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A viral app to help men stop masturbating exposed thousands of users' data, 404 Media reports. The app, Quittr, claims to be the "#1 Porn Addiction App to Quit Porn Forever" on its website. It ...

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

You've probably heard of the dark web, but what's actually on it? These 5 tips can help you explore the dark web using Tails, Tor, and a VPN, assuming you actually ...

With so much data stored on ephemeral mediums like hard drives and magnetic tape, what will remain of our civilization in the millennia to come? Thanks to an innovation from Microsoft researchers, the ...

A team at Microsoft Research combined lasers, machine learning and tiny glass rectangles to demonstrate a new robotic data storage system that could, in theory, still be readable 10,000 years from now ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

It has been a rough start to the year for password security. A massive database containing 149 million stolen logins and passwords was found publicly exposed online. The data included credentials tied ...

Five years ago, Databricks coined the term 'data lakehouse' to describe a new type of data architecture that combines a data lake with a data warehouse. That term and data architecture are now ...

Apple often promotes the App Store as a secure place to download apps. The company highlights strict reviews and a closed system as key protections for iPhone users. That reputation now faces serious ...

Macworld reports that numerous AI apps on the App Store expose sensitive user data, with CovertLabs’ Firehound project indexing nearly 200 vulnerable applications. Chat & Ask AI by Codeway exposed ...

Extremely poorly constructed AI apps available in the App Store are leaking the data of millions of users, a repository from a security research team has revealed. The rise of artificial intelligence ...