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Thirty US States Take Meta to Trial Over Child Safety, Seeking Up to $1 Trillion
A federal jury trial launched this week could force Facebook and Instagram to strip out some of their most addictive features, and cost Meta more money than most countries earn in a year.
California's Delete Act: A New Era for Data Privacy Rights
California's groundbreaking Delete Act platform lets residents erase their data from scores of brokers. Companies must adapt to a new compliance challenge.
USA Fencing's Identity Problem: How a Sports Body Stopped Checking Kids' Ages by Hand
With more than 50,000 members ranging from age eight to eighty, USA Fencing was drowning in paper birth certificates. Here is how it automated the problem away, and why the data questions around children are still worth watching.
US House passes kids' online safety bill, but critics say the cure may be worse than the disease
The KIDS Act cleared the House 267-117 on Monday. It demands new parental controls and bans targeted ads at children, but digital rights groups warn that age-verification rules could quietly strip privacy from every adult online too.
AI Agents Are Breaking the Security Promises of Confidential Computing
A technology built to keep sensitive data locked away is running into a problem it was never designed for: AI assistants that cannot forget what they have read.
Your Bank May Be Sending Your Loan Details to TikTok Without Knowing It
New research finds that tracking tools baked into banking websites are quietly forwarding customers' personal and financial data to advertising platforms, sometimes before anyone clicks 'accept cookies'.
Your Boss Is the Biggest Shadow AI Risk in the Building
New survey data shows senior executives are far more likely than ordinary staff to use unapproved AI tools, and that gap is quietly undermining every security policy their IT teams try to enforce.
CrowdStrike Flags Five New Ways Criminals Can Trick AI Into Obeying Them
Researchers have mapped out a fresh set of prompt injection attacks, where criminals feed deceptive instructions to AI systems to make them behave in harmful ways. Here is what each one does and why ordinary employees are part of the risk picture.
Hackers Are Hiding Instructions Inside Websites to Make AI Assistants Send Crypto Payments
Two newly discovered attack campaigns show how criminals can secretly hijack AI browsing agents by planting hidden commands in ordinary-looking web pages.
Twitter's Former Security Chief Filed an 84-Page Federal Complaint Accusing the Company of Hiding Security Failures From Regulators
Peiter Zatko says Twitter misled a federal watchdog, left half its servers unprotected, and may have foreign spies on staff. Twitter calls him a disgruntled ex-employee. Congress says it wants answers.
Week in Brief: Google Security Cuts, AudiA6 Forum Axed, Coupang's $400M Fine
ICS exposure holds flat while the attack surface grows, IBM and AT&T face hack cover-up allegations, and Microsoft quietly drops an AI incident-response playbook.