Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Insurance company UnitedHealth Group is confirming a ransomware attack earlier this year affected the private data of over 100 million people. The number was published in the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) Breach Report on Thursday, making it the largest healthcare data breach on the list. Hacker group Blackcat, also known as ALPHV, claimed responsibility for the February attack on Change Healthcare that caused widespread disruptions for healthcare providers processing bills, claims, payroll, and prescriptions for weeks. According to the HHS FAQs page, Change Healthcare told OCR on October 22nd that it’s sent people about 100 million individual notices regarding this breach. Stolen information... Continue reading…

We finally got a look at one of Siri’s big Apple Intelligence updates. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple Intelligence’s official launch is less than a week away, but it’s the next wave of AI updates that will start to make Siri a lot more useful. The forthcoming iOS 18.2 update — now available as a developer beta — starts to make your phone a lot smarter with the addition of Visual Intelligence and the ability to pass Siri requests along to ChatGPT. On phones that support Apple Intelligence, Siri won’t just be a “let me Google that for you” machine; now it’s a “let me ChatGPT that for you” machine, with all that entails: good, bad, and everything in between. By default, Siri will ask for confirmation every time it wants to pass on a request to ChatGPT. This makes a lot of sense, and I thought I’d prefer that behavior. But after an... Continue reading…

It’s the Leica M’s platinum anniversary, and this camera costs as much (or more) than most weddings. | Image: Leica Camera Leica is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the M rangefinder camera, but the most precious gift it’s giving for the occasion is for only 250 rich people and costs $22,995. The ludicrously expensive Leica M Edition 70 set includes a platinum-plated Leica M-A 35mm film camera with Leicavit fast winder, a matching 50mm APO-Summicron-M f/2 lens, and a metallic film container with a roll of black-and-white film. Yes, the film container is also platinum, and yes, that’s completely ridiculous. This anniversary edition commemorates when the Leica M3 was released in 1954 as the first M camera. Leica goes to great lengths to honor the M3 and the brand’s legacy just about whenever it can. Back in 2014, the Leica M Edition 60 did the same thing... Continue reading…

I think about the iPhone 17 Air every time I have to readjust the position of the iPhone 16 Plus in my pants pocket. I do it when I run, tie my shoelaces, walk uphill, get into a car, sit down... you name it. There's no guarantee that Apple will make the ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air. But I do dream about an iPhone with a large display that isn't as bulky as the Plus or Pro Max. Since the first rumor emerged that Apple is working on a slimmer iPhone, I kept seeing clues suggesting Apple could make such a device. Various components are getting thinner than ever, including Samsung RAM modules and ultra-thin batteries for foldable phones. But I also want an ultra-thin smartphone with the best possible battery life. The iPhone 16 Plus lasts more than a day on a charge, so I'd want that from the rumored iPhone 17 Air. More energy-efficient iPhone chips could help with that. And, it turns out, some brand-new display tech that might be partly responsible for Apple Watch Series 10 battery life improvements could be another key factor in the iPhone 17 Air. Continue reading... The post An important new feature coming to the iPhone 17 Air may have been discovered appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $18 portable power bank, $120 electric standing desk, $220 TP-Link WiFi 7 router, more Today’s deals: $56 for 2024’s easiest Halloween costume, $699 M2 MacBook Air, 20% off Dyson, more Today’s deals: $40 in Amazon credit, Nintendo Switch games, $20 waterproof Bluetooth speaker, more Today’s deals: Free Echo Pop & Amazon Smart Plug, $30 Philips OneBlade 360, $38 Sony headphones, more

While saying his uncle, John F. Kennedy, would stand with former President Donald Trump in embracing direct diplomacy with U.S. adversaries, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. insisted a vote for Kamala Harris is "a vote for nuclear war."Kennedy, a former independent presidential...

A federal judge on Friday ordered Virginia to restore more than 1,600 voter registrations that she said were illegally purged in the last two months in an effort to stop noncitizens from voting.U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles granted an injunction request brought against...

The New York Times is hitting back after a report argued mainstream media gave evidence recently unsealed in the Jan. 6 indictments critical of former President Donald Trump less attention than it did Hillary Clinton's email server in 2016, Semafor reported. The report was...

U.S. — Things went from bad to worse for the Trump campaign damage control team, as new reports surfaced that former President Donald Trump faced fresh allegations that he had inappropriately touched the hearts of millions of Americans.

A hut sits at an altidue of 1,800 meters near the Mackenzie Mountains in Yukon, Canada.

Researchers spotted a second distant star orbiting a well-known black hole and its stellar companion in a never-before-seen gravitational triad. The system's unique configuration suggests that the black hole was not created as scientists initially expected.