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Fashion retailer Asos is warning customers about the full scope of a data breach — and the disclosure only came after hackers contacted the BBC directly. Names, home addresses, phone numbers, emails, and customer account numbers are now in criminal hands. It's a reminder that companies don't always move fast enough on their own.
From cybersecurity to an unexpected ripple of geopolitics — tensions in the Strait of Hormuz are reshaping life in one of Cairo's most remarkable neighbourhoods. Nearly one hundred and twenty thousand residents of Manshiyet Nasser process a third of the city's waste every day. With Gulf polyethylene shipments disrupted, these long-marginalised recyclers are suddenly central to a supply chain rethink. It's a story about how distant crises land in very local places.
And closer to the tech world's conscience — the Center for Humane Technology, the nonprofit Tristan Harris built to challenge Silicon Valley's attention economy, is laying off most of its staff and shifting to what it's calling a founder-led model. Internal tensions over strategy had been simmering for years, according to sources speaking to Wired. Even the critics of tech, it turns out, aren't immune to institutional friction.
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