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France : 680,000 Taxpayers Threatened After a Cyberattack Against the DGFiP

France faces a new leak of sensitive data. A hacker claims to have extracted information concerning nearly 678,000 taxpayers following fraudulent access to the DGFiP system.

2026-08-14 · 17:20 UTC
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Crypto

Israel’s Largest Bank Will Give Bitcoin Trading Another Try

2026-08-14 · 17:14

Bank Leumi's 2022 attempt died at the Bank of Israel.

Sports

State judge orders Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers

2026-08-14 · 17:13

Kalshi ordered to stop offering bets in Washington, must implement geofencing.

Sports

Davies calls for WRU board to step down

2026-08-14 · 17:12

Former Wales captain Jonathan Davies calls for the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) board to step down.

Tech

PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider

2026-08-14 · 17:03

"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.

Crypto

UK authorities continue probe into Nigel Farage’s crypto ‘gifts’ after by-election win

2026-08-14 · 17:03

The UK lawmaker declared victory following a by-election, triggering a resumption of an investigation from the…

World

Activists try to deliver aid to Palestinians in homes besieged by Israeli settlers

2026-08-14 · 17:03

Two families have been trapped in their homes in the occupied West Bank for several days.

World

UK diplomats no longer get hardship bonus for being posted to Buenos Aires

2026-08-14 · 17:00

Civil servants are entitled to extra money for working in difficult or dangerous cities around the world.

World

Five years after the Taliban swept to power, does the West have any influence?

2026-08-14 · 17:00

Five years after the Taliban swept to power, many are asking whether the West has any bargaining chips left

Crypto

Ethereum Foundation Drops Poseidon for Simpler, Quantum-Resistant Design

2026-08-14 · 17:00

Justin Drake says Ethereum's base layer will move to standard hashes like SHA-2 instead of Poseidon for a simpler, more…

Crypto

BlockDAG Could Net You Daily Passive Income: Bittensor & Cronos Plough $2M into Presale in 24 Hours

2026-08-14 · 17:00

Bittensor (TAO) price is consolidating near $198 to $202 after breaking down from a months-long symmetric triangle,…

Other

Why is Selena Gomez being sued?

2026-08-14 · 16:59

BBC journalist Ana Guerra-Moore looks at why investors who backed Wondermind Global are claiming the pop star failed to…

Tech

A Contract-Grade Verifier for LLM-Generated GPU Kernels

2026-08-14 · 16:57

Researchers developed a rigorous verification tool to audit GPU kernels generated by language models, finding that 39.5%…

Sports

Start of England's community rugby season postponed

2026-08-14 · 16:55

The Rugby Football Union delays the start of the community rugby season because of concerns about player welfare and…

Science

Discrete Fourier Transform by Hand

2026-08-14 · 16:52

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World

Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election

2026-08-14 · 16:45

Count Binface, a satirical election candidate, received nearly 10,000 votes (26.9%) in the Clacton by-election, his…

Tech

Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua

2026-08-14 · 16:43

LuaCAD is a parametric CAD tool that allows users to script 2D and 3D models in Lua and export them to various formats…

Sports

Sunrisers comfortably beat Brave to reach women's Hundred final

2026-08-14 · 16:39

Sunrisers Leeds hold their nerve to beat Southern Brave in the women's eliminator, securing a five-wicket win at The…

Tech

The Qdrant Output Connector

2026-08-14 · 16:35

The Qdrant Output Connector integrates Qdrant, a Rust-based vector database, into OpenCrawling's enterprise RAG system…

World

France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s

2026-08-14 · 16:35

The Constitutional Council says it infringes upon freedom of expression - but President Macron vows to prepare a new…

Crypto

Bitcoin Hashrate Slips 17% Off Record as Miners Chase AI

2026-08-14 · 16:31

Bitcoin’s network hashrate has fallen as much as 17% below its all-time high, per CryptoQuant, as publicly listed miners…

Science

Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch

2026-08-14 · 16:29

It turns out that the economics of rocket reuse are pretty, pretty good.

Sports

British cyclist Tarling dies in Volta a Portugal accident

2026-08-14 · 16:26

British cyclist Finlay Tarling dies at the age of 19 in a serious accident during the eighth stage of the Volta a…

Sports

Sunrisers defy superb Wong to reach Hundred final

2026-08-14 · 16:23

Sunrisers Leeds survive a late wobble to beat Southern Brave in the Eliminator and reach the women's Hundred final on…