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Microsoft Teams to Snitch on Remote Workers? December Update Sparks Privacy Uproar

Microsoft Teams to Snitch on Remote Workers? December Update Sparks Privacy Uproar

Teams’ New “Big Brother” Feature: How It Works Microsoft is poised to roll out a new Teams feature by end of 2025 that can automatically detect an employee’s location based on Wi‑Fi networks. In plain terms, if your laptop or phone connects to the company’s office Wi‑Fi, Teams will flip your status to show you’re “in the office.” Conversely, if you’re on home or public internet, it would indicate you’re remote. Microsoft’s official roadmap description sounds innocuous and “neutral”: “When users connect to their organization’s Wi‑Fi, Teams will automatically set their work location to reflect the building they are working
26 October 2025
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OpenAI Unveils ChatGPT Atlas Browser — Google Shares Tumble in AI Search Showdown

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas Browser Takes on Chrome – Privacy Alarm and Stock Market Whiplash

In-depth report: ChatGPT Atlas is not just a regular browser with an AI tacked on – it is built around ChatGPT. techradar.com At launch it’s essentially a Chromium-based browser where every tab can become an interactive conversation. OpenAI describes it as a “super-assistant” that understands your goals and context, auto-prompting actions without copy-paste openai.com techradar.com. In practice, this means Atlas replaces Google Search with ChatGPT’s engine, adding a chat pane to web pages for summaries, rewriting tasks, or deeper analysis washingtonpost.com techradar.com. Key Features: Atlas integrates ChatGPT “in every tab” tomsguide.com. For example, if you’re researching a recipe or shopping
24 October 2025
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Google Home’s Gemini Revolution: Can AI Fix the Smart Home and Win Back Your Trust?

Google Home’s Gemini Revolution: Can AI Fix the Smart Home and Win Back Your Trust?

Gemini Replaces Assistant: A New AI “Brain” for Your Home After nearly a decade, Google is pulling the plug on the original Google Assistant in its smart home products and swapping in something far more powerful. Gemini, Google’s latest conversational AI, will now handle voice interactions on Google Home speakers, displays, and other devices wired.com. The trigger phrase “Hey Google” stays the same, but everything behind it is new – instead of the old scripted Assistant, you’ll be talking to a modern large language model that understands natural language and context wired.com. Google Assistant debuted in 2016 as an answer
5 October 2025
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‘BritCard’ Shock: UK to Force Digital IDs by 2029—Here’s What It Is, Why It’s Explosive, and How It Stacks Up Against EU Wallets, Estonia’s e‑ID and India’s Aadhaar

UK’s Mandatory Digital ID Plan Sparks Uproar: Security Game-Changer or Privacy Nightmare?

UK Government’s Rationale: Tackling Illegal Work and Modernizing ID The push for digital identification in the UK comes against a backdrop of political pressure over immigration and a desire to modernize public services. Announcing the policy in late September, Prime Minister Keir Starmer framed it as a response to voter concerns about unauthorized migrants finding jobs. “I know working people are worried about the level of illegal migration… This will make it tougher to work illegally in this country, making our borders more secure,” Starmer said theguardian.com. By requiring every employee to hold a verified digital ID, the government says
30 September 2025
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Goodbye, Cookie Pop-Ups? Inside the EU’s Battle to Fix Cookie Consent Laws

Goodbye, Cookie Pop-Ups? Inside the EU’s Battle to Fix Cookie Consent Laws

The Origin of the EU’s Cookie Consent Law (ePrivacy Directive) The story begins in the early 2000s. In 2002, the EU passed the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (Directive 2002/58/EC), commonly called the ePrivacy Directive. This law was intended to safeguard privacy in the digital realm – covering things like the confidentiality of communications, spam emails, and online tracking. Originally, the ePrivacy Directive said websites should give users the right to refuse or opt out of cookies, but it did not yet mandate an explicit opt-in for most cookies. However, by the end of that decade, concerns about online tracking
22 September 2025
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Apple’s July 2025 Bombshells: Foldable iPhone, AI Secrets, Encryption Showdown & More

