Aflac, one of the largest U.S. insurance firms, revealed that hackers accessed an undetermined amount of customer personal data during a cyberattack earlier this month. In a mandatory filing with the U.S. In a Friday filing with the SEC, Aflac said it detected unauthorized access on June 12 and quickly contained the breach. The extent […]
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Although LinkedIn users have generally embraced AI, one feature hasn’t caught on as much as expected: AI-generated suggestions for refining posts, says CEO Ryan Roslansky. “It hasn’t caught on like I expected,” he told Bloomberg. Roslansky suggested the reason is that posting on LinkedIn carries more weight—“this is your resume online.” Users risk real consequences
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Tesla has officially begun offering driverless rides in Model Y SUVs in Austin, marking a major milestone a decade after CEO Elon Musk first pledged to launch autonomous ride services—many of which failed to materialize until now. This limited rollout will serve as the first significant test of Musk’s strategy to achieve full autonomy using
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Top architects have completed a new Sydney airport with sustainable features and a sculpted ceiling that casts calming, dappled light inside. COX Architecture, Zaha Hadid Architects, Multiplex, and Woods Bagot teamed up to design Western Sydney International Airport. Although their roles remain unclear, the sleek wood-and-glass exterior echoes Woods Bagot’s style more than Zaha Hadid’s
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One of SpaceX’s Starship launch vehicles exploded during a test late Wednesday night in Texas, as the company was preparing for its tenth test flight of the powerful rocket system. SpaceX Confirms Safety of Personnel, Cause of Explosion Still Unknown In a statement on X, SpaceX confirmed that “all personnel are safe and accounted for,”
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Your underarm sweat itself isn’t what causes the odor—it’s the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released when bacteria break down the fatty acids in your sweat. A new device claims to eliminate this odor without relying on traditional deodorants by using plasma to kill the odor-causing bacteria. Named PlaDeo (short for plasma deodorant), the device was
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Midjourney, a leading AI image generation startup, announced on Wednesday the release of its highly anticipated AI video model, V1. V1 Transforms Still Frames into Short Video Clips V1 is an image-to-video system that allows users to upload an image—or use one generated by another Midjourney model—and receive four five-second video clips based on it.
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We’ve all heard the claims — X is becoming a right-wing echo chamber, Bluesky is just a liberal bubble, and so forth. But a Threads glitch has brought those fears to life: users are seeing the same message repeated endlessly. Due to a bug impacting some users on both desktop and mobile, a single post
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There was a time when Facebook was packed with updates about your daily life and endless photo albums capturing nearly every moment. These days, much of that content is probably tucked away under the “only me” privacy setting. Still, whether you’re active on Facebook or not, the platform likely holds a trove of memories worth
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The gigantic black hole located at the heart of the Milky Way is rotating at a speed close to the theoretical limit allowed by physics. New Analytical Techniques Reveal Deeper Insights This revelation is one of several insights uncovered by astrophysicists who developed a new technique to analyze data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT),
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