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T-Mobile has experienced another data breach, reporting that personal information belonging to hundreds of account holders was exposed in an attack between late February and March 2023.The company disclosed in notification letters issued to impacted customers on April 28th that a hacker managed to access information such as full names, dates of birth, addresses, contact information, government IDs, social security numbers, and T-Mobile account pins.

Ransomware gangs have long sought pain points where their extortion demands have the greatest leverage.Now an investigation from NBC News has made clear what that merciless business model looks like when it targets kids: One ransomware group's giant leak of sensitive files from the Minneapolis school system exposes thousands of children at their most vulnerable, complete with behavioral and psychological reports on individual students and highly sensitive documentation of cases where they've allegedly been abused by teachers and staff.

W hen the website for Indigo Books & Music went offline on February 8, the company called the occurrence a "cybersecurity incident."Details-the nature of the attack, how far-reaching its impact was, who was behind it-were scarce.In response to social media inquiries, the company repeated it was working with third-party experts to determine what happened and that more information would be made available as it came to light.

As China's tech giants deploy their ChatGPT clones, Beijing has released proposed regulations for research, development and use of generative AI chatbots, without quite answering whether the tools can conform to socialist ideals.The draft rules, published yesterday by the Cyberspace Administration of China and grandly titled Administrative Measures for Generative Artificial Intelligence Services, detail 21 articles that call for AI-generated content to "reflect the core values of socialism, and must not contain subversion of state power, overthrow of the socialist system, incitement to split the country."

Consumer digital rights advocates have rejected media companies' call to preserve their exemption to privacy law, warning that commercial models should not be put ahead of public interest.Peter Lewis, the director of the Australia Institute's Centre for Responsible Technology, said it was disappointing that the Right to Know coalition set up with the laudable goal of protecting journalists and whistleblowers is now being deployed to prosecute Big Media's business interests at the expense of the public they purport to serve.

Concerns about the growing abilities of chatbots trained on large language models, such as OpenAI's GPT-4, Google's Bard and Microsoft's Bing Chat, are making headlines.Experts warn of their ability to spread misinformation on a monumental scale, as well as the existential risk their development may pose to humanity.