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Sega cites fan backlash in surprisingly cautious take on gaming NFTs

Enlarge / Sega is thinking long and hard about whether it wants NFTs to become part of its brand image. Non-fungible tokens have become the buzziest of concepts among big-budget game publishers these days. While Ubisoft is the only big-name publisher to actually roll out in-game NFT items thus far, everyone from Square Enix to EA […]

Ransomware attack on Planned Parenthood steals data of 400,000 patients

Enlarge (credit: Rob Engelaar | Getty Images) Ransomware hackers broke into a Planned Parenthood network and accessed medical records or other sensitive data for more than 400,000 patients of the reproductive health care group. The disclosure came in a sample letter posted to the California attorney general’s website and a release published by the organization. […]

A watch Made exclusively for Children Comes with an Insatiable spying backdoor

Expand (charge: Xplora) A favorite smartwatch made specifically for kids includes an undocumented backdoor which makes it feasible for a person to remotely catch camera snapshots, wiretap voice calls, and monitor places in real time, a researcher stated. The X4 smartwatch is promoted by Xplora, a Norway-based vendor of watches. The device, which retails for […]