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Mention of the long-awaited RCS end-to-end encryption (E2EE) support in the iOS 26.3 beta was spotted by Tiion-X83 on X via a carrier bundle setting that would let carriers enable E2EE for RCS messaging.
Instagram users were sent password reset emails recently that they didn’t request, but Instagram says there was no breach of their system.
From cryptocurrency to healthcare, 2026 seems set to bring us more of the same breaches.
Logitech’s G HUB and Logi Options+ software stopped working, leaving users who relied on it for managing their mice and keyboards high and dry.
Illustrating the importance of threat models
Telegram has added support for passkeys, a secure and convenient sign-in method, replacing SMS verification codes.
GNU Privacy Guard, a popular implementation of the OpenPGP standard, was found to have multiple vulnerabilities including modifying the plaintext shown to the user and modifying files on the user’s system.
The Connectivity Standards Alliance has launched their new standard for secure, interoperable smart locks called Aliro.
WIRED, crypto, and 2026's first candidate for "cascading data breach"
AI data centers are running up against the physical limits of copper for transmitting data, so radio is being considered as a replacement.
The Aflac breach affected 22.6 million customers. And this was a slow week.
Following multiple outages, Cloudflare outlines their plan to improve resilience of their network, titled “Code Orange: Fail Small.”
The Linux Foundation announced the newly formed Agentic AI Foundation to standardize and support an open, collaborative ecosystem for agentic AI.
The Texas Attorney General has launched a lawsuit against five major smart TV manufacturers - Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense, and TCL - over their use of Automated Content Recognition, or ACR.
Bunq, a Dutch neobank that’s been growing in popularity in recent years, has started sharing users’ investments with others on their contacts list, according to RTL.
Data breaches at Hama Film, Home Depot, 700Credit, PornHub, Askul, SoundCloud, University of Sydney, plus an update on last week's Coupang data breach.
This week, Google announced they would be shutting down their "Dark Web Report" tool, stating "it didn't provide helpful next steps." This was a separate offering from Google's "Results About You" service sometimes recommended to help stop data brokers leaking your info.
Data breaches galore this week from Petco, AI startups, healthcare providers, and other organizations.
Brave Nightly will include an opt-in agentic AI browsing mode that hosts additional safeguards for your personal data. But is it actually safe?
The FIDO alliance, in charge of authentication standards such as the FIDO2 standard widely used in hardware keys, has announced a new digital credentials initiative aimed at standardizing and streamlining the adoption of “verifiable digital credentials and identity wallets.”
Samuel Tunick, an Atlanta-based activist, was charged with destroying evidence after a U.S. Customs and Border Protection unit searched his Google Pixel smartphone.