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Crypto hardware wallet SafePal is notifying roughly 40,000 individuals that their personal information was stolen in a data breach. Hackers, it says, exploited a vulnerability in the order-tracking function of a customer order information plugin to gain access to customer information. “We are extremely sorry to inform the community that order information for customers who placed orders between March 2, 2025, and April 11, 2026,” SafePal says. The compromised information includes names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and order details. “The affected data involves approximately 39,798 customers,” the crypto wallet says. SafePal disclosed the data breach on Sunday, the same…

Private payment systems on Ethereum can already hide information using cryptographic proofs, but getting those transactions onto the blockchain still takes extra infrastructure, and some designs route users through relayers, outside services that submit the transaction on their behalf. Frame Transactions is one of 66 proposals on the table for Hegotá, expected to follow this year’s Glamsterdam release and ship in 2027, and developers will now consider what they can realistically build, test and release on time.Two accompanying proposals handle what breaks when many people transact privately through the same account. Keyed Nonces, or EIP-8250, would let transactions use separate…

The search for life on Mars or on icy moons such as Europa and Enceladus may capture more attention, but another major astrobiology mystery is much closer to home. Scientists are still trying to understand when the first eukaryotes appeared on Earth and how those organisms helped set the stage for complex life. That question matters because microbial organisms dominated Earth for roughly 90 percent of the planet’s history. Reconstructing the transition from a world populated almost entirely by microbes to one filled with plants, animals, and fungi could also help scientists understand whether complex life might develop elsewhere in…

Brazil is planning to dredge the Madeira River to boost grain exports despite recent fatal barge collisions and poor dialogue with local communities.In addition to accidents, expanded traffic and dredging pose risks of erosion, water pollution, harm to aquatic species and fishing.As national elections approach, communities worry that politicians will prioritize agribusiness over the safety of those who rely on the river to access doctors, schools, work, trade and daily routines.See All Key Ideas CALAMA AND PARAÍSO GRANDE, Brazil — A mother and her three kids died after a barge loaded with soybeans collided with a floating structure…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Oracle moved to voluntarily drop its lawsuit against Wisconsin’s utility regulator on Monday, nearly two months after the tech giant turned to the Ozaukee County Circuit Court to challenge new credit rating requirements for data center developers in eastern Wisconsin. With the case put to rest, the credit rating rules — intended to shield other Wisconsin ratepayers from fallout in the event a data center developer goes bust — now stand unchallenged. Oracle previously argued the requirements were overly stringent and could dissuade other companies from setting up operations in Wisconsin. Oracle’s share price has begun…

The tragic death of Jason Arday raises serious questions about race, institutional authority and what happens to people in a society increasingly organised around public reputation. Arday, who resigned earlier this month as a professor at the University of Cambridge, was found dead at his home last week. He was 41. His family and friends have lost somebody they loved and cared for. Arday had publicly said that the scrutiny of allegations concerning his academic work and claims he had made about his life was taking a profound toll. That he then died amid an intense and continuing media examination of his life…

Claim: An image authentically showed South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace with tattoos on her arms. Rating: In August 2026, an image circulated online that social media users claimed showed South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace with tattoos on her arms.  One X user who shared (archived) the image wrote, “Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) reveals new tattoos in recent appearance.” Similar images of Mace wearing a sleeveless blue top that revealed multiple tattoos on both arms also circulated on Facebook (archived), Threads (archived), Instagram (archived), Reddit (archived) and Bluesky (archived). Snopes readers contacted us about the image, asking whether it was real.…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US envoy Jared Kushner agreed on Monday that an American general would verify Hamas’s disarmament, an Israeli official said, as the premier insisted there would be no pullout from Gaza until then. The understanding marks a new attempt by President Donald Trump’s administration to satisfy Israel after Netanyahu, facing a tough re-election fight, publicly rejected the latest part of a US plan aimed at ending the devastating Gaza war. Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and a longtime family friend of Netanyahu, met the Israeli leader in Jerusalem a day after holding rare direct talks in Egypt with…

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has been heckled on a visit to the area of the country worst hit by wildfires, as blazes continue to cause further deaths and evacuations across Europe.About 200 people gathered at the town hall in Le Porge, south-western France, on Monday, where 183 homes burned down.The organiser of a group of affected residents accused the prime minister of not wanting to meet them, while Lecornu’s office it has “nothing to hide” about how fire operations have been conducted, AFP reports.The prime minister announced €12m (£10.3m) of aid for the Gironde and Landes regions, while the…

Another big element of Reform’s planned cuts comes from taking away benefits from foreign nationals. It claims around £20bn could be saved from its £50bn target if they were banned from getting benefits including Universal Credit (UC).More than a million UC claimants were born overseas including around 700,000 EU citizens who arrived in the UK before Brexit and have the right to live and work in the country.It’s important to bear in mind that around half of EU citizens claiming UC are in employment. The government doesn’t provide figures for the number of foreign nationals claiming other benefits.But taking away…