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Regulation, antitrust, privacy and the widening negotiation between Washington and the technology industry, from The Silicon Ledger.
The British government is proposing severe penalties, including up to 14 years in prison, for those who damage critical undersea infrastructure, responding to hundreds of incidents involving Russian vessels near vital cables.
A China-aligned hacking group deployed an open-source AI penetration testing tool to exploit stolen application credentials in a sweeping supply chain attack, gaining access to Microsoft 365 tenants without requiring user authentication.
Researchers using OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol uncovered two critical security flaws in PHP that could compromise roughly 70% of internet websites, prompting a coordinated global response to patch the vulnerabilities.
Authorities in Japan arrested two individuals for concealing a computer behind a refrigerator that transmitted roughly 480,000 fraudulent emails and was used in credit card theft schemes.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a guide designed to help parents and young people protect their privacy online, positioning family decision-making as preferable to government-imposed restrictions.
The PHP maintainers have announced imminent releases to address two severe vulnerabilities rated 9.2 out of 10, with security researchers warning of mass exploitation within minutes of the patches becoming available.
Artificial intelligence is simultaneously accelerating financial institutions' digital transformation and enabling less-skilled attackers to deploy advanced threats, according to Dell Technologies' security leadership.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's free tracker-blocking extension is now available for Safari on macOS, requiring version 26.5 or higher. The move brings Privacy Badger to all major desktop browsers after years of user requests.
