breach
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Now, customers are preparing to be hacked and respond to a breach, unlike past assumptions that they wouldn’t be targeted or that hackers wouldn’t succeed, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
If you get given a title a decade later because of a rule breach, could you celebrate it?
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Wrexham Council has served a temporary stop notice due to "a breach of planning control and the change of use of the land to a gypsy and traveller site with associated engineering operations".
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
OpenAI paused some model development for two weeks this summer after two models it was testing were involved in a security breach at AI platform Hugging Face.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
‘At the breach our rearguard must stand, if we are pressed,’ said Éomer.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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In a blog post on Saturday, Amodei expressed concern about the possibility of AI agents swarming together, going rogue and conducting major cybersecurity breaches that could have devastating implications.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 12, 2026
Hazard is seen as the poster boy for Chelsea's breaches.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
According to a marine accident expert report prepared for prosecutors, a copy of which was seen by AFP on Thursday, there were multiple breaches of safety procedures aboard the tanker.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Defending Fitzhugh, Elizabeth Power said she had a "lack of awareness" about the "severity of the breaches that she made".
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
"Vogel’s got software for calculating course offsets caused by hull breaches, right?"
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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The region between 109 and 110 on the AUD/JPY technical chart marks an important support area that, if breached, could lead to a further decline in AUD/JPY and potentially push global-markets volatility higher.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
While West Texas and Brent futures have both breached $100 and dominated this week’s newsflow, diesel is the energy that fuels shipping, trucking, agriculture, construction and mining.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
It entered the headlines in July, when some 700 autonomous agents built by OpenAI breached the platform after escaping an isolated test environment.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
That was the first time the yen breached the key 160 level since the historic Japan-U.S. intervention in the currency market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
“The vault in question was empty at the time,” snapped the goblin, and Harry understood that even though Griphook had left Gringotts, he was offended at the idea of its defenses being breached.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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In early trading, the benchmark Dutch TTF contract is flat at 79.21 euros a megawatt-hour after breaching 80 euros in the previous session.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Some lawyers advising AI companies say American companies could sue Chinese rivals for breaching the terms of service.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
They say they are seeing the same inmates, who were let out as part of the 2024 early release scheme to ease overcrowding, coming back after reoffending - including for breaching their conditions.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Some routinely put on a show: NYC0318, a whale also seen by AFP on a recent outing, often charms whale watchers with sensational lunge-feeds, breaching the water and prompting shrieks of delight.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
In his own way, he began moving around the fire, jumping up and to the side to imitate a whale breaching.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
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