A Cursor AI agent deleted a company’s entire production database, ignoring instructions prohibiting it from running ...

One moment, a tech company had a functioning production database and intact backups. Fewer than ten seconds later, it had ...

It was an agent of chaos. An AI system’s attempt to handle a routine task backfired terribly after it inadvertently deleted ...

Jer Crane, the founder of the SaaS startup PocketOS, fumed that his Claude-powering coding AI agent wiped out his company's ...

A separatist group in Alberta posted an electors database online, containing the personal information of millions of people ...

An Estonian whistleblower has exposed how aggressive forest brokers use a secret database to pressure vulnerable landowners, ...

The remarkable catalog of dates is one of the longest-running records of climate change. Its creator died, setting off a search for a successor. By Hiroko Tabuchi For more than 1,200 years, Japanese ...

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The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the body responsible for issuing Aadhaar in India, has requested the Election Commission of India (ECI) to share data on dead voters, EC sources ...

Editor’s note: The headline and story have been revised to reflect information provided by the governor’s office after publication. Josh Shapiro launched a gun tracing database in 2019 to improve ...

Search your name online and you quickly realize just how much personal information is already out there. And that’s just what you can see. Behind the scenes, data brokers are buying and selling your ...

The U.S. has recorded 17 mass killings in 2025, the lowest total since 2006. Experts say the drop is likely a statistical fluctuation, not a lasting trend. Researchers warn that overall gun violence ...