Apple’s Big Week: Record Earnings, Huge iPhone 17 Leaks, and a Privacy Showdown (July 27–Aug 2, 2025)

On July 31, 2025, Apple reported a record June-quarter revenue of $94.0 billion, up 10% year over year, across all regions and product categories. During WWDC25 Apple announced a “beautiful new software design” and introduced Apple Intelligence features across platforms. Apple CFO Kevan Parekh said the active installed base of devices reached an all-time high. The board approved a quarterly dividend of $0.26 per share. On July 29, Apple released iOS 18.6 and iPadOS 18.6 for eligible devices, along with watchOS 11.6 for Apple Watch Series 6 and later, featuring bug fixes and security improvements. No new hardware was launched
2 August 2025
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Google Glass: From Futuristic Hype to Privacy Nightmare to Enterprise Hero (2025 Update)

Google Glass: From Futuristic Hype to Privacy Nightmare to Enterprise Hero (2025 Update)

Google started Project Glass at Google X around 2011, officially announced in April 2012, with a dramatic June 2012 I/O live demo. Time magazine named Google Glass its Invention of the Year in 2012. The first Explorer Edition shipments began in April 2013, priced at $1,500. Explorer Edition hardware included a 640×360 display (perceived as a 25-inch screen at 8 feet), 5 MP photos, 720p video, bone-conduction audio, 16 GB storage (12 GB usable), 2 GB RAM, a dual-core TI OMAP processor, and a weight of 36 grams. Public reaction shifted to privacy concerns and the ‘Glasshole’ stigma, with bans
20 July 2025
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Zero-Knowledge Proof and Confidential Computing – June–July 2025 Report

Zero-Knowledge Proof and Confidential Computing – June–July 2025 Report

June 17–18, 2025, the Confidential Computing Summit featured OPAQUE Systems unveiling Confidential Agents, a platform that runs AI agents inside TEEs for secure RAG workflows with encrypted data, policy enforcement, and auditability. On the same dates, OPAQUE joined the AGNTCY open‑source consortium led by Cisco’s Outshift and LangChain to build a trust infrastructure for the Internet of Agents. In June 2025, Anjuna Security added a top‑5 global bank to its clientele, with three of the world’s 10 largest banks using its Seaglass enclaves and Northstar clean‑room across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and on‑prem. June 30, 2025 saw Keyring Network with
10 July 2025
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You Won’t Believe China’s New ‘Mosquito Drone’—How Insect-Sized Spies Could Rewrite Warfare (and Your Privacy) Forever

You Won’t Believe China’s New ‘Mosquito Drone’—How Insect-Sized Spies Could Rewrite Warfare (and Your Privacy) Forever

On 20 June 2025 CCTV aired footage from the National University of Defence Technology showing student Liang Hexiang balancing a micro-robot the size of a mosquito between his fingers. The insect-sized drone uses flapping leaf-shaped wings and hair-thin legs to hover, perch and crawl inside buildings for information reconnaissance on the battlefield. Analysts describe the device as part of China’s PLA modernization drive, pushing covert surveillance to a new extreme. Its dimensions are about 1.3 cm long and it weighs less than 0.3 g. It has three carbon-fiber legs with a 0.1 mm diameter that double as landing gear and
24 June 2025
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Bahrain’s Internet Secrets Revealed: What They Don’t Tell You About Your Connection

Bahrain’s Internet Secrets Revealed: What They Don’t Tell You About Your Connection

By mid-2024, about 60% of Bahraini households had fiber-optic internet via the wholesale operator BNET, with roughly 171,000 fiber subscriptions in Q2 2024 and top plans up to 2 Gbps. Batelco, STC Bahrain, and Zain have launched 5G with over 98% population coverage, and the median mobile download speed was about 119 Mbps in early 2024. Fixed-line penetration was around 13–14% in 2023, with about 261,000 fixed phone lines in operation, and the median fixed broadband speed was about 80.8 Mbps in early 2024. The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) regulates the market, promotes competition, and oversees the separation of Batelco’s
31 May 2025
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