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Healthcare workers at a major hospital network are pushing back hard against Palantir's scheduling software, with nurses and clinical staff reporting errors, mounting frustration, and genuine burnout. It's a reminder that enterprise software doesn't just affect dashboards — it affects the people on the floor trying to deliver care under pressure.
Across the Atlantic, London's Metropolitan Police has suspended its use of digital forensics tools from Oxygen Forensics after US prosecutors alleged the supposedly American company was secretly Russian-owned and developing its software in Moscow. Scotland Yard has launched a full review, and the case raises uncomfortable questions about how deeply foreign actors may have embedded themselves in law enforcement technology supply chains.
And a sixteen-year-old has been arrested in Spain, accused of running the KillSec ransomware group — a criminal operation that extorted victims and demanded payment in cryptocurrency. A second suspect faces extradition to Puerto Rico, and investigators are now working to trace where the ransom money actually went. It's another case that shows cybercrime increasingly has a very young face.
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