Instagram tops the list of privacy nightmares
Meta’s chat platforms lead Webshare’s hall of shame for leaky apps Meta’s Instagram DMs have…
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Proton shifts out of Switzerland over snooping law fears
Privacy-first firm bolts as Swiss politicians threaten anonymity Proton is beginning to shift its physical…
UK scrambles to avoid Apple encryption showdown
Labour ministers face US tarriff pressure Sir Keir Starmer’s government is quietly trying to wriggle…
Huawei’s Kirin X90 teased with 10-core, 20-thread CPU
HarmonyOS laptops get serious Huawei is gearing up to drop its first proper in-house silicon…
UK deletes encryption advice from website
It does seem a bit hypocritical The UK government has quietly binned its encryption advice…
Coppers shut down encrypted messaging service
Used by international drugs and arms dealers An encrypted messaging service, which was international drug…
Chinese spooks hacking US mobile users in real time
Reds under the beds Millions of US mobile users could be vulnerable to Chinese government…
Chinese boffins crack encryption with a D-Wave quantum computer
Encryption is potentially dead and alive Chinese boffins have used a D-Wave quantum computer to…
Top boffin claims to have cracked RSA-2048 encryption
Can be done with a smartphone or even a Linux computer A top boffin has…
Spain wants to abandon end-to-end encryption
Claims it is about protecting children Spain wants to ban encryption for hundreds of millions…