A WIRED review and researcher reports show dozens of websites, bots, and apps can turn a single photo into explicit AI videos, fueling widespread nonconsensual abuse of women and girls.
A landmark lawsuit alleging Instagram and YouTube addiction harmed a young user goes to trial after TikTok and Snapchat settled, with plaintiffs seeking damages and platform changes while Meta faces internal memos that could be damaging.
The suicide of 24-year-old machine-learning engineer Nikhil Somwanshi has focused attention on extreme hours, rising burnout and a wave of AI-related job cuts across India’s technology sector.
A viral video posted to r/Minneapolis showing federal agents tackle and shoot 37-year-old Alex Pretti has driven a cross-platform backlash that spilled into sports, craft, and pet subreddits and turned the local forum into an on-the-ground information hub.
Researchers at Christopher Newport University mapped 614 court-unsealed Flock automatic license plate reader locations and found heavy concentration of cameras in majority Black and low-income census tracts, raising privacy and bias concerns.
A US data center power outage disrupted TikTok across the country days after the app transferred control to a majority US investor group, sparking user claims of political censorship that the company denies.
The Austrian data protection authority found Microsoft illegally placed tracking cookies on a minor using Microsoft 365 Education and ordered the company to cease the tracking within four weeks.
Microsoft provided BitLocker recovery keys to investigators in a Guam Covid unemployment fraud probe, exposing risks of cloud-stored encryption keys and reigniting calls for stronger user control of keys.
Commissioner Andrius Kubilius says GOVSATCOM is now operational, pooling eight satellites from five member states to offer sovereign, encrypted bandwidth while the bloc scales up to the IRIS² constellation.
The French government will roll out the homegrown Visio videoconferencing platform across all departments to reduce reliance on US vendors and boost digital sovereignty.