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A Google employee has been charged with insider trading by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York. According to the Department of Justice, the employee allegedly used non-public information to trade ahead of market-moving announcements — a reminder that even inside the most closely watched companies in tech, the temptation to exploit privileged access remains a serious and prosecutable problem.
Shifting from Wall Street to the wider internet, Cloudflare's traffic radar is showing a notable uptick in internet activity across Iran over the past twenty-eight days. Analysts and open-internet advocates are watching closely, as traffic fluctuations in Iran often signal either government throttling, social unrest, or shifts in circumvention tool usage — each carrying its own significant implications for the people living there.
And on the consumer side, Apple is reportedly developing an anti-snatching feature for the iPhone that would automatically lock the device when it detects it's been grabbed and carried off. It's a practical response to a real-world problem that has surged in cities globally — and a sign that physical security is becoming just as important to Apple's design thinking as digital encryption.
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