What you need to know Google is starting to roll out its June security patch for its Android 14-supported Pixel phones. The patch includes several fixes for Pixel phones, including some for battery, charging, and camera issues affecting several devices. The June patch coincides with Google’s rollout of the June Pixel feature for phones and … Read more
Many British airline passengers are struggling to understand the rules around taking liquids in hand luggage through airport security as new scanners are rolled out. Long queues have formed at Birmingham Airport – where the new scanners have been launched – amid confusion over liquid restrictions. And on Sunday, the Department for Transport temporarily reintroduced … Read more
Microsoft Recall sounded like a really cool idea, but it quickly turned out to be a security disaster. Instead of helping you As it turns out, remembering everything you did on your Windows PC could easily help a hacker do the same. As much as the company bungled the implementation, I do think there’s mileage … Read more
The Wiretap is your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy, and surveillance news. To receive it in your inbox, subscribe here. Free VPN apps endanger children’s privacy, researchers say. Getty Virtual private networks, or VPNs, are used by Internet users around the world to encrypt their web traffic and hide their IP addresses. Often they … Read more
The controversy surrounding the newly announced Windows 11 Recall continues. The UK data protection watchdog has already done that confirmed that it is “inquiring” with Microsoftwhile billionaire SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has warned millions of followers on X to ditch the feature– all this despite Recall not actually being available on Windows 11 PCs yet. … Read more
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL; DR A leak has exposed six years of privacy and security issues at Google that were reported internally by employees. The reports range from an algorithm that stores license plate numbers to a Google voice service that collects voice data from an estimated thousand children. Google says the … Read more
Microsoft is about to launch a new AI-powered Recall feature that will take a screenshot of everything you do on your PC. Recall is part of the new Copilot Plus PCs debuting on June 18, but experts who tested the feature are already warning that Recall could be a “disaster” for cybersecurity. Recall is designed … Read more
All products are independently selected by our experts. To help us provide free, unbiased advice, we earn an affiliate commission when you purchase something. Click here to learn more The launch of a next-generation security camera from Ring has been postponed in Britain. The delay was apparently caused by an issue in the manufacturing process, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. OpenAI said it had started training its next generation of artificial intelligence software, even as the startup backtracked on previous claims that it wanted to build “super-intelligent” systems that were smarter than humans. The San … Read more
Google has published a paper directly challenging Microsoft over a series of security flaws in recent months, showing that businesses and public sector organizations need a more secure alternative. The tech giant looks to take advantage of what has been a tough year for Microsoft from a security perspective, after the company suffered a litany … Read more