Apple Limits Location Sharing, Microsoft Phases Out NTLM, and Google Engineer Convicted of Trade Secret Theft

6 Feb 2026

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Apple is rolling out a "limit precise location settings" feature to reduce the sharing of precise location data with cellular carriers, following FCC fines in 2024 against several operators. Microsoft announces on January 29 the gradual abandonment of the NTLM protocol in favor of Kerberos-based alternatives, with default deactivation in the next version of Windows Server. Meta introduces strict security settings for WhatsApp including mandatory two-factor authentication and blocking of media from unknown senders. A former Google engineer has been convicted on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of trade secret theft after transferring more than 2000 documents on TPU chip architecture to his personal Google Drive to create an AI company in China. The open source Ingress EngineX project for Kubernetes reaches end of life in March 2026, affecting more than 50% of cloud-native environments according to Datadog. The Kubernetes committee recommends migration to Gateway API. Fortinet publishes a CVE rated 9.4 concerning an SSO authentication bypass affecting FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer.