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The sprawling site in central New Delhi where India hosted a global summit on the impact of artificial intelligence was packed with tens of thousands of people this week, as major tech leaders from OpenAI’s Sam Altman to Google’s Sundar Pichai descended on the capital. This year’s edition of the …
Read More »Data breach at Canada Computers & Electronics leaks personal customer information
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Canada Computers & Electronics says a data breach has leaked information about some of its customers, …
Read More »Inflation ticks up to 2.4% in December as last year’s GST break impacts data
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Canada’s annual inflation rate ticked up to 2.4 per cent in December compared to the same …
Read More »Time’s almost up to claim a slice of the bread price-fixing settlement. But how safe is your data?
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. There are only a few days left for Canadians to get their slice of a $500-million settlement in a class-action lawsuit related to the industry-wide price fixing …
Read More »Ontario jails set to hit overcrowding record as bail reform looms, data shows
Ontario jails are heading toward a record year for overcrowding, remand populations and lockdowns just as politicians debate bail reforms that could lead to a further influx of accused behind bars, data analyzed by CBC News reveals. In the first six months of 2025, the jail population averaged 10,800 prisoners, …
Read More »New data shows RSV shots prevent ‘most dangerous’ respiratory infection for newborns
As Katrina Bellavance’s seven-week-old daughter kept coughing non-stop, the Calgary mother unzipped her newborn’s pajamas and saw the skin around her tiny ribs tugging inward with each laboured breath. “In that moment, we knew we had to get her to the hospital as soon as possible,” Bellavance recalled of that …
Read More »AI-related data centres use vast amounts of water. But gauging how much is a murky business
On a dry, hot day this summer, Kathryn Barnwell, a retired English professor, marched up the road from her home in Nanaimo, B.C., to take another crack at the mayor. Leonard Krog, a longtime friend of Barnwell’s, was standing by the entrance to a parched wooded lot, the proposed site …
Read More »Man behind PowerSchool breach that exposed Canadian students’ data sentenced to 4 years in prison
A Massachusetts man who breached the network of education software provider PowerSchool to steal data belonging to millions of students and teachers and extort the company was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in prison. Matthew Lane, 20, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Margaret Guzman in Worcester, Mass., after he pleaded guilty in …
Read More »Canadian Tire says customer info caught in data breach on e-commerce platform
Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. says it has identified a data breach involving personal information belonging to customers, which was stored in an e-commerce database. The retailer says the breached information belongs to shoppers who had an e-commerce account with Canadian Tire or its other banners, SportChek, Mark’s/L’Equipeur and Party City. …
Read More »Chinese-backed hackers ‘almost certainly’ targeted Canada during theft of millions of Americans’ data
A Chinese hacking group that may have stolen information from nearly every American “almost certainly” targeted a Canadian telecommunications company as well, according to a warning from Canada’s cyber intelligence agency. The prowess of the Beijing-backed group often referred to as Salt Typhoon is back in the news after more than …
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