The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has disclosed that it lacked a prepared response plan when a security incident unfolded in May 2026, forcing staff to build one on the…
The United Nations’ AI for Good summit convened in Geneva in July 2026, bringing together private and public sector representatives to debate how artificial intelligence can be deployed for…
The EU Parliament extended “Chat Control” in July 2026 even though more MEPs voted against it: blocking needed 361 “no” votes, and opponents were 47 short. The deal reinstates Meta, Google and Microsoft CSAM scanning until 2028, excluding end-to-end encrypted WhatsApp and Signal.
Elon Musk said July 8, 2026 that X will DM users when posts they liked, replied to, or reposted receive a Community Notes correction—though the feature isn’t live yet and has no timeline. It targets the criticism that corrections arrive too late; a 2025 Maldita study found 85% of proposed notes stay invisible, with only 8.3% published.
Meta announced in 2026 that it will update its smart glasses with a feature that automatically disables the camera if the device detects tampering with or destruction of its built-in privacy LED…
X added an in-app video recorder/editor to its iOS app in July 2026, after product head Nikita Bier said many videos from top accounts are “simply stolen,” sometimes 5 years after going viral, and make up close to half of impressions. The update brings trimming, multi-language auto-captions, and green-screen backgrounds from camera-roll photos, as X tackles content recycling by redirecting impressions from programmatic reuploads and cutting payouts for stolen reposts/clickbait.
Microsoft has released a fix for a Windows 11 bug that caused a system file to consume several gigabytes — and in some cases, hundreds of gigabytes — of storage space on affected devices.
The patch…
Discord said a safety-system bug led to accidental bans of 8,000+ accounts between May and July 2026, with cofounder/CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy noting ~200 were “grid-like” posts (e.g., chessboards, textures). Staff cleared them, but a second glitch blocked auto-unban; all were restored.
Google Search Console will add “platform properties” so creators can track which Google Search terms lead people to their Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube content and view audience interaction. Announced in 2026, it rolls out gradually over the coming weeks, building on June 2026’s claimed Search profiles and pinned videos.
Bending Spoons’ IPO kicked off strong on July 1, 2026, with shares rising nearly 40% to close at $40.50 vs. a $29 offer price, valuing the firm at $25.7B after raising $1.68B. SEC filings show Q1 2026 revenue of $601M and net income of $27.4M, up from a $259M revenue period with a $112M net loss a year earlier, with subscriptions at 84% of revenue.
Vinton Cerf will retire from Google next week as chief internet evangelist after 20+ years, announced by Dave Patterson at the 2026 Open Frontier conference. The 83-year-old co-created TCP/IP in the 1970s and joined Google in 2005, earning a Turing Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Google shut down the Tenor API on June 30th, 2026, ending third-party access to the GIF search service and requiring platforms that relied on it — including X, Discord, Bluesky, and WhatsApp — to…
