Chess.com has confirmed that cyber-attackers exploited a third-party file-transfer application, exposing personal details of 4,541 users—including at least one individual in Maine. The breach occurred ...

We propose HtmlRAG, which uses HTML instead of plain text as the format of external knowledge in RAG systems. To tackle the long context brought by HTML, we propose Lossless HTML Cleaning and Two-Step ...

The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) chief data officer, Charles Borges, has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded a ...

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer. By Nicholas Nehamas ...

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a sophisticated social engineering campaign that's targeting supply chain-critical manufacturing companies with an in-memory malware dubbed MixShell.

Fernand has become the latest tropical storm in the Atlantic basin. Unlike what we experienced with Hurricane Erin, we will not observe rapid development, and the system will persist for a few days ...

A newly developed tropical storm was named Saturday, southeast of Bermuda, and is expected to strengthen as it tracks northward over the weekend. Satellite imagery and data from an Air Force Reserve ...

A June subpoena to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia sought Social Security numbers and addresses of patients who received gender-related care, as well as “every writing or record” made by ...

Happy Thursday! I’m Margot Amouyal, a news intern at The Washington Post, rounding up this week’s tech news with help from Andrea Jiménez. Don’t forget to send news tips to my colleague Will Oremus at ...