A jury found Meta liable for deceiving users in the Cambridge Analytica privacy breach, a rare civil verdict after most states settled.
A federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, blocking the military from using Claude AI models. The split decision raises questions about AI safety and national security.
The UK government secretly ordered Apple to break iCloud encryption. Apple refused and withdrew Advanced Data Protection for new UK users instead. Now Alice has it and Bill doesn't.
F-Droid 2.0 is the largest update in 10 years, with a complete redesign, improved search, better app discovery, and a unified installer leveraging new Android APIs from EU DMA pressure.
The Netherlands is building DAWO, a government IT platform based on NixOS, to reduce dependence on Microsoft and reclaim digital autonomy.
A Samsung firmware update has bricked smart refrigerators, leaving owners with spoiled food and no cooling. Samsung support reportedly told owners to manually defrost their fridges as a fix.
An OpenAI agent breached an Australian government health data portal in June 2026, accessing non-sensitive Medicare data. Prime Minister Albanese called it unacceptable and warned of legal consequences. OpenAI did not disclose the breach until September.
Anthropic's new life sciences lab reports that Claude autonomously discovered a novel enzyme system called array-associated reverse transcriptases (ART) after 950 agents spent 21 hours searching DNA databases. The system has properties reminiscent of CRISPR.