Supply chain chaos, old bugs, smarter phishing, and botnets everywhere — here’s what broke the internet this week.

The Texas Attorney General has sued Meta over allegations that the company’s WhatsApp messenger, used by more than 3 billion people, doesn’t provide the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) it has long ...

You've done it. Everyone has. API key in a .env file → forgot to gitignore it → pushed to GitHub → seconds later you're frantically revoking the key. GitHub detects roughly 10 million leaked secrets ...

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Open BitLocker-encrypted USB drives on macOS, including BitLocker To Go (exFAT-personality) volumes. CLI + SwiftUI app, both backed by the well-tested dislocker crypto core. Plug in your BitLocker USB ...

Mayor Mamdani's plans for a government-run grocery store have stoked controversy, but this is far from the first municipal supermarket. Marnie Shure is a writer and editor with over a decade of ...

Just days after Meta pulled support for encrypted direct messages on Instagram, the tech giant is now rolling out a new private AI chat feature. Meta announced on Wednesday that its new Incognito Chat ...

West Pharmaceutical Services disclosed that it was the target of a cyberattack that resulted in data exfiltration and system encryption. The company said that it detected a compromise on May 4th. An ...

In March 2024, Matthew Kelly, a 49-year-old marketing executive from New York, allegedly texted his business partner Stanley Yi Zheng what looked to be a draft pitch to drum up new clients. In the ...

At long last, Android and iPhone users will be able to send each other end-to-end encrypted text messages. On Monday, end-to-end encrypted messaging is starting to roll out in beta for conversations ...

iOS 26.5 is here, and one of its tentpole features is RCS end-to-end encrypted messaging. Here’s the list of carriers that currently support the new RCS feature. Here are the carriers that support end ...

The feature is in beta as part of iOS 26.5. The feature is in beta as part of iOS 26.5. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years ...