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The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity

The Dutch government has imposed a “complete prohibition” on the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider, by Kyndryl, the American IT infrastructure company spun out of IBM in 2021. The deal, valued at roughly €100 million, would have given a US-headquartered firm control over the platform that runs DigiD, the digital identity system used […]

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Cox Media fined after bragging it spied on users through their phones

An exceptionally weird controversy has come back to haunt Cox Media and a pair of marketing firms, which claimed they were secretly listening to users via phones and smart devices – despite little evidence they actually could. On Thursday the Federal Trade Commission announced that Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works would pay a total […]

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The ECB is convening banks to fix the cybersecurity flaws that AI models like Mythos keep finding

The European Central Bank is calling banks in for a meeting on Tuesday to address the cybersecurity risks created by a new generation of AI models that can find and exploit software vulnerabilities faster than any human team. The meeting follows months of growing anxiety across European finance about Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, the frontier AI […]

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Norway’s $2.3 trillion wealth fund objects to John Elkann’s reappointment to Meta’s board

Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, has withheld its vote on the reappointment of John Elkann to Meta’s board of directors. The fund said it believes the Stellantis chairman and Exor CEO does not have enough time to devote to the role. Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages the $2.3 […]

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Firefox is getting its biggest redesign in six years, and compact mode is coming back

Mozilla has officially unveiled Project Nova, the largest visual overhaul of Firefox since 2020. The redesign touches tabs, icons, spacing, colour palette, and settings, with the goal of making the browser feel warmer and faster without losing its identity as the only major browser not built on Chromium. The changes start with the tabs. They […]

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Meta and Google get data from the app your boss uses to track you

Hundreds of thousands of workplaces use software to monitor employees. Now, a new study has found that many of these tools share data not just with employers, but with digital advertising platforms and data brokers as well. The review was led by Stephanie Nguyen, senior fellow at Columbia Law School’s Center for Law and the […]

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OpenAI adopts C2PA standard and Google’s SynthID to make AI-generated images easier to identify

OpenAI has announced two new measures designed to help the public determine whether an image was created by its AI models. The company is formally joining the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) open standard while simultaneously partnering with Google to embed its invisible SynthID watermark across OpenAI’s image outputs. The moves represent a […]

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Hackers stole fingerprints and medical data from 1.8 million people in NYC’s largest public hospital breach

  New York City Health and Hospitals, the largest public healthcare system in the United States, has disclosed that hackers stole personal data, medical records, and biometric information, including fingerprints, in a breach affecting at least 1.8 million people. The organisation reported the figure to the US Department of Health and Human Services, making the […]

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Apple’s Siri app in iOS 27 will auto-delete your chats. It may also launch as a beta, again.

Apple’s first standalone Siri app, coming in iOS 27, will include an auto-delete function for chat histories that borrows from the Messages app. Users will be able to configure the app to retain conversations for 30 days, one year, or indefinitely. The feature, reported by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his Power On newsletter on Sunday, […]

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