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A new report from Proton, covered by CNET on September 15, 2026, looked at VPN apps on Apple's App Store and Google Play. It found 64 of them, roughly one in six, carrying trackers that collect s
Read more →LG put out a statement pushing back after Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs and independent security researchers showed its smart TVs logging and uploading data about the people watching them. LG says its TVs
Read more →Dropbox has warned around 5,000 users that attackers broke into their accounts through an old shortcut that let people sign in with a Lenovo ID instead of a Dropbox password. Lenovo didn't proper
Read more →Google quietly hiked U.S. prices on nearly its whole Nest lineup effective August 31, blaming "rising component costs." The Nest Cam Outdoor (wired, 2nd gen) jumped from $149.99 to $199.99,
Read more →Proton released a new report on August 27, 2026 finding that of the more than 7,000 mobile VPN apps it studied, 85% of the ones downloaded in the US contain trackers — and around a quarter of them act
Read more →The deadline to file a claim in Google's $68 million Google Assistant privacy settlement hit Thursday, August 27, 2026. Users alleged the Assistant switched itself on without anyone intentionally
Read more →Brinks Home — the alarm and home-security company serving more than 1 million customers across North America — discovered intruders in its systems on July 20 after the ShinyHunters extortion group bro
Read more →Fortune broke the story on August 21 that Amazon hiked prices across its device lineup overnight, blaming "significant increases in memory and storage component costs." The Echo Dot jumped f
Read more →Socket's Threat Research Team found 737 fake VPN and proxy extensions on the Chrome Web Store, published across at least 40 developer accounts, with more than 75,000 combined installs. They pose
Read more →Life360's second-quarter filing on August 10, 2026 reports 102.4 million monthly active users and advertising revenue that increased 315% year-over-year to $22.0 million, driven by new advertisin
Read more →MacRumors reported today that iOS 27 upgrades Shared Albums to full resolution — but the trade-off is that shared albums now eat into your iCloud storage for the first time. Until now, families could
Read more →Amazon announced Aug 19 that Alexa+, its AI-powered assistant that used to cost $19.99 per month for non-Prime members, is now free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the U.S. — and households will
Read more →Malwarebytes warned on August 18 that Google Docs and Drive files shared with "anyone with the link" can be indexed by Google Search — a company just discovered a doc full of its login crede
Read more →Security researchers hijacked a kids' GPS smartwatch that sells for under $30 and used it to follow a WIRED reporter through New York — remotely firing the watch's camera to photograph him i
Read more →Apple confirmed that three new Home app camera features in iOS 27 — generated video descriptions for HomeKit Secure Video cameras, searching your camera clips, and automatically surfacing noteworthy c
Read more →Apple is facing a class action lawsuit accusing it of fraud and false advertising over iCloud Private Relay — the paid iCloud+ feature that promises to hide your real IP address and browsing activity
Read more →On July 23, Google launched selfie-video account recovery: you film yourself doing a series of guided head movements, and Google stores the encrypted video in your account so you can prove your identi
Read more →Brinks Home, the Dallas, Texas home-security company families pay monthly to monitor their alarms, disclosed that the ShinyHunters extortion group broke into its systems and leaked more than 41 gigaby
Read more →Consumer Reports looked at what smart appliances quietly send home and found major brands transmitting anywhere from 3.4MB to 19MB of usage data to manufacturers on a weekly basis. That includes power
Read more →Starting July 7, 2026, every data type that shows up in Android backup settings counts against your Google Account storage — SMS messages, call history and device settings, not just photos and videos
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