Cybercriminals stole a record $2.7 billion in cryptocurrency during 2025, according to blockchain-monitoring firms. The year saw dozens of heists targeting cryptocurrency exchanges and decentralized finance projects. The largest hack by far was the breach at the Dubai-based crypto exchange…
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is not sitting on the sidelines of the generative AI revolution. After spending six years running Sunshine, a photo-sharing and contact-management startup with limited success, the storied tech leader has shuttered that company to launch…
In June, U.S. insurance giant Aflac disclosed a data breach where hackers stole customers’ personal information, including Social Security numbers and health information, without initially saying how many victims were affected. On Tuesday, the company confirmed it has begun notifying…
Amazon is expanding its AI-powered digital assistant, Alexa+, with new capabilities. The company announced on Thursday that it is adding four new integrations to the service. Starting in 2026, the assistant will work with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp. These…
Marissa Mayer, the former CEO of Yahoo, is not sitting on the sidelines of the generative AI revolution. After spending six years running Sunshine, a photo-sharing and contact-management startup with limited success, the storied tech leader has closed that company…
Nick Donahue grew up immersed in the world of home construction. His father built houses for major developers, and his mother sold to large builders across the East Coast. This background made him keenly aware of a persistent problem: designing…
Across Uzbekistan, a network of approximately one hundred high-resolution roadside cameras continuously scans vehicle license plates and their occupants. These cameras process thousands of vehicles each day, searching for traffic violations such as running red lights, drivers not wearing seatbelts,…
France’s national postal and banking services company, La Poste, was knocked offline by a suspected distributed denial-of-service attack on Monday. The company described the event as a major network incident disrupting all of its information systems. According to the announcement,…
Developers and companies are increasingly deploying AI agents and chatbots within their apps, but so far these interactions have been mostly restricted to text. Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to those chats…
The activist group known as Anna’s Archive has announced it has scraped the entirety of Spotify’s music library and intends to release the data through torrents. Spotify’s library contains around 256 million tracks, and the group’s collection holds metadata for…
