Apple is bringing age verification to Texas this week
Apple is bringing age verification to Texas this week

Apple will introduce age verification in the App Store for users in Texas starting on Thursday, June 4th. The move, as spotted by MacRumors, comes just days after a federal appeals court allowed Texas’ App Store Accountability Act to go into effect while a lawsuit against it proceeds. People in Texas who are creating a […]

Hackers asked Meta’s AI chatbot to hand over Instagram accounts, and it did
Hackers asked Meta’s AI chatbot to hand over Instagram accounts, and it did

No phishing link. No malware. No SIM swap. Hackers took over high-profile Instagram accounts over the weekend by doing something disarmingly simple: they asked Meta’s AI customer support chatbot to change the email address on someone else’s account. Th…

Hackers brute-forced Dashlane’s two-factor authentication and downloaded encrypted password vaults
Hackers brute-forced Dashlane’s two-factor authentication and downloaded encrypted password vaults

Dashlane disclosed on Sunday that an external attacker launched a brute-force attack against its two-factor authentication system, successfully bypassing 2FA protections on fewer than 20 personal plan user accounts and downloading copies of their encry…

A GTA V cheat service that promised “enhanced privacy” just got hacked, exposing 64,000 accounts
A GTA V cheat service that promised “enhanced privacy” just got hacked, exposing 64,000 accounts

Atlas Menu, a cheat service for Grand Theft Auto V’s online mode, has been hacked, exposing the personal data of nearly 64,000 users. The stolen data included email addresses, usernames, hashed passwords, IP addresses, and support tickets, according to…

Florida becomes the first state to sue OpenAI, naming Altman personally and calling ChatGPT a defective product
Florida becomes the first state to sue OpenAI, naming Altman personally and calling ChatGPT a defective product

Florida has sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in what appears to be the first lawsuit by a US state against the maker of ChatGPT. The civil complaint, filed Monday in state court by Attorney General James Uthmeier, accuses OpenAI of violating product liab…

DuckDuckGo installs jumped 18% after Google killed the blue links. On Apple devices, the spike hit 70%.
DuckDuckGo installs jumped 18% after Google killed the blue links. On Apple devices, the spike hit 70%.

DuckDuckGo US app installs jumped by an average of 18% week over week between 20 and 25 May. The growth sustained for six consecutive days, peaking at 30% on Memorial Day Monday. On Apple devices, weekly install growth reached 33%, with a single-day pe…

Trump’s mass deportations are only possible with racial profiling
Trump’s mass deportations are only possible with racial profiling

Border security czar Tom Homan keeps threatening to “flood” New York City with ICE agents. But a new investigation shows that ICE has been quietly ramping up arrests in the New York area already – and disproportionately targeting Latino neighborhoods. The City, a local nonprofit news organization, found 430 street arrests in the metropolitan area […]

Hackers are trying to steal Signal users’ backups in new wave of phishing attacks

A new hacking campaign is trying to trick Signal users to give up their secret recovery key, which can be used to access online backups containing past messages.

U.S. says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’

One leading privacy lawmaker said it was time to “start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat.”

The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity
The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity

The Dutch government has imposed a “complete prohibition” on the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider, by Kyndryl, the American IT infrastructure company spun out of IBM in 2021. The deal, valued at roughly €100 million, would have given a …