World, the iris-scanning identity venture co-founded by Sam Altman, presented its first sector package at Money20/20 in Las Vegas on October 18: a banking-and-finance edition of World ID. It uses cryptographic proofs so a financial institution can verify a person, not an automated system. AI fraud is the backdrop; the missing pieces are a confirmed … Read more
Smart glasses with cameras look like ordinary eyewear, which is exactly why they raise privacy alarms. Spain’s data protection authority, the AEPD, addressed the issue in a good-practice guide published on July 13, 2026, warning that conventional-looking frames can capture people without permission, especially in sensitive places such as pools and beaches. TechNews DevTop examines … Read more
You open your inbox, see a message from a service you barely remember signing up for, and the word breach jumps off the screen. Or worse, a push notification or a news alert about a cyberattack lands first and you have no idea whether your account was inside the blast radius. The good news is … Read more
Every loyalty card, insurance policy and social account leaves behind a record of personal data that most people never get to inspect. European privacy law offers a direct route into that record: Article 15 of the GDPR entitles anyone to ask an organisation whether it processes their data, to receive a copy at no cost … Read more
Character.AI, the roleplay chatbot platform that spent five years turning conversational AI into mass entertainment, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States. Its operating company, Character Technologies, Inc., lodged a voluntary petition with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on 12 October 2026, reporting between $50 million and … Read more
The Document Foundation has shipped LibreOffice 26.8 with a message that would have sounded like an apology three years ago and now lands as a deliberate market play: the suite contains no generative AI, and that omission is the pitch. Released on 26 August 2026, with the formal “no AI” policy statement following on 3 … Read more
Denmark’s government confirmed on 5 October that its Central Person Register (CPR) — the identity database at the heart of the country’s highly digitised public sector — was compromised and most of its contents stolen. Officials have labelled it the most serious cyber incident in Danish history. Depending on the figure cited, between 8 million … Read more