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Freedman Healthcare hacked, database software used by 27 state public health departments
US health data management software firm, Freedman Healthcare, has allegedly suffered a ransomware attack at the hands of World Leaks – a former ransomware project developed by Hunter’s International.
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White House details new ‘white-collar enforcement plan' to combat financial fraud
The White House on Monday released details about it revised Corporate Enforcement Policy (CEP) – enticing companies to voluntarily self-report financial fraud in exchange for a 75% reduction in fines and burdensome government oversight.
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US Army now recruiting tech executives from Meta and OpenAI
Awful corporate jargon has entered the US Army, which is now recruiting tech leaders to its new Executive Innovation Corps. The initiative has been designed to fuse tech expertise with military innovation.
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Elon Musk activates Starlink in Iran as Israel-Iran conflict escalates
Amid internet shutdowns in Iran and rising military tensions with Israel, Musk’s Starlink beams connectivity into the country.
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Tip of the iceberg: thousands of UK students caught cheating with AI
Traditional forms of plagiarism show a marked decline, but thousands of students in UK universities have been caught misusing artificial intelligence (AI) tools to cheat on their assignments, an investigation by The Guardian has found.
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Gen Z wants sex breaks at work. Seriously.
Gen Z doesn’t just want beanbags and matcha in the office – they want sex breaks, too
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At last: Meta moves against CrushAI app that can nudify images
Meta has sued the Hong Kong-based maker of CrushAI, a platform capable of creating sexually explicit deepfakes, claiming that it repeatedly circumvented the social media company’s rules to purchase ads on Instagram and Facebook. But isn’t it too late?
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ChatGPT mostly sources Wikipedia, others rely more on Reddit – study
ChatGPT, Google AI, and Perplexity source their information drastically differently. This highlights the complexity of artificial intelligence (AI) visibility optimization, a new study has found.
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No need to read: Google Search can now summarize results aloud using Audio Overviews
Have you ever needed Google’s help but were just a bit too busy to look at your screen? This may now be a thing of the past, with the rollout of Google's latest experimental feature, Audio Overviews.
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Apps tracking menstruation a goldmine for personal data merchants – report
Smartphone apps that track menstrual cycles are a “gold mine” for consumer profiling, collecting information on everything from exercise, diet, and medication to sexual preferences, hormone levels, and contraception use.
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Elon Musk’s X partially recovers after a massive outage hits US users
Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) showed signs of recovery on Saturday, following a major outage that prevented thousands of users from accessing the platform.
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Trump reports $57m earnings from family crypto firm
US President Donald Trump has reported over $57m in income from a family-linked crypto firm – making it one of his largest single earnings.
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Cryptocurrency firm founder sentenced in wash trading case
The founder of a financial services firm known as the crypto “market maker”, Gotbit, received a sentence on charges related to a multi-year scheme to manipulate cryptocurrency trading volume.
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Musk urges to de-orbit International Space Station
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared “serious concerns” over the long-term safety of the International Space Station (ISS), urging to de-orbit it within two years.
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Debt collector breach exposes over 9M Americans, hackers claim
Threat actors claim to have breached Virginia-headquartered debt collection firm Credit Control Corporation (CCC), adding that personal details of millions were exposed.
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Google’s AI overviews hallucinate Airbus in Air India crash – it was a Boeing
Google’s AI Overview wrongly claimed an Airbus A330 was involved in the fatal Air India crash, when it was actually a Boeing 787. The error highlights growing concerns over AI hallucinations and misinformation in high-stakes news events.
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AI therapy chatbots can provide dangerous responses and increase stigma
Increasingly popular AI therapy chatbots may not only be less effective than human therapists but could also contribute to harmful stigma and dangerous responses, a new Stanford study has found.
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Tech start-up touts robotic hand allegedly stolen from Tesla
A former Optimus engineer is being sued by Tesla for allegedly stealing trade secrets and using them to form his own start-up.
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