33 h. ago Data broker giant LexisNexis says breach exposed personal information of over 364,000 people

The data collector said the stolen data includes Social Security numbers.

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9 d. ago Ascension healthcare data breach exposes 430,000 patient records

Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson reports that healthcare information of more than 430,000 Ascension patients was exposed in a data breach.

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1 week ago Pope Leo XIV vows to work for unity, peace during inaugural mass

Pope Leo XIV spoke in front of 200,000 people during his inaugural mass on Sunday, speaking on messages of unity and those suffering due to war.

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1 week ago 3 Friends Followed Mysterious Clues to Find $10,000 Worth of Buried Treasure in San Francisco

3 Friends Followed Mysterious Clues to Find $10,000 Worth of Buried Treasure in San Francisco  People.com

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1 week ago Check your mailbox! LA County erasing medical debt for 134,000 people

Check your mailbox! LA County erasing medical debt for 134,000 people  NBC Los Angeles

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2 w. ago 60,000 people set to prematurely lose federal housing assistance

60,000 people set to prematurely lose federal housing assistance  The Washington Post

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2 w. ago Microsoft is reportedly about to lay off 3% of its workforce

Microsoft is about to trim its worldwide workforce by 3%, CNBC reports. The company had around 228,000 employees worldwide as of June, it says, meaning more than 6,500 could be affected by the cuts. It would be one of the company’s largest staff reductions since it cut 10,000 people in 2023. A Microsoft spokesperson told […]

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2 w. ago Race to lead D.C. lawyers' association grows heated amid attacks on law firms

More than 30,000 people have already voted in the election for the president of the D.C. Bar Association, more than triple the previous record set in 1990.

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2 w. ago Trump's gutting of AmeriCorps hits hard, for both volunteers and communities

The Trump administration slashed funding for the national service agency and fired most of its staff. 32,000 people, mostly young adults, were forced to stop work immediately.

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3 w. ago Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow it to end humanitarian parole for 500,000 people from 4 countries

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow it to end humanitarian parole for 500,000 people from 4 countries  PBS

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3 w. ago Dramatic rise in publicly downloadable deepfake image generators, study finds

Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford have uncovered a dramatic rise in easily accessible AI tools specifically designed to create deepfake images of identifiable people, finding nearly 35,000 such tools available for public download on one popular globally accessible online platform, for example.

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3 w. ago San Francisco warns 2,000 people could be evicted if Trump yanks housing funds

San Francisco warns 2,000 people could be evicted if Trump yanks housing funds  Politico

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3 w. ago North Carolina couple nabbed after deputies find enough fentanyl to ‘potentially kill ... 13,000 people’: cops

Deputies in North Carolina arrested a couple during a routine traffic stop after allegedly finding enough fentanyl to "potentially kill 13,000 people."

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3 w. ago 5.5 million patients' information exposed by major healthcare data breach

Healthcare company data breaches have leaked personal data of millions of people in recent years, and the CyberGuy offers ways to keep your information safe.

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4 w. ago WATCH: Philadelphia Zoo names baby tortoises after ‘Golden Girls’ characters

The zoo announced that the four Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises born in February have been named Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia after more than 13,000 people voted.

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4 w. ago Young People Are Not As Happy As They Used to Be, Study Finds

New data collected from more than 200,000 people across the world shows that young people aren’t as happy as they used to be.

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last month Information of more than 9,000 people potentially exposed in Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois data breach

The personal information of more than 9,300 people may have been exposed in a recent data breach at health insurer Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, according to the company.

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last month Four freed from prison in Hong Kong after national security convictions

The four were part of a group known as the "Hong Kong 47," and were rounded up for taking part in an unofficial primary poll in 2020 that drew more than 600,000 people.

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