Privacy
Security Roundup
AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years
Plus: The Pentagon is training amateurs to become part of its hacker army, a Flock license plate reader error led to cops surrounding a car reviewer, and more.
Dell Cameron and Lily Hay Newman

Chat Control’s Back
A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway
Isabella Ward

Security Roundup
Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email
Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

Don't Look Up
Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change
Matt Burgess


Burn Notice
The Pentagon Is Looking Into the Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Minority Report
British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted
Matt Burgess and Mark Wilding

Hack Job
Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Grade Expectations
How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members
Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra, and Yulia Almazova


Check, Mate
The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed
Matt Burgess, Maddy Varner, May Bulman, and Gabriel Geiger

Group Chat
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
Dell Cameron and Yulia Almazova

Spec Ops
Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra



Encrypt Everything
Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps
Andy Greenberg




World Cup 2026
Amnesty International Warns That World Cup Fans Face Potential Human Rights Violations
Fernanda González

Losing Face
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron

Security Roundup
Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
Andy Greenberg, Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra, and Maddy Varner

About Face
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron