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ID verification service IDScan has confirmed that a data breach involved the theft of driver’s licenses from its systems, a week after a report said the identity document checker had been breached during a year-long hack.

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has asked the U.S. government to ban several hack-for-hire firms — companies that carry out cyberattacks on behalf of paying clients. The lawmakers accuse the firms of targeting Americans and abusing foreign courts to silence U.S. reporting on their activities.

Jamming signals won’t just silence your noisy neighbor. It can also interfere with critical infrastructure and emergency services, too.

Even if you only use an AI chatbot occasionally or not at all, there’s a good chance you’ve run into the term vibe coding. For the uninitiated, it’s a form of software development that involves using a large language model (LLM) to generate some or all of the code for a project. The term was…

You might be better off sorting through your 12,000 emails yourself, but you do you.

Just like rebooting your PC every so often, restarting your router has lots of benefits for how easy it is.

The U.S. Department of Defense has disabled advertising tracking on troops’ phones and computers as part of an effort to protect them from threats that target their locations, according to a letter shared with Sen. Ron Wyden.

It just became much easier to access one of the world’s most capable open-weight AI models, stripped of its guardrails and refusals to perform harmful tasks.

In the cryptocurrency Wild West, sometimes hardware can provide peace of mind when securing your private keys.

If you have handed over your driver’s license, passport, or other form of identity document to verify your information in the real world, like at a bar, a weed store, or when booking a car rental, there’s a good chance it’s now been stolen in a suspected massive data breach.