly — even if the bank’s internal systems are secure.
This is exactly what happened in the TechCrunch report.
⸻
2️⃣ Third-Party Vendors Are the #1 Weak Link
Banks depend on:
• FinTech processors
• Risk engines
• Compliance systems
• Underwriting vendors
• Identity verification services
When the vendor is compromised, the bank often has zero visibility.
They cannot:
• See the vendor’s logs
• Know what the attackers touched
• Detect lateral movement in the vendor’s environment
And many vendors don’t have modern detection capabilities at all.
⸻
3️⃣ Banks Generate Too Much Data to Monitor in Real Time
People assume banks lack detection tools.
No — they’re overflowing with tools.
But scale destroys visibility.
A large bank produces:
🟦 20–40 BILLION log events per day
🟦 petabytes of monthly telemetry
🟦 millions of access events that all look normal
Even AI-powered SIEMs choke under that volume.
If an attacker uses a legitimate credential:
✔ the login looks normal
✔ the API activity looks normal
✔ the database queries look normal
Nothing trips the alarms.
⸻
4️⃣ Why They Can’t Instantly See “What Was Touched”
Because logs are:
• Scattered across incompatible systems
• Not always indexed
• Not always centralized
• Sometimes overwritten or deleted
• Sometimes controlled by vendors
• Sometimes not collected at all on older systems
Even internal forensics teams must reconstruct the timeline manually — sometimes taking weeks.
⸻
5️⃣ Even the NSA, DoD, and Microsoft Get Breached the Same Way
If the U.S. Department of Defense couldn’t detect SolarWinds attackers for 9 months, it tells us the undeniable truth:
👉 The problem isn’t the bank.
👉 The problem is the architecture of modern enterprise networks.
⸻
THE TRUTH
Banks don’t fail because of weak security.
They fail because:
• Their infrastructure is too vast
• Their vendors are too many
• Their log volume is too enormous
• Their systems are too fragmented
• Their attackers use normal-looking credentials
And in a world where cybercriminals operate with AI-level precision, reaction time shrinks to zero.
This is the new reality of cybersecurity — and every industry, not just banking, is exposed.
⸻
CLOSING LINE FOR MAXIMUM IMPACT
Banks aren’t blind. Their networks are just too massive, too fragmented, and too vendor-dependent to see everything at once. The next era of cybersecurity won’t be about firewalls — it will be about real-time unified visibility across thousands of systems, identities, and vendors.
🌐 Why Major Banks Still Get Hacked — And Why They Often Don’t Know It in Time
Every time a major U.S. financial institution reports a breach, people ask the same question:
“How can a multi-billion-dollar bank NOT know it was hacked until after the damage is done?”
The answer is brutally simple:
Banks don’t run one secure, unified network.
They run 20+ networks stitched together across 40 years of technology — and a single weakness anywhere becomes the attacker’s doorway.
Here’s the reality no one likes to talk about:
⸻
1️⃣ Banks Are Not One System — They Are a Franken-Network
A modern Tier-1 bank is an ecosystem of:
• 1970s COBOL mainframes
• Private data centers
• AWS/Azure hybrid cloud
• Third-party vendor systems
• Thousands of internal apps
• Thousands of contractors with varying access
• Branch networks
• Legacy infrastructure no one has touched in 15 years
When one vendor gets breached, the bank inherits the breach instantly — even if the bank’s internal systems are secure.
This is exactly what happened in the TechCrunch report.
⸻
2️⃣ Third-Party Vendors Are the #1 Weak Link
Banks depend on:
• FinTech processors
• Risk engines
• Compliance systems
• Underwriting vendors
• Identity verification services
When the vendor is compromised, the bank often has zero visibility.
They cannot:
• See the vendor’s logs
• Know what the attackers touched
• Detect lateral movement in the vendor’s environment
And many vendors don’t have modern detection capabilities at all.
⸻
3️⃣ Banks Generate Too Much Data to Monitor in Real Time
People assume banks lack detection tools.
No — they’re overflowing with tools.
But scale destroys visibility.
