This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, April 9th, 2026.

We will try to tell you what you need to know, give you important context, and help you understand.

Today, Andy Beach talks about the first newsroom to strike over AI and why Microsoft is blocking major VPN and encryption software.

Not cool, Microsoft. No, not very cool. Keep your cool Microsoft. I'm Tom Merritt. I'm

going to it now. Let's start with what you need to know with the big story. Yeah, so thanks to

TechZ Explorer for posting about the latest in this saga on our

subreddit.

We mentioned earlier this week that the developer of the open source encryption app,

Viracript, had his account for signing Windows drivers closed without explanation,

and that prevents him from making updates for the Windows version of the app.

Now, you may think, well, hold on, I can just make an app and run it on my Windows. Why do I need

Windows account to do this? It's because Vera Crypt operates at the kernel level. And

Microsoft requires all kernel mode drivers to be signed as a security measure. And to do that,

you need a Microsoft developer account to get the credentials.

The developer of VPN Software Winscribe and also the developer of VPN Software WireGuard.

Both found themselves in a similar situation.

I'm guessing there's other apps that are in this situation we don't know about.

All three of these developers claim they never received a notification prior to trying to log in to get an update pushed through and finding their account blocked with no explanation.

In fact, Winscribe posted on X.

We've been trying to resolve this for over a month and getting nowhere.

Support is non-existent.

Anyone know a human with a brain that still works at Microsoft?

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