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connected car
Some car apps are slipping owners’ data to big tech companies

The app that comes with your car may be sharing what it knows about you with some of the biggest tech companies. Northeastern University researchers tested 21 vehicles and 30 …

Proton Drive
Product showcase: Proton Drive end-to-end encrypted cloud storage

Proton Drive is an end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service for storing, synchronizing, backing up, and sharing files. It also includes Proton Docs and Proton Sheets, …

surveillance
Other users can watch your browsing and time your keystrokes through OS file notifications

Researchers at Graz University of Technology have used the file-notification systems in Windows, Linux, and macOS to spy on activity in other accounts. On Windows, a standard …

drunk AI
“Drunk” AI is terrible at keeping secrets

AI models taught to write like drunk people became easier to jailbreak and more likely to leak secrets shared in confidence. That is the finding of UNSW Sydney researchers …

AI
AI tests the limits of enterprise security governance

AI agents are forcing enterprises to rethink security governance, human accountability and oversight as deployments scale. AWS’s Reimagine 2026 argues that organizations …

AI glasses
Meta locks itself out of user data on its AI glasses

Meta is expanding Private Processing to its AI glasses, extending their security protections into cloud data centers. The system runs AI models inside confidential virtual …

Google
Google hit with €403 million GDPR fine over location tracking

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Google €403 million (about $463 million) over its processing of users’ location data and ordered the company to bring that …

Helmit
Product showcase: Helmit alerts parents when online conversations show signs of trouble

Helmit is a parental control app that combines AI-powered social media monitoring with screen time management, web filtering, location tracking, and safety alerts. It …

mSecure password manager
Product showcase: mSecure makes one vault do more than remember passwords

mSecure is a password manager and data vault for storing credentials and other sensitive information. It is available for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows, with data …

WhatsApp
WhatsApp Restricted Chat locks a conversation to your primary phone

WhatsApp is building a per-chat setting that keeps a conversation on a single phone. The setting, called Restricted Chat, sits in the Android beta distributed through Google …

Revolut
What we know about the Revolut data breach so far

Someone impersonating a government agency, using an email address on that agency’s domain, obtained sensitive customer records from Revolut. The bank confirmed the …

eye
Researchers built a $7 gadget for anyone paranoid about hidden cameras in hotel rooms

Most of us, staying in a hotel room or a vacation rental, have wondered at least once whether we’re safe there, whether someone might be watching or recording us without …

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