Mal McCallion says Rightmove's published claim of 1.1m properties, including 900,000 for sale, persisted until September 2026 when the real figure was near 680,000, raising questions about how its margins were built.
Mal McCallion says the Renters Rights Act change removing rent-in-advance options is hurting overseas tenants, while the government's claimed £116m annual saving for property firms looks far too high.
Mal McCallion says Anthropic is going public within about a week, citing reported first half losses of 80bn, while Black October shows how one PHP flaw can hit most of the internet.
Rightmove Overstated Property Listings for 16 Years, Hosts Allege
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Rightmove overstated its property numbers for 16 years. Pages claimed 900,000 homes for sale until early September 2026, when the real figure was near 680,000. Mal McCallion calls Rightmove's reply hand-wavy and notes average agent fees rose from £379 to £1,762 a month.
AI-found PHP flaw sets off Black October outages. The flaw sits in a language behind roughly 70% of the internet and was found by someone at OpenAI two months before its patch. Cloudflare then saw tens of millions of attacks a minute.
Property software went dark during the PHP disruption. Alto was not accessible and Street took itself offline. Mal McCallion calls the next month to a year probably the most dangerous period for businesses that rely on vendors.
Railway breach exposed API keys and ran up bills. About $266 of the show's OpenAI account was used to build a wizard game called Golem. Matt Goddard advises businesses to review what third-party tools can access.
Renters Rights Act rent in advance ban is hurting tenants. Two lettings chiefs say removing the option hurts tenants, including overseas renters who once paid six months upfront. Matt Goddard notes Teresa Wallace and the Lettings Industry Council lobbied well in advance.
Government claims home buying reforms save firms £116m. Matt Goddard works that out at about £5,000 across roughly 24,000 agencies, while a £65 registration fee could bring the government around £327m. Mal McCallion thinks the real saving per firm is far lower.
China's Kimi open model trails closed rivals by five weeks. Mal McCallion says Chinese teams catch up cheaply by distilling and tuning US models. He adds that Claude is more precise but much more expensive than ChatGPT.
Anthropic launches Claude Duet for US Pro Max users. Matt Goddard finds it odd the proactive agent is missing from the normal desktop app and suggests it was rushed out ahead of the IPO.
A third of letting agents' websites omit their fees. That breaks trading standards rules. Mal McCallion says landlords use agents more because the rules are so complicated.
1Password launches password storage for AI agents. The password manager, similar to LastPass, has released its own way for AI agents to store passwords.
Unitree claims its guardian robot runs eight hours. A video shows the Kung Fu Legend Guardian H2X kneeing a car and jumping over it.
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