‼️ Proton says 85% of the 390 VPN apps in US app stores contain trackers that collect and share personal data, and 64 of them are owned by Chinese companies. 31 of those hide it behind shell firms in Singapore, Hong Kong and the UK.
Chinese law compels those companies to hand user data to the state on request, putting the browsing activity and personal data of US users in reach of the Chinese government. Americans downloaded them 3M+ times in one month.

‼️🇩🇪 BREAKING: Threat actor Rhysida is auctioning 5.79TB it says it stole from German capital Berlin's state agencies, including 46,500 contracts, emails, phone numbers, passwords and files the group calls classified. Bidding opens at 30 BTC.

The samples show a file named 'Passwort.docx' with cleartext passwords in them...

Berlin refuses to pay. It says election systems were untouched but cannot yet describe what was taken.

The samples show a lot of cleartext passwords stored across the environment... Questions will be asked.

‼️BREAKING: Anthropic is signing Claude users out and deleting their saved card because infostealer malware on their machines handed a bad actor live Claude login sessions. Anthropic says its systems detected the activity, and the notification names six stealer families across Windows and macOS.

‼️ 13TB of Valve's Steam2 content servers is being distributed publicly: depots from 2003 to 2013, "including those previously unreleased," across three mirrors and a torrent, with an extractor bundled.

Development branches are notorious for containing things nobody meant to ship: internal tooling, hardcoded credentials, signing material, third-party middleware source under license, debug symbols, employee paths and names.

Windows 11's full-screen OneDrive prompt FINALLY shows an opt out button instead of only "Remind me in 3 days"

The button appeared on PCs running stable Windows 25H2.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/30/windows-11-is-dropping-its-worst-onedrive-dark-pattern-after-years-of-complaints-microsoft-will-let-you-fully-opt-out/

BREAKING: ChatGPT is now regulated as a search engine in the EU, the first AI chatbot to be designated under the Digital Services Act and Reddit and Roblox were designated Very Large Online Platforms

The three now have four months to assess and mitigate systemic risks to minors, elections and public security and fines can reach 6% of global turnover

EU tech sovereignty chief Henna Virkkunen said the Commission will not hesitate to designate more platforms

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-designates-chatgpt-reddit-roblox-under-digital-services-act

❗️Thunderbolt is finally coming to Linux on Apple Silicon thanks to volunteers who reverse-engineered it, without help from Apple.

Asahi's Sven Peter posted the first USB4/Thunderbolt driver for M1, M2 and M3 to the kernel list yesterday, after years of reverse-engineering.

Source: https://lore.kernel.org/asahi/20260830-b4-apple-soc-tbt-v1-0-44bc9348683c@kernel.org/

Anthropic has been misleading people with the Max plans: it has been advertising the $200 plan as 20x and the $100 plan as 5x. You'd expect to get 4 times more usage with those figures, but it turns out it's only 1.7x.

You pay twice the price, for 1.7x the usage. And yet they've literally been marketing it as if you're saving 50% (see screenshot below).

The usage figures Anthropic gave in July 2025 were 140–280 Sonnet hours at 5x and 240–480 at 20x.

Turns out that multiplier only covers the daily 5-hour session window. So in the end, if you take weekly cap into account, you pay more per hour with the 20x than with the 5x.

‼️ Cronos halted its blockchain after a price-manipulation attack let an attacker borrow $74 million from the Tectonic lending app

The network is back online and says the chain state was rolled back to before the exploit

PeckShield says only about $6 million in Ethereum left the chain; the rest is stuck on Cronos