After hackers infiltrated Medibank’s systems last week, sensitive health data from their customers, including information about abortions and reproductive healthcare, was posted on the dark web. The Australian federal police say they have identified the hackers, who they believe are primarily based in Russia, and will work with Interpol to try and bring them to …
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Organisations representing young people express concern amid fears that manifesto pledges on internet safety are under threat The government is facing mounting criticism from children’s organisations over its failure to protect young people from harmful material online, amid fears that key legislation promised in the Tory party’s 2019 election manifesto to strengthen internet safety could …
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Sources tell Reuters funds were part of $10bn founder Sam Bankman-Fried transferred to his hedge fund Amid the fallout of the implosion of FTX, once the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, at least $1bn in investor assets appears to be missing, according to multiple reports. On Saturday morning, Reuters reported that FTX was missing at least $1bn …
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The cutting-edge technology is a faster, cheaper and more accurate way to raise the alarm on lightning strikes or flash floods, experts say Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast In the wake of storms of the near future, swarms of drones could replace helicopters and planes, providing emergency …
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Theranos founder faces maximum of 20 years in prison after she was found guilty of fraud and conspiracy Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence Elizabeth Holmes to 15 years in prison and require the Theranos founder to pay $800m in restitution, according to court documents filed on Friday. A jury found Holmes guilty …
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Image-generators such as Dall-E 2 can produce pictures on any theme you wish for in seconds. Some creatives are alarmed but others are sceptical of the hype When the concept artist and illustrator RJ Palmer first witnessed the fine-tuned photorealism of compositions produced by the AI image generator Dall-E 2, his feeling was one of …
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The 30-year-old wunderkind last week saw his giant FTX digital currency exchange collapse and his $17bn fortune disappear He drives a Toyota Corolla to work, lives in a house with 10 roommates and a goldendoodle dog named Gofer, sometimes sleeps under his desk on a beanbag and was, until this week, worth tens of billions …
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Users fleeing Elon Musk’s takeover will find themselves in a different world – quixotic, communal and defiantly democratic Mastodon feels like the old internet. “Welcome to Mastodon, where you can boost a toot from hellsite.site to mas.to, but remember to CW politics and boot doxers or your instance might be defederated” is a sentence that …
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Russian teenagers hanging out reminded the photographer of his own childhood in a workers’ settlement It was in woods behind an apartment building that photographer Dmitry Markov noticed a group of teenagers hanging out on the old couch and rope swing. He was in Pskov, a Russian city close to the Estonian border. Markov had …
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World’s richest man has made a spectacle of his ownership of the social media platform, and advertisers, employees and regulators are none too pleased Elon Musk has unleashed chaos at Twitter in the few short weeks since he took the helm of the company, and experts say lawsuits, regulatory intervention and ultimate financial collapse could …
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