The FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones
2026-06-14T08:52:11Z•632a22df5d9756c032ebbf2c96d0d551ce36c62520a0db14460140b1665a6a1b
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What happened
A WIRED roundup covering a wide range of security and privacy developments: regulators targeting prepaid “burner” phones, AI-related vulnerability pressure prompting CISA to demand much faster patching, and Microsoft’s largest Patch Tuesday driven by AI bug-hunting. Reported threats include ShinyHunters ransomware exploiting an Oracle zero-day, persistent sexualized deepfakes hosted by xAI’s Grok, and new browser-based SSD side-channel tracking (FROST). Coverage also highlights massive surveillance concerns — Meta’s smart‑glasses face-recognition code, wrongful arrests from police face-matches
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