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Signal is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted messaging app for text, voice, and video, available on desktop and mobile platforms.
Four Verge staff testing all five launch Googlebooks rate the hardware great to excellent and call Googlebook OS the weak point. Their notes describe Android apps acting like tablet software on a laptop, so a team that buys now is signing up for beta software.
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Signal finished rolling out on-device encrypted backups for iOS and desktop in iOS version 8.30, restorable on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS and Windows. Teams that require Signal can now keep message history on their own drives, protected by the recovery key alone.
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DARPA selected Xint, one of three winners of its $29.5 million AIxCC contest, to research AI-driven security analysis of Department of War messaging apps. The work aims its automated find, triage and patch pipeline at messaging code and binaries the military actually runs.
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Signal is testing a numberless signup in its Android 8.28 beta that costs a one-time $2.99 and issues an Account ID plus a recovery key. The purchase clears through Google Play, so degoogled users cannot buy it.
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WIRED's guide to private AI use reports that OpenAI, Anthropic and Google sell no-retention terms only to paid enterprise and developer accounts, and that Anthropic's Mythos-class models are excluded from them.
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The device code phishing cluster Microsoft disclosed in February 2025 is now assessed as an initial access arm of Midnight Blizzard. The sign-in flow the campaign abused works as designed, so the remedy is configuration.
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Matthew Green argues AI patching will strand law enforcement without exploits to buy. Most practitioners TechCrunch asked think otherwise, and either way the thing a mandate reaches is your default configuration.
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TechCrunch reports that Anthropic's Mythos and Fable went dark for users outside Europe earlier this year. Founders at TechBBQ read that outage as proof that which model you can call gets decided somewhere you do not sit.
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The agency is rebuilding its most secretive intrusion unit by pitching the people who already left, and the invitations ran through an outside nonprofit and a 250-plus alumni chat.
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The Administrative Office of the US Courts will add a "spyware/hacking" category to its annual Wiretap Report, creating a countable public figure where there has never been one.
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Matthew Green's argument is that backdoors lost and lawful access still won, by moving to device exploitation. That relocates the defender's problem from protocol design to fleet integrity.
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