Millions at Risk as Android Mental Health Apps Expose Sensitive Data

Oversecured flagged 1,575 flaws in 10 Android health apps with 14.7M installs, putting chats, CBT notes, and mood logs at risk, per BleepingComputer.

Third-Party Patching and the Business Footprint We All Share

Everyday tools like PDF readers, email clients, and archive utilities quietly define the real attack surface. Action1 explains how third-party software drift increases exploit risk and why consistent ...
InfoQ

Pinterest’s CDC-Powered Ingestion Slashes Database Latency from 24 Hours to 15 Minutes

Pinterest launched a next-generation CDC-based database ingestion framework using Kafka, Flink, Spark, and Iceberg. The system reduces data availability latency from 24+ hours to 15 minutes, processes ...

He built a hit podcast about the Epstein files. It’s entirely AI-generated

Built by a data entrepreneur, the automated show is publishing episodes at a pace traditional newsrooms can’t match.
IEEE

Transforming Disability Into Ability: An Explainable Vision-to-Voice Image Captioning Framework Using Transformer Models and Edge Computing

Abstract: Image captioning is an emerging field at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing (NLP). It has shown great potential to enhance accessibility by automatically ...
The New York Times

How The Times Is Digging Into Millions of Pages of Epstein Files

Two dozen journalists. A pile of pages that would reach the top of the Empire State Building. And an effort to find the next revelation in a sprawling case. Interview by Patrick Healy With Steve ...
KLTV

Speaker Johnson says he disapproves of Justice Department tracking lawmakers’ search histories of Epstein files

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that he did not think it was appropriate for the Justice Department to be tracking the search histories of lawmakers who are ...