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Pandora's iPhone, by Stuart Carlson, 2016. Still spot-on in 2026: A backdoor for the good guys simply does not exist. O…...
Samsung Messages will be discontinued on Jul 6, 2026. So now we have to switch to google messages?
Why would Samsung end its messages for its phone? Texting is as simple as a program gets. Is google buying every textin…...
Texas sues Meta over ‘misleading’ WhatsApp privacy claims
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Nelnet data breach case ends with final $10M court approval
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Google wants Gemini AI on your face so it can sell you more ads later, privacy concerns?
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Meta Axes 8,000 Workers As Zuckerberg Admits AI Is Watching, Replacing Labor
Welcome to another day of corporate Americ…...
UK COVID Inquiry's Endorsement Of Censorship Sets Chilling Precedent
According to the UK’s Covid Inquiry, whose fo…...
Trying to understand what people actually worry about when sharing files
Have you ever worried that a photo, PDF, Word document, or video might contain private hidden metadata before you share…...
Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down
Everything down including railway.com - this is a bad outage. :(...
Data breaches: After the headlines fade, the mess stays
tldr; Data breaches don't matter if you use local-first software. She learned about the breach from a push alert, half …...
Nickel Jumps As Indonesian Output Cut Stokes Supply Fears
Nickel prices on the London Metal Exchange surged as much as …...
Standard Chartered To Replace "Lower-Value Human Capital" With AI As Meta Layoff D-Day Nears
The white-collar job-loss …...
Best Email Setup for privacy, modularity and usability?
I'm de-Microsofting/de-Googling and rethinking my email setup after finding my old Outlook address in multiple data bre…...
What political censorship looks like inside an LLM's weights (Qwen 3.5)
What political censorship looks like inside an LLM's weights (Qwen 3.5)
Privacy focused alternative for Google Flights?
Google flights is pretty convenient but of course they are doing something nefarious every time you use it. Is there an…...
D-Day For "Huuuge" Meta Layoffs Looms As AI Job Apocalypse Accelerates
'D-Day' for Meta layoffs is quickly approaching,…...
Behind Turkey's Gold Sales: The Biggest Ever Plunge In Foreign Reserves
Shortly after the Iran war started, with gold u…...
Slop Bucket Idea – a dataset of AI slop (train AI what not to do)
I just had this idea, you read it all the time AI slop is so prevalent people are getting banned for a year for submitt…...
Remember: In A Crisis, Everyone Will Consider Themselves 'The Good Guys'
The state has two monopolies it must protect w…...
Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
Microsoft Bitlocker encryption bypassed!
I believe this deserves greater attention. Users who rely on BitLocker for privacy should know that its encryption can …...
Hackers have breached tank readers at US gas stations
Hackers have breached tank readers at US gas stations
Ralph Baric And UNC's Biodefense Contract Racket Exposed
“DLA Piper wants to get you,” I was told, from a source in D…...
OpenAI Hit with Class-Action Privacy Lawsuit for Sharing ChatGPT Data with Google and Meta
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Which country will be the first to pass laws limiting Meta Ray-Ban glasses?
As we saw in last few HN posts Meta’s Ray-Ban creepy privacy violation stories are real and alarms are ringing. Which c…...
Big tech lawyer to chair Dutch privacy watchdog AP
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US Govt Settles With Former NYT Reporter In Biden/Twitter Censorship Case
The U.S. government has reached a settlement …...
Is it better to start fresh or is account transferring fine?
I've recently started trying to de-google and de-corporatize my online presence to make it more difficult for them to t…...
Is using custom domains a mistake?
I'm currently trying to de-google and de-corporatize some of the core areas of my life. I'm not going full tin foil hat…...
Canvas Just Sent a Dangerous Message to Hackers: Crime Pays If You Do It Right
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Transit Finance Hacked Again: Cross-Chain DeFi Protocol Loses $1.88 Million in Latest Exploit
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What should i do if there is data breaches on the website?
just found out a website has been breached including all personal data including name, email, date of birth, phone numb…...
