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OpenAI claims teen circumvented safety features before suicide that ChatGPT helped plan | TechCrunch

Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

Pornhub Is Urging Tech Giants to Enact Device-Based Age Verification | WIRED

A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers | WIRED

Throttling of Social Media in Türkiye During Protests: An Analysis of OONI Data

NSO seeks to overturn WhatsApp case, saying it is ‘catastrophic’ for the spyware maker | The Record

Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns

The Pentagon Is Spending Millions On AI Hacking From Startup Twenty

Surveillance tech provider Protei was hacked, its data stolen, and its website defaced | TechCrunch

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv

Chat Control 2.0 through the back door | Patrick Breyer

Google will let ‘experienced users’ keep sideloading Android apps | The Verge

How a forged France 24 report fueled a radioactive lie concerning France-Armenia relations - DFRLab

Australian spy chief warns Chinese hackers are 'probing' critical networks for espionage and sabotage | TechCrunch

Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act | TechRadar

LANDFALL: New Commercial-Grade Android Spyware in Exploit Chain Targeting Samsung Devices

EFF Teams Up With AV Comparatives to Test Android Stalkerware Detection by Major Antivirus Apps | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Legal groups sue Trump administration over use of Israeli spyware on immigrants

Italian political consultant says he was targeted with Paragon spyware | TechCrunch

Criminal complaint against facial recognition company Clearview AI

Former L3Harris Trenchant boss pleads guilty to selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker | TechCrunch

Internet disrupted in Tanzania on election day as ruling party seeks to extend decades in power

Grokipedia is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk | The Verge

CEO of spyware maker Memento Labs confirms one of its government customers was caught using its malware | TechCrunch

ICE Just Bought A Social Media Surveillance Bot

Microsoft sued for allegedly misleading millions of Australians with its AI pricing | The Guardian

How we linked ForumTroll APT to Dante spyware by Memento Labs | Securelist

Cameroon's Internet access disrupted as election protests continue | Reuters

U.S. government accuses former L3Harris cyber boss of stealing trade secrets | TechCrunch

Unseeable prompt injections in screenshots: more vulnerabilities in Comet and other AI browsers | Brave

How ICE Spies On WhatsApp | Forbes

AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ fake images being used by aid agencies | The Guardian

Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with government spyware | TechCrunch

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data | WIRED

US court orders spyware company NSO to stop targeting WhatsApp, reduces damages | Reuters

German parliamentarian urges officials to investigate Hungary for spyware abuse | The Record

The Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You – Mother Jones

Surveillance Secrets - Lighthouse Reports

A major evolution of Apple Security Bounty, with the industry's top awards for the most advanced research - Apple Security Research

NSO to be acquired by U.S. investors, ending Israeli control of Pegasus maker | Ctech

We Say You Want a Revolution: PRISONBREAK - An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime - The Citizen Lab

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

CopyCop Deepens Its Playbook with New Websites and Targets

Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man | Meta | The Guardian

Phone spyware scandal in Greece moves to court as critics claim cover-up

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians | Israel | The Guardian

France says Apple notified victims of new spyware attacks | TechCrunch

How ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers To Spy On People’s Phones

Spyware installed on Kenyan filmmaker's phones in police custody - Committee to Protect Journalists

Blog - Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices - Apple Security Research

State-backed attackers and commercial surveillance vendors repeatedly use the same exploits

WhatsApp fixes 'zero-click' bug used to hack Apple users with spyware | TechCrunch

CBP Had Access to More than 80,000 Flock AI Cameras Nationwide

Android Developers Blog: A new layer of security for certified Android devices

YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality

New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone | TechCrunch

Disrupted, Throttled, and Blocked: State Censorship, Control, and Increasing Isolation of Internet Users in Russia | HRW

The Longest Silence: Internet Shutdowns During Bangladesh’s 2024 Uprising | OONI

Shutdown season: the Q2 2025 Internet disruption summary

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity - METR

Google took a month to shut down Catwatchful, a phone spyware operation hosted on its servers | TechCrunch

