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DHS Plans Experiment Running ‘Reconnaissance’ Drones Along the US-Canada Border

Autonomous drones and ground vehicles will stream “battlefield intelligence” over 5G along the US-Canada border in a bilateral DHS experiment this fall.

Help EFF Solve an Issue That's Bigger than Creepy Ads

Millions of people around the world use EFF's Privacy Badger. This browser extension blocks the hidden trackers that twist your web browsing into a commodity for Big Tech, advertisers, scammers, and data brokers. But did you know that we’re trying to solve an issue that’s even bigger than creepy ads and user profiling? You can help. JOIN EFF Online tracking isn't just creepy and unethical. It also enables government surveillance. Widespread commercial surveillance and weak privacy laws allow dat

The Science is Not Settled: How Weak Evidence is Fueling a National Push to Ban Social Media for Youth

As statehouses ramp up for 2026, we’re seeing a familiar and concerning trend of lawmakers rushing to regulate the internet based on shockingly shaky science. From the California State Assembly to the Massachusetts and Minnesota legislatures, a wave of bills is crashing against the digital lives of young people, with proponents of these measures framing social media access as a "public health epidemic," or a "mental health crisis," even though we have yet to see any of the settled science that t

Chancellor Merz congratulates the President of the Republic of Costa Rica, Laura Fernández

Dear Madam President, I would like to extend my warmest congratulations to you on your assumption of office as President of Costa Rica. Costa Rica and Germany have long been linked by close and trusting relationships. I look forward to continuing and further deepening our bilateral and multilateral cooperation with you. Kind regards, Friedrich Merz Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private

The company says its new Incognito Chat allows you to use its AI chatbot without anyone else—including Meta—being able to access your conversations.

Browser Run: now running on Cloudflare Containers, it’s faster and more scalable

We’ve enabled higher usage limits, faster performance, better reliability, and increased shipping velocity for our Browser Run product by rebuilding on top of Cloudflare’s Containers. Here’s how.

Chancellor Merz receives the Federal President of the Swiss Confederation, Parmelin

The spokesman for the federal government, Stefan Kornelius, said:

Lead Defendants in the IM Mastery Academy MLM Scheme to Turn Over Tens of Millions of Dollars in Assets to Settle FTC Charges

FTC alleged Chris and Isis Terry and their companies used false or baseless earnings claims to promote their training services and MLM venture The Federal Trade Commission and State of Nevada will require five individual and corporate IM Mastery Academy defendants, including ringleaders Chris and Isis Terry, to surrender assets valued at nearly $90 million to resolve charges that they used false or baseless earnings claims to persuade people to pay for financial training programs and a multi-lev

Shutterstock to Pay $35 Million to Settle FTC Allegations Over Illegal Subscription and Cancellation Practices

Online licensing platform allegedly charged consumers without their consent, failed to disclose auto-renewals and cancellation charges, and made cancelling difficult Shutterstock Inc. will pay $35 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that the online digital photo and video platform illegally made tens of millions of dollars from a range of unfair and deceptive practices, including charging consumers for products without their informed consent and making it difficult to cancel s

Chancellor Merz receives Bulgarian Prime Minister Radev

The spokesman for the federal government, Stefan Kornelius, said:

Falcon AIDR Detects Threats at the Prompt Layer in Kubernetes AI Applications

Security Alert: Microsoft Releases May 2026 Security Updates

May’s Patch Tuesday hauls out 132 CVEs

With advisories, this month’s count approaches 300 – though many are already in place Categories: Threat Research, X-ops Tags: Patch Tuesday, MICROSOFT PATCH TUESDAY

A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10: When a Door Closes, a Window Opens

We recently published an exploit chain for the Google Pixel 9 that demonstrated it was possible to go from a zero-click context to root on Android in just two exploits. The Dolby 0-click vulnerability existed across all of Android, until it was patched in January 2026. While we had an exploit chain for the Pixel 9, we wanted to see if it was possible to write a similar exploit chain for Pixel 10. Updating the Dolby Exploit Altering our exploit for CVE-2025-54957 was fairly straightforward. The m

Broken Promises: RIP Instagram’s End-to-End Encrypted DMs

Last week, Instagram ended its opt-in, and therefore rarely used, end-to-end encryption feature. Years after publicly promising to provide the privacy protections of end-to-end encryption across its platforms by default, it instead gave up on that technical challenge. Now, we've all lost an option for safer conversations on one of the biggest social media platforms in the world. In an announcement in 2023, Meta bragged about how it had successfully encrypted Messenger, and teased that Instagram

Foxconn Ransomware Attack Shows Nothing Is Safe Forever

Famous for helping build Apple’s iPhones, Foxconn just suffered another cyberattack, highlighting the perils of warehousing some of the world’s most valuable data.

