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- Google Drive adds thumbnail previews when watching videos
- Much like YouTube, it will let you spot exact moments in videos
- It'll be available to all Google Drive users soon
Scouring through videos to find the moment you need should soon get a lot easier thanks to a new update coming to Google Drive.
The cloud storage platform has revealed users will now be able to see a thumbnail preview image when hovering over a video's progress bar.
Much like when viewing a video in YouTube, this feature should allow users to quickly navigate around a video, making it easier to track down the specific moments they need.
Google Drive video thumbnails(Image credit: Google Workspace)"With the ability to find the right moments in videos, this update improves productivity and the overall video viewing experience in Google Drive," the company wrote in a Google Workspace updates blog post.
The feature will only be available for new videos uploaded to your Drive account via web or mobile app.
Users will then need to open the newly uploaded video in Drive web, and can then simply hover their mouse over the video progress bar to see thumbnail previews. Dragging your mouse along the progress bar will let you quickly run through the video using the thumbnails to find the spot you need.
What's even better is that the feature will be open to all users, with the company noting it will be on offer to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts.
It is rolling out now, and also won't require any extra admin control to utilize.
The feature is the latest in a series of Google Workspace upgrades aiming to boost productivity among users.
The company revealed a host of new AI tools and services for Google Workspace earlier this year, including Generated Background Images and Studio Look, Studio Lighting, and Studio Sound for Google Meet, as well as Translate for me, coming to Google Chat.
This was soon followed by a number of AI-powered office software upgrades at its Google Cloud Next 25 event designed to give users a productivity and creativity boost when they need it most, including new audio tools in Google Docs which can create listenable versions of your document, as well as upgraded analysis tools for Google Sheets to help get the most out of your data.
You might also likeDebuting on HBO and HBO Max in October 2025, a brand new trailer for Pennywise prequel series IT: Welcome to Derry was unveiled at San Diego Comic Con 2025, and it’s already one of the scariest things I’ve watched this year. The show will take us back to where it all started in the 1960s, where the town of Derry is haunted by evil, and unbeknownst to them, a killer clown who just happens to be responsible for all the missing kids.
If you’re trying to figure out the full timeline, the 2017 movie version of IT was set in 1988, with follow-up film IT: Chapter Two taking place 27 years later. Bill Skarsgård has played Pennywise in all three projects, and he’s aged incredibly well if the fleeting prequel footage is anything to go by. We know how his story ended, but its beginnings are still shrouded in mystery, and that mystery is probably absolutely hideous.
We’re not going to see The Losers’ Club this time around, but that doesn’t mean IT: Welcome to Derry will be devoid of other Stephen King movies lore. In fact, I noticed an epic crossover in the new trailer, and if you missed it, rest assured the sneaky Easter egg is staring you directly in the face.
IT: Welcome to Derry’s new trailer nods to Stephen King’s most upsetting story of all timeNot content with merely scaring us silly over the last few decades, King’s also enjoyed reducing us to tears too. The Shawshank Redemption is one of the most famous examples of this, adapted as a film in 1994 to explore the bond between two men imprisoned in Shawshank. Why is this relevant? Because 57 seconds into the IT: Welcome to Derry trailer above, you’ll see a bunch of male prisoners on board a bus reading ‘Shawshank State Prison’ along its navy side.
It’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, but it’s also the kind that will make horror movie fans gasp the moment they see it. We’ve got no idea what role (if any) the prison could play in the new TV show, but from the way the trailer sets up the significance of the bus, it might be more than a mere Easter egg. Two of our new juvenile Pennywise hunters come across our bussed-off prisoners in fear-striken-awe, with the killer clown’s signature red balloon floating along a riverbank nearby directly after.
This could easily mean Pennywise is a former Shawshank inmate, except instead of making a 90s movie that could reduce you to tears just by thinking about it, he decided to harm innocent children instead. The fact Pennywise’s backstory is basically all to play for might just be the most intriguing part of IT: Welcome to Derry, purely because we’ve simply got no bearing on what might be coming. What could be scarier than the fear of the unknown?
Will we see even more Stephen King Easter eggs as the TV show starts airing? Who knows. But thanks to this sneaky scene, I’ll be keeping my eyes peeled like the armchair detective I was born to be.
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- The top iPhone 17 models could get 8x optical zoom
- An extra camera button could also be added
- Apple is said to be working on a pro-level camera app
If Apple sticks to its usual schedule then we're less than two months away from the launch of the iPhone 17 models, and it sounds as though the Pro and Pro Max models are in line to get three key upgrades related to cameras and photography.
