New revelations suggest that Intellexa — already sanctioned by the U.S. — had more intrusive involvement in government-led spyware operations than previously believed. A leaked training video shows company staff using remote desktop tools to access live customer surveillance dashboards belonging to Intellexa’s “Predator” system, including personal photos, messages and other sensitive data from real…

Waymo, the autonomous-vehicle subsidiary of Alphabet, said on December 5, 2025 that it will voluntarily file a software recall with federal regulators after its self-driving robotaxis failed multiple times to properly stop for school buses — including at least 19 incidents documented this school year in Austin, Texas, where vehicles illegally passed stopped buses with…

Lawmakers on the House Committee on Energy& Commerce recently advanced a sweeping 19-bill online safety package, including a reworked version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the App Store Accountability Act, in a hearing aimed at protecting children and teens online. But supporters argue the revised KOSA has essentially been neutered — its…

Android is rolling out new in-call scam protection in the United States. When users open a supported financial app — such as a banking or payment app — while on a call with an unsaved number and sharing their screen, Android will display a warning and force a 30-second pause before proceeding. The alert also…

A new study from NASA, highlighted by science outlets, reveals that the explosion of satellite megaconstellations is rapidly undermining the imaging capabilities of even space-based telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope. Observations between 2018–2021 showed about 4.3 percent of Hubble images were marred by satellite trails. But with satellite numbers rising steeply — from…

Australia’s online safety watchdog, eSafety, says it will monitor teenagers’ well-being to evaluate the impact of a newly enacted law that bans users under 16 from maintaining or creating accounts on major social-media platforms. The tracking will include metrics such as sleep habits, social activity, time spent on sports or reading, medication use, and academic…

A recent cybersecurity audit found that DeepSeek — a Chinese-made large language model (LLM) — contains a built-in “kill switch” that halts responses when users ask it to generate code or content involving topics the Chinese government deems sensitive, such as requests related to Falun Gong or programs for ethnic minorities like Uyghurs. Even though…

Recent reporting shows that foreign adversaries are turning to social-media influencers as a cheap, high-impact vehicle to sway public opinion worldwide. Influencers — from celebrities to academics — serve as de facto modern gatekeepers for public discourse, especially among younger demographics that prefer TikTok, Instagram or YouTube over traditional media. The appeal is clear: it’s…

The U.S. Cybersecurity& Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is urging users of Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones to apply the December 2025 security update by December 23 — otherwise, stop using their devices if no fix is available. According to a Reuters-referenced bulletin, two newly discovered zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-48633 and CVE-2025-48572) in Android’s core framework…

The new smart toilet camera Kohler launched as Dekoda — promoted with claims of “end-to-end encryption” — was recently exposed as using only standard TLS/HTTPS-style encryption rather than true end-to-end encryption, meaning the company can still access and process users’ intimate bathroom images. A security researcher, Simon Fondrie-Teitler, flagged the misleading language, pointing out that…

Apple is refusing to comply with a new Indian government order requiring all iPhones — and other smartphones — to ship with a preinstalled state-run app called Sanchar Saathi. The app, promoted as a cybersecurity tool to track stolen phones or block fraudulent SIMs, stirred strong backlash over privacy concerns. Under mounting pressure from tech…

European law enforcement agencies this week dismantled the cryptocurrency-mixing service Cryptomixer.io, allegedly responsible for laundering more than €1.3 billion in illicit funds. Officials from Switzerland and Germany, working with Europol and other international partners, seized multiple servers, confiscated the site’s domain, and took custody of over €25 million ($29 million) in Bitcoin along with 12…

South Korea’s e-commerce giant Coupang has revealed that a data breach ongoing since June 24, 2025, exposed personal information tied to about 33.7 million customer accounts prior to detection — representing a majority of its user base. The compromised information includes names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses and certain order histories; the company affirmed…

Google argues that one of its biggest strengths in the AI race is the trove of data it already holds about users — data from Gmail, Calendar, Search history, photos, location tracking, and more. By feeding all that into its AI systems (like Gemini), the company believes it can deliver hyper-personalized AI experiences — recommending…

In a major push for enterprise AI transparency, Salesforce has launched Agentforce Observability, a suite of tools in its Agentforce 360 platform designed to expose every step of what its AI agents are doing — from user input to reasoning paths to final output — in near-real time. The system offers deep session-level tracing via…