A long-time Windows expert has stopped using a Microsoft account, switching to a local account over privacy concerns. He details the trade-offs and the increasingly complicated workarounds needed to avoid Microsoft’s online account system.
The fallout from a massive 2024 hack at insurance verification provider TriZetto is still spreading, with new notifications going out to patients in Oregon and other states. The breach, discovered almost a year later, exposed protected health information for over 700,000 people.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is launching a public campaign urging major tech firms to adopt stronger encryption. Apple is a key target, with specific demands for iCloud and Messages.
A massive residential proxy network secretly hijacked millions of private devices, including Android phones. Google obtained a federal court order to shut it down, revealing a major security threat hiding in plain sight.
Microsoft has confirmed it will provide your BitLocker recovery key to law enforcement with a valid legal order, but only if you’ve backed it up to their cloud. This policy, highlighted by a recent FBI case in Guam, forces a tough choice between convenience and absolute privacy. The fix? Store your
For 18 years, the Federal Reserve has operated a “floor system” paying interest to banks, a policy that may violate its 2008 statutory authority. The system now costs roughly $200 billion annually. This highlights a key difference with Bitcoin’s immutable monetary rules.
The technology for creating nonconsensual sexual deepfakes is rapidly evolving, moving from crude images to high-quality, customizable videos. An entire economy of websites and Telegram bots is profiting from this abuse, targeting millions of women and girls with terrifying ease.
Apple users are starting to receive payments from a $95 million class-action settlement over Siri privacy allegations. The payouts, stemming from a 2019 scandal, are around $8 per device. Apple denied wrongdoing but settled to avoid litigation.
The European Union has opened a formal investigation into X over the spread of illegal AI-generated images by Grok. This comes after X claimed to have implemented “technological measures” to curb the creation of sexualized images of real people.
According to Techmeme, Apple is preparing a major AI strategy reset, including a Gemini-powered Siri announcement next month and a reimagined chatbot-like Siri at WWDC. In a separate but telling report, Microsoft says it receives about 20 annual requests for BitLocker recovery keys and, in a Guam ca
