Meta pulled facial recognition code from its smart glasses app one day after WIRED found it, then denied the timing was related
Meta pulled facial recognition code from its smart glasses app one day after WIRED found it, then denied the timing was related

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 releases Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model the public can finally use, days before a potential record IPO
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model the public can finally use, days before a potential record IPO

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 UK is reviewing its £330M NHS deal with Palantir, and may pull the plug in 2027
The UK is reviewing its £330M NHS deal with Palantir, and may pull the plug in 2027

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…

Microsoft cuts hundreds of Azure jobs in China as the borderless cloud splinters
Microsoft cuts hundreds of Azure jobs in China as the borderless cloud splinters

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’s ‘sovereign’ messenger Tchap was breached, and officials and the hacker disagree on how badly
France’s ‘sovereign’ messenger Tchap was breached, and officials and the hacker disagree on how badly

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 previews its biggest parental controls update in years, weeks before UK and US regulatory deadlines
Apple previews its biggest parental controls update in years, weeks before UK and US regulatory deadlines

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…

A Qilin ransomware affiliate exploited a Check Point VPN zero-day for a month before a patch existed
A Qilin ransomware affiliate exploited a Check Point VPN zero-day for a month before a patch existed

Check Point has disclosed and patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in its Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access products that a Qilin ransomware affiliate exploited for roughly a month before a fix was available. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-50751 …

Meta is dragging NSO back to court, saying the spyware firm never stopped targeting WhatsApp
Meta is dragging NSO back to court, saying the spyware firm never stopped targeting WhatsApp

Meta thought it had stopped NSO Group. It says the spyware firm did not get the message. The company is filing a federal court contempt order against NSO, the Israeli maker of the Pegasus hacking tool, accusing it of violating a permanent injunction th…

The US wants NATO allies to spend their new defence budgets ripping out Huawei
The US wants NATO allies to spend their new defence budgets ripping out Huawei

The US has found a new use for Europe’s swelling defence budgets: tearing out Huawei. Whether its allies are listening is another matter. The State Department’s China coordinator, Joshua Young, told officials in Brussels last month that NATO members sh…

Self-replicating Miasma worm hits 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories in supply chain attack
Self-replicating Miasma worm hits 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories in supply chain attack

The self-replicating Miasma worm has reached Microsoft‘s own GitHub repositories. GitHub disabled 73 repositories across four Microsoft organisations, including Azure, Azure-Samples, Microsoft, and MicrosoftDocs, after the worm planted malicious code t…