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A damning report suggests DeepSeek’s website features computer code that could share user login information with a Chinese telecommunications company despite being barred from running its operations in the United States (via The Associated Press). For context, the US restricted DeepSeek operations, citing close ties between China Mobile and the Chinese military.

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Signal ist nicht der beliebteste Messengerdienst. Seit Jahren aber schätzen Menschen die App als besonders sicher für den Austausch heikler Daten. Dass US-Verteidigungsminister Pete Hegseth, Vizepräsident JD Vance und weitere Schlüsselfiguren der US-Regierung sich per Signal über einen Angriff auf die jemenitische Huthi-Miliz ausgetauscht haben, hat dennoch Empörung ausgelöst. Denn die App ist nach Expertenansicht nicht sicher genug für den Austausch vertraulicher Regierungsinformationen.

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Malware that includes code for reading the contents of screenshots has been found in suspicious App Store apps for the first time, according to a report from Kaspersky.
Dubbed “SparkCat,” the malware includes OCR capabilities for sussing out sensitive information that an iPhone user has taken a screenshot of. The apps that Kaspersky discovered are aimed at locating recovery phrases for crypto wallets, which would allow attackers to steal bitcoin and other cryptocurrency.

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The whole point of installing and maintaining an antivirus or security suite is to protect your privacy, your identity, and your devices. Wouldn’t it be ironic if that antivirus proved to be a security risk? According to testing data from AV-Comparatives, your antivirus needs to know a lot about your computer to protect you—everything from your PC’s name to the websites you visit. Are you safe giving that information away? The answer is complicated.

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Hugging Face researchers released an open source AI research agent called “Open Deep Research,” created by an in-house team as a challenge 24 hours after the launch of OpenAI’s Deep Research feature, which can autonomously browse the web and create research reports. The project seeks to match Deep Research’s performance while making the technology freely available to developers.

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