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France’s ‘sovereign’ messenger Tchap was breached, and officials and the hacker disagree on how badly

France built its own encrypted messenger so civil servants would not have to trust WhatsApp or Telegram. Now that messenger has been breached, and the government and the attacker cannot agree on how much was taken.

France’s National Cybersecurity Agency, ANSSI, detected a compromise of Tchap on 7 June, and the Digital Affairs Directorate (DINUM), which runs the platform, published an incident notice and moved to block the account involved. Crucially, this was not a crack in the encryption or the infrastructure.

Officials say the attacker got in by hijacking a legitimate user account, a compromise of credentials rather than of the system itself.

The government’s account of the damage is narrow. Tchap, which is built on the open Matrix protocol, carries both public and private conversations, and the private ones are end-to-end encrypted. DINUM says that even when an account is impersonated, the history of those private...

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Apple kicked off its annual developer conference with bold promises about AI. The company, CEO Tim Cook said, would be “introducing new technologies and innovations that push the limits on what’s possible.” But its slew of announcements — centered on a brand-new “Siri AI” — had more to do with catching

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I tested the Uplift Clarksville for over 100 days and discovered a simple, subtle office chair built for the workplace

The Uplift Clarksville ergonomic chair is simple, and that's not a negative. It's actually a massive positive for this chair: it's simple where it needs to be simple, it's low cost where it needs to be low cost, and it's

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Microsoft disables over 70 GitHub repos after hackers compromised them with dangerous malware

* Threat actor reused unrotated GitHub Actions secrets to compromise 73 Microsoft repos * Miasma worm planted across Azure, microsoft, Azure‑Samples, and MicrosoftDocs orgs * Microsoft pulled affected repos, notified impacted customers, and continues investigation GitHub has disabled 73 of Microsoft’s repositories after a threat actor allegedly used credentials stolen a

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Gotta Blast! Maker Builds a Real-Life, Working Jimmy Neutron Goddard Robot

Fancy robot dogs like Boston Dynamics’ Spot have got nothing on Goddard. Not only can Goddard transform into dozens of vehicles and gadgets, but he’s also the best friend anyone could ask for. No other machine even comes close. But on second thought, Spot does have one advantage over

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