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'The Problem Every email provider today collects something about you at signup: | Provider | What they require | |
Background 'Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device...
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. !⚠️https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/26a0.svg Some privacy related extensions may cause issu...
Report Summary Research and development engineer Romain Marchand of Paris‑based Quarkslab obtained a telematic control unit TCU from a salvage yard in Poland....
Background 20‑year‑old Matthew Lane sent a text message to ABC News while his parents drove him to a federal prison in Connecticut. “I’m just scared,” he said,...
Plus: Major data breaches at a gym chain and hotel giant, a disruptive DDoS attack against Bluesky, dubious ICE hires, and more....
India Won't Require Apple to Preinstall Government ID App on iPhones India will not require smartphone makers like Apple and Samsung to preload devices with a...
!Apple Indiahttps://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/03/apple-india.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600 Reuters reports that the Indian government has gi...
A post‑midnight revolt in the House sank the White House's efforts to extend Section 702—a spy program the FBI has used to look into members of Congress, protes...
Last week, Anthropic pulled back the curtain on Claude Mythos Preview, an AI model so capable at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities that the compan...
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woma...
How to disable automatic content recognition and data tracking on your smart TV Stop your smart TV from tracking what you watch....
Background Two years ago, Microsoft launched its first wave of Copilot+ Windows PCs with a handful of exclusive features that could take advantage of the neura...
Available for free to any company that wants to use it, the “completely anonymous” app puts the pressure on porn sites and social media platforms to start block...
Perfectly imperfect Google notes that the new feature is still evolving, so it might not always choose the right images. If that happens, you may want to check...
!https://www.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Google-Logo-as-seen-at-Google-Store-Mountain-View.jpg C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR - A...
!https://www.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Google-Logo-as-seen-at-Google-Store-Mountain-View.jpg TL;DR - A foreign PhD student studying in the...
In the span of a few years, age verification went from an idea to standard practice on large parts of the internet. Seeking to prevent kids from accessing porn,...
!https://www.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/google-play-store-app-home-screen-2.jpg Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR - Apple and Google sa...
Overview Fashion giant Express patched a security flaw that allowed anyone to view other customers’ order details and personal information. The issue exposed o...
!https://www.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Google-apps-on-android-phone.jpg TL;DR - A legal complaint has been filed against Google after it g...
!Google Photos App on Pixel phonehttps://www.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Google-Photos-App-Pixel-phone-scaled.jpg Kaitlyn Cimino / Android A...
Interesting research: “Humans expect rationality and cooperation from LLM opponents in strategic gameshttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.11011.” Abstract As Large Langu...
Original articlehttps://daedal.io/@thomzane/116410863009847575 Comments on Hacker Newshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788424...
!https://9to5google.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/04/Gemini-app-Mac-cover.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=290&h=145&crop=1 Google launches native Gemini app fo...
Article URL: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116408556882122186 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778366 Points: 53 Comments: 30...
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ai-ruling-prompts-warnings-us-lawyers-your-chats-could-be-used-against-you-2026-04-15/ Comments URL: https...
!36M Xfinity customers had their data exposed – here's how to claim your payout | Stock photo shows silhouetted person against screenfuls of datahttps://9to5mac...
Background When Microsoft tried to launch Recall, an AI‑powered Windows feature that screenshots most of what you do on your PC, it was labeled a “disaster” fo...
Apple removed scam app Freecash from the App Storehttps://www.macrumors.com/guide/app-store/ this week after the app spent months harvesting data from iPhone us...
Overview An independent privacy audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic in California found that the companies may be violating state regulations and...
Background The Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF is asking the attorneys general of California and New York to investigate Google for deceptive trade practice...
Getting the Flock out I wrote to Flock’shttps://www.flocksafety.com privacy contactmailto:privacy@flocksafety.com to opt out of their domestic spying program:...
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Problem Last year I had over 2,000 photos from my wedding to edit. The shots were great, but the lighting varied from room to room—some photos were too dark, o...
What I built: sttts – a local pipeline that watches any region of your screen, OCRs it, and speaks it aloud in real time. Everything runs on your own machine. W...
Background An anonymous reader quoted a report from Ars Technica stating that the Trump administration has stepped up an effort to unmask a Reddit user who cri...
Overview Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law enforcement and police departments have been attributed to t...
Regulation is hard The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization SPRFMO oversees fishing across roughly 59 million square kilometers 22 million...
Background The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone even after the app had been deleted. The data...
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Section 702 Overview A warrantless wiretapping authority that has facilitated surveillance for decades is up for renewal in Congress. Section 702 of the Foreig...
Comments Zed April 10, 2026 10:58 AM It’s obvious that Sanders’s team prompted Claude to speak in a certain way. Quite manipulative. Would have been more credi...
Article URL: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/microsoft-photodna-scanning-problem-it-is-comical-now.45961/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712...
Article URL: https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/apples-new-iphone-update-is-restricting-internet-freedom-in-the-uk/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...
!https://www.bleepstatic.com/content/hl-images/2026/04/09/High-speed_train_Europe.jpg Overview Eurail B.V., a European travel operator that provides digital pas...
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