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A new study is raising serious questions about UnitedHealth Group, claiming the insurance giant's actual profit margins are four times what the company publicly reported. If the findings hold up, that's not an accounting rounding error — that's a gap with real consequences for patients, regulators, and the entire debate around healthcare costs in this country.
Shifting to the open social web, Flipboard has acquired Graze, a startup that built feed-curation tools for Bluesky. Graze also brought privacy-friendly ad technology and creator monetization into the mix, and Flipboard is betting those tools help it build something sustainable on the decentralized web — where attention exists but reliable revenue has been harder to pin down.
And in a story that sits somewhere between clever and cautionary, a security researcher managed to register a Linux machine as a trusted device on Apple's Find My network, pulling live location data that Apple typically reserves for its own hardware. The researcher was careful to note this isn't a mass surveillance exploit — it required prior consent from a friend — but it only took less than a week of work, which is the part worth sitting with.
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