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Matter 1.5 has released, bringing with it lots of new supported device types. Among the new additions are support for cameras, soil sensors, and what they call “closures.”
GrapheneOS users have received the long-awaited Android 16 QPR1 update to GrapheneOS.
The iOS developer and security researcher duo mysk claim that after deleting their 1Password account, their profile picture was still being stored and remained publicly accessible via a URL.
According to the EFF, the Sacramento County Superior Court has determined that a surveillance program run by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and the police is illegal.
According to Wired, Pornhub's parent company has sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging them to device-based age verification.
A new announcement from Thunderbird Pro sees the services entering an “initial closed test run” with a “core group of community contributors.”
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has added Twitch to its growing list of age-restricted social media sites.
The EFF has filed a lawsuit against the US DOJ and DHS to uncover information their demands to censor apps.
Today, Brave announced that their Leo AI assistant inside of the Brave browser will utilize NEAR AI Nvidia-backed Trusted Execution Environments (TEE).
According to Android Authority, Android's Quick Share feature for sending files wirelessly over the air is now officially compatible with AirDrop, without any help from Apple.
A new strain of insidious Android malware has been discovered that can “bypass encrypted messaging” by capturing content directly from the screen after decryption.
A blog post by Preston Byrne, the lawyer representing 4chan in their ongoing legal case with Ofcom, announced that the GRANITE Act, “the first foreign censorship shield bill ever conceived in the history of the United States,” has been filed in the state of Wyoming.
The Matrix-based messenger Element announced their plans to make verifying your devices mandatory, so you can be sure the person you’re messaging with end-to-end encryption is really them.
Mozilla’s paid data removal service, Monitor Plus, will be shut down on December 17.
SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE team has worked with ASUS to unveil a massive malware campaign against End-of-Life (EoL) ASUS WRT routers.
The EU Commission has put forth their Digital Omnibus Regulation Proposal, which aims to simplify the GDPR in order to foster competitiveness.
Windows will be getting a new feature called Copilot Actions that will allow Copilot to perform actions on behalf of the user by interacting with local files and applications.
Microsoft has put out preparation package KB5072653 for their Extended Security Updates (ESU) program to fix errors users who believed they were enrolled in the ESU program were experiencing when trying to update after Windows 10 support ended.
Elcomsoft, purveyor of forensic extraction tools, announced that they were the first to achieve a full filesystem extraction for the Apple TV 4K running tvOS 26, marking the first forensic extraction of one of Apple's latest operating systems, according to them.
Today, Trail of Bits, a well-respected security research and auditing firm, has released a blog post outlining two vulnerabilities in elliptic, a widely used JavaScript cryptographic library.
Cloudflare, a widely-used provider of anti-DDoS services to a significant portion of websites on the internet, is out, leaving large portions of the internet inaccessible.