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Washington’s focus on online retailer Coupang has led to accusations that the Trump administration is tying issues of national security to domestic corporate matters

When South Korea’s biggest online retailer revealed last year that a data breach had compromised tens of millions of customer accounts, it appeared to be a corporate crisis. But five months later the issue has grown into a diplomatic storm, threatening to further degrade relations between Seoul and the Trump administration.

Coupang – often described as South Korea’s answer to Amazon – is nominally a Korean company but operates from Seattle, is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and is run by Korean-American billionaire Bom Kim. In November last year the company disclosed that a former employee had stolen an internal security key, enabling unauthorised access to data from 33.7 million users.

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Elon Musk’s AI chatbot ‘extremely validating’ of delusional inputs and often went further, ‘elaborating new material’, study finds

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok 4 told researchers pretending to be delusional that there was indeed a doppelganger in their mirror and they should drive an iron nail through the glass while reciting Psalm 91 backwards.

Researchers at the City University of New York and King’s College London have published a paper on how various chatbots protect – or fail to safeguard – users’ mental health.

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This project explores a new direction for Polish Radio Bia?ystok - not just as a broadcaster, but as a brand that lives in the streets, in culture, and in everyday moments. What started as a strategic redesign evolved into something more expressive. The goal was no longer just to modernize the identity, but to reconnect it with a younger audience without losing the trust and legacy built over the years. Despite the shift, the project does not abandon its roots. The blue tones, structured typography, and clarity of communication remain as a foundation. They ensure accessibility, recognizability, and trust - especially for long-time listeners. This balance is intentional: new energy layered on top of familiar structure. The identity is built as a flexible system rather than a fixed set of rules. It works across: broadcast digital outdoor merchandise The same elements adapt depending on context, scale, and audience.

Een lange dodenroute door de woestijn en over zee, vol marteling, uithongering, afpersing en seksueel misbruik.

BOGOTÁ (ANP/AFP) - De vliegtuigcrash waardoor vorige maand in Colombia 69 militairen omkwamen, is veroorzaakt doordat het toestel bomen raakte. Dat blijkt uit voorlopige onderzoeksresultaten van de Colombiaanse luchtmacht.

Het C-130 Hercules-toestel stortte op 23 maart neer, een kilometer van de startbaan in Puerto Leguizamo in het Amazonegebied. Volgens de luchtmacht raakte het toestel vier seconden na vertrek drie bomen. In twee motoren zijn resten van vegetatie gevonden.

Het vliegtuig had meer dan 120 mensen aan boord en vervoerde ook munitie. Die ontplofte na de crash, waardoor omwonenden gewond raakten die overlevenden probeerden te helpen.

Volgens de luchtmacht is nog niet duidelijk of de crash werd veroorzaakt door een menselijke fout of een technisch probleem. Overbelading en slecht weer speelden volgens de onderzoekers geen rol.

Soldier Used Classified Information to Bet on Maduro's Ouster - US prosecutors say that Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, who was involved in the operation to oust Nicolás Maduro from power in Venezuela, used the information to place bets on Polymarket.

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Apple has fixed a bug that could cause parts of Signal notifications to remain stored on iPhones even after messages disappeared and the app was deleted. "Affected users concerned about push notifications can update their devices to stop what Apple characterized as 'notifications marked for deletion' that 'could be unexpectedly retained on the device,'" reports Ars Technica. "According to Apple, the push notifications should never have been stored, but a 'logging issue' failed to redact data." From the report: Vulnerable users hoping to evade law enforcement surveillance often use encrypted apps like Signal to communicate sensitive information. That's why users felt blindsided when 404 Media reported that Apple was unexpectedly storing push notifications displaying parts of encrypted messages for up to a month. This occurred even after the message was set to disappear and the app itself was deleted from the device.

404 Media flagged the issue after speaking to multiple people who attended a hearing where the FBI testified that it "was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant's iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device's push notification database." The shocking revelation came in a case that 404 Media noted was "the first time authorities charged people for alleged 'Antifa' activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization." "We're grateful to Apple for the quick action here, and for understanding and acting on the stakes of this kind of issue," Signal's post said. "It takes an ecosystem to preserve the fundamental human right to private communication."

In their post, Signal confirmed that after users update their devices, "no action is needed for this fix to protect Signal users on iOS. Once you install the patch, all inadvertently-preserved notifications will be deleted and no forthcoming notifications will be preserved for deleted applications."

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