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* Japanese power giant reveals it lost drive containing data of millions of clients * Drive was left in an apparently unlocked cabinet * Nearly 11 million clients at risk, but no bank or card data was affected A Japanese energy giant has apologised after losing a physical storage drive containing the data
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In Brief 10:26 AM PDT · June 12, 2026 Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation. On Friday, the tech giant announced a lawsuit against an alleged Chinese cybercrime network called Outsider Enterprise, which Google says uses AI in its campaigns to send
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Asus and MSI have become the first motherboard manufacturers to support AMD's new EXPO Ultra Low Latency BIOS feature, giving supported memory kits a quick, automatic overclock and timing tightening to enhance performance in games and other applications. In AMD's own testing, the update boosted most
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1440 minutes More than 350,000 spectators will watch 62 cars compete, day and night. The traditional group photo, with the 2026 entrants. Credit: James Moy Photography/Getty Images One of motorsport’s three biggest races takes place this weekend in France. It is the annual 24 Hours of Le
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“Unwilling to talk to you” “None of STAT’s FOIA requests have been completed, and some haven’t been acknowledged—despite HHS policy requiring a response with tracking and contact information within 10 days of submitting a request,” the journalists wrote. “That includes three STAT inquiries from September 2025. The
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Google loves telling us all the ways people are using its generative AI products to build new things, grow businesses, and save the world. Supposedly. Of course, people are also using AI for crime. Google has announced a new legal salvo aimed at a Chinese group called Outsider Enterprise, which
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Think globally, worry locally While there’s no risk of big tech companies literally draining the oceans to power the data centers behind their LLMs, even moderately sized data centers can have an outsized effect on nearby water resources. A single Meta data center in Newton County, Georgia, for instance,
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Playbook to oppose data centers Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a “taste of political power.” It’s clear that communities now have an effective playbook to block data center construction. This week, researchers flagged the first quarter of 2026 as producing the “most blocked and delayed data
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Right-wing officials and data center investors are increasingly claiming that data center protests are being funded and influenced by the Chinese government. OpenAI added to the discourse on Wednesday when it released a report describing a cluster of accounts originating in China that, the company said, had been spreading anti-data
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David Pierce is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. You’d be forgiven for thinking this day would never come. Siri has spent a decade and half somewhere between “sort of useful at a
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With expanded touch support in Sidecar, you can, for the first time, navigate MacOS via touch. 3 min read If the touchscreen MacBook is 100% happening, the question shifts from, "Will Apple finally release a MacBook with touch support?" to, "Do I want to buy a MacBook
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June is a month full of video game announcements, and Microsoft revealed the newest titles coming to Xbox Game Pass in the first half of the month. Although a little underwhelming, even with a couple of quality titles like Undisputed and Persona 5 Royal, it does seem like the Xbox
