The market is witnessing the arrival of Halo X smart glasses — a device designed to transform everyday life into a continuous transcript. Creators Kane Ardayfio and Anfu Nguyen, known for last year’s privacy-breaching...
Elon Musk’s company xAI has found itself at the center of a scandal after it was revealed that user conversations with the chatbot Grok had been inadvertently exposed to the public. By clicking the...
The book From Day Zero to Zero Day, published by No Starch Press, has been released, offering a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of vulnerability research. The author presented it at DEF CON 33...
Washington and London have at last managed to reach an accord on an issue that threatened to escalate into a serious diplomatic and technological conflict. U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced that...
Stories of mistaken arrests caused by facial recognition technology are no longer rare. In 2020, Detroit resident Robert Williams was taken into custody after a faulty match generated by a low-quality surveillance image. Four...
TikTok has found itself at the center of a new scandal following an investigation by 404 Media: through TikTok Shop, vast numbers of GPS trackers and covert audio devices are being sold, brazenly advertised...
Researchers from University College London and the University of the Mediterranean in Reggio Calabria, Italy, have conducted the first large-scale investigation into privacy practices among generative AI assistants for web browsers, revealing that even...
Israel’s military intelligence unit, Unit 8200—specializing in cyber-espionage and electronic surveillance—has been using Microsoft’s cloud servers to store a vast archive of data on residents of Gaza and the West Bank. This trove, leveraged...
Whonix 17.4, a distribution purpose-built for uncompromising anonymity online, has been released. Based on Debian GNU/Linux, the system routes all network traffic exclusively through Tor, with its source code available under the GPLv3 license....
A researcher operating under the pseudonym dead1nfluence has discovered that the Internet Archive contains over 130,000 recorded conversations with popular chatbots — including Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and others. This finding suggests that with improper...
Let’s Encrypt has officially retired its OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) service, replacing it with CRL (Certificate Revocation Lists). As the organization reminded, OCSP URLs have not been included in certificates since April 2025,...
Meta is waging an intense campaign against organized scam networks in Southeast Asia, where dozens of fraudulent schemes operate in parallel. In just the first half of the year, more than 6.8 million WhatsApp...
In the autumn of 2024, Microsoft reintroduced a controversial feature in Windows called Recall—an artificial intelligence system that periodically captures screenshots, allowing users to later search through their entire on-screen activity. Marketed as a...
New provisions of the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act have come into force, mandating stringent age verification protocols for accessing content deemed potentially harmful. This move has triggered a widespread backlash, with users turning...
The saga surrounding the Tea app—marketed as a safe haven for women—has now escalated into a second major data breach within a week, and this time the implications are far more severe. An independent...
The Tails project has released a new version of its security- and privacy-focused operating system. Update 6.18 introduces a significant enhancement that enables users to circumvent internet censorship—even in the most heavily monitored regions....