The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived | WIRED

Meta, Flo trial begins over period-tracking app's data sharing practices | The Record from Recorded Future News

Serial spyware founder Scott Zuckerman wants the FTC to unban him from the surveillance industry | TechCrunch

Inside the Media’s Traffic Apocalypse

Former Mexican president investigated over allegedly taking bribes from spyware industry

Appeals court revives Salvadoran journalists’ lawsuit against NSO Group

Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes

Data breach reveals Catwatchful stalkerware is spying on thousands of phones | TechCrunch

Russian Internet users are unable to access the open Internet

WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages | The Verge

The 16‑kilobyte curtain. How Russia’s new data‑capping censorship is throttling Cloudflare

Iran’s Internet Blackout Adds New Dangers for Civilians Amid Israeli Bombings | WIRED

Same Sea, New Phish: Russian Government-Linked Social Engineering Targets App-Specific Passwords - The Citizen Lab

Brazil’s Bolsonaro accused in spy agency case as coup trial is ongoing | Al Jazeera

TTP - Spot Check: Apple and Google Still Have a Chinese VPN Problem

Predator Spyware Resurgence: Insikt Group Exposes New Global Infrastructure

Graphite Caught: First Forensic Confirmation of Paragon’s iOS Mercenary Spyware Finds Journalists Targeted - The Citizen Lab

Spyware maker cuts ties with Italy after government refused audit into hack of journalist’s phone | The Record

Italian lawmakers say Italy used spyware to target phones of immigration activists, but not against journalist | TechCrunch

NSO appeals WhatsApp decision, says it can’t pay $168 million in ‘unlawful’ damages | The Record from Recorded Future News

Appeals court rejects attempt by Khashoggi widow to renew suit against NSO Group | CyberScoop

OONI Analysis of Telegram Blocking in Kenya During the 2023 and 2024 KCSE Exams | OONI

Cocospy stalkerware apps go offline after data breach | TechCrunch

Jordan bans 12 news sites for ‘spreading media poison’ following corruption report - Committee to Protect Journalists

BAKE + 6 Other Organizations Challenge Internet Shutdowns in Kenya in Landmark Public Interest Case

Five things we learned from WhatsApp vs. NSO Group spyware lawsuit | TechCrunch

NSO Group owes $168M in damages to WhatsApp over spyware infections, jury says | CyberScoop

OpenAI reverses course, says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations | TechCrunch

Content moderators are organizing against Big Tech | The Verge

Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail | TechCrunch

European Parliament’s Iran delegation chair victim of Tehran-linked hacking – POLITICO

Weaponized Words: Uyghur Language Software Hijacked to Deliver Malware - The Citizen Lab

Meta faces Ghana lawsuits over impact of extreme content on moderators | Meta | The Guardian

They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed. - The New York Times

JUICYJAM: How Thai Authorities Use Online Doxxing to Suppress Dissent - The Citizen Lab

Elon Musk’s Starlink is taking over Nigeria’s internet market - Rest of World

NSO lawyer names Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan as spyware customers accused of 2019 WhatsApp hacks | TechCrunch

Spyware Maker NSO Group Is Paving a Path Back Into Trump’s America | WIRED

UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill | Crime | The Guardian

Judge unlikely to allow expert testimony for NSO as jury decides damages in WhatsApp case | The Record from Recorded Future News

Court document reveals locations of WhatsApp victims targeted by NSO spyware | TechCrunch

Voluntary ‘Pall Mall Process’ seeks to curb spyware abuses | CyberScoop

An RCMP officer and a retired Vancouver cop say not even police are safe from high-tech spyware | CBC News

Catalan court says NSO Group executives can be charged in spyware investigation | TechCrunch

