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The North Face has notified customers of a data breachHackers ran a credential stuffing attack on its website and breached customer accountsThey stole names, addresses, and phone numbersThe North Face has confirmed suffering a credential stuffing attack through which cybercriminals exfiltrated sensitive customer information.The outdoor clothing and equipment company has filed a new notice with the Vermont Attorney General which also included the data breach notification letter sent out to affected customers.In the letter, the company said it discovered “unusual activity” on its website on April 23, 2025. The subsequent investigation showed that an unidentified attacker ran a “small-scale credential stuffing attack”, using login credentials obtained elsewhere, most likely purchased from the dark web.Save up to 68% on identity theft protection for TechRadar readersTechRadar editors praise Aura's upfront pricing and simplicity. Aura also includes a password manager, VPN, and antivirus to make its security solution an even more compelling deal.Preferred partner (What does this mean?)View DealPayment information intact“Credential stuffing attacks can occur when individuals use the same authentication credentials on multiple websites,” The North Face said. “We encourage all of our customers to use a unique password on our website.”The crooks made away with people’s shipping addresses, preference information, email addresses, full names, dates of birth, and phone numbers.“Payment card (credit, debit, or stored value card) information was not compromised on our website,” the company added.“The attacker could not view your payment card number, expiration date, or your CVV (the short code on the back of your card).”As The North Face explained, payment data was not taken because it’s not being stored on its servers. The company only retains a token linked to the payment card, while the payment processor retains the details.“The token cannot be used to initiate a purchase anywhere other than on our website. Accordingly, your credit card information is not at risk as a result of this incident.”The North Face also said notifying customers wasn’t necessary, given the nature of the stolen information, but still decided to do it “out of an abundance of caution.” Still, names, birth dates, postal addresses, and phone numbers are more than enough information to create custom, convincing phishing emails that can result in identity theft, payment information theft and wire fraud, identity theft, and more.Via BleepingComputerYou might also likeMillions of Vans, North Face customers confirmed hit in data breachTake a look at our guide to the best authenticator appWe've rounded up the best password managers

You can now create Sora AI videos in the Bing app on mobileYou get 10 credits, but can earn more by searching with BingVideos are portrait and five seconds long with more formats coming soonRemember Bing, Microsoft’s attempt to take on the mighty Google in search? I’ve got to admit, I’d completely forgotten about it until Microsoft’s latest trick to make it relevant again caught me off guard: It has added Sora AI video creation to the Bing app on iOS and Android, for free!Since you would normally need to be a ChatGPT Plus subscriber (which costs $20 a month) to get access to Sora, that’s a pretty sweet deal.However, a look at the small print shows there are some restrictions. You get 10 ‘fast creations’ credits to start with, and each time you create a video with Bing Video Creator you gobble up a credit.Using 'fast credits' your video will be created in just a few minutes. Once you’re out of fast credits you switch to Standard speed. Standard means that it will take Bing “approximately several hours per video” to generate anything.Intriguingly, the 'fast credits' don't auto-renew each month, but instead you can earn more of them by searching using the Bing search engine.Microsoft has produced a video to show you how Bing Video Creator works:Using Bing Video CreatorTo use Bing Video Creator you have to be using the Bing app on mobile, available on the App Store and Google Play Store.Once it's running just tap the apps icon at the bottom right of the Bing screen to access all the apps it contains. Next, tap on Video Creator.You can then type in a prompt for your video. Obviously, the more descriptive you are with your prompts the better the video will be, but to test it out I tried something very simple: “A tiger prowling through the jungle” and hit the Create button.Just a couple of minutes later, I had my five second AI video. And it had only used up one of my 'fast creations' credits.I could share my video using all the usual methods on my iPhone, and the video file it produced was only 7MB in size. Videos created in Bing Video Creator are five seconds long and can be created in 9:16 format with 16:9 format “coming soon”.Here it is:Unlike Google’s recently released Veo 3 AI video creator, you can’t lip-sync voices in Sora videos, so you can’t make videos of people saying things, although it surely can’t be long before OpenAI add this feature to Sora. There also didn’t seem to be any way of adding sound to the video at all in Bing.We all know that Microsoft has had a long-standing alliance with OpenAI which has meant that Copilot is powered by the ChatGPT search engine. This has sometimes meant that you can access premium features that you’d normally have to pay for via a ChatGPT.The addition of Bing Video Creator is another welcome advantage of this deal, even if it's currently only available on mobile, however, Microsoft says that a desktop version is coming soon.Earning more creditsThe most interesting part of the new tool is how you earn 'fast creation' credits. To gain more you can redeem 100 Microsoft Rewards points for a single credit. You can earn these reward points by searching using Bing on desktop or mobile, browsing using the Edge browser or gaming using the Xbox console, provided you are logged in with your Microsoft account.For example, you can earn five points by searching just once using Bing on either mobile or PC desktop. So, the more you search with Bing, the more Sora videos you can create.Offering Sora video credits for searching in Bing is a clever tactic from Microsoft, and who knows, it might just bring Bing back into the spotlight again?You might also likeDid ChatGPT ruin the em dash? Here’s how to stop it from putting them everywhere5 power-hungry appliances that use less energy than generating an image in ChatGPTNothing shows how far ChatGPT’s images have come than two pictures generated with the same prompt, but created a year apart

