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Tea says hackers accessed a database from more than two years ago, leaking 72,000 images, including 13,000 verification photos and images of government IDs (NBC News)

NBC News:
Tea says hackers accessed a database from more than two years ago, leaking 72,000 images, including 13,000 verification photos and images of government IDs  —  The viral app requires new users to take selfies, which it says it deletes after review.  —  Hackers have breached the Tea app …

New Rick and Morty spinoff will follow the adventures of Keith David’s President Curtis

U.S. President Andre Curtis (Keith David) has served as a foil for super scientist Rick Sanchez (Justin Roiland, replaced by Harry Belden in season 7) throughout much of Rick and Morty’s eight-season run on Adult Swim. The president has alternated between calling Rick in to help with threats to Earth, trying to arrest Rick for […]

DJI couldn’t confirm or deny it disguised this drone to evade a US ban

DJI barely sells drones in the United States anymore. The shelves are bare; resellers are jacking up prices. It appears an unofficial ban at US customs is to blame. But on Amazon, you can now buy a drone that's a dead ringer for the DJI Mini 4 Pro - the SkyRover X1 - for a […]

Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR; a source says he will report to Alexandr Wang (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR; a source says he will report to Alexandr Wang  —  Mark Zuckerberg has named Shengjia Zhao, an artificial intelligence researcher who joined Meta Platforms Inc. from OpenAI in June …

Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan teases new sci-fi show in the weirdest way

There’s been major hype building around Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan’s new sci-fi series. And now, after years of bits and pieces of information being released in the press, and a dayslong countdown, we finally have our first (highly unusual) look at Pluribus. On Tuesday, Apple teased a reveal on X with the tagline “Happiness […]