Patch Tuesday, May 2026 Edition

Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding security vulnerabilities in human-made computer code. That reality is on full display this month with some of the more widely-used software makers -- including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Oracle -- fixing near record volumes of security bugs, and/or quickening the tempo of their patch releases.

Chancellor Merz congratulates the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston A. Browne

Dear Prime Minister, I extend my warmest congratulations to you on your re-appointment as Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua and Barbuda are linked to Germany by shared values. I look forward to continuing and further deepening our bilateral and multilateral cooperation with you. I wish you much success and good luck in the tasks ahead of you. Kind regards, Friedrich Merz Federal Chancellor de

Victory! End-to-End Encrypted RCS Comes to Apple and Android Chats

This week, Apple released iOS 26.5, an update that supports end-to-end encryption for Rich Communication Services (RCS), meaning conversations between Android and iPhone will soon be encrypted in the default chat apps. This has been a long time coming, and is a welcome delivery on a promise both Google and Apple made. With this update, conversations that take place between Apple’s Messages app and Google Messages on Android will be end-to-end encrypted by default, as long as the carrier supports

EFF Launches New Offline Campaign for Saudi Wikipedian Osama Khalid

Osama Khalid was just twelve years old when he began contributing to Wikipedia Arabic. In the height of the blogging era, he became a prolific blogger, publishing writings on his home country of Saudi Arabia, meetups he attended, and his opinions and observations about open source technology and freedom of expression. He advocated for internet freedom, contributed time and translations to various projects—including EFF’s HTTPS Everywhere—and was a thoughtful presence at the conferences he attend

A Hackers Guide to Circumventing Internet Shutdowns

Internet shutdowns are devastating for human rights. When people are disconnected from the internet and digital services, it impacts all aspects of their life—from accessing essential information, to seeking medical care, or communicating with loved ones, both in that country and externally. But on January 8th, 2026, the government of Iran shut down internet communications for the entire country as a rebellion threatened to topple the authoritarian government. The government then proceeded to ex

EU sets course for Agora-EU funding program – State Minister Weimer: “Strengthening Europe’s sovereignty with self-confident cultural and media policy”

The Council of the European Union for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture approved the draft of the new culture and media funding program Agora-EU from 2028 to 2034 in Brussels today. Minister of State Wolfram Weimer for Germany agreed. On his initiative, the draft text also includes the fight against anti-Semitism as a program mandate. The State Minister for Culture and Media: “Our goal is a self-confident cultural and media policy that strengthens Europe’s sovereignty

When "idle" isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug

We investigated a bug where CUBIC's congestion window became pinned at its minimum floor, causing a performance to plummet. The fix involved correctly measuring idle periods to distinguish RTT wait times from actual application idleness.

Chancellor Merz congratulates Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev

Dear Prime Minister, I warmly congratulate you on taking office. Germany and Bulgaria are closely connected and maintain long-standing friendly relations. I look forward to further deepening these ties with you and to continuing to work well and closely together as reliable partners in the European Union and NATO in geopolitically challenging times. I would be happy to welcome you personally in Berlin soon. For d

State of ransomware in 2026

Kaspersky researchers are sharing insights into the main ransomware trends for 2026: EDR killers on the rise, switching from data encryption to data leaks, and more.

DRC’s Coltan Belt: Verifying Deadly Landslides at Mines Under M23 Control

Since the beginning of 2026, at least four landslides are reported to have killed hundreds of people at the Rubaya mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a major global source of coltan. Coltan is widely used in smartphones, laptops and e-vehicles. With the mines currently under the control of the Rwandan-backed group M23, […] The post DRC’s Coltan Belt: Verifying Deadly Landslides at Mines Under M23 Control appeared first on bellingcat.

May 2026 Patch Tuesday: 30 Critical Vulnerabilities Among 130 CVEs

Inside the lethal trifecta: Blast radius reduction in AI agent deployments

Seven things security teams can start doing today to reduce risk Categories: Threat Research Tags: AI, CISO, risk

Inside AD CS Escalation: Unpacking Advanced Misuse Techniques and Tools

Unit 42 analyzes AD CS exploitation through template misconfigurations and shadow credential misuse while offering behavioral detection for defenders. The post Inside AD CS Escalation: Unpacking Advanced Misuse Techniques and Tools appeared first on Unit 42.

Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare

Last year, the Canadian government pushed Bill C-2, which would erode Canadian digital rights in the name of “border security.” The bill was so bad it didn’t even make it to committee because of the backlash from the privacy community. Now, the spring’s worst sequel, Bill C-22, aka The Lawful Access Act, is trying it again. As with most sequels, Bill C-22 makes some tweaks to problematic elements, but largely retains the same problems. The bill forces digital services, which could include teleco