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Youth social media bans should raise privacy concerns for everyone

TL;DR: The UK Government has announced a sweeping under-16s social media ban, which could have implications for privacy rights for everyone. The UK government has announced a sweeping ban on children...

Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs

Spur scanned 6,038 LG and Samsung smart TV apps and found 2,058 with residential proxy SDKs, exposing privacy and home network risks.

‘Cruel hoax’: Canadian healthcare staff decry employer’s email promising fake day off

Unions condemn ‘insensitive’ internal cybersecurity test sent to healthcare workers in Newfoundland and Labrador

Meta pauses an AI training program that tracks employees' keystrokes after an internal leak

Meta pauses an AI training program after sensitive employee data leaks, sparking internal backlash and highlighting security concerns.

Google preps Pixel ‘Audio Memory’ that ambiently tracks your ‘important conversations,’ like AI notetaker pins

Google is working on a new feature called “Audio Memory” for Pixel phones that will “keep track of what you hear throughout your day.”

Disturbing study finds license plate cameras can track your devices

The new sensors are made by a defense company whose primary customers are U.S. law enforcement agencies

Meta pauses controversial employee-tracking program after security review

Meta has paused its controversial employee-tracking program. Unfortunately, employee privacy wasn't what stopped it.

Hole in widely-used FFmpeg codec could crash media servers or enable RCE

Research from JFrog into the software supply chain vulnerability points to the need for better visibility into applications, including SBOMs.

GTA 6 Scams Emerge as Pre-Orders Open

Cybercriminals launch fake GTA 6 pre-order sites offering early access for crypto payments

‘Cordyceps’ CI/CD Flaw Exposes Microsoft, Google, Apache Repos to Pipeline Hijacking

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Trump Order Sets 2030 Deadline for Federal Post-Quantum Crypto Migration

Federal agencies must shift to post-quantum cryptography by 2030 and digital signatures by 2031 under a new Trump order.

Unpatched SharePoint servers opened the door to multiple attackers, Microsoft finds

Separate actors exploited the same exposure, creating overlapping intrusions that obscured detection and response.