Apple won’t launch its CSAM detection tool for iCloud photos, instead focusing its anti-CSAM efforts on the Communication Safety features launched in 2021 (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Apple won’t launch its CSAM detection tool for iCloud photos, instead focusing its anti-CSAM efforts on the Communication Safety features launched in 2021  —  The company plans to expand its Communication Safety features, which aim to disrupt the sharing of child sexual abuse material at the source.

Morgan Meaker / Wired:
Sources: Twitter only has one staff left on a team dedicated to removing CSAM after layoffs, despite Musk saying removing child exploitation is top priority  —  Just one person remains to enforce the company’s ban on child sexual abuse content across Japan and the Asia Pacific region.

Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
A look at the Rust programming language after 12 years, evolving from side project to robust ecosystem, as developers praise its security, ease, and performance  —  Rust makes it impossible to introduce some of the most common security vulnerabilities.  And its adoption can’t come soon enough.

Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Researchers say the Lapsus$ hackers’ success reveals how many weaknesses in organizations weren’t immediately useful to state-backed actors or cybercriminals  —  The fun-loving cybercriminals blamed for breaches of Uber and Rockstar are exposing weaknesses in ways others aren’t.

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft begins to roll out iCloud Photos integration into Windows 11, in an update to the built-in Windows Photos app  —  Microsoft is starting to roll out iCloud Photos integration into Windows 11.  A new update to the Photos app in Windows 11 is now available, which will include the ability …

Matt Burgess / Wired:
Pornhub is testing a chatbot that redirects users searching for CSAM to a service where they can get help; the bot intervened ~174K times during the first month  —  Pornhub is trialing a new automated tool that pushes CSAM-searchers to seek help for their online behavior.  Will it work?