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    Nintendo’s San Francisco store opens on May 15th.

    The store, which is located in San Francisco’s Union Square, will open its doors a little less than one year after Nintendo first announced it. It marks Nintendo’s second retail location in the US, offering games and consoles, along with accessories, apparel, home goods, and souvenirs exclusive to the San Francisco store.

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    Emma Roth
    Allstate sued for ‘back-to-back’ data breaches.

    In a lawsuit filed this week, NY Attorney General Letitia James accused Allstate’s subsidiary, National General, of storing customers’ driver’s license numbers in plain text, leading to a 2020 breach that exposed the information of more than 12,000 people.

    Following this incident, James alleges National General “continued to leave driver’s license numbers exposed” on a separate website, which allowed hackers to get ahold of the personal information of more than 187,000 customers the following year. She also claims National General failed to properly notify affected customers.

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    Emma Roth
    Researchers spotted North Korean spyware on the Google Play Store.

    One of the malicious apps masqueraded as a file manager and had more than 10 downloads, according to the cybersecurity firm Lookout. The app contained Android spyware called KoSpy, which Lookout attributes to the North Korean hacking group APT37. It’s capable of collecting a device’s SMS messages, call logs, location, files, and more.

    Lookout says the apps it found have since been removed from the Google Play Store.

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    Google has a 14 percent stake in Anthropic.

    That’s according to legal filings seen by The New York Times, which says Google can’t own more than 15 percent of the AI startup, and has no voting rights, board seats, or board observer rights. Google has invested a total of $3 billion into Anthropic so far, and it plans to invest $750 million more in September, the NYT reports.

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    Emma Roth
    Trump nominates Sean Plankey to lead the CISA.

    Plankey isn’t new to the Trump administration, as he previously served as the principal deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Energy from 2019 to 2020. He also worked as the director for cyber policy with the National Security Council before that.