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M5Stack’s Cardputers are some of the hottest devices in the hardware hacking community these days. With their physical keyboards and built-in displays, these pocketable little devices have the look and feel of an early 2000s PDA that is impossible to resist. Combined with an ESP32-S3 microcontroller that is meant
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The US has found a new use for Europe’s swelling defence budgets: tearing out Huawei. Whether its allies are listening is another matter. The State Department’s China coordinator, Joshua Young, told officials in Brussels last month that NATO members should use defence-related funding, the spending that counts towards
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Britain’s banks, telecoms, and weapons-makers have a new shared anxiety: that the AI they increasingly run on is built, owned, and controlled in the United States. A startup barely three years old is betting they will pay to fix it. Cosine, a UK frontier-AI lab, has assembled a coalition
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Today I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. And I’m actually going to keep today’s intro short — I’m working from my wife’s family farm this week, as you’ll see in the video, but also this is a real burner of an
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* An independent audit confirms X-VPN doesn't collect or store identifiable user data * The audit examined technical controls, server security, and data governance * Third-party audits prove that a VPN's no-logs policy is actually enforced in practice Virtual private networks exist to protect your digital footprint, but a
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Massachusetts lawmakers have voted to pass privacy protections that grant the state’s residents new rights over accessing and deleting their data held by big tech giants. The bill also bans companies from selling their users’ precise location data. Lawmakers in the Massachusetts House passed the state’s Consumer Data
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Twenty-six cybersecurity-related merger and acquisition (M&A) deals were announced in May 2026. For a detailed view of the more than 420 acquisitions announced in 2025, check out SecurityWeek’s annual M&A report. Here are some of the most important cybersecurity M&A deals announced in
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* Meta confirms 20,225 Instagram accounts hit by HTS password‑reset flaw * Bug let attackers request resets to unassociated emails * HTS disabled, passwords reset, full recovery‑flow review underway Last week’s attack against Meta’s customer support affected just over 20,000 accounts, the company has now confirmed. Hackers
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Lansing Community College (LCC) is notifying over 174,000 people that their personal information was compromised in a data breach more than one year ago. The incident was identified in February 2025, roughly one week after hackers gained access to some of its systems using compromised credentials, the Lansing, Michigan
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Anthropic is proposing that the world’s top artificial intelligence companies come up with a coordinated way to pause development of advanced AI systems, warning the technology is improving so quickly there’s a risk humans would lose control. The company behind the Claude chatbot said in a blog post
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* European leaders expect 27% jobs growth in 2026 and 17% growth in 2027 * WEF predicts 78m net new jobs by the end of the decade * Security and privacy are still holding some adopters back New data from the Linux Foundation has surfaced information that directly challenges the long-time concern that
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An unexpected incident occurred on 6 June 2026 when, reportedly, a security flaw at Instagram briefly exposed private data of top users, including Meta head Mark Zuckerberg, model Georgina Rodriguez, and several others. The issue was reportedly found in Instagram’s website tool that people use when they forget their
