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Farmers Insurance breach impacts over 1 million customers
The Farmers Insurance Group is notifying more than one million customers their personal information has been exposed in a recent cyberattack earlier this year..
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Netflix publishes first generative AI guidelines: what do they say?
In the hope that things will be a lot clearer for its partners, Netflix has published new generative AI guidelines. It looks like using the tech is absolutely fine for the streamer – but the company needs to be told.
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Burning Man 2025: soaked in dust and saved by Starlink
Burning Man 2025 was slammed by 50 mph dust storms in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, but festival-goers say that Elon Musk’s Starlink gave crucial early warnings, helping to save lives and protect camps.
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Durov speaks again, calls his France arrest unfair and absurd
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who was detained in France exactly a year ago, complains that he has to return to the country every 14 days, with no appeal date in sight. But was his arrest really unfair and “absurd?”
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FTC sues ticket broker for hoarding Taylor Swift tickets, screwing fans yet again
The FTC is suing a major ticketing resale conglomerate for creating thousands of fake Ticketmaster accounts to bypass a six-ticket purchase limit – and then reselling the tickets at “a significant mark-up” – swindling music fans out of millions.
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'Cyborg jellyfish': The future of ocean exploration?
Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU Boulder) have developed tiny pacemaker-like devices to guide jellyfish through the deep ocean.
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Fired software developer gets 4 years in prison for sabotaging company’s systems
A former software developer at Eaton Corporation was sentenced Thursday to four years in federal prison and three years of supervised release for sabotaging his employer’s systems.
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Murder, silence, and whistleblower murders? Inside the FBI’s darkest UAP case
UFO whistleblowers say witnesses have been silenced and even murdered, according to a claim now drawing FBI attention.
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AI-powered personalized pricing making waves among shoppers: is it fair?
Delta Air Lines announced recently it would expand its use of AI to provide individualized prices to customers. This move has sparked concern among consumers. Even if personalized pricing has been here for ages, it’s technology deciding what you’re gonna pay this time – and that might translate into digital discrimination.
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Grok leaks 370,000 private user conversations: "A Musk product that wasn’t user secure? Color me shocked"
If you’ve ever chatted with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok, then transcripts of your chats might be visible to anyone on Google.
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Trump says Intel has agreed to deal for US to take 10% equity stake
President Donald Trump said on Friday the US would take a 10% stake in Intel under a deal with the struggling chipmaker and is planning more such moves.
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AI systems favor content created by other AI systems over humans: study
Leading large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and Meta’s Llama 3.1 consistently prefer content generated by other AI systems over material created by humans. This is concerning.
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Nissan confirms data breach, Qilin gang claims responsibility
Nissan’s Creative Box cutting-edge design studio in Tokyo has been tapped by the Qilin ransomware group, potentially exposing the automaker’s top secret designs to its competitors.
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Musk's X corp to settle $500 million lawsuit over Twitter firings
Elon Musk and his social media company X Corp have reached a tentative agreement to settle a lawsuit filed by former Twitter employees who said they were owed $500 million in severance pay.
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Scattered Spider hacker gets 10 years in federal US prison
Not only will the infamous hacker King Bob spend a decade behind bars, he will also have to cough up $13 million in restitution to victims of his crimes.
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Burger King employee goes viral on TikTok for running restaurant solo, then says she was fired
Burger King worker who went viral on TikTok for running a restaurant alone has been fired, prompting outrage and $70K in donations for the single mom.
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Here’s why age verification for VPNs in the UK is absurd to tech privacy pros
Concerned about under-18s using VPNs to bypass age checks on porn sites, the children’s commissioner for England now wants age verification for these tools as well. Experts warn this isn’t a good idea, to say the least.
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Kick streamer dies following tortuous “humiliation stream”
A popular French Kick streamer known for his extreme challenges has died following violent and abusive “humiliation streams.”
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North Korea paid Chinese man $2M to smuggle weapons from US
A Chinese national, who was in the US illegally, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for smuggling firearms, ammunition, and other military equipment to North Korea.
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Inotiv, a big pharma research corp fined $35M for animal cruelty last year, is hit by ransomware
The Qilin ransomware gang on Tuesday claimed responsibility for an August ransomware attack on the big pharma research conglomerate Inotiv – the same research corportaion fined $35 million by the US Justice Department in 2024 for egregious animal welfare violations. Finally, a ransomware attack to get behind?
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