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Criminals publish data of 8.7m people after Manchester Airports Group hack
Criminal hackers have posted the personal data of nearly nine million people online after breaching three UK airports. Hackers extorted Manchester Airports Group (MAG) for an undisclosed amount but failed to get their ransom paid. Customers of…
New York fair connects Korean publishers with American readers
A new push to bring Korean literature and webtoons into the U.S. mainstream is set to land in Manhattan this week. Hosted at the NYC Seminar & Conference Center on Wednesday and Thursday, the 'Outreach New York Book Fair' directly connects Korean…
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Brands publish more content than ever-but is it growing their value?
Today, every business in the world is a publishing company. It may be an international firm, a developing startup, or even a local services firm, but all of them are publishing blogs, social media posts, newsletters, videos, podcasts, and emails in…
India publisher 'demands changes to Modi references' in Sonia Gandhi's memoir
The autobiography of Sonia Gandhi, the matriarch of India 's opposition Congress party, has become the subject of a controversy after its prospective publisher allegedly sought changes to passages about prime minister Narendra Modi. Belonging: A…
Reach Security Publishes New Report Proving the Scale and Impact of Configuration Drift as a Critical Cybersecurity Risk in the Age of AI
Twelve months of production telemetry reveals the scale, causes and security impact of configuration drift, pointing to firewall and EDR tool risk. San Francisco, CA. September 1st, 2026 – Reach Security – the…
Atlantic Books to publish Christine Lagarde's memoir
Atlantic Books will publish president of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde's memoir. Join thousands of book industry professionals who rely on The Bookseller for trusted publishing news, previews, and insight. 🔓 Sign in below or…
Bloomsbury to publish dyslexia-friendly edition simultaneously with trade launch for first time
Stephen Graham (© Joseph Sinclair) and Orly Klein (© David Green/Shoot Me Now) Bloomsbury is to publish a dyslexia-friendly edition of Stephen Graham and Orly Klein's Letters to Our Sons simultaneously with its wider trade release, in…
Thrown shoes, sabotaged launches and exposed affairs: the drama of Australian political publishing
The most striking example of performance politics in Joshua Black's entertaining book comes when an audience member at a 2010 taping of the now-defunct ABC show Q&A throws a shoe at former prime minister John Howard. (It echoed a famous moment two…
Amazon launches children's book donation scheme with UK publishers
You Buy, We Donate initiative: launched by Amazon Amazon has launched a four-week You Buy, We Donate initiative with UK publishers in support of the National Year of Reading 2026. Join thousands of book industry professionals who rely on The…
Google launches Expert Intelligence with more than 100k publisher titles
Google has launched Expert Intelligence, a new initiative allowing readers to use purchased e-books and other trusted sources directly within its AI products. Join thousands of book industry professionals who rely on The Bookseller for trusted…
The Production AI Checklist That Nobody Publishes.
I spend a lot of time in the AI space -- reading papers, building things, talking to engineers who are actually shipping. And there is a gap between what the demos show and what production systems actually look like that nobody is being fully…
Anti-detect browsers in 2026: what the detection side publishes
Search for 'anti-detect browser' and page one is almost entirely vendor blogs. Every one of them explains fingerprinting, walks through Selenium and Playwright detection, and arrives at the same destination: their product. The detection industry…
Kalshi says it's a prediction market. The 9th Circuit says it's gambling.
'Kalshi has a gambling problem,' the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals wrote last Friday, when it ruled that the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) did not preempt Nevada from enforcing its gambling laws against prediction market Kalshi's sports-related event…
Ethan Nwaneri's Loan Move to Borussia Dortmund Offers Insight into Arsenal Future
Ethan Nwaneri has joined Borussia Dortmund from Arsenal on a season-long loan as the youngster searches for more regular minutes. The 19-year-old struggled for game time in north London last season, featuring just 12 times before joining Marseille…
Scientists uncover hidden mechanism that could improve future AI-inspired computing
A team of researchers in Japan has shed new light on a long-standing mystery in condensed matter physics, revealing how heat generated by electrical current can trigger a complex form of self-organisation inside an organic conductor. The discovery…
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