A large bank produces:
🟦 20–40 BILLION log events per day
🟦 petabytes of monthly telemetry
🟦 millions of access events that all look normal
Even AI-powered SIEMs choke under that volume.
If an attacker uses a legitimate credential:
✔ the login looks normal
✔ the API activity looks normal
✔ the database queries look normal
Nothing trips the alarms.
⸻
4️⃣ Why They Can’t Instantly See “What Was Touched”
Because logs are:
• Scattered across incompatible systems
• Not always indexed
• Not always centralized
• Sometimes overwritten or deleted
• Sometimes controlled by vendors
• Sometimes not collected at all on older systems
Even internal forensics teams must reconstruct the timeline manually — sometimes taking weeks.
⸻
5️⃣ Even the NSA, DoD, and Microsoft Get Breached the Same Way
If the U.S. Department of Defense couldn’t detect SolarWinds attackers for 9 months, it tells us the undeniable truth:
👉 The problem isn’t the bank.
👉 The problem is the architecture of modern enterprise networks.
⸻
THE TRUTH
Banks don’t fail because of weak security.
They fail because:
• Their infrastructure is too vast
• Their vendors are too many
• Their log volume is too enormous
• Their systems are too fragmented
• Their attackers use normal-looking credentials
And in a world where cybercriminals operate with AI-level precision, reaction time shrinks to zero.
This is the new reality of cybersecurity — and every industry, not just banking, is exposed.
⸻
CLOSING LINE FOR MAXIMUM IMPACT
Banks aren’t blind. Their networks are just too massive, too fragmented, and too vendor-dependent to see everything at once. The next era of cybersecurity won’t be about firewalls — it will be about real-time unified visibility across thousands of systems, identities, and vendors.
US banks scramble to assess data theft after hackers breach financial tech firm
US banks scramble to assess data theft after hackers breach financial tech firm | TechCrunch
U.S. banking giants including JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and Morgan Stanley are working to identify what data was stolen in a recent cyberattack on a New York financial firm.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/us-banks-scramble-to-assess-data-theft-after-hackers-breach-financial-tech-firm/Perplexity brings its AI browser Comet to Android
Perplexity brings its AI browser Comet to Android | TechCrunch
Perplexity is launching its AI browser Comet on Android with iOS version in works
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/perplexity-brings-its-ai-browser-comet-to-android/
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In an economy where more than 80 distinct field workforce disciplines — from tactical operators and investigators to inspectors, technicians, utility linemen, code enforcement officers, and government field managers — drive trillions in annual economic activity, one truth is undeniable:
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Today we change that.
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The NGIN Core Hierarchy – Purpose-Built for Performance at Every Level
EXECUTIVE & ADMINISTRATIVE COMMAND
→ Single-pane Admin Level Controls give C-suite, agency directors, and office commanders absolute optics and structural governance over the entire operation. Real-time dashboards, audit trails, compliance enforcement, resource allocation, and policy deployment — all immutable, all instantaneous.
FIELD COMMAND & VENDOR ECOSYSTEM
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One platform now empowers every field discipline that keeps modern society running:
• Investigators & Case Officers
• Inspectors (building, environmental, regulatory, insurance)
• Field Technicians & Critical Infrastructure Teams
• Tactical / Special Operations Units
• Government Field Personnel & Public Sector Teams
• Field Managers & Supervisors
• Specialized Field Techs (utility, telecom, energy, healthcare, logistics)
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Built on our proprietary blockchain communications fabric, every action, note, photo, signature, and timeline entry is cryptographically stamped, geo-tagged, and hierarchically routed in real time. No silos. No version-control nightmares. No “who knew what when.”
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✅ Military-grade encrypted strategic communications baked in
✅ Immutable work-order, case-file, and investigation timelines
✅ Hierarchical permissioning that mirrors your exact org chart — from field agent to agency head
✅ Instant scalability from 50 field users to 500,000+
The future of field dominance isn’t another point-solution app.
It’s a unified intelligence nervous system that finally puts headquarters and the frontline on the same unbreakable operating picture.
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