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Indonesia just drew a hard line. The country announced a social media ban for anyone under 16 years old, joining a growing wave of governments worldwide that are deciding tech companies can’t be trusted to protect minors on their own. The regulation, announced by Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs, will prohibit children under

Privacy is heading into a brutal year. According to a detailed forecast from Computer Weekly, 2026 will bring an unprecedented convergence of political, technological, and corporate pressures that threaten to erode personal data protections on a global scale. For industry professionals who’ve spent years building compliance frameworks and privacy-first architectures, the ground is shifting fast.

Nobody stormed the barricades. Nobody marched. The most consequential shift in the relationship between individuals and the institutions that watch them didn’t arrive with a bang or a manifesto. It arrived with a cookie banner and a shrug. Benn Stancil, writing in his Substack newsletter, recently laid out a thesis that should unsettle anyone who

The head of OpenAI’s robotics effort has departed the company, a move that comes at a particularly charged moment as the artificial intelligence giant accelerates its push into defense work and physical-world applications. The exit raises pointed questions about the internal tensions simmering beneath OpenAI’s rapid commercial expansion — and about whether the company’s evolving

Apple quietly ran an experiment on the App Store to determine whether AI could improve how search results are ranked. The test, first reported by 9to5Mac, suggests the company is actively exploring machine learning models to reshape how millions of users discover apps — and how developers compete for visibility. The implications are significant. App

German cloud hosting provider Hetzner has officially opened its first US data centers, and the budget cloud market just got a lot more interesting. The company, long beloved by European developers and startups for its aggressive pricing and no-nonsense approach, is now directly competing with AWS, Google Cloud, and smaller US players on their home

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) has been one of the most debated pieces of tech legislation in years, and it finally went to a Senate vote in mid-2024 with overwhelming bipartisan support. The bill passed the Senate 91-3. That kind of margin is almost unheard of for tech regulation. But the legislation’s broad language

The FBI is actively investigating unauthorized cyber activity targeting a system used to process court-ordered surveillance warrants in the United States. The breach, which reportedly affected a platform tied to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court process, raises serious questions about the integrity of one of the most sensitive intelligence-gathering mechanisms in the country.

The Trump administration has admitted it literally cannot process refund payments owed to importers who overpaid on tariffs — because the government’s computer systems aren’t up to the task. Not a policy decision. Not a legal dispute. A technology failure. According to reporting from Reuters and discussion on Slashdot, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

DJI tried to pay off a security researcher with roughly $100 after he discovered a vulnerability in its robot vacuum that could let attackers spy on users through the device’s camera and microphone. The researcher, Sammy Azdoufal, refused — and now the whole story is public. As The Verge reported, Azdoufal and his team at