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PA Attorney General hit by ransomware attack, data impacted still a mystery as court delays continue
Nearly three weeks after being hit by ransomware, the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General (OAG) says that “substantial progress” has been made in restoring network systems, but still no word on what data may have been compromised as court delays continue.
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YouTube catches on with password-sharing crackdown
YouTube has apparently started flagging users who have shared Premium accounts but do not live in the same household, embarking on the same path Netflix did two years ago.
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Austrian DPA orders Google to honor complainant’s access request
The Datenschutzbehörde (DSB), Austria’s data protection authority (DPA), has ruled that YouTube’s parent company Google has to comply with a complainant’s access request by providing a complete copy of all of his personal data that’s been processed.
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GPS jamming attack hits Ursula von der Leyen’s plane, Russia suspected
The EU’s top official, European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen, was on her way to Bulgaria when a suspected Russian attack forced her plane to land without essential navigation tools, the Financial Times (FT) reports.
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Murder at Burning Man – Silicon Valley’s desert playground becomes a crime scene
A dead body has been found during the culmination of the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.
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Musk seeks SEC lawsuit dismissal over 2022 Twitter stake disclosure
Elon Musk has asked for dismissal of a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit over his growing stake in Twitter (now X) in 2022, which claims that he “waited too long” to disclose his purchases of Twitter shares.
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Nevada state government crippled by ongoing “network security incident”
The Nevada state government is scrambling to restore services after a network security incident forced the municipality to close all state offices until further notice.
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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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