Skeptical of BLS data? Uncover sharp, offbeat ways to track the economy in 2025, from payrolls to Big Macs, no government stats required.

Google confirmed a data breach by ShinyHunters hackers who used voice phishing to steal customer information from an internal Salesforce database.

National Public Data has returned under new ownership as a free people search engine. While it purports to rely on publicly available information, you still should remove your records.

President Donald Trump said the FBI might help Texas Republicans arrest Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to block Republican redistricting.

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The Tea app data breach has grown into an even larger leak, with the stolen data now shared on hacking forums and a second database discovered that allegedly contains 1.1 million private messages ...

Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes "I have failed you completely and catastrophically," wrote Gemini.

Late last week, an AI coding agent from Replit, an AI software development platform, deleted an entire database of executive contacts while working on a web app for SaaS investor Jason Lemkin. It ...

A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of millions of Americans, with the goal of locating immigrants.

A novel malware family named LameHug is using a large language model (LLM) to generate commands to be executed on compromised Windows systems.

Security researchers say Chinese authorities are using a new type of malware to extract data from seized phones, allowing them to obtain text messages — including from chat apps such as Signal ...