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Privacy & Security

Signal Finally Lets You Skip the Phone Number, but Now Google Is Involved

A $2.99 Google Play billing fee leaves hardened, Play-free Android phones out for now.

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Prepare Yourself for a Discord Age Check

You'll soon know whether you behave like a child.

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Why Are Water Treatment Plants Still Connected to the Internet?

"We just need to teach this generation how to get back to paper very, very quickly."

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Hackers Defaced the FBI Jobs Site and Say They Have Agents’ Home Addresses

ShinyHunters calls it coercion, not extortion, and gave the bureau a week to retract a May warning about...

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Meta Just Patched a Major Zero-Day Vulnerability in Its Muse AI Assistant

The flaw could have allowed attackers to hijack Muse and take advantage of its access to a user’s...

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Polymarket Bug Reportedly Let Identity Thieves Into Existing Accounts

The flaw apparently exposed accounts, and the cards and bank links attached to them.

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FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them

ICE officers on dating apps should be wary of tradwives, an FBI memo suggested, as well as any...

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Josh Hawley Wants to Haul Flock CEO’s Ass in Front of the Senate Next Week

"Americans do not surrender their privacy rights when they drive to work, drop their kids off at school,...

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Elon Musk Reportedly Seeking Customer Data From Dead Startups to Train AI

All the data from X wasn't enough to quench Grok's thirst for AGI.

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Mastercard Is Giving AI Agents Virtual Cards to Handle Your Shopping

Through a new venture, agentic commerce goes a step further while safety questions plague the industry.