Spanish judge closes NSO Group spyware probe due to lack of cooperation from Israel Summary Spain’s High Court has closed an investigation into alleged use of Pegasus spyware against senior…
AI-Powered Disinformation Swarms Are Coming for Democracy Summary A new interdisciplinary paper published in Science warns that advances in AI could enable adaptive “swarms” of thousands of social-media agents that…
How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic Summary WIRED interviews Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, to explain why the AI coding tool has become a sensation in…
Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers Summary A critical vulnerability in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) — tracked as CVE-2026-24061 and rated 9.8 — was disclosed…
House of Lords votes to ban social media for Brits under 16 Summary The House of Lords voted 261 to 150 to amend the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, requiring…
Europe’s GDPR cops dished out €1.2B in fines last year as data breaches piled up Summary New figures from DLA Piper’s GDPR Fines and Data Breach Survey show European data-protection…
Google Nabs Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI Summary Google DeepMind has hired Hume AI’s CEO, Alan Cowen, and roughly seven engineers as part of a confidential licensing…
Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers Summary A critical vulnerability in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd), tracked as CVE-2026-24061 (CVSS 9.8), was disclosed on 20 January…
Bank of England: Financial sector failing to implement basic cybersecurity controls Summary The Bank of England, together with the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority, published findings from…
Jordan used Cellebrite phone-hacking tools against activists critical of Gaza war, report finds Summary Citizen Lab’s new report finds Jordanian authorities used Cellebrite digital-forensic tools to extract data from the…
