Instagram tops the list of privacy nightmares
Meta’s chat platforms lead Webshare’s hall of shame for leaky apps
Meta’s Instagram DMs have been named the least private digital service in a damning new study from proxy company Webshare.
Proton shifts out of Switzerland over snooping law fears
Privacy-first firm bolts as Swiss politicians threaten anonymity
Proton is beginning to shift its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland, fearing a fresh bout of government snooping baked into the country's updated surveillance laws.
UK scrambles to avoid Apple encryption showdown
Labour ministers face US tarriff pressure
Sir Keir Starmer’s government is quietly trying to wriggle out of a diplomatic bust-up with Donald Trump’s White House over its attempt to force the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple to open up its locked-down customer data.
Huawei’s Kirin X90 teased with 10-core, 20-thread CPU
HarmonyOS laptops get serious
Huawei is gearing up to drop its first proper in-house silicon for desktop-class machines with the Kirin X90, and if the tipsters are right, it’s a winner.
UK deletes encryption advice from website
It does seem a bit hypocritical
The UK government has quietly binned its encryption advice just weeks after demanding a backdoor into the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s iCloud storage.
Coppers shut down encrypted messaging service
Used by international drugs and arms dealers
An encrypted messaging service, which was international drug and arms trafficking dealers' tool of choice, has been taken down by Inspector Knacker of Europol.
Chinese spooks hacking US mobile users in real time
Reds under the beds
Millions of US mobile users could be vulnerable to Chinese government spooks who are apparently desperate to know when they are picking up their snowflakes from school and where they order their pizza.
Chinese boffins crack encryption with a D-Wave quantum computer
Encryption is potentially dead and alive
Chinese boffins have used a D-Wave quantum computer to mount a successful quantum attack on widely used encryption algorithms.
Top boffin claims to have cracked RSA-2048 encryption
Can be done with a smartphone or even a Linux computer
A top boffin has discovered a way to use his smartphone or Linux computer to crack RSA-2048 encryption.
Spain wants to abandon end-to-end encryption
Claims it is about protecting children
Spain wants to ban encryption for hundreds of millions of people within the European Union and has strong support among EU member states for proposals to scanning private messages for illegal content.