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Booking.com confirms hackers accessed customers' data

Booking.com confirms hackers accessed customers' data: The travel giant notified customers that their personal data, including names, email addresses, and phone numbers, may have been accessed in a security incident. Read More

Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone else: Stanford’s latest AI Index shows a widening gap between experts and the public, with rising anxiety over jobs, healthcare, and the economy. Read More

Microsoft is working on yet another OpenClaw-like agent: The new features would be geared toward enterprise customers, with better security controls than the famously risky open source OpenClaw agent. Read More

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