Austria’s high court orders Meta to change its personalised ad practices Summary The Austrian Supreme Court has ruled that Meta’s personalised advertising model was illegal, finding that the company processed…
Pa. high court rules that police can access Google searches without a warrant Summary The Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that police do not need a warrant to obtain a person’s…
China turns on a vast experimental network it says is an heir to ARPANET Summary China has certified the China Environment for Network Innovation (CENI), a large-scale research network built…
Amazon blocked 1,800 suspected North Korean scammers seeking jobs Summary Amazon says it has stopped more than 1,800 suspected Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) scammers from joining its workforce…
Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide Summary Snowflake pushed a release that introduced a backwards-incompatible database schema change, which caused earlier release packages to reference updated fields and…
Your car’s web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin Summary Researchers from KU Leuven built a crowdsourced testing framework called CheckEngine and used it to evaluate embedded…
The Ultra-Realistic AI Face Swapping Platform Driving Romance Scams Summary The Chinese-language app Haotian offers ultra-realistic, real-time face-swapping and voice-cloning tools that integrate with messaging and video platforms. Researchers and…
New China-linked hacker group spies on governments in Southeast Asia, Japan Summary A previously unknown China-aligned hacking group dubbed LongNosedGoblin by ESET has been targeting government institutions across Southeast Asia…
Over $3.4 billion in crypto stolen throughout 2025, with North Korea again the top culprit Summary Chainalysis says more than $3.4 billion of cryptocurrency was stolen in 2025, with at…
Datacenters feel the Bern as Senator Sanders pushes bit barn building pause Summary US Senator Bernie Sanders has called for a nationwide moratorium on datacentre construction to give Congress time…
