A security flaw in an aftermarket car alarm installed in more than 2 million vehicles across the United States allows hackers to remotely unlock cars, track them, disable their ignitions, and leave…
Mozilla’s July 2026 audit says astrology period tracker Stardust sends users’ reproductive health data (birth control, pregnancy status, moods, symptoms) to third parties immediately on app open, including RudderStack with a persistent ID and Facebook ad identifiers; it scored 2/10. Nonprofit Euki scored 10/10 by keeping data on-device.
ICE plans to renew Thomson Reuters Special Services access up to $25M/yr for up to five years (from $24M total over the prior five-year deal), disclosed July 17, 2026. The filing cites “multiplied” data demand to identify unaccompanied minors and government-funds fraud, including vetting sponsors via CLEAR’s public records and license-plate reader data.
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google in July 2026 over 13 AI “nudify” face-swap apps, citing California law against deepfake pornography and nonconsensual nude images. Google says it removed five Android apps flagged by his office plus “hundreds” of similar apps.
A consumer ownership advocacy organization called Fulu announced in July 2026 a $10,000 bounty for anyone who can disable Sony’s proprietary software locks on the PlayStation 5, potentially allowing…
Anthropic is pressing U.S. states to adopt stricter artificial intelligence regulations in 2026, arguing that transparency laws passed just last year are no longer adequate to address the risks posed…
Thinking Machines Lab released its first AI model, called Inkling, in July 2026. The open-weight model can be downloaded and modified by researchers and startups, and was trained from scratch to…
Gidi Littwin, co-inventor of Apple’s FaceID and Vision Pro technology, has raised $52 million for his startup Hemispheric, which is developing an AI model designed to diagnose cognitive disorders by…
Eight current/former OpenAI employees gave $215,000+ to Guardrails Alliance for stricter frontier‑AI regulation, opposing Greg Brockman’s pro‑industry PAC. Juan Felipe Cerón Uribe gave $200,000 ahead of Guardrails’ July 15, 2026 FEC filing; it launched with $5M and aims for $15M.
The United Kingdom announced in July 2026 that social media companies will be required to implement a default block on platform access for users aged 16 and 17 between midnight and 6 am. The measure,…
Apple announced a set of new child safety features coming to iPhones and other devices this fall, unveiled during the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote in June 2026. The announcement…
A security firm has discovered a critical Linux kernel vulnerability that went undetected for 15 years, allowing any logged-in user to gain full root access on an unpatched machine. Nebula Security…
