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A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance

13 July 2026 at 10:00
The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.

What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out

8 July 2026 at 10:00
Burst water mains. Evacuated hospitals. In a closed-door simulation, insurers played out their response to a mass disruption by China’s Volt Typhoon hackers—and found a nightmare scenario.

Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival

1 July 2026 at 10:00
A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose.

Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps

11 June 2026 at 12:00
The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.

A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale

21 May 2026 at 09:00
GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has impacted hundreds of organizations.

The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle

8 May 2026 at 05:02
Thousands of schools around the US were paralyzed on Thursday after education tech firm Instructure shut down access to its Canvas platform following a breach by hackers going by the name ShinyHunters.

Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos

25 April 2026 at 10:30
Plus: Spy firms tap into a global telecom weakness to track targets, 500,000 UK health records go up for sale on Alibaba, Apple patches a revealing notification bug, and more.

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