2026

Surprise! Big Tech has been a bit rubbish at enforcing Australia’s kids social media ban 2026-03-31 at 06:17 By Simon Sharwood Regulator ‘moving into an enforcement stance’ and investigating Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat as millions continue to doomscroll Australia’s eSafety Commission is “moving into an enforcement stance” after finding that Meta, YouTube, TikTok and […]

GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash 2026-03-30 at 23:49 By Brandon Vigliarolo Letting Copilot alter others’ PRs was the wrong judgment call, says product manager Microsoft has done a 360. Following backlash from developers, GitHub has removed Copilot’s ability to stick ads – what it calls “tips” – into any pull request

OpenAI patches ChatGPT flaw that smuggled data over DNS 2026-03-30 at 23:17 By Thomas Claburn Check Point says outbound controls blocked web traffic but overlooked DNS OpenAI talks up data security for its AI services, yet Check Point says that ChatGPT allowed data to leak through a DNS side channel before the flaw was fixed.…

OpenAI Patches ChatGPT Data Exfiltration Flaw and Codex GitHub Token Vulnerability 2026-03-30 at 23:16 By A previously unknown vulnerability in OpenAI ChatGPT allowed sensitive conversation data to be exfiltrated without user knowledge or consent, according to new findings from Check Point. “A single malicious prompt could turn an otherwise ordinary conversation into a covert exfiltration

US PC shipments to fall 13% as memory and storage crunch hits budget systems 2026-03-30 at 20:49 By Dan Robinson Omdia says education, consumer, commercial, and public sector demand will weaken through 2026 US PC shipments are set to fall by 13 percent this year thanks to the ongoing memory and storage crisis, and things

Telnyx joins LiteLLM in latest PyPI package poisoning tied to Trivy breach 2026-03-30 at 20:49 By Brandon Vigliarolo Also, EU probes Snapchat, RedLine suspect extradited, AstraZeneca leak claim surfaces, and more infosec in brief  The cybercrime crew linked to the Trivy supply-chain attack has struck again, this time pushing malicious Telnyx package versions to PyPI

FCC says it’s making it easier for US telcos to ditch legacy lines 2026-03-30 at 20:37 By Dan Robinson But critics say stopping some engineering tests is not the sort of corner you want to cut America’s telecoms regulator has unveiled new measures to speed the transition to modern high-speed networks, but critics argue the