Early adopters are in a much better position to win – "just do it," Sam Altman saysToday, AI is an intern, but soon it'll be an experienced worker capable of tackling complex problemsThe next step is AGI, but does that mean accelerated scientific discoveries, self-improvement, or something else?OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has offered his honest insights into the evolving AI landscape, comparing previous, current and future trends to point enterprises in the right direction."I think, just do it," Altman said in an interview with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy at the company's Summit 2025 event, highlighting that companies waiting for the next AI breakthrough risk being left behind."When things are changing quickly, the companies that have the quickest adoption speed... win," he added.AGI definition is shiftingReflecting on how his guidance has changed over the past year, Altman noted a major shift in AI's capabilities just in this short period of time."We hit a real inflection point for the use of these models," he said, but "an interesting question is what we say different next year."Looking ahead, Altman said he envisions businesses adopting AI not just to automate routine processes but to tackle bigger challenges.In 2026, he predicts companies will, "throw a tonne of compute" at "hugely important problem[s]" and "the models will be able to go figure out things that teams of people on their own can't do."Altman likened today's AI to "an intern that can work for a couple of hours," but foresees a near future where AI resembles an experienced or senior worker. The OpenAI founder predicts that "in some limited cases [and] in some small ways" we could see agents capable of discovering new knowledge pretty soon, and the use cases are only set to increase with further developments.When asked about artificial general intelligence (AGI), Altman explained that humans are very good as adjusting their expectations, challenging static definitions of the term. Casting his mind back five years, he said that most people might have considered today's ChatGPT to be AGI, but our expectations today have furthered."The thing that matters is the rate of progress that you see year-over-year over the last five years should continue for at least the next five, probably well beyond that," he added, suggesting we're nowhere near the top.His preferred purpose for AGI would be to significantly increase, maybe "quadruple," scientific discovery, but he also acknowledges that others see AGI as a system capable of self-improvement, potentially even consciousness.Concluding, Altman was asked a hypothetical question – what would he do if he had 1,000x more compute?"I would ask it to work super hard on AI research, figure out how to build much better models, and then ask that much better model what we should do with all the compute," he said.Offering us a glimpse into the not-too-distant future from OpenAI, Altman revealed that "the models over the next year, two years, are gonna be quite breathtaking... there's a lot of progress to come."You might also likeSam Altman says how people use ChatGPT reflects their age – and college students are relying on it to make ‘life decisions’We've listed the best AI tools and best AI writers available todayAccess powerful chips with the best cloud computing services

You can no longer use Google Wallet to pay with your PayPal account in the US. As Android Authority has reported, Google has updated the Wallet Help page to state that the integration will be ending on June 13. Your linked PayPal account can no longer be used to pay for anything, and it will automatically be deleted from the digital wallet application. To be able to continue paying online with the app, including recurring payments for subscriptions, you'd have to add at least one card if you haven't yet.

While it's no longer possible to link a PayPal account to Wallet, it'll still work as intended if you attach a PayPal-branded debit card to the app, which will also let you spend your Paypal balance. It's just the account integration itself that will no longer work. That said, the change seems to only affect users in the US. In Germany, where the option to link PayPal accounts to Wallet is also available, PayPal will continue supporting the integration.

