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Another massive data breach exposed millions of driver’s license numbers
US insurance provider AssuranceAmerica has confirmed a data breach affecting the personal information and driver’s license numbers of 6.9 million people, making it the largest known exposure of Americans’ driver’s license data this year. The stolen details matter because a driver’s license number can be exploited for fraud and impersonation, and the incident adds to…
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The Pitt tops 2026 Emmy nominations with 25 nods
The nominations for the 2026 Emmy Awards have been announced, with the HBO Max medical drama The Pitt leading the field with 25 nominations. The comedy Hacks followed closely with 24 nods — a single-year record for a comedy series — while newcomer Widow’s Bay led all new shows with 19. HBO Max dominated overall,…
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Apple AI security update proves hackers move fast
Apple has released iOS 26.5.2, iPadOS 26.5.2 and macOS Tahoe 26.5.2, an unusually early security update pushed out on 29 June 2026 to patch flaws in the kernel, WebKit and WebRTC. The move matters because Apple reportedly accelerated the rollout in response to concerns that artificial intelligence can help attackers study and exploit software weaknesses…
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Hacks lands 24 Emmy nominations, most for any comedy season ever
The HBO Max comedy “Hacks” has secured 24 Emmy nominations for its fifth and final season, setting a new record for the most nominations ever received by a single comedy season. This surpasses the previous benchmark of 23 nominations, held first by “The Bear” and then by “The Studio” for its debut season last year,…
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‘Hacks’ Jean Smart Chases Emmy History As She Nears Julia Louis-Dreyfus & Cloris Leachman Record
Jean Smart has secured another Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the final season of HBO Max’s *Hacks*, positioning her to potentially make Emmy history. Having already won the award for each of the show’s first four seasons, a fifth win at the September ceremony would give her eight acting…
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5 Video Games That Need an Anime Adaptation
In the wake of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Devil May Cry’s success, here are five different video games that deserve an anime adaptation.
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Severn Trent spared Ofwat fine after ‘serious’ waterwaste and sewage failures
Regulator found ‘unacceptable’ breaches in water company’s handling of drainage and sewage networkBusiness live – latest updatesThe water company Severn Trent has been spared a fine by the industry regulator despite “serious and unacceptable breaches” in its handling of wastewater and sewage.The watchdog, Ofwat, which has been investigating how wastewater and sewage networks are managed…
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OnlyFans Models Are Accidentally Making Hacked Government Websites Disappear
Adult content creators fighting the piracy of their material are inadvertently helping to clean up hacked government and university websites, according to new research from cybersecurity firm UpGuard shared with WIRED. For years, scammers have hijacked authoritative .gov and .edu domains — which rank highly in Google searches — to host malicious pages using the…
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What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out
A WIRED journalist observed a private role-playing “war game” held in a Times Square office tower, in which a former US cybersecurity official, Joshua Corman, walked dozens of insurance executives through a simulated Chinese cyberattack on American water utilities set in July 2027. The exercise matters because it dramatises a scenario that security experts increasingly…