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Health tech giant TriZetto has confirmed that more than 3.4 million people’s personal and health information was stolen in a 2024 cyberattack, which the company failed to detect for almost a year. The tech company, owned by multinational conglomerate Cognizant, serves around 200 million people across 875,000 healthcare providers throughout the U.S., according to its website. Doctors’ offices and healthcare providers use TriZetto to assess patients’ insurance for medical treatments. TriZetto said in a filing with Maine’s attorney general on Friday that hackers stole patients’ insurance eligibility transaction reports from the company’s servers. The data includes personal information like patients’…
Photograph: Simon HillOther Flash Drives We LikeWe have tested many other USB flash drives that did not make the cut. Here are a few that might be worth considering for some folks.Photograph: Simon HillKingston Dual Portable SSD (1 TB) for $229: With a snazzy metallic red body, this SSD disguised as a flash drive is very speedy, matching the stated 1,050 MB/s read and 950 MB/s write in my tests. It is USB 3.2 Gen 2 with a C jack at one end and an A jack at the other, both with removable covers. As much as I like this…
It was a big week for brands leaning into humor and absurdity. Mr. Clean got a glow-up, Uber Eats sent Ernie from Sesame Street spiraling over a pile of literal bees, and Chupa Chups announced a more user-friendly wrapper by making the least user-friendly object imaginable. Not every campaign went for laughs, though. NPR made a confident case for curiosity in the middle of a funding crisis, and Heineken made a documentary about an Irish village fighting to save its local pub. Plus, our Most Effective Ad of the Week, in partnership with EDO, turns to basketball to tout a great deal.Here…
City Detect, a company that uses vision AI to help local governments monitor the health of buildings and neighborhoods, announced on Friday a $13 million Series A round led by Prudence Venture Capital. The startup launched in 2021, and Gavin Baum-Blake, the remaining co-founder, serves as CEO. He said the company was founded in part because cities were struggling to deal with “urban blight and decay.” The idea was to use advanced computer vision and AI technology to help cities track and fix such problems. City Detect mounts cameras on public vehicles like garbage trucks and street sweepers, captures photos…
While this assembly works well and allows for the mouse to be incredibly lightweight and rigid, I found a few concerns with repairability. With both shells, there is a risk of repeated disassembly breaking the plastic clips. With the carbon fiber shell, there is also a risk of the threads in the upper shell becoming stripped if the screws are over-tightened, something that is made worse by the fact that the screws used are self-tapping.Typically, anything made from carbon fiber or lightweight plastic would use metal inserts inside of the material to prevent stripping, but this has not been done…
Advertising luminary Dame Annette King has died at 57. In a statement, King’s husband, Henry Stevens, said: “On Wednesday, we said goodbye to our Annette, my AK, Dame Annette. A deeply loved and loving wife, mother, friend, and peer to so many of you.”Thanking people for their condolences, Stevens continued: “As anyone who had the privilege of being in Annette’s world will know, there was nothing she loved more than people. She cared deeply about her work and the advertising industry at large, but nothing lit her up like being in the company of the people she held close.”One of the…
On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.4, a new foundation model billed as “our most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work.” In addition to the standard version, GPT-5.4 is also available as a reasoning model (GPT-5.4 Thinking) or optimized for high performance (GPT-5.4 Pro). The API version of the model will be available with context windows as large as 1 million tokens, by far the largest context window available from OpenAI. OpenAI also emphasized improved token efficiency, saying GPT-5.4 was able to solve the same problems with significantly fewer tokens than its predecessor. The new model comes with significantly improved…
The biggest change is in the highback of the binding, which is called the AutoBack in the FASE system. While it can still fold all the way forward for travel and low-hanging chairlifts, when it’s open it leans much farther back than your standard highback. On the bottom of the highback, on the inside, is a sturdy plastic lever.When you step into the binding, your boot presses down on that lever. That shunts the highback up into its full, upright position, pressing it into the back of your calf like normal. Then you just tighten the ankle strap, and off…
