Last month I checked into a hotel for a conference. Open laptop. Click WiFi. Hotel network. The familiar splash screen appears: enter your room number, your last name, accept the terms. Standard. What’s no longer standard is what’s running behind that …
Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic mid-tier model yet. It runs close to the flagship Opus 4.8 on many tasks, but costs less than half as much. Anthropic said on June 30, 2026 that Sonnet 5 is available today across every plan. The…
The project ran under the internal name Cannes, and a Meta contractor called Covalen managed it. WIRED reported that hundreds of contractors created dummy under-18 accounts. They sent prompts and images to competitors’ chatbots, then logged the replies…
The most tightly held document in consumer electronics is the bill of materials, and a chunk of Apple’s appears to be sitting on the dark web. Files posted by the ransomware group World Leaks contain component lists, supplier names, and photographs tie…
AI agents are pouring into companies, and most security tools were never built to watch them. Straiker wants to fix that. The startup has just raised $64mn to police a workforce that does not clock in. The Series A was revealed first by Axios. It takes…
Your browser has been busy on your behalf. This week brought two reminders that Chrome can put things on your machine you never agreed to. One came from Google. One came from an impostor. Both used the same quiet machinery. Chrome runs on billions of d…
Your phone keeps a minute-by-minute diary of where you go. The US Supreme Court has now ruled that police cannot simply demand it. In a major win for digital privacy, the court said geofence searches need a warrant. The 6-3 decision lands on a practice…
WhatsApp is opening username reservations starting today, allowing its more than three billion users to connect with people without sharing their phone number for the first time. The feature, which has been in development for several years, will offici…
Most people call them automated licence plate readers, or ALPRs. They sit beside roads and log every car that passes. Flock Safety dominates the market. Engadget reports that Flock makes the vast majority of the 100,000-plus readers now blanketing the …
Israel logged roughly 4,800 hostile cyber incidents in June 2026, up from about 1,600 a year earlier, the head of its National Cyber Directorate told a German newspaper. The fighting between Israel and Iran has a ceasefire. The fighting in cyberspace d…