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A major data breach is hitting close to home for millions of Americans. Healthcare software company Unlimited Technology Systems has confirmed that hackers may have stolen sensitive personal and medical data belonging to three point eight million people. The breach method remains unknown, and no group has claimed responsibility, though the company is offering free identity monitoring through Kroll.
On the policy front, governments are turning their attention to VPNs as a tool for bypassing age verification systems online. Australia's eSafety Commissioner has asked tech companies to actively detect and block VPNs used to circumvent age checks, and the UK's Technology Secretary has raised similar proposals. Critics argue this approach creates serious privacy risks without meaningfully solving the underlying problem.
And in the world of engineering, design platform Canva has shared details of a significant infrastructure overhaul. The company rebuilt its session revocation system to handle one hundred million active sessions, using Amazon S3 for storage and distributing compact in-memory indexes to application gateways. The result was an eighty-seven point five percent reduction in cache memory footprint and faster deployments across the board.
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