World Economic Forum 2025: Navigating Cybersecurity in an Era of Complexity
What was the cyber outlook at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this past week? From President Trump’s address to new white papers, here’s your roundup.
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Under Trump, US Cyberdefense Loses Its Head
Chinese hacks, rampant ransomware, and Donald Trump’s budget cuts all threaten US security. In an exit interview with WIRED, former CISA head Jen Easterly argues for her agency’s survival.
This Website Is Running on a Wii
The lives of most Wii consoles ended sometime in the early 2010s, left to collect dust in dorm rooms and parents’ dens, having run their last Just Dance disc long ago. But at least one Wii is finding another life hosting a website. Security engineer Alex Haydock found a discarded “sacrificial Wii” at the 2024…
GitHub Vulnerability Let Malicious Repos To Leaks Users Credentials
GitHub Vulnerability vulnerabilities uncovered in Git-related projects, including GitHub Desktop, Git Credential Manager, Git LFS.
NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider ‘Scientific Exile,’ French University Says
Last week, Aix Marseille University, France’s largest university, invited American scientists who believe their work is at risk of being censored by Donald Trump administration’s anti-science policies to continue their research in France. Today, the university announced that it is already seeing great interest from scientists at NASA, Yale, Stanford, and other American schools and…
DeepSeek Panic Live Updates: Nvidia Stock Pulls Back Again
Nvidia shares’ 9% recovery Tuesday was the second-best day in terms of market cap added for any company ever, trailing only a record it set in July.
The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
For someone who says she is fighting AI bot scrapers just in her free time, Xe Iaso seems to be putting up an impressive fight. Since she launched it in January, Anubis, a “program is designed to help protect the small internet from the endless storm of requests that flood in from AI companies,” has…
Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers
A venture capital-backed “AI performance monitoring system for factory workers” is proposing what appears to be dehumanizing surveillance of factories, where machine vision tracks workers’ hand movements and output so a boss can look at graphs and yell at them about efficiency. In a launch video demoing the product, Baid and Mohta put on a…
Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit
An independent privacy audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic in California found that the companies may be violating state regulations and racking up billions in fines. According to the audit from privacy search engine webXray, 55 percent of the sites it checked set ad cookies in a user’s browser even if they opted…
GDPR complaints filed against TikTok, Temu for sending user data to China
Non-profit privacy advocacy group “None of Your Business” (noyb) has filed six complaints against TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat, and Xiaomi, for unlawfully transferring European user’s data to China and infringing European Union’s general data protection regulation (GDPR). […]