According to an anonymous tipster who contacted MacRumors, the first upgrade is going to be a jump to 8x optical zoom, which would be up from the 5x optical zoom you can find in the iPhone 16 Pro and the iPhone 16 Pro Max.
Second, there's apparently going to be a second Camera Control button on the opposite side to the current Camera Control on the iPhone 16 models – which is on the right hand side of the handsets if you hold them in portrait mode.
The original Camera Control button lets you open the Camera app and tweak a variety of settings for taking pictures, including exposure and tone. Apparently the new button will "complement" the existing one with its own choice of settings.
A new camera app?The Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max (Image credit: Future / Lance Ulanoff)Finally, the third upgrade predicted by this tipster is a new "pro camera app" from Apple for photos and videos. It's not clear if this would be an iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max exclusive – it might be made available for other iPhones too.
The new app would take on the likes of Halide and Filmic Pro, available on the App Store. The tipster says that this app may arrive as an update to the Final Cut Camera app that Apple already makes, though presumably it would come preinstalled.
We don't really know anything about this tipster, so of course take these rumors with a grain of salt. The information is said to come from a commercial that's being filmed for Apple – and which will be used to show off this year's big new features.
If all of this is accurate, it would be one of the most significant iPhone camera upgrades in quite some time, and 8K video might be included as well. We're also expecting the Pro and Pro Max models to get a noticeable design refresh too.
You might also like- OpenAI’s CEO says using ChatGPT for therapy has serious privacy risks
- Your private chats might be exposed if OpenAI were to face a lawsuit
- Feeding your private thoughts into an opaque AI is also a risky move
One of the upshots of having an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant like ChatGPT everywhere you go is that people start leaning on it for things it was never meant for. According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, that includes therapy and personal life advice – but it could lead to all manner of privacy problems in the future.
On a recent episode of the This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von podcast, Altman explained one major difference between speaking to a human therapist and using an AI for mental health support: “Right now, if you talk to a therapist or a lawyer or a doctor about those problems, there’s legal privilege for it. There’s doctor-patient confidentiality, there’s legal confidentiality, whatever. And we haven’t figured that out yet for when you talk to ChatGPT.”
One potential outcome of that is that OpenAI would be legally required to cough up those conversations were it to face a lawsuit, Altman claimed. Without the legal confidentiality that you get when speaking to doctor or a registered therapist, there would be relatively little to stop your private worries being aired to the public.
Altman added that ChatGPT is being used in this way by many users, especially young people, who might be especially vulnerable to that kind of exposure. But regardless of your age, the conversation topics are not the type of content that most people would be happy to see revealed to the wider world.
A risky endeavor(Image credit: Theo Von)The risk of having your private conversations opened up to scrutiny is just one privacy risk facing ChatGPT users.
There is also the issue of feeding your deeply personal worries and concerns into an opaque algorithm like ChatGPT’s, with the possibility that it might be used to train OpenAI’s algorithm and leak its way back out when other users ask similar questions.
That’s one reason why many companies have licensed their own ring-fenced versions of AI chatbots. Another alternative is an AI like Lumo, which is built by privacy stalwarts Proton and features top-level encryption to protect everything you write.
Of course, there’s also the question of whether an AI like ChatGPT can replace a therapist in the first place. While there might be some benefits to this, any AI is simply regurgitating the data it is trained on. None are capable of original thought, which limits the effectiveness of the advice they can give you.
Whether or not you choose to open up to OpenAI, it’s clear that there’s a privacy minefield surrounding AI chatbots, whether that means a lack of confidentiality or the danger of having your deepest thoughts used as training data for an inscrutable algorithm.
It’s going to require a lot of effort and clarity before enlisting an AI therapist is a significantly less risky endeavor.
You might also like- Tea is a popular 'dating safety tool' that just suffered a data breach
- 72,000 images pertaining to the app were involved, some of which were user photo IDs
- There's an ongoing investigation, but the obvious worry here is potential identity theft for those whose images were exposed
Tea is a popular mobile app designed as a 'dating safety tool' to protect women and has been around since 2023.
Its full name is Tea Dating Advice, and the central idea is a women-only app that gives those who are dating the ability to access background checks on men. This includes whether they have a criminal record (or if they're sex offenders), as well as reverse image searching to identify catfishing (assuming a false identity online).
At the end of last week, as NBC News reported, Tea admitted that it had suffered a data breach in which 72,000 images were accessed by the intruder.
That included 13,000 images (selfies and photo ID) submitted by users during account verification. The other 59,000 images were also provided by users and "publicly viewable" in posts (and direct messages) on the app.
As Tea acknowledged on its Instagram account, these images were stored on an 'archived data system' and the firm said that any users who signed up for Tea during or after February 2024 won't be affected. In other words, this is old data archived on a server that only pertains to older posts and accounts before that date.
