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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! It has been a rough start to the year for password security. A massive database containing 149 million stolen logins and passwords was found publicly exposed online. The data included credentials tied to an estimated 48 million Gmail accounts, along with millions more from popular services. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who discovered the database, confirmed it was not password-protected or encrypted. Anyone who found it could have accessed the data. Here is what we know so far and what you should do next.Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy ReportGet my best tech tips, urgent security alerts and exclusive deals delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, you’ll get instant access to my Ultimate Scam Survival Guide – free when you join my C...

Apple is building OpenAI and Anthropic’s AI-powered coding agents directly into Xcode. New integrations in Xcode 26.3 will give developers the ability to call upon Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex to write and edit code, update project settings, search documentation, and more.Xcode is the software developers can use to create and test apps for the iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Both Claude and ChatGPT were previously available inside Xcode, but this latest update will allow AI agents to take action inside the app, rather than just provide coding assistance.Apple is also making Xcode available through the Model Context Protocol, an open-source standard that will enable developers to plug other AI tools into the app.The news of Apple’s Xcode update comes just one...

Bactérie « Gardnerella vaginalis », image réalisée au microscope à balayage électronique x 15 000. BSIP/UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP VIA GETTY Une étude parue le mardi 3 février dans la revue PLOS Biology ouvre une nouvelle piste pour mieux comprendre l’équilibre, parfois fragile, du microbiote vaginal. On sait que certaines femmes ont une flore vaginale optimale, dominée par les lactobacilles – notamment les L. crispatus, espèce la plus fréquente. En revanche, d’autres souffrent de dysbiose (déséquilibre de la flore génitale), caractérisée par une prédominance de bactéries comme Gardnerella ou Prevotella, avec peu ou pas de lactobacilles. On parle alors de microbiote « non optimal ». Or, les liens entre le microbiote vaginal et la s...

As The Verge’s resident robot vacuum reviewer, I don’t have a lot of time (or space) in my life for stick vacs, and frankly, the ones I have used have largely disappointed me. Top-heavy, bulky, always getting clogged or running out of battery — they’re so… manual. But then I met PencilVac Fluffycones, Dyson’s new $599 cordless stick vacuum, and it was love at first lift.The name PencilVac Fluffycones perfectly describes this delightfully overengineered broom. If more vacuums had such whimsical names, my life would be much fuller. It’s very thin and light, like a pencil, and it has fluffy, cone-shaped rollers that glide across floors as if they’re flying.While I do not recommend buying this as a tool to clean your entire home (it doesn’t clean carpets!), with its slim design and easy man...

Nintendo has had plenty of highs over its few decades in the video game industry. Popularizing home consoles with the NES, introducing new audiences to games through the Wii’s motion controls, and the touchscreen Trojan horse that was the Nintendo DS, to name a few. But often these successes were followed by missteps; the Wii sold 100 million units, while its follow-up, the Wii U, couldn’t even manage a quarter of that. But that precarity looks to change. The Switch is now Nintendo’s best-selling console ever, surpassing the DS with 155 million units sold since its debut in 2017. And over that span Nintendo has transformed itself into a company better insulated against the ever-changing whims of the games industry.One of the key factors behind the Switch’s success was how it represented...

A raid on X’s Paris office was carried out by the Paris prosecutor’s cybercrime unit on Tuesday with Europol and French police as part of an ongoing investigation that expanded in July to include Grok. As previously reported by Reuters, Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino were also summoned for hearings in April.The investigation, which was initially launched last year, is looking into several allegations against X and Grok, including complicity in possession and distribution of child pornography and denial of crimes against humanity (related to Holocaust denial content), along with claims that X was manipulating its algorithm and illegally extracting data.X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! If your smartphone stays on your bedside table overnight, it stays busy long after you fall asleep. Even while it appears idle, your phone continues to send and receive data in the background. Some of that activity is expected. Your device checks for security patches, syncs system settings and keeps essential services running. Other data transfers are far less obvious and far less necessary.Experts warn that smartphones routinely transmit tracking and advertising signals without you fully realizing it. In many cases, that data includes information that should only be shared with clear and informed consent.Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy ReportGet my best tech tips, urgent security alerts and exclusive deals delivered straight to your inbox. Pl...

Prélèvement de lymphocytes T chez un patient atteint d’un cancer hématologique au CHU de Montpellier, le 15 décembre 2020. GUILLAUME BONNEFONT/IP3 PRESS/MAXPPP En 2022, Georges, un homme de 77 ans très actif, est pris en charge à l’hôpital Gustave-Roussy, à Villejuif (Val-de-Marne). Opéré trois ans plus tôt, son mélanome a métastasé aux os et aux poumons. Un chirurgien lui pose une prothèse du fémur. Puis le patient (il n’a pas souhaité donner son nom de famille) reçoit trois perfusions d’immunothérapie, cette famille de traitements qui réarme les défenses immunitaires pour qu’elles détruisent les cellules tumorales. Georges ne recevra pas les doses suivantes prévues. « J’avais des nausées et ne pouvais rien avaler, j’ai dû êtr...

Anthropic’s Claude AI models are currently experiencing a major outage, impacting products like Claude Code. Developers are currently seeing a 500 error when trying to use Claude Code, and Anthropic has noted that it is seeing elevated error rates on its APIs “across all Claude models.”Anthropic says the issue has been identified and a fix is on the way, but developers that rely on the tool are currently staring at their screens waiting for the service to come back online. Claude Opus 4.5 also experienced some errors yesterday, and earlier this week Anthropic had to fix purchasing issues for its AI credits system.It’s unusual to see Claude Code experience a major outage like this, especially as the service is used widely by developers, including Microsoft’s AI teams.

When ChatGPT launched, in November of 2022, it started a race that almost immediately consumed the tech industry. OpenAI didn’t invent the concept of AI, but most of the state-of-the-art technology was confined to research labs at companies and institutions around the world. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere. And better than anyone expected. So many companies decided they needed to catch up as quickly as possible, by any means necessary, or risk losing the battle for maybe the most important technology ever.On this episode of The Vergecast, we talk about one version of that scramble. The Washington Post’s Will Oremus joins the show to talk about the details he and his team uncovered about “Project Panama,” a huge effort inside Anthropic to access and digitize vast quantities of book in ...