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Teen’s TikTok videos used to advertise ‘nasty’ hookup app, calling her ‘friend with benefit’: lawsuit

Teen’s TikTok videos used to advertise ‘nasty’ hookup app, calling her ‘friend with benefit’: lawsuit 2026-05-04 at 00:28 By Brandon Cruz Kaelyn Lunglhofer, a student at the University of Tennessee, is suing Quantum Communications and its dating app, “Meete,” after the British Virgin Islands-based company ran suggestive ads using stolen TikTok videos to boost its […]

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Energy group asks Congress to investigate potentially foreign-backed campaigns against AI data centers

Energy group asks Congress to investigate potentially foreign-backed campaigns against AI data centers 2026-05-04 at 00:28 By Fox News Power the Future, a pro-energy advocacy group, is asking Congress to take a closer look at opposition to data centers springing up across the country. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post

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Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in ‘Hybrid Navy’

Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in ‘Hybrid Navy’ 2026-05-03 at 14:21 By Dan Robinson Plan mixes crewed ships, robot escorts, and long-range strike to bolster a stretched fleet The leader of Britain’s Royal Navy has outlined a “Hybrid Navy” built on a mix of crewed, uncrewed, and autonomous platforms to ensure it can

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Job’s a good ‘un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise

Job’s a good ‘un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise 2026-05-03 at 12:54 By Lindsay Clark PAC: Now why can’t everybody else in public sector do it like this? Parliament’s spending watchdog has held up a successful large-scale public sector tech transformation as a rare example worth emulating, in a striking departure from

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CISA Adds Actively Exploited Linux Root Access Bug CVE-2026-31431 to KEV

CISA Adds Actively Exploited Linux Root Access Bug CVE-2026-31431 to KEV 2026-05-03 at 10:18 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a recently disclosed security flaw impacting various Linux distributions to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-31431

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Usage-based pricing killing your vibe – here’s how to roll your own local AI coding agents

Usage-based pricing killing your vibe – here’s how to roll your own local AI coding agents 2026-05-02 at 15:20 By Tobias Mann and Thomas Claburn Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM With model devs pushing more aggressive rate limits, raising prices, or even abandoning subscriptions for usage-based

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UK drivers’ agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs

UK drivers’ agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs 2026-05-02 at 12:59 By Carly Page Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it The DVSA’s driving test booking system has spent the week offline, according to frustrated users.… This article is an excerpt

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Trellix Confirms Source Code Breach With Unauthorized Repository Access

Trellix Confirms Source Code Breach With Unauthorized Repository Access 2026-05-02 at 12:25 By Cybersecurity company Trellix has announced that it suffered a breach that enabled unauthorized access to a “portion” of its source code. It said it “recently identified” the compromise of its source code repository and that it began working with “leading forensic experts”

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Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt

Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt 2026-05-02 at 11:30 By Carly Page Britain’s cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it’s arriving all at once Britain’s cyber agency is warning that AI-fuelled bug hunting is about to flush out years of

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Why AI’s biggest threat is actually its power to seduce us — and the computers are already winning: Prof

Why AI’s biggest threat is actually its power to seduce us — and the computers are already winning: Prof 2026-05-02 at 00:59 By Rikki Schlott “You don’t have to have a 12,000 IQ or a 1,200 IQ or even 120 IQ to fool most human beings,” Glenn Harlan Reynolds argues. This article is an excerpt

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ServiceNow under siege as Atlassian adds to ITSM take-outs

ServiceNow under siege as Atlassian adds to ITSM take-outs 2026-05-02 at 00:59 By O’Ryan Johnson CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes touts ‘largest ever quarter for competitive displacements’ The chase is on. Atlassian reported its largest-ever quarter for taking share from a major IT service management provider, CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said on the company’s fiscal third-quarter earnings call

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30,000 Facebook Accounts Hacked via Google AppSheet Phishing Campaign

30,000 Facebook Accounts Hacked via Google AppSheet Phishing Campaign 2026-05-01 at 22:38 By A newly discovered Vietnamese-linked operation has been observed using a Google AppSheet as a “phishing relay” to distribute phishing emails with an aim to compromise Facebook accounts. The activity has been codenamed AccountDumpling by Guardio, with the scheme selling the stolen accounts

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Blackburn, Klobuchar slam Mark Zuckerberg for banning law firm ads for victims of social media addiction: ‘Disturbing’

Blackburn, Klobuchar slam Mark Zuckerberg for banning law firm ads for victims of social media addiction: ‘Disturbing’ 2026-05-01 at 20:19 By Thomas Barrabi Meta’s ad ban is “nothing more than an attempt to preserve a harmful business model at all costs — one that actively profits off the addiction of this nation’s youth,” the senators

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Apple shares pop 4% as shoppers race to buy updated iPhones, MacBooks

Apple shares pop 4% as shoppers race to buy updated iPhones, MacBooks 2026-05-01 at 20:19 By Thomas Barrabi Sales of iPhones rose 21.7% to nearly $57 billion, while overall revenue jumped to $111.2 billion. Apple CEO Tim Cook, who will transition to role as executive chairman on Sept. 1, said the company was experiencing shortages

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Artemis III aims for ‘late 2027’ for Earth orbit demonstration

Artemis III aims for ‘late 2027’ for Earth orbit demonstration 2026-05-01 at 20:19 By Richard Speed SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely Amid the sensational NASA budget cut proposals taking place in the US at the moment, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has refined the Artemis III launch date to “late

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Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred

Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred 2026-05-01 at 20:19 By Brandon Vigliarolo Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it Pentagon CTO Emil Michael pushed back on reports of a thaw in the department’s relationship with Anthropic: The two are not getting back together, even

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