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ADT, the home security company millions of Americans trust to protect their homes, has confirmed that customer data was stolen in a cyber intrusion. The breach is a pointed irony — a security firm itself breached — and raises fresh questions about how well the industry safeguards the personal information of the very customers paying for protection.
On a quieter but significant note, SQLite, the lightweight database engine embedded in billions of devices, has been formally recognized by the Library of Congress as a recommended storage format for digital preservation. That's a meaningful endorsement, signaling that the format is considered stable and trustworthy enough to store records meant to last generations, not just product cycles.
And in a development that blurs the line between homage and novelty, a project called Naval dot chat is offering users an AI character modeled on entrepreneur Naval Ravikant, accessible directly through iMessage. It's the latest sign that AI personas are moving out of dedicated apps and into the everyday communication tools people already live inside — raising real questions about authenticity, influence, and consent.
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