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Auction house hit by cyber-extortionist group RansomHub which claims to have sensitive information of at least 500,000 clients A ransomware hack was the last thing the precarious fine art market needed – but that’s what it got when Christie’s website went down days before it began its all-important 20th and 21st century May auctions in …

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Cybercrime group ShinyHunters said it had stolen data of 500m customers of concert promoter’s ticketing arm Live Nation Entertainment said it is investigating a data breach at its Ticketmaster unit that it discovered on 20 May, the latest in a string of high-profile corporate hacks in the past year. In a filing with the US …

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The photographer got as close as he could when cadets’ endurance, strength and teamwork were tested at Canada’s Royal Military College Every year, as spring blooms, first-year officer cadets of Canada’s Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, take part in a series of competitions. The challenges and obstacle course aim to test their strength, endurance …

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After new feature tells people to eat rocks or add glue to pizza sauce, company to restrict which searches return summaries Google announced on Thursday that it would refine and retool its summaries of search results generated by artificial intelligence, posting a blog explaining why the feature was returning bizarre and inaccurate answers that included …

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China shows off mechanical canine with an automatic rifle on its back at joint military drills with Cambodia The Chinese army has debuted its latest weapon: a gun-toting robotic dog. The mechanical canine, which has an automatic rifle on its back, was front and centre of recent joint military drills with Cambodia, according to footage …

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ShinyHunters stole information including bank and credit card numbers, as well as staff HR details Hackers are attempting to sell confidential information including the bank and credit card numbers of millions of Santander customers to the highest bidder. ShinyHunters posted an advert on a hacker forum for the data, which it says also includes staff …

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Showrunner will let users generate episodes with prompts, which could be an alarming next step or a fleeting novelty One of the key strategies of streaming services is to keep you in front of a screen for as long as possible. As soon as one episode of a show you’re watching ends, the next one …

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Videos on Douyin give people step-by-step instructions on how to get to the US – and then leave them stranded upon arrival This article is copublished with Documented, a multilingual news site about immigrants in New York, and the Markup, a non-profit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good. Xiong couldn’t pinpoint …

He found the American Dream on China’s TikTok. The reality was more complicated Read More »

Marijuana is legal where I live in Canada, so I decided to give it a try and see whether it would improve my gaming experience – or just end in a panic attack I have a complicated relationship with marijuana. I wish I liked it more. But I’m a control freak, and so it makes …

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Networks in China and Iran also used AI models to create and post disinformation but campaigns did not reach large audiences OpenAI on Thursday released its first ever report on how its artificial intelligence tools are being used for covert influence operations, revealing that the company had disrupted disinformation campaigns originating from Russia, China, Israel …

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