The company made it clear that the photos "can in no way be linked to posts within Tea".
A Tea spokesperson told NBC: "This data was originally stored in compliance with law enforcement requirements related to cyberbullying prevention."
NBC reported that the hack may be connected to 4chan, with a 4chan poster allegedly allowing for the database of stolen images to be downloaded on that platform. Supposed ID photos from Tea users are also said to have been posted on some social media outlets, too, but obviously, exercise caution around such reports.
Tea said that it has more than four million users in total, and it became the top free app in Apple's App Store in the US this past week (having recently gained a million new members).
Tea said it's conducting an ongoing investigation into the security incident, which includes external cybersecurity experts, and that it has notified law enforcement in the US.
(Image credit: Tea)Do you think you've been affected by this breach - if so, what should you do?The key point to remember here is that if you signed up more recently for Tea, you shouldn't be affected by this breach. As noted, the impact only extends to an archive server and members who joined before February 2024.
At least that's according to what we know from the investigation so far, and the apparent extent of the breach - so the caveat is that we assume the ongoing investigation won't reveal anything else has been accessed.
The other important point to remember here is that only the images were accessed, according to Tea, and no personal data relating to members, such as email addresses or phone numbers.
The worrying part about the data that was accessed, though, is that some of it contains official IDs (and selfies) which could potentially be used for identity theft. It's worth noting here that Tea also clarifies (in an official statement flagged by USA Today) that it no longer requires an official ID for sign-up, and dispensed with that requirement in 2023.
If you joined Tea before February 2024 and provided a government ID for the sign-up process, then the latter could have been exposed. There's no clear way of knowing that at this point, but it's safest to assume that your ID (or other images) may have been leaked online.
That means this information could end up in the hands of a bad actor, sadly, but it's difficult to say whether that will happen for sure, or indeed to know if it does happen.
What you can do for now as an obvious first line of defense is keep an eye on your finances (bank accounts and credit card statements), watching for any irregularities. In all honesty, this is something you should do anyway, as fraud is an ever-present danger these days with a growing number of scams (alongside data breaches like this one).
A further proactive move is to sign up for one of the best credit monitoring services, and the good news is that you can get this for free (from Experian).
What these services do is keep an eye out for your personal details (from, say, a stolen ID) being used online in suspicious circumstances, bringing these incidents to your attention, so you can be aware of anything potentially underhanded before it comes to fruition. There are also full identity theft protection suites out there, too, for a more comprehensive level of protection.
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- Allianz Life confirms losing sensitive data on the "majority" of its customers
- Around 1.4 million people could be at risk, it admits
- ShinyHunters is the prime suspect at the moment
Insurance giant Allianz Life has confirmed suffering a cyberattack which saw it lose sensitive data on the “majority” of its customers, with over a million people at risk.
The North American insurance giant said the attack happened on July 16, 2025, when a threat actor accessed a third-party, cloud-based CRM system the company uses.
After finding out about the intrusion, the company took measures to contain it, and notified the FBI. So far, there is no evidence the company’s network or other systems were accessed, it was added.
ShinyHunters strike again?"The threat actor was able to obtain personally identifiable data related to the majority of Allianz Life's customers, financial professionals, and select Allianz Life employees, using a social engineering technique,” a company spokesperson explained.
"Our investigation is ongoing and we began the process of reaching out to individuals impacted with dedicated resources to assist them. This incident is related only to Allianz Life, which currently has 1.4 million customers."
While Allianz Life did not discuss the identity and the motive of the attackers, BleepingComputer claims this was the work of ShinyHunters, a known threat actor with numerous successful breaches under its belt.
The group has been around since roughly 2020, and during that time, compromised a number of high-profile organizations, including Microsoft, Mashable, and Nitro PDF. It even claims to have breached AT&T, although the telco denied the breach ever happened.
Allianz Life (short for Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America) provides life insurance and annuity products across the United States.
It manages a portfolio exceeding $124 billion, primarily invested in high-quality securities, and has roughly 1.4 million customers.
How to stay safeThe attack is particularly concerning as such records could contain more than enough of sensitive information for hackers to launch highly personalized, successful phishing campaigns, leading to identity theft, wire fraud, and even ransomware attacks.
If you're concerned you may have been caught up in the incident, don't worry - there are a number of methods to find out. HaveIBeenPwned? is probably the best resource only to check if your details have been affected, offering a run-down of every big cyber incident of the past few years.
And if you save passwords to a Google account, you can use Google's Password Checkup tool to see if any have been compromised, or sign up for one of the best password manager options we've rounded up to make sure your logins are protected.
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