Backlash forces Meta to scale back employee keystroke tracking plans
… Among the victims of this security exploit is the official Obama White House account as well as highly respected app researcher and reverse engineer, Jane Manchun Wong. …
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California lawmakers push new bill to exempt open-source projects from age verification law
… Furthermore, the bill clarifies that verification includes "age information shared with a developer by an account holder regarding the age of a user associated with the account." The new amendment comes after massive backlash from open-source advocates who warned that the original language would ru… …
Microsoft Weekly: Removing ports from Xbox controllers and fixing the Copilot key
… Release Preview Builds 26100.8521 and 26200.8521 These builds are a preview of the upcoming non-security updates. …
7 Days: Windows XP-themed Wikipedia, Google paying users $135 million, and leaked games
… MDASH: It's a new multi-model agentic security system from Microsoft to rival OpenAI's Daybreak and Anthropic's Mythos. …
7 Days: NVIDIA-powered Windows laptops, hackers using ChatGPT, and paid WhatsApp
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7 Days: JDownloader got hacked, Chrome downloading 4GB file, and Steam Controller sold out
… JDownloader got hacked Let's start with some big security news from the week. …