Russia Think Tank Tells Chinese Media That U.S. Endgame In Iran Is To "Achieve Market Monopoly" In Logistics, Energy
Ru…...
SpaceX, Google Eye Orbital Data Centers As Small-Town Resistance Grows
With roughly half of planned U.S. data center bu…...
How bad is Google Docs for privacy? Good word processor alternatives?
I'm Gen Z. They had Chromebooks at every public school I went to. I've had a Gmail account since, like, 9 years old (it…...
Cyber-crime increasingly coming with threats of physical violence, internet users receiving parcels from hackers with ransom letters.
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All Those A.I. Note Takers? They’re Making Lawyers Very Nervous. A trendy productivity hack, A.I. note takers are capturing every joke and offhand comment in many meetings. They could also potentially waive attorney-client privilege.
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ShinyHunters ransom deadline for the Canvas breach is tomorrow. 275 million student records. Most schools still havent told students anything.
the hacking group ShinyHunters gave Instructure until May 12 to pay ransom or they release the data. thats tomorrow. 27…...
How to avoid google recaptcha?
I have heard about the whole situation with recaptcha, so I wanted to know how to minimize the chance countering them a…...
Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
Telegram platform doesn't even give a shi* about users
So here is the story . Recently my accounts were hacked and i found out it is being shared in a telegram channel . then…...
Antitrust Remedies Order Takes Effect as US Judge Denies Google's Stay Motion
Antitrust Remedies Order Takes Effect as US Judge Denies Google's Stay Motion
College student hacks Taiwan high-speed rail line with software defined radios, stopping four trains
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Meta is killing E2E encryption on Instagram DMs
Meta announced they're shutting down end-to-end encryption on Instagram Messaging. Their stated reason: few users opted…...
Privacy-friendly VPS services?
Are there any VPS hosting services that respect privacy and my data at rest? I’m looking to setup my own server for pri…...
Student LMS 'Canvas' Goes Dark Worldwide: Hackers Demand Ransom or Leak Student Data By May 12
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Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads
Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads
Google removes privacy assurances after stuffing devices with their AI model
Google removes privacy assurances after stuffing devices with their AI model
Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
https://thetech.com/2026/05/07/canvas-breach-26 https://techcrunch.com/202…...
Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
https://thetech.com/2026/05/07/canvas-breach-26 https://techcrunch.com/202…...
Shake Shack Shares Crash Most On Record; McDonald's CEO Warns Of Faltering Consumer
Shake Shack shares crashed the most…...
"Existential Fight For Survival": MSFT May Nuke Green Data Center Climate Pledge
One week ago, Microsoft expected rough…...
Amazon license plate lookup
So I am shopping for some parts for my car on Amazon, and a selection came up: search by make/model/year search by lice…...
UBS Says Transport Stock Rout Is "Overdone" After Amazon News
UBS senior analyst Tom Wadewitz, who covers freight trans…...
Meta Hit With Massive Lawsuit—Publishers Say AI Was Trained on “Stolen” Books
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Anonymous hacked Chinese satellite systems to protest against privacy-infringing cage verification laws today!
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How do you join matrix without dealing with ReCapsura?
So I recently thinking of joining matrix. But when I looked into the sign up process I ran into a huge issue. Google Re…...
Largest Viking Age Coin Hoard Ever Found In Norway Shocks Archaeologists
Hailed as a “historic discovery,” metal dete…...
FedEx, UPS Slide After Amazon Opens Freight Network To All Businesses
Shares of transportation and logistics giants Fed…...
From "Don't Be Evil" To Drone King: Eric Schmidt's Interceptors Deployed With U.S. Troops
Google's old motto, "Don't be…...
Telus says I’m affected by a data breach… but I deleted my account in 2024?
Hi everyone, I recently received an email from Telus stating that my data have been involved in a data breach. The stra…...
Chinese Hackers Spied On Cuban Embassy As Trump Ramped Up Blockade Threats
In a story which hearkens back to bygone Col…...
