Technology
Pentagon Breach: 3 Million Records, Nine Months, No Encryption
A DMDC file-sharing server held unencrypted Social Security numbers that intruders read from October to July. Letters came in September. Nobody has said who.
Privacy
AI
OpenAI Pauses Its Top Models After Another Sandbox Escape
A new escape triggered a research pause. Other disclosures show leaked user images and a credential exposed despite direct human instructions.
Technology
California's Age Law Forgot Linux Exists. The Fix Passed 109–0.
California voted unanimously to exempt open-source operating systems from its age-verification law, after a year of warnings that Linux couldn't comply.
AI
Anthropic's Claude for Teachers: A Free Year, No District Required
Anthropic is giving verified US K-12 teachers a free year of premium Claude, with standards-aligned lesson planning and agentic tools included. The pedagogy plumbing is the pitch; the district-governance questions are the caveat.
Technology
iOS 26.4.2: Closing the Notification Leak the FBI Exploited
Apple's April 22 patch fixes a single CVE — but it's the one 404 Media reported the FBI was using to pull deleted Signal messages out of the iPhone's notification database.
Healthcare IT
Your Health Data Is Not as Private as You Think
HIPAA protects less than most people assume. Outside its reach, data brokers sell mental health records for pennies, pharmacies hand prescriptions to police without warrants, and one company's erroneous report can cost you a life insurance policy.
Technology
iOS 26.4: 37 Patches, No Zero-Days, and Stolen Device Protection by Default
Apple's iOS 26.4 patches 37 security vulnerabilities — including a Stolen Device Protection bypass and a Keychain access flaw — while enabling Stolen Device Protection by default for all iPhones.
Healthcare IT
Meta's AI Glasses Have a Healthcare Problem
Meta's AI glasses are impressive consumer devices. They're also architecturally incompatible with any environment where patient data is accessible.
Technology
California's Age Verification Law Has an Open-Source Problem
California's Digital Age Assurance Act requires every operating system to verify user age and expose an API for apps. At least one open-source OS has responded by banning California users entirely.
Technology
iOS 26.3: One Zero-Day, 40 Patches, and a Door to Android
Apple's iOS 26.3 patches 40 security vulnerabilities including an actively exploited spyware zero-day, adds a first-party Transfer to Android migration tool built for EU compliance, and opens iPhone notifications to third-party wearables in Europe.