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US insurance giant Aflac says hackers stole personal and health data of 22.6 million

Aflac, one of the largest insurance companies in the U.S., confirmed hackers stole reams of personal data, including Social Security numbers, identity documents, and health information.

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This founder just landed funding for a second go at the same problem: affordable custom home design

Drafted is now nearly five months old, and it’s everything Atmos wasn’t.

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Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ now works with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp

The new integrations join other services like Yelp, Uber, OpenTable and others.

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Marissa Mayer’s new startup Dazzle raises $8M led by Forerruner’s Kirsten Green

Mayer launched Dazzle after shuttering her photo and contact management startup Sunshine.

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France’s postal and banking services disrupted by suspected DDoS attack

France’s postal service, La Poste, said it was hit by a disruptive cyberattack that knocked its services offline.

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Inside Uzbekistan’s nationwide license plate surveillance system

The Uzbek government’s national license plate scanning system was discovered exposed to the internet for anyone to access without a password.

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Pirate group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped 86 million songs from Spotify

Spotify says it has identified and disabled the user accounts involved in the scraping.

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The tooth fairy just got reimagined for the tech-savvy generation

Move over, Santa. Now there’s another magical character for kids to track: the Tooth Fairy. After making a personalized Tooth Fairy video for his nephew, Oliver Finel noticed a gap. While there are plenty of Santa trackers, nothing similar existed … Continue reading

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OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks

OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. But the firm is beefing up its cybersecurity with an ‘LLM-based automated attacker.’

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Alphabet to buy Intersect Power to bypass energy grid bottlenecks

Alphabet is set to pay $4.75 billion in cash, plus debt, for the data center and clean energy developer.

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