Ford is back on the F1 grid for the first time in over 20 years, through a partnership with Oracle Red Bull Racing, and it’s marking the return with a campaign built for the streaming era.The automaker and Wieden+Kennedy NY have launched “Every Ground Is Our Proving Ground,” a “micro-docuseries” that will air on Apple TV, where Ford is the official sponsor of F1’s qualifying and practice rounds. The series is designed to reach the next generation of fans through Apple’s sequential viewing capabilities, rather than standard ad spots, and will run across all three days of the Australian Grand…
A new report by Google found that about half of the zero-day bugs it tracked last year exploited enterprise devices, marking a new high for hackers who are increasingly finding new ways to target large companies and steal their data. According to the search and security giant’s annual report, 48% of the tracked zero-days — vulnerabilities in software that are unknown to its maker at the time they are exploited — were found in technologies used by corporations and large businesses. About half of those zero-days exploited the very devices that are designed to protect enterprise networks from digital intruders.…
Compare Top 3 Posture CorrectorsHonorable MentionsCourtesy of EtalonEtalon Posture Bra for $199: The Etalon Posture Bra’s six adjustable straps are the standout feature, distributing weight evenly across your back muscles and shoulders. While Etalon markets it for desk work and light activities like walking or hiking, I’ve found it also holds up during strength training as a high-support sports bra. The setup looks complicated, but it is actually user-friendly. Etalon recommends sticking with the default strap configuration for three weeks to let your body adjust before making any tweaks. That said, if you need a stronger nudge to stay upright,…
Hi, thanks as always for reading TechCrunch. We want to talk with you quickly about something important. A growing number of scammers are impersonating TechCrunch reporters, editors, and event leads and reaching out to companies, pretending to be our staff when they absolutely are not. (Here is a list of all of our actual staff.) These bad actors are using our name and reputation to try to dupe unsuspecting businesses. It drives us crazy and infuriates us on your behalf. Judging by the increased number of emails we’re receiving, asking, “Does this person really work for you?” it appears to…
In midlife, women are told to expect disruption. Sleep may become lighter, nights can feel warmer, and energy harder to come by. Hormones shift, and the body adjusts. But for a large number of women, something else is happening as well: Their airway is collapsing dozens of times an hour while they sleep.Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), once framed as a disorder primarily affecting older, heavier men, is increasingly recognized as a far more complex and often undetected condition, particularly in women navigating perimenopause and menopause.OSA occurs when the upper airway narrows or collapses during sleep, oxygen levels dip, and the…
Roblox is introducing a real-time, AI-powered chat rephrasing feature that automatically replaces banned words with more respectful language, the company announced on Thursday. The new feature goes beyond Roblox’s current text filter, which simply replaces banned words and phrases with the “#” symbol. But Roblox says that when users encounter strings of “####,” conversations can be disrupted and hard to follow. Now, instead of simply displaying hash marks, filtered text will be rephrased into more respectful language that is close to the user’s original intent. For example, a message that reads “Hurry TF up!” would previously have appeared as “####,”…
Elon Musk-owned X announced on Thursday that it’s revamping the social network’s Creator Subscriptions offering with a number of new features, including exclusive threads, a refreshed subscriptions paywall, a new dashboard, and a shareable subscriptions card, among other changes. The company believes these updates will allow creators to attract more fans and provide better experiences, as it pushes to become a bigger part of the creator economy alongside Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook. X also highlighted the recent launch of its “Paid Partnership” label, which is applied to posts where the content is paid for or incentivized by a third…
Italian authorities confirmed that a journalist who was alerted by WhatsApp last year of a suspected spyware attack on his phone was indeed hacked. In a press release sent to journalists on Thursday, the public prosecutors’ offices in Rome and Naples, which are investigating the spyware scandal in the country, said that a technical report concluded that the phones of journalist Francesco Cancellato and of immigration activists Giuseppe Caccia and Luca Casarini all showed traces of having been infected with spyware in the “early hours” of December 14, 2024. “The execution of three consecutive attacks on the same night suggests…