Google Wallet lets you store cards for payment online and for tap-to-pay services, as well as documents that include digital passports, state IDs, driver's licenses, virtual car keys and flight information. Last year, Google shut down its standalone Pay app in favor of Wallet in order to simplify its payment options. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/apps/google-wallets-paypal-integration-is-ending-this-june-133045777.html?src=rss

Nothing plans to launch the Phone 3, its first proper flagship, on July 1, the company announced today. We already knew the phone was coming this summer, thanks to a teaser Nothing shared during last month's The Android Show I/O Edition. During the segment, Nothing CEO Carl Pei said the new device will cost around £800 ($1080), which would easily make it the most expensive handset the company has produced to date. Pei also said Nothing plans to go "all-in" on Phone 3 with "premium materials, major performance upgrades and software that really levels things up."

Phone (3). It's a magic number. Coming July 2025. pic.twitter.com/WEQ7Vcf72H— Nothing (@nothing) May 20, 2025

It will be interesting to see how Nothing builds on the Phone 3a and 3a Pro (pictured above), the two mid-range handsets the company released earlier this year. I reviewed both phones for Engadget, and felt they offered great value for the asking price of $379 and $459. I'm also curious to see if Nothing decides to make a proper push into the US market. While you can buy the company's phones stateside, they don't have robust carrier support. In any case, we'll find out more about the new Phone 3 next month.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/the-nothing-phone-3-arrives-in-july-134121908.html?src=rss

More than 200 inmates escaped from a prison and at least one was killed in a shootout in Karachi, Pakistan, after they were temporarily moved out of their cells due to earthquake tremors, officials said Tuesday. The provincial law minister told reporters the inmates were allowed into a courtyard and there was "panic" because of the tremors. A group suddenly attacked guards, seized their weapons, opened fire and fled. A senior police official said 216 inmates fled the prison, and 78 had been recaptured. None of those who escaped were convicted or facing trial as militants.

Edifier's Doo Ace on-ear headphones are Bluetooth 6.0Just 100g, so much lighter than the equivalent Sony cansAudio codec support is a little disappointingWe've been waiting a while for the first Bluetooth 6.0 headphones to arrive, and it looks like Edifier has beaten its rivals with the launch of the terribly named but quite funky Doo Ace on-ears.The Doo Ace – a name that gets worse each time I type it – are Bluetooth 6.0 with multi-point pairing. But the presence of the latest Bluetooth doesn't necessarily mean you're going to want to buy them, as there are a few downsides to the spec – and as they're currently only available in China, you might not be able to buy them at all.(Image credit: Edifier)Edifier Doo Ace headphones: key features and pricing The Doo Ace headphones promise AI-based noise reduction, 32mm drivers and an audio jack for wired connections. There's a game mode with reduced latency, and Edifier says that you can also use them as a remote shutter control for your phone's camera.However, as Notebookcheck.net reports, the audio codec support is limited: SBC, A2DP, AVRCP and HFP – not only is there nothing like aptX or LDAC, there isn't even LC3, the better default Bluetooth audio codec that's part of Bluetooth LE Audio.At 100g, these headphones are very light compared to rivals such as the 147g Sony WH-CH520, but that light weight means less battery capacity: battery life is a claimed 25 hours, half that of the Sonys. Fast charging will give you 5 hours of playback from a 15-minute charge.There are four colors, Mother-of-Pearl White, Sunset Orange, Earth Brown, and Secret Night Blue, and the price tag in China is CNY229 (about $32 / £24).It's unknown whether the Doo Ace will be launched in other markets but of course if they are we'll let you know. As far as we can tell, they're the first headphones revealed with Bluetooth 6.0 – we can't find evidence of any others, but let us know in the comments if you've seen any announced.They're not exactly a flagship showcase of what Bluetooth can do compared to the best wireless headphones, but they're funky looking, inexpensive, and the lightness is very impressive.You might also likeThe best cheap headphones 2025, all tested by our expertsThe best on-ear headphones 2025 for all budgets, testedThe best budget wireless earbuds 2025, all tested by our very own ears