Eurozone inflation for the month of September, which stood at 1.7 %, was the lowest since April 2021, according to Eurostat.

The inflation rate slowed by half a percentage point compared to the 2.2 % rise in prices for the month of August.

According to data from the community statistical office, the value had initially been calculated at 1.8 %. On the other hand, “for the European Union as a whole, the inflation rate reading for the month of September shows a drop of three tenths, to 2.1 %”.

This slowdown in inflation in the eurozone in September reflects the 6.1 % drop in the cost of energy, which fell 3 % year-on-year in August, while fresh food prices rose by 1.6 %.

Also, “the price of non-energy industrial goods rose 0.4 % year-on-year in September, unchanged from the increase in August”.

The countries where the greatest increase in the cost of living was seen are Romania (4.8 %), Belgium (4.3 %) and Poland (4.2 %). On the contrary, the nations with the lowest price increases with an impact on the cost of living are Ireland (0 %), Lithuania (0.4 %) and Slovenia (0.7 %).

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Source: forbes.es

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Losses caused to various crypto platforms, such as Penpie, Indotax, and BingX, through hacks and exploits during the month of September exceeded $120 million.

In September, various high-profile attacks were carried out on various cryptocurrency platforms, with devastating effects. “The hardest hit was against BingX, a Singapore-based exchange, which lost around $44 million in a single incident, placing itself as the most affected platform in September. This attack highlights previous vulnerabilities in their security infrastructure and represents a considerable portion of the $409 million stolen by hackers in the third quarter of 2024.”

In the case of Penpie, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, the losses were quantified at $27 million. Then there is Indotax, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in Indonesia, with the theft of $21 million.

The trend in the increase of attacks on crypto platforms in the Asian region worries the different exchanges due to the vulnerability that makes them a “common target for hackers who exploit security gaps in these rapidly growing markets.”

Other major incidents were recorded during September 2024, including the one perpetrated on DeltaPrime, with losses of almost $6 million; Truflation, “which reported a theft of $5.6 million.

Additionally, smaller platforms such as Shezmu, Onyx, BananaGun, Bedrock, and CUT also suffered attacks, with losses ranging from $1.4 to $4.9 million.”

One of the most serious attacks recorded last month was via phishing, and reached $32.4 million “via $spWETH signatures. Although this incident was not included in the official figures reported by PeckShield.”

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The next update of Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant could include a monthly charge, taking into account the improvements planned by the company.

The revolutionary tool that is now present in homes around the world could have a cost due to improvements that will undoubtedly include new advances based on artificial intelligence.

Amazon is working on a new renovation project for Alexa with generative AI. This is an advance to adapt to the current market, although it could cost customers between $5 and $10 a month starting next September.

However, leaked information about this idea has shown that those who cannot pay this monthly fee will continue to have today’s Alexa service.

The Alexa update could arrive in the last quarter of the year. It is developed under the code name “Banyan”, and according to a company spokesperson, different Alexa components have already incorporated generative AI and continue working to implement it in the more than 500 million devices in homes around the world.

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The security changes that Microsoft will apply to Outlook starting September 16 seek to implement the Secure Future Initiative, which eliminates access to the server with only the username and password.

According to the software maker, “the light version of the Outlook web application will be removed on August 19 and will no longer support Gmail accounts on Outlook.com on June 30.”

According to David Los, partner group product manager for Outlook, Microsoft will stop supporting Basic Auth, a method by which a user “provides only their username and password to log in to their account.” Consequently, customers with Outlook.com, Hotmail, and Live.com accounts will need to migrate access through “apps that use modern authentication starting September 16.”

The change is based on the implementation of additional backend processes/tokens that are practically imperceptible to users but represent an important new layer of security.

The changes will also be applied to Windows Mail and Calendar users who will be migrated to their new “Outlook for Windows” application, before the end of support for the integrated Windows Mail and Calendar applications later this year.

They have clarified, however, that the new Outlook application for Windows and Mac will continue to be compatible with Gmail accounts.

According to the company, after 2024 customers will need to install or at least have updated versions of a compatible browser to run Outlook.com. In this sense, they indicated that the minimum browser requirements for Outlook.com are Microsoft Edge or Chrome version 79 or later; Firefox version 78 or later; Safari version 16 or later and Opera version 76 or later. As an additional but no less important fact, Microsoft added that it will only support Windows 10 or later and Windows Server 2016 or later to access Outlook.com.

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