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Cyber attack on car hire company (Europcar) Source code and customer data compromised

The international mobility company Europcar is facing a massive IT security breach. A previously unknown hacker apparently gained unauthorised access to internal development systems and sensitive customer data - including source...

Technology meets privacy: AI on the iPhone under the data protection magnifying glass

With the update to iOS 18.4, Apple's new AI functionality ‘Apple Intelligence’ has arrived - it brings text assistants, image generation and personalised emojis directly to the smartphone. This is also made possible by the...

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