Security and protection

Spy apps for mobile phones have revolutionized the way we think about security.

This isn't a minor footnote in the ongoing barrage of lawsuits against OpenAI. It's a potential gut punch. Authors and publishers, already fuming over claims that their works were vacuumed up without permission, now stand to gain explosive evidence.

In a move that feels like a plot twist from a dystopian thriller, the UK government has unveiled plans for a nationwide digital identity system called BritCard, set to become mandatory for all citizens aged 16 and over, as well as migrants with indefinite leave to remain.

If you thought the TikTok national-security panic was peak paranoia, meet the new nightmare: a $2,700 quadruped robot that quietly live-streams your living room to Beijing servers every 300 seconds, on the dot.

China’s regulators have quietly delivered the most decisive blow yet in the AI chip war: new data-center procurement rules effectively ban U.S.-made GPUs for inference workloads across government agencies, state-owned enterprises, and any company receiving state cloud contracts.

The world is accelerating into a future where the line between science fiction and daily infrastructure blurs faster than a drone delivery in rush hour. In a move that feels ripped from a cyberpunk thriller, China has begun deploying UBTech Robotics' Walker S2 humanoid robots along its southern border with Vietnam—tasks that once demanded human endurance now handed off to tireless machines.

In a sobering new study from AI safety leader Anthropic, autonomous AI agents have proven capable of identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities in blockchain smart contracts at a scale that could enable multimillion-dollar thefts.

In a dramatic 48-hour policy flip-flop that highlighted growing tensions between tech giants and government oversight, India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) issued—and then swiftly withdrew—a controversial directive requiring all smartphone manufacturers to pre-install the state-developed Sanchar Saathi app on devices sold in the country.

In a coordinated dawn raid on December 2, 2025, German Federal Criminal Police (BKA) and Swiss federal prosecutors, backed by Europol and the U.S. Treasury’s FinCEN, pulled the plug on Cryptomixer.io, one of the longest-running non-custodial Bitcoin tumblers still operating since its launch in early 2016.

In a move that could redefine the balance of power between Washington and the states, President Donald Trump is poised to sign an executive order that effectively neuters local governments' ability to regulate artificial intelligence. Drafted in the wake of failed congressional efforts to impose a nationwide moratorium on state AI laws, the order—titled "Promoting American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence"—would centralize oversight under federal control, branding any state-level rules as threats to "innovation and interstate commerce."

In the electrifying world of cryptocurrency, where fortunes can flip faster than a blockchain confirmation, South Korea's Upbit exchange has once again become a lightning rod for drama.

In a move that's rippling through Southeast Asia's financial corridors, Vietnam has unleashed one of the most aggressive digital identity crackdowns in modern history. As of September 1, 2025, the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has deactivated or frozen over 86 million bank accounts—nearly half of the nation's 200 million total—for failing to comply with mandatory biometric verification.

Beijing has launched its most ambitious censorship campaign yet: this time, the target is not just politics or pornography, it’s sadness itself.

Cloudflare, the US-based web infrastructure and security giant, has taken a bold stance against global site-blocking measures, urging the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to treat these practices as non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to American internet services. In a submission for the upcoming 2026 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers, the company argues that foreign anti-piracy mandates are inadvertently choking digital commerce and establishing dangerous precedents for online censorship.