Digital Freedom

UK Visa Portal spilled thousands of applicants’ passports and selfies online — and hasn’t fixed the leak

A website called UK Visa Portal is publicly exposing the passports and selfie photos of applicants who signed up and paid the site to obtai...
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Trump administration permits Volvo to keep selling connected cars in the US

Volvo Cars reached an agreement with the Trump administration that exempts the automaker from a U.S. crackdown on Chinese-connected vehicle...
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Digital Freedom

What we’re looking for in Startup Battlefield 2026, and how to apply in time for the May 27 deadline

Every year I read through thousands of Startup Battlefield applications. And every year, I see the same pattern: The founders who belong o...
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Digital Freedom

This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots

In the last few years, India’s online food delivery market has grown significantly, with both Zomato and Swiggy going public and the numbe...
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Dutch government blocks US company from acquisition, citing ‘risk to public interest’

The Dutch government has blocked American IT giant Kyndryl from acquiring Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider that hosts the Netherlands’ onli...
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Ghost hackers: the cybersecurity mystery that nobody has solved

In the long history of hacking, there have been numerous data breaches that, years or even decades later, remain unsolved. Countless hacker...
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Digital Freedom

Ghost hackers: the cybersecurity mystery that nobody has solved

In the long history of hacking, there have been numerous data breaches that, years or even decades later, remain unsolved. Countless hacker...
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Digital Freedom

Ghost hackers: the cybersecurity mystery that nobody has solved

In the long history of hacking, there have been numerous data breaches that, years or even decades later, remain unsolved. Countless hacker...
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Digital Freedom

What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work

AI’s biggest champions have argued for some time that the technology will usher in an era of unprecedented productivity gains, richly rewar...
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Digital Freedom

The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI

Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical on Monday, dubbed Magnifica Humanitas, on “safeguarding the human person in the time of artifi...
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