UK pilot program to test social media restrictions on families before government decides on ban

2026-03-25T02:51:56Za9564bf405e6667303fd94367a0feb27a3a126386c700c11b4d77bde4e37a045
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What happened

Collection of UK, U.S., and industry security and privacy developments: The U.K. will pilot targeted social-media restrictions on families while considering a broader teen social-media ban; Britain’s NCSC warns a rise in “vibe coding” could reshape SaaS and introduce new cybersecurity risks if organizations fail to adapt; medical device maker Stryker attributes a recent outage to malware—allegedly Iranian actors—after more than 200,000 devices were wiped and production lines were temporarily halted; a new book highlights surveillance risks and an impending U.S. Supreme Court case on police use

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