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AWS to give AI skills to 100,000 people in the UK by 2030
Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it wants to provide 100,000 people in the UK with AI skills by 2030. The lofty goal, which was announced at the AWS Summit in London on Wednesday 30 April, will be reached via a UK deployment of its Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance program. The program, which launched in June 2023, is a global…
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Charleston County, SC School District notifies 20,000+ people of data breach
The Charleston County, South Carolina School District yesterday confirmed it notified 20,653 people about a July 2024 data breach. The District on July 16, 2024 said unknown actors disrupted its systems and stole data. At the time, CCSD officials told Comparitech, “we are not aware of any malicious misuse of school data.” The district has not publicly disclosed what personal…
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Complete Payroll Solutions notifies 22K+ people of 2023 data breach that leaked SSNs
Complete Payroll Solutions this week confirmed it notified at least 22,000 people of an October 2023 data breach that compromised Social Security numbers, financial account info, and driver’s licenses. The company first notified 320 people shortly after the breach occurred. Now a year and a half later, the number of victims has ballooned to more than 22,000. New Hampshire’s attorney…
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VeriSource now says February data breach impacts 4 million people
Employee benefits administration firm VeriSource Services is warning that a data breach exposed the personal information of four million people. VeriSource is a Texas-based employee benefits administration and HR outsourcing solutions provider with diverse clients across the U.S. The firm has begun data breach notifications to impacted individuals about a cybersecurity incident that occurred in February 2024, but the impact…
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Coinbase fixes 2FA log error making people think they were hacked
Coinbase has fixed a confusing bug in its account activity logs that caused users to think their credentials were compromised. As BleepingComputer first reported earlier this month, Coinbase had mistakenly labeled failed login attempts with incorrect passwords as two-factor authentication failues in the Account Activity logs. When a threat actor attempted to access someone’s account and used the wrong password,…
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Nike is facing a lawsuit from people who bought its NFTs
A group of people sued Nike this week over its decision to wind down its virtual show project RTFKT last year. The buyers of the digital assets accuse Nike of causing “the rug to be pulled out from under them,” and say they wouldn’t have bought its NFTs if they’d known they were “unregistered securities,” reports Reuters. Filed in New…
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Baltimore City Public Schools data breach affects over 31,000 people
Baltimore City Public Schools notified tens of thousands of employees and students of a data breach following an incident in February when unknown attackers hacked into its network. Established in 1829, the public school district provides primary and secondary education to 76,841 enrolled students through 164 schools and programs. “On February 13, 2025, Baltimore City Public Schools experienced a cybersecurity…
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How to win fake friends and influence fake people – Computerworld
We’re all talking to fakepeople now, but most people don’t realize that interacting with AI is a subtleand powerful skill that can and should be learned.The first step in developingthis skill set is to acknowledge to yourself what kind of AI you’re talking toand why you’re talking to it. AI voice interfaces arepowerful because our brains are hardwired for human…
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Three Ways People With Student Loan Debt Can Protect Their Credit Scores
The Department of Education announced Monday that the Federal Student Aid (FSA) will restart collections on defaulted student loans beginning May 5. Even before this news, millions of borrowers were already seeing their credit scores plunge in recent months, and loan servicers are warning that a record number of borrowers are at risk of defaulting by the end of the…
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Blue Shield of California Exposed the Data of 4.7 Million People to Google
Credit: John W. McDonough / Sports Illustrated via Getty Images Blue Shield of California shared the protected health information of 4.7 million individuals with Google over a nearly three-year period, a data breach that impacts the majority of its nearly 6 million members, according to reporting from Bleeping Computer. This isn’t the only large data breach to affect a healthcare…
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