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Apple has quietly patched a security vulnerability that law enforcement agencies were actively exploiting to recover deleted chat messages from iPhones. The fix, arriving in a recent iOS update, closes a gap that gave investigators access to data users believed was permanently erased — a reminder that deletion and disappearance are rarely the same thing.
Shifting to the world of crypto finance, Chinese exchange founder Li Lin is moving a portion of his private trading operation into a Hong Kong-listed wealth management firm where he holds the largest stake. The maneuver effectively brings private activity under public company structure, raising familiar questions about transparency, accountability, and who ultimately bears the risk.
And in AI tooling news, Anthropic appears to be reconsidering access to Claude Code for subscribers on its Pro tier. Early signals from social media suggest the powerful coding assistant may be pulled back to higher-cost plans, leaving developers who built workflows around it facing an unwelcome disruption — and reigniting the ongoing debate about what premium actually means in the subscription software era.
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