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Signal is making a significant move for privacy advocates. The encrypted messaging app is rolling out registration without a phone number, using zero-knowledge proofs to verify users without exposing their identity. It's a meaningful shift that could open Signal to people who've long avoided it over concerns about tying a private account to a personal number.
From privacy to exposure — Chess dot com is dealing with a data leak affecting seven point three million users. Security researchers say the evidence points to scraping rather than a traditional breach, which raises its own uncomfortable questions. Scraped or hacked, the result for users is the same: personal data circulating where it shouldn't be.
And in the ongoing conversation about who shapes artificial intelligence, Cohere has published a piece asking a deceptively simple question — who actually gets to define the rules for AI? It's a governance question that affects everyone, and the fact that a major AI company is asking it publicly suggests the industry knows the answer can't just come from inside the building.
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