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Two new papers suggest utility-scale quantum attacks on elliptic curve cryptography may be less resource-intensive than previously thought, sharpening pressure on the transition to post-quantum security.

CareCloud disclosed that hackers accessed one of its patient-record repositories for more than eight hours in March, underscoring the continued vulnerability of health data infrastructure.

Proton is expanding from VPN and secure email into a bundled productivity platform, pitching Proton Workspace as a privacy-first alternative to Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.

Allbirds has agreed to sell its assets and intellectual property for $39 million, a fraction of the valuation and capital it commanded during its public-market peak.

DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused chatbot posted a sharp traffic jump in February, suggesting that data handling has become a more visible competitive factor in consumer AI.

Waymo says it is now providing 500,000 paid robotaxi rides a week, but incidents involving stranded vehicles are sharpening questions about who should handle failures in active streets and emergencies.

Amazon MGM’s adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel has become the studio’s biggest theatrical hit, offering rare validation for an expensive non-franchise bet.

Austria says it will introduce legislation by the end of June to restrict social media access for children under 14, adding to a widening international push for tougher rules on minors and platforms.

As HBO develops a new Harry Potter series with J.K. Rowling attached as an executive producer, debate over the franchise is being shaped as much by politics and activism as by adaptation choices.

Bluesky’s new Attie app lets people describe the feed they want in plain language, turning the company’s open social protocol into a more personalized and potentially more programmable platform.

A new trailer for Science Saru’s take on The Ghost in the Shell offers a clearer look at the series’ throwback visual style ahead of its planned July release on Prime Video.

Bethesda will shut down The Elder Scrolls: Blades on June 30, closing the servers for its free-to-play mobile spinoff after delisting the game from major storefronts.

Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game will arrive July 2 on PC and consoles with 12 characters, rollback netcode, crossplay, and a story mode, as the Avatar franchise makes a sharper push into competitive gaming.

Bluesky’s new Exploration team has introduced Attie, an invite-only AI assistant designed to generate custom social feeds without requiring users to write code.

What began as a hardware comeback story has turned into a broad legal and political challenge to Apple’s control over mobile software, payments, and distribution.

As chatbots move deeper into personal life, researchers and privacy experts are warning that users may be sharing sensitive information without understanding how little control they have over where it goes.

Anthropic has introduced a Claude feature that lets users import saved preferences and background information from other AI services, turning chatbot memory into a new battleground in platform competition.

Apple's new RubiCap training framework enables 7-billion-parameter models to outperform AI systems with 72 billion parameters on image captioning benchmarks, using reinforcement learning instead of costly manual annotation.

Apple's latest iPhone update brings AI voice chatbots to CarPlay, offline Shazam recognition, new emoji, and mandatory Stolen Device Protection across the board.

Apple's Safari 26.4 arrives with CSS Grid Lanes, WebTransport, and the Keyboard Lock API among 44 new capabilities, alongside a record-breaking 191 bug fixes driven by developer feedback.