The deal allows Spotify to launch a new AI tool as a paid add-on for Spotify Premium users, which lets fans create AI mixes and provides artists with an additional income. The post Spotify and UMG strike landmark deal to let fans create licensed AI covers and remixes appeared first...

Texas has sued Meta and WhatsApp, alleging the companies misled users about end-to-end encryption while retaining internal access to private messages through employee and contractor systems. The post Texas sues Meta and WhatsApp over encrypted chat claims appeared first on MEDIANAMA.

Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf, a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botnet that enslaved millions of devices for use in a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the past six months. KrebsOnSecurity publicly named the suspect in February 2026...

The regulator, Ofcom, had required Roblox, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok to answer questions about their efforts to remove harmful algorithms, check kids’ ages and protect them from sexual predators by the end of April.

Adam Young, 42, and Harrison Gevirtz, 33, pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony after they were accused of offering phone numbers, call routing services, call tracking tools and call forwarding services to India-based telemarketing fraudsters.

Yesterday, Access Now and ten other civil society organizations filed an amicus brief in the U.S.’ Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals calling to protect encryption from NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware and to keep the lower court’s permanent injunction forbidding NSO from ever targeting WhatsApp or its customers’ devices ever again....