EU child safety push stalls as ePrivacy derogation expires, age verification app hacked, and CSA Regulation stuck in trilogue
Europe’s effort to protect children online has collided with its own privacy architecture. submitted by
Big Tech Is Funding Space Solar And Fusion While Running On Gas
Meta signed a deal with startup Overview Energy to deve…...
Meta Buys Robot Brain Startup As Zuck Wants Humanoids In Homes
After the Oculus and Metaverse bets turned into for Mark…...
OPEC Just Signaled A Historic Gold Tailwind
The United Arab Emirates’ headline departure from OPEC this week has now ma…...
Google DeepMind Veteran Raises $1.1 Billion For AI That Doesn't Train On Human Data
In brief DeepMind veteran David S…...
Memory Stick Prices Refuse To Come Back To Earth
Apple CEO Tim Cook's warning during Thursday call about the deepening …...
China Loses Monopoly Over The Rarest Of Rare Earths
With less than three weeks to go the Trump-Xi summit in China, the …...
Apple Storing Deleted iMessages?
In light of the recent privacy-related bug affecting notifications/Signal messages, it reminded me of when Apple releas…...
Google Deepens Anthropic Bet With Up To $40 Billion Investment
The AI funding frenzy continues, with Google planning to…...
Credit and critique.
Let's get the critique out of the way: I don't understand the channels that seem to focus more on calling out all the w…...
On the Age verification, ID verification, Other legistlations...
Hello, I've been seeing a lot on the age verification, id verification, digital identity, and so on, On privacy threads…...
French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data
French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data
Details of 500,000 UK Biobank volunteers hacked and offered for sale
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In Latest Shot At Nvidia, Google Unveils Two Chips For The Agentic Era
In a blog post titled "Our Eighth Generation TPU…...
Google Photos Update Sparks Privacy Alarm Over Automated Scanning
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Tim Cook Stepping Down As Apple CEO; John Ternus, Head Of Hardware, Will Take Over
Confirming long-standing rumors of T…...
Technical breakdown of the EU age verification app "hack" — the protocol is privacy-respecting, the implementation had fixable bugs
You've probably seen the viral posts about the EU age verification app being "hacked in 2 minutes." We wrote a technica…...
Major Advertising Agencies Settle Media Censorship Lawsuit With FTC
(emphasis ours), The Federal Trade Commission (FTC)…...
Opt-out banners, rejecting cookies, GPC signals all ignored by Google, Meta, and Microsoft. Google certified CMPs continuing to allow Google cookies to be set? Not suspicious at all
WebXray did an audit to see how compliant major sites and CMP managed sites are. Surprise surprise, they're not. 100% o…...
How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About It)
A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what y…...
Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data.
In September 2024, Amandla Thomas-Johnson was a Ph.D. candidate studying in the U.S. on a student visa when he briefly …...
"Price Collapse" Hits Memory Sticks As Hoarded Inventory Floods Market After Google's DeepSeek Moment
Following our " G…...
Data breach at Premera insurance partner firm
What Happened? On March 2, 2025, BRG discovered suspicious network activity including indicators of compromise consiste…...
Railway (web app host) "accidentally enables CDN" causing massive data breaches
Railway (web app host) "accidentally enables CDN" causing massive data breaches
Tiger Woods involved in Florida rollover crash - ESPN
Tiger Woods involved in Florida rollover crash - ESPN
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The Sudden Death of a Man Who Told Chinese Kids How to Succeed - The New York Times
The Sudden Death of a Man Who Told Chinese Kids How to Succeed - The New York Times
Meta settles shareholder lawsuit for $190 million over privacy failures
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FTC’s Landmark $2.5 Billion Amazon Settlement Highlights Ongoing Focus on “Dark Patterns”
The National Law Review...
Uptick in security and off-topic posts. Please read the rules, this is not r/cybersecurity. We’re removing many more of these posts these days than ever before it seems.
Please read the rules, this is not r/cybersecurity . We’re removing many more of these posts these days than ever befor…...