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Security covers the world of cybersecurity, privacy, and digital safety. Articles here include data breaches and hacks, vulnerabilities and patches, privacy tools, and practical advice for protecting your devices and accounts. Follow this tag to stay informed and keep your digital life secure.
Google’s October Pixel bulletin fixes three critical vulnerabilities, including a Bluetooth privilege escalation bug that needs nothing more than being near you. The wider Android bulletin adds 25 more. Here is what is actually in the update, which devices get which fixes, and why the Pixel 6 case is different this month.
Google has added six features to Android Advanced Protection in Android 17, including forensic Intrusion Logging, charging-only USB when locked, and a hard lock on the Accessibility API. The accessibility change is the one you will notice: it strips the permission from apps that already have it, and automation tools like Tasker stop working the moment you flip the switch.
Google’s support window for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro closed in October 2026, five years after launch. The phone keeps working and most of the software on it keeps updating, but the monthly Android security patch does not. Here is what stops, what quietly continues, how fast the risk actually builds, and what the realistic options are.
Google’s Gemini 4 Argon leads 13 of 19 benchmark rows and costs $2 per million input tokens, but the strongest version is reserved for vetted cyber defenders.
Tavus says its new Griffin model is the first to pass a live video Turing test, with 48% of people believing they had just spoken to a real human. Its own previous system managed 2%. Here is what the study actually measured, how the model works, and why the fraud risk arrives before the product does.
Simon Leviev says his app Safe Love will protect women from romance fraud. The Online Dating and Discovery Association has written to Apple and Google asking them to refuse to list any dating app he fronts. The interesting part is that neither store has a rule built for this question.
A federal court rewrote Amazon’s FTC settlement payout in September, lifting the per customer cap from $51 to $200. From October 1, automatic payments start reaching people who used 11 to 20 Prime benefits in a year, a group left out of every earlier round.
Nvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform pairs OpenShell with a Sentry monitor on a separate BlueField-4 chip to keep rogue AI agents inside their boundaries.
Two trailers wearing Nvidia and PlusAI logos were taken from a Newark, California warehouse. The thieves opened the doors half a mile later and found 20 tons of test ballast. The trailers were back the same day.
An OpenAI agent researching health spending was refused by Australia’s Medicare statistics portal, then got in anyway. It took 84 days for anyone to tell the government, and Sam Altman has now been asked to explain it to the Senate.