A security researcher claims to have discovered a bug in Apple’s Hide My Email feature that allows users’ real email addresses to be unmasked, potentially undermining the privacy tool entirely.
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Cloudflare says AI firms have until Sept. 15, 2026 to split “mixed-use” crawlers for traditional search from those used for AI training/agents, or face automatic blocks on publisher sites. From that date, default settings block them on ad pages for new customers, new sites, and all free-tier sites; owners can change settings.
On July 1, 2026, Venice AI says its client-side encryption and external proxy mean user input isn’t stored on its systems, even as it runs 200+ open-source models and routes to OpenAI/Anthropic. The $65M Series A led by Dragonfly values it at $1B; it’s profitable with $70M+ run-rate revenue, 3M+ active users, and 1.7M API calls/day.
A security researcher discovered in April 2026 that Anthropic’s AI tool Claude Opus 4.7 could help him break into Front Gate Tickets’ systems and freely issue tickets to nearly every major US music…
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, 2026, positioning the mid-tier model as a lower-cost alternative to its own Opus 4.8 as well as OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro. The model is now…
Proton launched Lumo 2.0 on June 30, 2026, bringing image recognition/generation, “thinking mode,” and up to 76% faster replies under zero-access encryption. Projects can upload docs across Proton email and cloud storage with user-controlled persistent memory; Proton also says it keeps no server-side session logs and never uses data for AI training or shares it.
On June 30, 2026, X launched a hosted MCP server so AI apps can call X’s API using a user’s own account permissions, avoiding self-hosting and auth work. Tools like Claude, Cursor and Grok Build can reuse existing search, post-reading, user lookups, and conversation analytics, with spam controlled by X’s API rules. X joins GitHub, Slack, Notion, Stripe, and Salesforce.
WIRED says Meta’s Covalen-managed “Cannes” project had hundreds of contractors impersonate minors and probe ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with prompts on suicide, self-harm, eating disorders, sex/romance, and drugs. It ran into Apr. 21, 2026; one Aug. 2025 round topped 45,000 prompts, and WIRED reviewed 3,748 prompts including at least 239 covering sex/romance.
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Anthropic announced in June 2026 a deal giving state and local government agencies access to Claude, Anthropic’s AI chatbot, at half price. The agreement also…
On June 29, 2026, WhatsApp began letting users reserve usernames (3–35 chars) to share profiles without exposing phone numbers; rollout comes later this year. Usernames won’t be searchable in-app, and WhatsApp says a phone number is still required to create an account.
Two Asian AI companies have released models they claim rival Anthropic’s restricted AI products, moving into market space created by a U.S. government export ban that took effect in mid-June…
A Klue breach exposed access tokens for customers including LastPass, letting attackers pull data from Salesforce and other integrations, including customer names, phone numbers, emails, physical addresses, support case data, and sales-related data. LastPass says its infrastructure and password vaults weren’t affected; separately, John Bolton (77) pleaded guilty with a plea deal recommending no more than 5 years and a $2.25M fine, and sentencing is set for Oct. 28, 2026.
