Nigel Farage says UK’s teen social media ban is ‘unlikely to work’ — but will VPNs really help children get around the restrictions?

Building on the Australian model, the British Prime Minister has just announced a social media ban for under-16s. But some commentators believe these measures are bound to fail.

A spy in your pocket? How the UK’s proposed on-device nude image blocking could work in reality

Apple and Google have until September to either activate built-in features or implement new scanning tools. Privacy advocates are raising the alarm, but the government is ready to “change the law” if needs be.

‘Celebrating this partial restoration is not right’ — Iran emerges from 88-day internet shutdown, but what happens next?

As connectivity began to be restored, internet experts have warned that a cutoff “will happen agains.” TechRadar talked to Mahsa Alimardani at WITNESS about what this partial restoration actually means, and what could happ…

7 in 10 World Cup football fans are ready to put their digital privacy at risk, warns ExpressVPN

With the 2026 World Cup on the horizon, an ExpressVPN survey finds that the majority of football fans are unwittingly exposing themselves on public Wi-Fi. Here’s how to stay safe.

Major Russian mobile provider Beeline launches ‘whitelist VPN’ for Netflix and Spotify

Russian telecom giant Beeline has introduced a built-in “whitelist VPN,” granting users direct access to Western streaming and gaming platforms that suspended their operations in the country.

Fake X-VPN installers found to spread credential-stealing malware — here’s how to stay safe

Researchers found a trojanized X-VPN installer used to deploy STX RAT malware. X-VPN itself was not breached, and only attacker-hosted downloads are affected.

Russia’s solution to its VPN crackdown breaking the internet? A state-owned VPN

Russia’s internet regulator, Roskomnadzor, has a unique solution for the problems caused by its own VPN crackdown: creating a state-controlled VPN. The plan is meant to restore access to vital developer tools, but the IT c…

‘Surveillance is not safety’ — UK’s device scanning order faces privacy backlash

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer gave tech providers until September to scan and block explicit images on children’s phones. Privacy advocates are raising the alarm over the unintended consequences of these new obligati…