UK tribunal denies government's request to keep details of 'backdoor order' case secret, that lead to Apple disabling 'Advanced Data Protection Service' for UK customers apple privacy security.cyber Article 483 words 19 votes
Meredith Whittaker said Signal intends to exit Sweden should its government amend existing legislation essentially mandating the end of end-to-end encryption privacy Article 550 words 26 votes
More US telcos confirm Salt Typhoon breaches as White House weighs in security.cyber Article 813 words 20 votes
Bitwarden switches password manager and SDK to GPL3 after FOSS-iness drama security.cyber Article 659 words 54 votes
While web browsers warm to AI services, holdouts remain including Vivaldi browsers privacy Article 842 words 21 votes
FOSS funding vanishes from EU's 2025 Horizon program plans. Elimination of most Next Generation Internet funding 'incomprehensible,' says OW2 CEO Pierre-Yves Gibello. internet.open Link 28 votes
CrowdStrike code update bricking Windows machines around the world microsoft security.cyber Link 143 votes
Maximum-severity Cisco vulnerability allows attackers to change admin passwords Article 516 words 26 votes
British Library on why it kept it real in communication about ransomware attack security.cyber Article 953 words 9 votes
In US lawsuit, ex-Amazon AI exec claims she was asked to ignore IP law amazon Article 1499 words 25 votes
FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all yours for a price privacy internet social media Article 566 words 41 votes
Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its bills for rented cloudy GPUs amazon.web services google.cloud platform Article 874 words 28 votes
Cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS. ios android apple google browsers Article 1520 words 25 votes
Copilot can't stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower microsoft Article 1083 words 28 votes
Criminals are getting increasingly adept at crafting malicious AI prompts to get data out of ChatGPT Article 495 words 22 votes
Probe reveals previously secret Israeli spyware that infects targets via ads Article 829 words 36 votes
USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix social media Article 552 words 55 votes
Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software? Article 812 words 31 votes
Swiss research team builds autonomous drone that beats humans in first-person drone racing Article 485 words 19 votes
Zoom CEO reportedly tells staff: Workers can't build trust or collaborate... on Zoom Article 566 words, published Aug 24 2023 52 votes
ChatGPT's odds of getting code questions correct are worse than a coin flip Article 1201 words, published Aug 7 2023 64 votes
Thames Water is considering measures to cut down the water used by some UK datacenters, including fitting flow restrictors or charging operators more at peak times Article 648 words 16 votes
Why do cloud providers keep building datacenters in America's hottest city? Article 819 words 33 votes
Google warns its own employees: Do not use code generated by Bard google Article 876 words, published Jun 19 2023 34 votes
Google blocks FOSS Android tool – for asking for donations android google.play Article 654 words 12 votes
Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server microsoft security Article 613 words 12 votes
Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal worth mega-millions as 25% staff cut hits Servo, MDN, security teams google security Article 634 words 16 votes
20GB of Intel's internal source code, schematics, specs, and documents released, allegedly found on an unsecured CDN server security Article 938 words 20 votes
Seven "zero logging" VPN providers leak 1.2TB of user logs unprotected and facing the public internet internet privacy Article 1182 words 20 votes
Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process facebook privacy social media Article 1184 words 9 votes
US Federal Communications Commission forced by court to ask the public (again) if they think tearing up net neutrality was a really good idea or not internet Article 1039 words 26 votes
Bruce Perens quits Open Source Initiative amid row over new data-sharing crypto license: 'We've gone the wrong way with licensing' Link 9 votes
A new tracking technique using CNAME aliases to circumvent third-party cookie restrictions is blockable using a Firefox DNS API, but not in Chrome privacy security Article 1016 words 18 votes
GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity Article 1086 words 24 votes
What is Block.one, the company that just paid a record-breaking $30m for the voice.com domain name? social media Article 1116 words 12 votes
Large Redmond Collider: CERN reveals plan to shift from Microsoft to open-source code after tenfold license fee hike microsoft Article 445 words 18 votes
No Huawei out: President Trump's game of chicken with China has serious consequences security Article 783 words 5 votes
WhatsApp voice calls contained a buffer-overflow vulnerability that was used to install spyware [CVE-2019-3568] security ios android facebook Article 1008 words 11 votes