We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower.
Google has suspended the Firebase account of Catwatchful following a TechCrunch investigation. The spyware operation was caught using Google's own servers to host and run its surveillance app, which was stealthily monitoring thousands of people's phones.
Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens to chill speech and ultimately harm children and adults alike.
A trial in the closely watched class-action lawsuit accusing a period tracking app of improperly sharing user data with Meta for targeted advertising opened in a Northern California federal court on Monday.
This report examines trends in cyberattacks, content management, digital rights violations, and arrests in the first six months of 2025, based on data from Miaan Group's Digital Security Helpdesk(DSH).
This report examines how human rights defenders (HRDs) in African contexts including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Senegal, and Zimbabwe use digital security tools to protect themselves in high-risk political and digital environments. It uses existing literature, survey responses and interviews with HRDs and developers of digital security tools to highlight key challenges such as pervasive state surveillance, limited access to digital infrastructure, low digital literacy, and the technical complexity of existing digital security tools. However, both HRDs and tools developers expressed strong interest in collaboration, co-design, and digital security training to improve usability. The report recommends a comprehensive approach to digital security which includes co-design, continuous training support, and reform to ensure HRDs are capacitated and protected in their work.
The spyware maker was banned from the surveillance industry in 2021, but was caught flouting the ban less than a year later. Now the founder wants the ban lifted altogether.
The whole premise of internet publishing — that you could reach audiences far and wide — is starting to crumble.
The investigation comes in response to an account in the Israeli business publication TheMarker, which reported that the contracts included a deal to buy Pegasus — the powerful spyware manufactured by Israel-based NSO Group.
The appellate court on Tuesday sent the case back to the lower court for further consideration, saying it had “abused its discretion” and improperly applied the law when deciding Salvadoran journalists had no right to sue in U.S. courts.
Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to have IRL workers to fix the technology's screwups.
The spyware operation's exposed customer email addresses and passwords were shared with data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned.
WhatsApp is launching new AI-powered message summaries that can give you a rundown on what you missed in your group chat.
A new form of state-level internet filtering that restricts data flow is disrupting access to large portions of the global web for Russian citizens. Cloudflare, the world leader in...
Iran is limiting internet connectivity for citizens amid Israeli airstrikes—pushing people towards domestic apps, which may not be secure, and limiting their ability to access vital information.
Keir Giles, a prominent expert on Russia, was targeted with a new form of social-engineering attack that leverages App-Specific Passwords. Google links the operation to UNC6293, a Russian state-backed group.
The far-right former president is accused of using Brazil’s intelligence agency to conduct illegal spying.
The Apple and Google app stores offer VPNs without revealing they’re owned by Chinese companies. That keeps Americans in the dark about privacy and national security risks.
Despite sanctions and global scrutiny, Predator spyware operations persist. Insikt Group reveals new infrastructure links in Mozambique, Africa, and Europe, highlighting ongoing threats to civil society and political targets.