6 d. ago Huge data breach sees 50,000 profiles LEAKED from 'Gay Daddy' dating app

A huge data breach has leaked over 50,000 profiles from the 'Gay Daddy' dating app, cybersecurity researchers have warned.

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9 d. ago Taxpayers had to foot Kristi Noem’s huge travel bill last year, new data shows

Trump’s homeland security secretary racked up costs in her previous job as governor of South Dakota

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9 d. ago Taxpayers had to foot Kristi Noem’s huge private jet bill last year, new data shows

Trump’s homeland security secretary racked up costs in her previous job as governor of South Dakota

Economics

1 week ago Nintendo announces Legend of Zelda movie release date in most Nintendo way possible

Forget the Switch 2, Nintendo wants you to know that its live-action Legend of Zelda movie has a release date, and it used its new Nintendo Today app to let fans know

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1 week ago AI may help us cure countless diseases – and usher in a new golden age of medicine | Samuel Hume

AlphaFold, which uses AI to find a protein’s structure, has only been around since 2020 but has already had a meteoric impactAlphaFold might be the most exciting scientific innovation of this century. From Google DeepMind, and first reported in 2020, it uses artificial intelligence to figure out a protein’s 3D structure. The technology has already been used to solve fundamental questions in biology, awarded the Nobel prize (in chemistry – to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper) and revolutionised drug discovery. Like most AI, it’s only getting better – and just getting started.A protein’s structure gives us clues about its function, and helps us design new drugs. AlphaFold, which was trained on a huge database of experimentally solved structures called the Protein Data Bank, predicts a protein’s structure based on its amino acid sequence.Solving a decades-old problem: the structure of the nuclear pore complex, one of the biggest structures in the cell. This complex is the guardian of ent...

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2 w. ago One brave woman wrenched back control of her data from the tech giants. Now, go and do the same | Dominic Grieve

News that Meta – under legal challenge – will stop targeting ads based on a user’s personal data is huge: for her, for all of usDominic Grieve was attorney general from 2010 to 2014Social media companies are the global corporate giants of our time. They make vast profits and hold great influence over our governments and institutions. However, the inconvenient truth is that they have only managed to become so powerful and profitable because they help themselves to our personal data. These are mostly US companies – but they extract and exploit vast amounts of data, and with that data economic value, from British citizens.At a time when many are struggling with the cost of living, it is paradoxical that vast amounts of money are being made by the richest companies in history from the data being provided by the same people. This data often contains extremely intimate personal information, which is then used to influence people’s behaviour.Dominic Grieve was Conservative MP for Beaconsfi...

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3 w. ago UK snow maps show 33 areas in Scotland to be hit by brutal blizzards as temperatures plunge

Weather data shows that the UK could be hit by a huge blizzard next week with snow engulfing the country

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4 w. ago Scottish exams body investigating data breach amid claims thousands of files have been leaked

Scotland's exams body is investigating a security breach after claims that 17,000  documents have been leaked online.

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4 w. ago Trump’s USAid cuts will have huge impact on global climate finance, data shows

Campaigners say funding halt is a ‘staggering blow’ to vulnerable nations and to efforts to keep heating below 1.5CDonald Trump’s withdrawal of US overseas aid will almost decimate global climate finance from the developed world, data shows, with potentially devastating impacts on vulnerable nations.The US was responsible last year for about $8 in every $100 that flowed from the rich world to developing countries, to help them cut greenhouse gas emissions and cope with the impacts of extreme weather, according to data from the analyst organisation Carbon Brief. Continue reading...

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