Chinese Crypto Scammers on Telegram Drive Largest Darknet Markets
TL;DR Wired reports that long-running online black markets have shifted from the Tor-based dark web onto public messaging services such…
Big Balls Was Just the Beginning: Musk’s DOGE Upended US Agencies
TL;DR The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a group linked to Elon Musk, featured prominently in coverage this year as…
Lawsuit Seeks NYPD Records on Mosque-Raking Muslim Surveillance
TL;DR A New Jersey man who earlier sued the NYPD without success has filed a new open-records lawsuit seeking documents…
Apple’s Detroit App Academy Cost $20,000 a Student — Is It Worth It?
TL;DR Apple, Michigan State University and local funders have spent about $30 million on an Apple-branded developer academy in Detroit…
Federal judge halts Texas app-store age-verification law before Jan. 1
TL;DR A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction preventing Texas’s App Store Accountability Act (SB 2420) from taking effect on…
Apple to permit third-party iOS app stores and external payments in Brazil
TL;DR Brazil’s competition regulator CADE approved a settlement that requires Apple to let iOS devices run third‑party app stores and…
US bars Thierry Breton and anti-disinformation researchers from entry
TL;DR The State Department has announced sanctions that prohibit US entry for five foreign individuals involved in content moderation, including…
Aflac notifies 22.6M after hackers steal personal and health data
TL;DR Aflac has begun notifying about 22.65 million people after a cyberattack exposed customer personal and health information. Filings with…
Trump administration pauses nearly 6 GW of East Coast offshore wind leases
TL;DR The Interior Department has again suspended leases for five planned East Coast offshore wind projects, citing emerging national security…
OpenAI: Agentic AI browsers will likely remain vulnerable to prompt injection
TL;DR OpenAI acknowledges that prompt injection attacks are a persistent risk for agentic AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas and says…