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Snapchat walls under-16s off from public Spotlight, making their videos friends-only

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Snapchat is restricting how its youngest users share video. From this week, Snapchatters aged 13 to 15 will get a dedicated profile where their Stories and short-form Spotlight clips are visible only to mutually accepted friends, and will no longer be pushed to the wider public on Spotlight. Until now, under-16s could post to Spotlight, […]

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Meta will use your activity on other websites to personalize your feeds

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Meta is planning to use the data shared by other businesses to personalize your feed and its AI responses. In a blog post on Tuesday, Meta explains that it already uses your off-platform activity, like the games you play or your purchases on other websites, to serve you ads. But now it’s expanding the scope […]

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France’s ‘sovereign’ messenger Tchap was breached, and officials and the hacker disagree on how badly

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France built its own encrypted messenger so civil servants would not have to trust WhatsApp or Telegram. Now that messenger has been breached, and the government and the attacker cannot agree on how much was taken. France’s National Cybersecurity Agency, ANSSI, detected a compromise of Tchap on 7 June, and the Digital Affairs Directorate (DINUM), […]

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Meta is dragging NSO back to court, saying the spyware firm never stopped targeting WhatsApp

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Meta thought it had stopped NSO Group. It says the spyware firm did not get the message. The company is filing a federal court contempt order against NSO, the Israeli maker of the Pegasus hacking tool, accusing it of violating a permanent injunction that barred it from ever targeting WhatsApp or its users. Meta says […]

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OpenAI adds Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT to block data theft from prompt injection attacks

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OpenAI has begun rolling out Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT, a new security setting designed to block attackers from stealing data through prompt injection attacks. The feature disables live web browsing, agent mode, deep research, image retrieval, Canvas networking, and file downloads. It is available to logged-in users across Free, Go, Plus, Pro, and self-serve ChatGPT […]

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Congress still can’t decide what to do about warrantless surveillance

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The deadline to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is coming up a week from now on June 12th, and legislators seem no closer to reaching a deal. If this sounds like deja vu, it’s because we’ve been here before. Congress reauthorized Section 702 in late April – but only for 45 […]

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What happens when your phone is confiscated at the airport

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Even if you’ve done nothing wrong, it’s never a good idea to hand your phone to the cops. But international travelers at American airports often have no choice – even if they’re US citizens. When Minnesota labor organizer Janette Zahia Corcelius returned home from a three-week trip to Europe in late April, she was detained […]

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Hackers asked Meta’s AI chatbot to hand over Instagram accounts, and it did

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No phishing link. No malware. No SIM swap. Hackers took over high-profile Instagram accounts over the weekend by doing something disarmingly simple: they asked Meta’s AI customer support chatbot to change the email address on someone else’s account. The bot complied without verifying the requester’s identity, and the attacker then reset the password and locked out the […]

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