Apple is preparing to roll out a new Apple Wallet feature that lets U.S. users create digital IDs linked to their passports, usable at select TSA checkpoints. TechCrunch reports: The feature, previously announced as part of the iOS 26 release, comes on the heels of Apple's expansion of Wallet as more than a payment mechanism or ticket holder, but also a secure place to store a user's digital identity. Currently, support for government IDs in Apple Wallet has rolled out to 12 states and Puerto Rico, or roughly a third of U.S. license holders. However, the passport-tied Digital ID feature didn't arrive with the debut of iOS 26, as Apple said it would come in a future software update. [...]

The coming launch of passport-associated Digital IDs was announced on Sunday by Jennifer Bailey, VP of Apple Pay and Apple Wallet, at the Money 20/20 USA conference, where the exec also shared other stats about Wallet's adoption.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: As you're hunting through real estate listings for a new home in Franklin, Tennessee, you come across a vertical video showing off expansive rooms featuring a four-poster bed, a fully stocked wine cellar, and a soaking tub. In the corner of the video, a smiling real estate agent narrates the walk-through of your dream home in a soothing tone. It looks perfect -- maybe a little too perfect. The catch? Everything in the video isAI-generated. The real property is completely empty, and the luxury furniture is a product of virtual staging. The realtor's voice-over and expressions were born from text prompts. Even the camera's slow pan over each room is orchestrated by AI, because there was no actual video camera involved.

Any real estate agent can create "exactly that, at home, in minutes," says Alok Gupta, a former product manager at Facebook and software engineer at Snapchat who cofounded AutoReel, an app that allows realtors to turn images from their property listings into videos. He said that between 500 and 1,000 new listing videos are being created with AutoReel every day, with realtors across the US and even in New Zealand and India using the technology to market thousands of properties. This is one of many AI tools, including more familiar ones like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, that are quickly reshaping the real estate industry into something that isn't necessarily, well, real. "People that want to buy a house, they're going to make the largest investment of their lifetime," said Nathan Cool, a real estate photographer who runs an educational YouTube channel. "They don't want to be fooled before they ever arrive."

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Employees are using AI to generate fake expense receipts. Leading expense software platforms report a sharp increase in AI-created fraudulent documents following the launch of improved image generation models by OpenAI and Google. AppZen said fake AI receipts accounted for 14% of fraudulent documents submitted in September compared with none last year. Ramp flagged more than one million dollars in fraudulent invoices within 90 days. About 30% of financial professionals in the US and UK surveyed by Medius reported seeing a rise in falsified receipts after OpenAI released GPT-4o last year.

SAP Concur processes more than 80 million compliance checks monthly and now warns customers to not trust their eyes. The receipts include wrinkles in paper, detailed itemization matching real menus and signatures. Creating fraudulent documents previously required photo editing skills or paying for such services. Free and accessible image generation software has made it possible for anyone to falsify receipts in seconds by writing simple text instructions to chatbots.

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An anonymous reader shares a column: As the AI boom develops, consultants are in a tricky spot. The pandemic, inflation and economic uncertainty have encouraged many of their big clients to tighten expenditure. The U.S. government, one of the biggest spenders, has been cancelling multiple billion-dollar contracts in an effort to conserve cash. In March, 10 of the largest consultants including Deloitte, Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM and Guidehouse were targeted by the Department of Government Efficiency to justify their fees. As a result, the largest listed players' shares have collapsed by up to 30% in the past two years, against the S&P 500's 50% jump.

AI is, in some respects, a boon. In September, Accenture said it had helped it cut 11,000 jobs, and CEO Julie Sweet is set to augment that with staff that cannot be retrained. Salesforce recently laid off 4000 customer support workers. Microsoft has halted hiring in its consulting business. Unfortunately, big clients are cottoning on to the advantages too. One finance chief of a large UK company outlined the issue for Breakingviews via an illustrative example. Say an outsourced project costs the client $1 million to do themselves, and Accenture and the like have historically been able to do the same job for $200,000. With the advent of machine learning, companies can do the same work for just $10,000. This gives clients considerable leverage. If consultants won't lower their prices to near the relevant level, the client can find one who will. Or just do the job itself.

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ALMELO (ANP) - In Almelo is maandagavond een persoon gewond geraakt bij een schietpartij aan de Debussystraat in de wijk Aalderinkshoek. Dat gebeurde rond 22.45 uur, meldt de politie op X. Het slachtoffer werd volgens RTV Oost met spoed naar het ziekenhuis gebracht.

Volgens de lokale zender waren meerdere politieteams met agenten in kogelwerende vesten aanwezig.

De politie doet onderzoek naar het incident. Er is nog geen verdachte gearresteerd. Getuigen worden opgeroepen zich te melden.

BRASILIA (ANP) - Advocaten van Jair Bolsonaro hebben maandag beroep aangetekend tegen de veroordeling van de voormalige Braziliaanse president tot 27 jaar gevangenisstraf. Bolsonaro kreeg die straf voor het beramen van een staatsgreep om aan de macht te blijven ondanks zijn verkiezingsnederlaag in 2022.

Het juridische team van de oud-president beweert dat er "dubbelzinnigheden, onvolledigheden, tegenstrijdigheden en onduidelijkheden" zitten in de uitspraak van het Hooggerechtshof, waarin hij schuldig werd bevonden aan een poging om president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva af te zetten. De advocaten hadden eerder al aangekondigd in beroep te gaan.

De rechters van het Hooggerechtshof hebben geen specifieke termijn om over het beroep te beslissen, maar Bolsonaro kan pas worden vastgezet als alle mogelijke rechtsmiddelen zijn uitgeput. Tot die tijd staat de 70-jarige onder huisarrest.

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Er geldt geen specifieke termijn voor de rechters van het Hooggerechtshof om over het beroep te oordelen. Bolsonaro kan pas naar de gevangenis worden gestuurd als alle mogelijke rechtsmiddelen zijn uitgeput.

Vanwege de naderende verkiezingen ligt de kandidatenlijst bij ons op de ontbijttafel. Terwijl de koffie pruttelt, open ik voorzichtig het gesprek.

If at first you don’t succeed, patch and patch again

More threat intel teams are sounding the alarm about a critical Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-59287 and now under active exploitation, just days after Microsoft pushed an emergency patch and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added the bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.…