Security Week Roundup: Hackable Mowers, Encryption Reversals, and Elite Hackers

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WIRED’s security roundup this week covers a Yarbo robot lawn mower with remote-hacking flaws, Meta ending end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs, a Trump administration counterterrorism strategy targeting ‘violent left-wing extremists,’ a Canvas ransomware incident, Chrome’s Gemini Nano AI model, exposed vibe-coded apps, a DHS subpoena of Google, Russia’s elite hacking training, and Poland’s water-utility breaches—along with other notable security and privacy developments.
- Security News This Week: Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare WIRED
- A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower The Verge
- Hacker Takes Over Robot Lawnmower, Runs Over Innocent Man Futurism
- Risky robots: German researcher exposes 11,000 robot lawnmowers that could be hacked and controlled worldwide The Times of India
- Your Yarbo can evidently be controlled by anyone Pocketables
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