KPMG secretly and repeatedly accessed a whistleblower’s work computer to extract documents detailing their allegations of data misuse, then shared the material with senior partners and the firm’s former chief executive, the Australian Financial Review …
Aryon Security, an Israeli cloud-security startup, has raised $29M in a Series A round to push a prevention-first approach to securing the cloud. The round, which the company says brings its total funding to $38M, was led by US-based Brightmind Partner…
The 2026 World Cup is rolling out two layers of technology that most of its 10 million visitors will actually touch: a consumer-AI layer led by Google, and a biometric-identity layer that turns a fan’s face into a ticket. This is the quieter half of th…
Two Russian state-linked hacking groups are actively exploiting a path traversal vulnerability in WinRAR that was patched nearly a year ago, using it to deploy credential-stealing malware against Ukrainian government and military targets, according to …
Meta removed nearly all traces of an unreleased facial recognition system from its smart glasses companion app on Friday, one day after WIRED reported that the software had been quietly embedded in an app installed on more than 50 million phones. The f…
Anthropic on Tuesday released Claude Fable 5, a model built on the same architecture as its restricted Mythos system, making Mythos-class intelligence publicly available for the first time. Fable 5 is available to enterprise customers and paid subscrib…
The British government has put its most contentious health-tech contract on notice. It is now formally reviewing the NHS’s £330mn deal with Palantir, and weighing whether to walk away in 2027. Technology minister Liz Kendall confirmed the review this w…
The cloud was supposed to make geography irrelevant. Microsoft’s latest round of job cuts in China shows how quickly that promise is coming apart. Microsoft is laying off hundreds of staff at its Azure cloud unit in China, according to affected employe…
France built its own encrypted messenger so civil servants would not have to trust WhatsApp or Telegram. Now that messenger has been breached, and the government and the attacker cannot agree on how much was taken. France’s National Cybersecurity Agenc…
Apple previewed a suite of new parental controls at WWDC 2026 on Monday, introducing tools that give parents more granular authority over what their children can see, who they can contact, and how long they can spend in apps. The updates, arriving this…