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New York Blood Center hit by ransomware during winter blood shortage, restoration timeline unknown
The New York Blood Center (NYBCe) Enterprises said its operating divisions have been impacted by a ransomware attack that took place on Sunday, leaving the multi-state non-profit scrambling to restore critical services and fulfill orders.
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Mexico President tells Google its "wrong" to rename Gulf of Mexico just because Trump asked
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday that Google was wrong to rename the “Gulf of Mexico” to the "Gulf of America" after US President Donald Trump ordered Google Maps to change the name of the body of water earlier this week.
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Beyond DeepSeek: local Chinese models to watch out for
We look at models created by Chinese companies Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, and ByteDance.
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GitHub suffers major outage, "OH MY GOD"
GitHub, the online development platform, is experiencing a major outage that’s affecting pull requests and other operations.
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North Korea’s new hack: stealing data via open-source code
Crypto was just the beginning. North Korea’s Lazarus Group is now embedding malware in trusted software, taking control of developer tools to steal data in the background.
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Asteroid could strike Earth in 2032, but chances are slim so far
According to researchers, there’s a 1.3% chance that a recently discovered asteroid could hit Earth in December 2032. However, there’s no need to panic, experts say.
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OpenAI says that DeepSeek illegally used its data to train the R1 model
Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating whether DeepSeek might’ve breached OpenAI’s terms of service.
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Scientists leave Elon Musk’s X for ‘nicer’ Bluesky
Scientists fleeing X are flocking to fast-growing Bluesky because there are “fewer Nazis," according to a Nature survey.
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Hackers can steal your Amazon order – before it even lands
Delivery drones are zooming toward the future — but can hackers take them down mid-flight?
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Millions of H&M’s online shoppers’ details stolen, hackers claim
Fashion giant H&M reportedly exposed millions of United Arab Emirates (UAE) customers, with leaked details revealing personal and sensitive information.
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DeepSeek indeed censors sensitive prompts about China, but there’s a workaround
DeepSeek-R1, the viral open-source AI assistant recently released by a Chinese company, refuses to answer 85% of prompts on sensitive topics in Beijing, researchers have found. But restrictions can be bypassed.
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CNN Indonesia falls prey to INC ransomware claims
CNN Indonesia, the nationwide broadcast and online news network, is claimed by the notorious INC Ransom group on Tuesday.
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DeepSeek: meteoric rise or deja vu?
The open-source revolution could democratize AI — or weaponize it. DeepSeek’s meteoric rise raises critical questions about trust, privacy, and the future of tech.
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Meta scrambles to find out why DeepSeek’s AI is so good
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has urgently assembled as many as four “war rooms” to determine how DeepSeek, a modest Chinese AI startup, managed to release an AI assistant, already called a game-changer.
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DeepSeek closes door to new users following cyberattack
ChatGPT competitor DeepSeek has been hit with “large-scale malicious attacks” that forced the company to limit app registrations.
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Google Maps to rename 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America' for US users
Google Maps will change the name of “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America” once it is officially updated in the US Geographic Names System, Google said in an X post on Monday.
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Holocaust library unveils 150,000-piece digital archive for International Memorial Day
The acclaimed Weiner Holocaust Library in London has unveiled a 150,000-piece digital collectiont, the largest of its kind in the world, in honor of International Holocaust Memorial Day.
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UnitedHealth tech hack impacted 190M people, 2x more than first reported
UnitedHealth Group (UHG) reveals the number of people impacted by last year’s breach of its tech subsidiary Change Healthcare was 190 million – nearly double the numbers initially reported.
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Hello Kitty theme parks knocked out by hacker attack
Two Japanese theme parks owned by the Hello Kitty creator Sanrio are struggling after malicious actors breached its network, prompting the company to halt some services.
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Elton John and Paul McCartney want to protect UK artists from AI
Legendary British musicians Paul McCartney and Elton John have urged the UK government to protect creative artists from AI as ministers are consulting on possible changes to copyright laws.
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