Microsoft's AI Disaster Just Got Worse
Techlore Surveillance Report: Weekly News for Your Digital Freedom
This week's Surveillance Report covers Microsoft's AI Disaster getting worse on multiple levels as well as Google's AI, Malware is stealing E2EE messages from people all around the world, updates to Chat Control & other EU regulations, and more!
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Welcome to Surveillance Report
00:30 Highlight: Microsoft AI Nightmare & Others
15:04 Some Quick Announcements
17:35 Stealing Messages from Signal, WhatsApp & Telegram
21:53 Support Techlore ❤️
23:18 Chat Control Updates
27:42 Airdrop for Everyone
28:33 Data Breaches & Updates!
34:16 Final Words!
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Episode Sources
Highlight
- https://www.theverge.com/tech/825022/microsoft-windows-40-year-anniversary-agentic-os-future
- https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-admits-almost-all-major-windows-11-core-features-are-broken/
- https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/critics-scoff-after-microsoft-warns-ai-feature-can-infect-machines-and-pilfer-data/
- https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/26/dell_q3_2026/
- https://blog.zorin.com/2025/11/18/test-the-upgrade-from-zorin-os-17-to-18-and-celebrating-1-million-downloads-of-zorin-os-18/
- https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-exec-asks-why-arent-more-people-impressed-with-ai
- https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/google-begins-showing-ads-in-ai-mode-ai-answers/
- https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android
- https://www.theverge.com/news/826902/gmail-ai-training-data-opt-out
- https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-starts-testing-ads-in-ai-mode-192800265.html
- https://brave.com/blog/browser-ai-tee/
- https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/rewiring-mozilla-ai-and-web/
- https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/mozilla-tabs-api-ai-web-agents
Malware Stealing E2EE Messages
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/multi-threat-android-malware-sturnus-steals-signal-whatsapp-messages/
- https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/11/24/spyware-allows-cyber-threat-actors-target-users-messaging-applications
Chat Control
- https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/reality-check-eu-council-chat-control-vote-is-not-a-retreat-but-a-green-light-for-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance-and-the-end-of-right-to-communicate-anonymously/
- https://www.mullvad.net/en/blog/2025/11/26/an-important-victory-but-we-still-need-to-stop-chat-control/
- https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
EU Regulations Bring More Goodies
Data Breaches & Updates
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/d-link-warns-of-new-rce-flaws-in-end-of-life-dir-878-routers/
- https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/thousands-of-hacked-asus-routers-are-under-control-of-suspected-china-state-hackers/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/asus-warns-of-new-critical-auth-bypass-flaw-in-aicloud-routers/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-sonicwall-sonicos-flaw-allows-hackers-to-crash-firewalls/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-blender-model-files-deliver-stealc-infostealing-malware/
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/21/google-says-hackers-stole-data-from-200-companies-following-gainsight-breach/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-claims-to-steal-23tb-data-from-italian-rail-group-almavia/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/iberia-discloses-customer-data-leak-after-vendor-security-breach/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/harvard-university-discloses-data-breach-affecting-alumni-donors/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/comcast-to-pay-15-million-fine-after-a-vendor-data-breach-affecting-270-000-customers/
- https://signal.org/blog/polls/
- https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/mozilla-says-its-finally-done-with-two-faced-onerep/
- https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-cgo/
- https://proton.me/blog/proton-pass-cli
- https://gadgetsandwearables.com/2025/11/24/pebble-open-source/
- https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thunderbird-pro-november-2025-update/
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