OpenAI Says It’s "Over" If It Can’t Steal All Your Copyrighted Work

Spyware scandal: Italian government reportedly admits targeting activists

Journalists targeted with Pegasus spyware - Amnesty International Security Lab

Data breach at stalkerware SpyX affects close to 2 million, including thousands of Apple users | TechCrunch

Virtue or Vice? A First Look at Paragon’s Proliferating Spyware Operations - The Citizen Lab

The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring

Revealed: Israeli military creating ChatGPT-like tool using vast collection of Palestinian surveillance data | Israel | The Guardian

Meta is about to ruin WhatsApp with AI bots no one wants

Inside the Telegram Groups Doxing Women for Their Facebook Posts | WIRED

Cellebrite zero-day exploit used to target phone of Serbian student activist - Amnesty International Security Lab

Swedish authorities seek backdoor to encrypted messaging apps | The Record from Recorded Future News

Italian priest close to pope told he was target of surveillance tool used by a government | Surveillance | The Guardian

Stalkerware apps Cocospy and Spyic are exposing phone data of millions of people | TechCrunch

Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row

Elon Musk’s Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla | WIRED

As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies

Italy: Journalists’ union takes legal action over Paragon case – European Federation of Journalists

Spyware maker caught distributing malicious Android apps for years | TechCrunch

An Advisor to Elon Musk’s xAI Has a Way to Make AI More Like Donald Trump | WIRED

Another person targeted by Paragon spyware comes forward | TechCrunch

Owner of spyware used in alleged WhatsApp breach ends contract with Italy

Spyware maker Paragon confirms US government is a customer | TechCrunch

Italian founder of migrant rescue group ‘targeted with spyware’

Critic of Italy-Libya migration pact told he was target of Israeli spyware | WhatsApp | The Guardian

Former Polish justice minister arrested in sprawling spyware probe

Italian investigative journalist targeted on WhatsApp by Israeli spyware | WhatsApp | The Guardian

WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of Israeli spyware | WhatsApp | The Guardian

DeepSeek Mania Shakes AI Industry to Its Core

The Supreme Court could decide the fate of Pornhub — and the rest of the internet - The Verge

Meta will lay off more ‘low-performers,’ says CEO Mark Zuckerberg - The Verge

Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed

Sense of impunity ‘absolute’: The NGO holding Israeli soldiers to account | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal | WIRED

Hackers Claim Massive Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten to Leak Data

Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’ | WIRED

Meta appoints new Trump-friendly policy chief - The Verge

Zuckerberg, inspired by Musk, ditches fact checking for Community Notes - The Verge

AI’s emissions are about to skyrocket even further | MIT Technology Review

What Really Happens When You Trade In a Phone at the Apple Store

How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories

DHS Says China, Russia, Iran, and Israel Are Spying on People in US with SS7

Israeli Spyware Firm Paragon Sold to U.S., as Trump's Digital Arsenal Grows

Serbia: Authorities using spyware and Cellebrite forensic extraction tools to hack journalists and activists - Amnesty International Security Lab

“I Learned How to Say No” - Labor Abuses & Sexual Exploitation in Colombian Webcam Studios

FTC Takes Action Against Gravy Analytics, Venntel for Unlawfully Selling Location Data Tracking Consumers to Sensitive Sites | Federal Trade Commission

Something to Remember Us By: Device Confiscated by Russian Authorities Returned with Monokle-Type Spyware Installed - The Citizen Lab

International operation takes down another encrypted messaging service used by criminals | Europol

"A repeat of the autonomous car hype-cycle of a decade ago is on the cards" by Paris Marx

How We Did It: Amnesty International’s Investigation of Algorithms in Denmark’s Welfare System – Global Investigative Journalism Network

Tracking Indoor Location, Movement and Desk Occupancy in the Workplace

Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com - The Citizen Lab

Israeli Government Imposes Sanctions on Haaretz, Cuts All Ties and Pulls Advertising - Israel News - Haaretz.com

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Against the dark forest

Russia’s internet watchdog blocks thousands of websites that use Cloudflare's privacy service