TechCrunch covers Google Cloud COO Francis de Souza’s warnings on AI security, stressing a platform-and-data-security duet and a need for multi-cloud governance, while also detailing concrete security infringements and defenses (API billing anomalies, rapid breach timelines, spyware protection features) and adjacent hardware progress (XREAL Aura; Bee/Wearable) with IPO and margin signals.
Google adds prompt-driven avatar control and expanded video tooling to Vids, including Veo 3.1, YouTube export, and a Chrome screen-record extension, with broad usage limits for pro accounts.
ICE disclosed it purchased and used Paragon spyware via HSI in drug-trafficking investigations, highlighting regulatory scrutiny and civil-rights concerns amid a history of contract suspensions and reactivations.
WhatsApp says roughly 200 users in Italy were duped into installing a fake iOS WhatsApp client containing spyware from the Italian maker SIO, has logged them out and warned them, and plans a formal legal demand; the piece notes a prior 90-user spyware incident linked to Paragon Solutions.
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