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U.S. officials confirmed on Monday that the Chinese spy balloon that flew over the U.S. in February transmitted sensitive military information to China in real time. The Chinese government continues to claim it was a weather balloon that had blown off course. You Could Soon Get Cash Back for Your Canceled FlightTwo senior U.S. officials and one former senior administration official told NBC News that the balloon collected electronic signals as it flew over multiple military sites, sometimes flying in figure-eight…

OpenAI was forced to take its wildly-popular ChatGPT bot offline for emergency maintenance on Tuesday after a user was able to exploit a bug in the system to recall the titles from other users' chat histories. On Friday the company announced its initial findings from the incident. In Tuesday's incident, users posted screenshots on Reddit that their ChatGPT sidebars featured previous chat histories from other users. Only the title of the conversation, not the text itself, were visible. OpenAI, in response, took the bot…

Belgian scientists have shed light on the reason why particular types of cancers develop resistance to chemotherapy. By switching off the gene that produces a protein involved in chemotherapy resistance, they were able to make resistant cancer cells more sensitive to treatment.Although new developments have been made in targeted therapies, chemotherapy remains the mainstay of cancer treatment. However, patients can develop a resistance to chemotherapy, causing cancer cells to evade its cancer-eradicating effects.A process…

Snapchat Family Center has added a new feature that gives parents more control over the content on their kid’s feeds. The new feature is known as Content Controls, and it’s now accessible in the Family Center settings.Protecting children from harm and abuse has become a concern for parents, online platforms, and lawmakers. Social media platforms allow parents to regulate the content their kids watch.The lawmakers also want platforms to be more transparent about the data they collect and measure to protect underage users.…

Pixel smartphones were previously affected by a security flaw that could allow any user to restore sensitive details cropped or redacted from screenshots, according to data shared by security researchers. A security flaw in Google's markup tool for Pixel smartphones allowed edited screenshot images to retain some of the original information, letting users recover details that were previously obfuscated by the sender. The vulnerability, which has existed for several years, has now been patched by Google on currently…

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Indian at-home salon platform Yes Madam exposed the sensitive data of its customers and gig workers due to a server-side misconfiguration. Noida-based Yes Madam operates in more than 30 cities in the country, according to the firm’s website. The platform offers salon services at home, including therapies, massage, spa and male grooming. Yes Madam’s mobile apps also attracted over a million downloads. But the startup left a database containing full names, mobile numbers, mailing addresses and…

Senators Mark Warner and Marco Rubio, Chair and Vice Chair of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, wrote to Facebook parent Meta Platforms on Monday about documents that show it knew developers in China and Russia had access to user data that could be used for espionage."It appears from these documents that Facebook has known, since at least September 2018, that hundreds of thousands of developers in countries Facebook characterized as 'high-risk,' including the People's Republic of China, had access to…

The Koei Tecmo-developed and EA-published monster hunting game Wild Hearts, in which players hunt giant beasts called Kemono with the help of a magical piece of crafting technology called a Karakuri, left an impression on me when I played through its opening hours late last year. Now that I’ve had time to go hands-on with the final version of the game, I’m even more impressed with its philosophical approach to hunting and the impact it leaves on the environment. Rather than just serving as a hunting simulator or…

Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletterStay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Twenty-five years on, composer and events producer Bobby Cole can still remember the first time he saw the trailer for James Cameron’s Titanic appear on TV. “It was done so well, I went to school the next day and I remember saying to someone, ‘They found this drawing at the bottom of the ocean!’” he says. “I thought it was real.”If you came…