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First responders are embracing AI amid cybersecurity concerns
Nearly 90% of law enforcement support using AI to increase efficiency, while almost all are worried about safety.
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Buzzfeed clings to life after selling company behind ‘Hot Ones’ for over $82M
Buzzfeed has sold ‘First We Feast,’ a popular YouTube channel that features the show Hot Ones, for almost $83 million.
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“I’m cooked,” said student after major ChatGPT outage
OpenAI has experienced major worldwide outages across most of its services, including ChatGPT and its recently released text-to-video generation tool, Sora.
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Did Musk have anything to do with Alex Jones’ victory over The Onion?
Alex Jones is rejoicing after The Onion’s bid for his media platform was rejected by a federal bankruptcy judge. Yet, the satirical media outlet vows to pursue purchasing InfoWars.
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So what's the deal with these unexplained drones descending on New Jersey?
New Jersey residents are sounding the alarm after witnesses say they’ve seen and recorded dozens of unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP) flying across the state over the past month. Now, one congressman has claimed the UAPs are actually Iranian drones being controlled by a "mothership" parked off the East Coast of the US. Cybernews takes a deep dive to find out the real story.
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America’s favorite doughnut chain disrupted by cyberattack
Krispy Kreme, the popular worldwide doughnut and coffeehouse chain, said a network breach in November has caused a major disruption to its online ordering systems during one of the busiest shopping seasons of the year.
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Meta's Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp down for over 100K users
All of Meta Platform’s social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, have been reported down for tens of thousands of users on Monday afternoon.
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Security arteries burst: 446K exposed in vein treatment center breach
Attackers stole extremely sensitive personal data such as lab results and health insurance information.
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Survey: people don’t care about data breaches, but they should
Everyone should be on high alert regarding their information, especially because data breaches are happening more frequently than ever. But do people actually care? Not so much, it seems.
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Operation PowerOFF: 27 DDoS platforms taken down just before the holidays
Law enforcement agencies worldwide have joined forces this holiday season to take down 27 distributed denial-of-service platforms used by hackers during the festive period.
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French telecom Orange fined 50 million euros for inserting ads in inboxes
Displaying ads between emails in users’ inboxes without consent can be costly. The French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) has fined telecommunications operator Orange 50 million euros for doing just that.
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Breach of booking giant Sabre exposes tens of thousands
A ransomware attack on Sabre has led to the sensitive personal details of a number of its employees appearing on the dark web.
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Russia testing ‘sovereign internet’ on Muslim minority
Russia has disrupted access to popular websites and messaging apps in several Muslim-majority regions as it continues testing a national alternative to the global internet.
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Frustration sparks over US healthcare as netizens copy UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter’s look
Internet sleuths aren’t on the hunt for the person who assassinated the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. Instead, they’re more interested in finding out where he got his jacket.
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Team Trump wants to talk online drug sales with big tech
Representatives of five major tech companies have been invited to meet with US President-elect Donald Trump’s team in mid December and discuss ways to curb online sales of drugs.
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One email to expose them all: single user breach exposes data of 11K children
While few fell for the trick, it took only one compromised email to expose the sensitive records of thousands of minors.
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OpenAI’s new model pursues survival at all costs, tests show
OpenAI’s new large language model, o1, seems to be quite smart indeed. Recent third-party tests showed that o1 resisted efforts to try to shut it down – it lied and schemed in order to survive.
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OnlyFans unblocked in China
Users in China have been able to access OnlyFans, a subscription-based website best known for adult content, for over a week.
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Meta onboards James Cameron to create “mind-blowing” media for Quest headsets
Meta has onboarded James Cameron’s Lightstorm Vision to create 3D entertainment for its Quest virtual reality headsets.
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US hospital reveals Christmas breach that exposed hundreds of thousands
Massachusetts-based Anna Jaques Hospital (AJH) fell victim to a cyber gang last year, leading to hundreds of thousands of patients having their data exposed.
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