Microsoft's AI Disaster Just Got Worse
Techlore Surveillance Report: Weekly News for Your Digital Freedom
This week's Surveillance Report covers Microsoft's AI Disaster getting worse on multiple levels as well as Google's AI, Malware is stealing E2EE messages from people all around the world, updates to Chat Control & other EU regulations, and more!
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Episode Sources
Highlight
- https://www.theverge.com/tech/825022/microsoft-windows-40-year-anniversary-agentic-os-future
- https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-admits-almost-all-major-windows-11-core-features-are-broken/
- https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/critics-scoff-after-microsoft-warns-ai-feature-can-infect-machines-and-pilfer-data/
- https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/26/dell_q3_2026/
- https://blog.zorin.com/2025/11/18/test-the-upgrade-from-zorin-os-17-to-18-and-celebrating-1-million-downloads-of-zorin-os-18/
- https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-exec-asks-why-arent-more-people-impressed-with-ai
- https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/google-begins-showing-ads-in-ai-mode-ai-answers/
- https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android
- https://www.theverge.com/news/826902/gmail-ai-training-data-opt-out
- https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-starts-testing-ads-in-ai-mode-192800265.html
- https://brave.com/blog/browser-ai-tee/
- https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/rewiring-mozilla-ai-and-web/
- https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/mozilla-tabs-api-ai-web-agents
Malware Stealing E2EE Messages
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/multi-threat-android-malware-sturnus-steals-signal-whatsapp-messages/
- https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/11/24/spyware-allows-cyber-threat-actors-target-users-messaging-applications
Chat Control
- https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/reality-check-eu-council-chat-control-vote-is-not-a-retreat-but-a-green-light-for-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance-and-the-end-of-right-to-communicate-anonymously/
- https://www.mullvad.net/en/blog/2025/11/26/an-important-victory-but-we-still-need-to-stop-chat-control/
- https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
EU Regulations Bring More Goodies
Data Breaches & Updates
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/d-link-warns-of-new-rce-flaws-in-end-of-life-dir-878-routers/
- https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/thousands-of-hacked-asus-routers-are-under-control-of-suspected-china-state-hackers/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/asus-warns-of-new-critical-auth-bypass-flaw-in-aicloud-routers/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-sonicwall-sonicos-flaw-allows-hackers-to-crash-firewalls/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-blender-model-files-deliver-stealc-infostealing-malware/
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/21/google-says-hackers-stole-data-from-200-companies-following-gainsight-breach/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-claims-to-steal-23tb-data-from-italian-rail-group-almavia/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/iberia-discloses-customer-data-leak-after-vendor-security-breach/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/harvard-university-discloses-data-breach-affecting-alumni-donors/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/comcast-to-pay-15-million-fine-after-a-vendor-data-breach-affecting-270-000-customers/
- https://signal.org/blog/polls/
- https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/mozilla-says-its-finally-done-with-two-faced-onerep/
- https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-cgo/
- https://proton.me/blog/proton-pass-cli
- https://gadgetsandwearables.com/2025/11/24/pebble-open-source/
- https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thunderbird-pro-november-2025-update/
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