US says Chinese hackers hit hospitals, NASA, Senate and more

On Wednesday, senior US government officials pulled back the curtain on what they describe as a sprawling Chinese cyber-espionage operation that ran from 2018

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Catastrophic flooding, Tim Curry’s iconic career, health beyond BMI: Catch up on the day’s stories

The entertainment world lost two of its most distinctive voices within a single week. Tim Curry, the actor whose gravelly baritone and theatrical intensity

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Meta settles landmark state child harm claims for $18 billion and promises changes to its platforms

Sandego.net – Meta settles landmark state child harm claims in an approximately $18 billion multistate deal that brings final judicial approval to one of the most consequential legal confrontations between state governments and a major technology company. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers signed off on the agreement on Wednesday, resolving allegations that Facebook and Instagram were deliberately engineered to addict young users and damage their mental health.

The deal was announced just over a week after trial opened in California, where four states had pressed claims seeking up to $1.4 trillion in damages alongside structural product changes. Instagram chief Adam Mosseri was scheduled to take the witness stand for a second consecutive day, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was also expected to testify. The courtroom drama will now proceed without the states’ full claims being adjudicated on the merits.…

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College student was killed by police in Pennsylvania after he went to wrong house, father says

A 22-year-old college student killed by Pennsylvania police responding to a possible burglary had just realized he was at the…

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Police officer arrested after tracking ex-girlfriend on Flock camera system over 2,000 times, authorities say

A police officer arrested after tracking his ex-girlfriend's license plates more than 2,000 times through a commercial surveillance database has…

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Prosecutors rest their case in Tupac murder trial after letting the defendant tell much of the story himself

Prosecutors rest their case in Tupac Shakur's murder trial after assembling a prosecution built almost entirely from the defendant's own…

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What caused the Nepal flood wave? Here’s what we know

The cause of the powerful torrents of floodwater that carved a devastating path through Nepal and Tibet — swallowing towns,…

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