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Edith Lin reports: Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog and police are investigating a large-scale data leak involving over 56,000 patients served by the Hospital Authority, which reported the unauthorised retrieval of a variety of information. The authority o… Continue reading Hong Kong Hospital Authority apologises for data breach involving 56,000 patients
Bill Toulas reports: Threat actors are exploiting the recent Claude Code source code leak by using fake GitHub repositories to deliver Vidar information-stealing malware. Claude Code is a terminal-based AI agent from Anthropic, designed to execute codi… Continue reading Claude Code leak used to push infostealer malware on GitHub
Phil Tenser reports: A cybersecurity attack is affecting several Massachusetts towns that share a regional emergency communications center. The cyberattack affecting the Patriot Regional Emergency Communications Center and associated towns was identifi… Continue reading ‘Serious cyberattack’ impacts phones, public safety systems in several Massachusetts towns
Robbie Meredith reports: An IT system used by schools across Northern Ireland has been targeted in a cyber attack, the Education Authority (EA) has said. On Thursday, schools received a message that as part of “work to manage an IT security issue… Continue reading UK: School IT system targeted in cyber attack ahead of exam season
Maxwell Zeff, Zoë Schiffer, and Lily Hay Newman report: Meta has paused all its work with the data contracting firm Mercor while it investigates a major security breach that impacted the startup, two sources confirmed to WIRED. The pause is indefinite,… Continue reading Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When it comes to large language model-powered tools, there are generally two broad categories of users. On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs care… Continue reading ‘Cognitive Surrender’ Leads AI Users To Abandon Logical Thinking, Research Finds
Between the new LG G6 OLED and last year’s G5 OLED, here are the key differences to consider before upgrading. Continue reading LG G6 vs. LG G5: I compared the flagship OLED TVs, and there’s a surprise winner
If you want to do a background check on someone for any reason, here are some of the best online background check verification tools that you can use. Some of them are free to use, whereas others require a fee. Best Online Background Check Verification… Continue reading Best Online Background Check Verification Tools
This hose-attached smart sprinkler maps your yard, rotates on command, and measures water use. Despite these clever features, the results are a little uneven. Continue reading Aiper IrriSense 2 Smart Irrigation System Review: Clever Yet Uneven
There are many events so far in 2026 that could reasonably have been predicted, but perhaps one which couldn’t is a Hackaday scribe in Europe unexpectedly finding herself with a …read more Continue reading The Rapper, The Canadian Academics, And The Secret Behind The Earworm