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The FBI has recovered deleted Signal messages from an iPhone — and here's the twist — without breaking Signal's encryption at all. Investigators appear to have pulled the data from the device itself rather than intercepting it in transit, which is a sharp reminder that end-to-end encryption protects your messages on the wire, not necessarily on your phone.
That story connects to a broader shift in how we think about trust and verification. A piece making the rounds argues that the old model — humans write code, humans review it — is quietly flipping, with AI increasingly doing the reviewing while humans do the writing. The implications for accountability and software quality are ones the industry is only beginning to wrestle with.
And over at Kyndryl, the optics couldn't have been worse. On the same day the IT services giant notified workers they were at risk of redundancy, a company-wide pulse survey landed in their inboxes asking how everyone was feeling about the business. It's a procedural coincidence, most likely — but the timing landed like a punchline nobody was laughing at.
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