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153 Million Driver's Licenses For Sale, Plus Chrome Kills uBlock Origin & Texas Kicks Out Flock
153 Million Driver's Licenses For Sale, Plus Chrome Kills uBlock Origin & Texas Kicks Out Flock

An ID-verification company, IDScan.net, appears to have leaked scans of 153 million driver's licenses, then sold on a dark-web market called Nexus. T…

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Apple Fixed A Leak Without Telling Anyone, Plus More VPN News and Flock's Creepy Police AI
Apple Fixed A Leak Without Telling Anyone, Plus More VPN News and Flock's Creepy Police AI

Four positive VPN stories in one week: Mullvad's new multihop modes, Obscura shipping on Windows, Apple quietly patching the iCloud Private Relay lea…

1 week, 1 day ago

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Apple's Private Relay Is Leaking Your IP, Plus Fake VPN Extensions & France's Big Win
Apple's Private Relay Is Leaking Your IP, Plus Fake VPN Extensions & France's Big Win

Three cracks opened up in Apple's privacy story this week: iCloud Private Relay leaking real IP addresses through DNS prefetching, WebTransport, and …

2 weeks, 2 days ago

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Signal's Biggest Update In Years, Plus Rival App Stores Arrive In The Play Store
Signal's Biggest Update In Years, Plus Rival App Stores Arrive In The Play Store

Signal just shipped its largest set of updates in years: A second phone can finally be a linked device, automatic key verification is rolling out alo…

3 weeks, 3 days ago

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OpenAI's Hacking Story Got Worse, Plus Iran In US Water Systems & A Felony For Wiping A Phone
OpenAI's Hacking Story Got Worse, Plus Iran In US Water Systems & A Felony For Wiping A Phone

OpenAI's rogue AI agent turned out to have hacked more than Hugging Face, and the more details come out, the less impressive it seems. Then Anthropic…

1 month ago

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France Banned Social Media For Under-15s, Plus A Hidden Device In Millions Of US Cars
France Banned Social Media For Under-15s, Plus A Hidden Device In Millions Of US Cars

France has become the first country in Europe to ban social media for children under 15. Meanwhile there's real good news elsewhere: the UK's incomin…

1 month, 1 week ago

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EU Passes Chat Control Anyway, Plus Microsoft's Secure Boot Mess & the Flock Resistance
EU Passes Chat Control Anyway, Plus Microsoft's Secure Boot Mess & the Flock Resistance

This week's a double-week catch-up: the EU just greenlit Chat Control even after Parliament voted against it, Microsoft had a brutal stretch between …

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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Apple Quietly Downgrades Hide My Email, Plus Chrome Kills uBlock Origin & Google's IP Tracking
Apple Quietly Downgrades Hide My Email, Plus Chrome Kills uBlock Origin & Google's IP Tracking

Apple is moving Hide My Email aliases to a new private.icloud.com subdomain, which makes it trivial for any app or website to spot a private email an…

2 months, 1 week ago

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Meta Hid Face-Recognition Code on 50M Phones, The UK's Device-Scanning Ultimatum & A Burner Phone Ban
Meta Hid Face-Recognition Code on 50M Phones, The UK's Device-Scanning Ultimatum & A Burner Phone Ban

Meta quietly embedded unreleased facial-recognition code, internally called "nametag" onto more than 50 million phones through its Meta AI app, then …

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Dashlane Confirms Hackers Stole Password Vaults, Pentagon Location Tracking, and Hackers Trick Meta's AI
Dashlane Confirms Hackers Stole Password Vaults, Pentagon Location Tracking, and Hackers Trick Meta's AI

Dashlane has confirmed hackers stole around 20 encrypted password vaults, and the company is being unusually quiet about how it happened. Plus the Pe…

3 months ago

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