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A cyberattack on a car breathalyzer provider left thousands of DUI offenders unable to drive legally — a Kafkaesque situation where hackers imposed an indefinite driving ban through cloud dependency.

As online age verification expands globally, lawmakers are targeting VPNs that circumvent restrictions, potentially creating a convergence of age verification and anti-VPN regulation that reshapes int

House Intelligence Committee's top Democrat Jim Himes is privately lobbying to preserve FBI's warrantless surveillance authority, arguing no Trump administration abuse despite civil liberties concerns

Research shows LLMs can deanonymize pseudonymous users across platforms with 90% precision and 68% recall, threatening the fundamental assumption that pseudonymity provides adequate online privacy.

Tinybox is a portable, fully offline AI device capable of running large language models with up to 120 billion parameters. It represents a significant step toward private, edge AI computing that doesn

George Hotz and the tinygrad team have begun shipping the Tinybox — a personal AI inference computer capable of running 120B+ parameter models entirely offline. Red V2 starts at $12,000, Green V2 Blac

The Electronic Frontier Foundation argues that publishers blocking the Internet Archive in response to AI scraping concerns are destroying decades of historical documentation.

French newspaper Le Monde demonstrated that France's nuclear aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle could be tracked in real time through publicly shared fitness app data from crew members — echoing the 2

A new HomeSec-Bench benchmark shows Qwen3.5-9B running locally on a MacBook Pro M5 achieves 93.8% accuracy on security tasks, just 4 points behind GPT-5.4 cloud — with zero API costs and full privacy.

Starting September 2026, Android will require developer verification for sideloaded apps. A new 'advanced flow' bypass exists but requires a 24-hour waiting period, 11-step process, and buried develop

John Gruber and Shubham Bose deliver a devastating critique of the modern web: NYT loads 49MB for 4 headlines, The Guardian shows article text on only 11% of mobile screen space, and autoplay videos i

Google Ventures partner Tom Hulme discusses the AI investment cycle, Europe and London's AI opportunities, sovereign AI infrastructure, and privacy challenges in the AI era.