California Curbs Web-Tracking Suits, Plus 3 Stories
California narrows one heavily litigated web-tracking theory under CIPA. Plus an exploited FortiMail zero-day, 543,699 live GitHub credentials, and Amazon’s camera-equipped delivery glasses.
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FTC Opens AI-Agent Probe, Plus 3 Tech Stories
The FTC is investigating AI-agent risks as researchers report failed government-site probes. Plus an exploited Cisco flaw, rent algorithms, and smart-glasses privacy.
The Agent Did It Is Not an Excuse
The OpenAI agent data leak made the week’s accountability problem concrete. Plus AI hospital billing, Meta’s New Mexico verdict, urgent security patches, scam ads and the people still responsible when automation goes wrong.
Meta Jury Finds 43.9M Violations, Plus 3 Stories
A New Mexico jury found 43.9 million consumer-protection violations involving Facebook. Plus active Check Point attacks, an FTC look at scam ads, and a Cloudflare container flaw.
Google Fined €403M Over Location Data, Plus 3 Stories
Google was fined €403 million over location-data practices. Also: actively exploited Veeam and Zyxel flaws, the FAA’s new SMART traffic AI, and Australia’s fight over AI training and copyright.
Smart Glasses Hit a Privacy Reckoning, Plus 3 Stories
Smart glasses trigger privacy and workplace scrutiny; an exploited Acronis hosting flaw needs patching; Russia’s MAX exposes super-app trust; and Claude now leads 26% of Anthropic’s AI R&D.
220M Travel Records Exposed, Plus 4 Tech Stories
An exposed Vietnam-linked APIS database held 220.8 million passenger and crew records. Plus active MikroTik attacks, Microsoft 365 phishing that steals sessions after MFA, a 1.08-million-person Mathspace breach, and Australia’s plan to let users switch off algorithmic feeds.
PaperCut Is Under Active Attack, Plus 4 Tech Stories
PaperCut NG/MF is under active attack and needs Emergency Patch Release 2. Plus: DHS data demands, McKesson’s breach, a Lucid recall, and Anthropic’s music lawsuit.
Shopify’s Checkout Deadline Passed, Plus 4 Tech Stories
The Shopify checkout upgrade deadline for non-Plus stores has passed. Today’s brief also covers Meta’s teen-safety settlement, OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident report, Ring’s new encryption, and a Google Assistant settlement deadline.
Update Elementor Pro, Plus 2 Tech Stories
Elementor Pro has a critical file-upload flaw worth patching now, Microsoft disclosed a severity-10 Entra ID bug it already fixed, and TikTok agreed to a $400 million children’s privacy settlement. Updated August 23 after Microsoft corrected the Entra flaw’s exploitation status.
Meta’s Child-Safety Trial, Plus 3 Tech Stories
A landmark Meta trial asks whether engagement design harmed children, while AI containment gets a reality check, OpenAI tests private safety monitoring, and WordPress 7.1 ships.
AI Is Making Cyberattacks Cheaper, Plus 4 Tech Stories
Taiwan confirms AI-assisted hacking, Apple patches Screen Sharing, Google Meet adds consent controls, and open-weight AI gets both cheaper and more politically complicated.
aRTy News Weekly Podcast 2018-12-09
This week’s high value, low jargon tech news: Australia’s anti-privacy laws; Printers attacked for YouTuber, Eastern European banks hacked, Huawei does something good for deaf children and their parents, and much more
Weekly Podcast Digest for December 2, 2018
aRTy News Weekly Tech News Podcast Digest for December 2, 2018 – High Information Low Nerd Factor Tech News
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