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Dark Matter and the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending February 3rd., 2026
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In this week’s dark matter:
Privacy-first users send a clear message to DuckDuckGo. AI-free search is here to stay for most of its community.
A cutting-edge AI from AISLE exposed deep-seated vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, exponentially speeding the pace of cybersecurity discovery.
A security breach at eScan transformed trusted antivirus software into an unexpected cyber weapon.
An internal probe suggests a cyber intrusion may have prematurely exposed last year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
A U.S. jury found former Google engineer Linwei Ding guilty of funneling AI trade secrets to Chinese…
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