eMudhra, a certificate authority that issued cryptographically weak TLS certificates with private keys as low as 4 bits, has announced it is exiting the SSL/TLS business following significant public scrutiny.

The FCC has begun blocking consumer gadgets containing chips from companies deemed national security threats, starting with devices using a HiVision surveillance chip linked to Huawei.

Meta revised its business terms to remove explicit AI training language, but legal experts argue the updated terms still permit content scraping through broader “develop” language.

Canva launched Craft, an AI image generation model with a two-stage planning architecture designed to compete with offerings from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. The model generates images up to 2K resolution and supports over 30 aspect ratios.

Spotify’s co-CEO confirmed the company is using QR code verification to identify Family Plan users who don’t live together, calling it a routine improvement rather than a crackdown.

Etsy is implementing stricter policies on AI-generated content in listings, requiring unedited photos of actual items and disclosure when AI is used to create products sold on the platform.

Hundreds of thousands of workers globally are recording their daily activities to train artificial intelligence systems, with companies paying them modest fees for footage used to develop robots.

Apple is modifying macOS privacy settings to prevent third-party developers from misusing full-disk access permissions to read user messages and other sensitive data, following a controversy involving Meta’s AI agent Muse.

Attackers compromised three country-code top-level domains to obtain unauthorized TLS certificates for Google and other major organizations, forcing browser-level protections and revocations.

Anthropic warns that advances in small AI models could enable self-replicating malware capable of infecting IoT devices like smart fridges and vacuums, potentially creating hard-to-stop computer worms by next year.

A science journalist discovered someone had impersonated her and published articles under her name in major publications, sparking an investigation into identity fraud affecting multiple writers and researchers.

Hackers compromised 333 Tor exit nodes in early October, redirecting SSH traffic and blocking encrypted email ports to intercept sensitive data and steal credentials.