Researchers from multiple universities found with just off-the-shelf equipment they could access lots of satellite data that should have been encrypted, including private calls & texts, utility and financial data, and in some cases, military data.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) just took a whole lot of worrisome acronyms off Google’s plate by releasing it from numerous Sandbox commitments for fixes; including those related to API, IP, SDK and PAAPI; the company had been fighting this for more than five years.
Meta has withdrawn from Media Rating Council (MRC) brand safety audits, leading to loss of accreditation after a mere four months. On the other hand, it has added DoubleVerify brand suitability measurement to its Threads platform. While Meta’s efforts seem half-hearted at best, they still make more sense than a reported plan by X to reduce misinformation by showing more info in user profiles.
Meta has announced agreements with USA Today, People Inc., and other news publishers to pay for access to their content and link to their articles in its AI chatbot. It’s a sharp contrast to Perplexity, which the Chicago Tribune and New York Times are separately suing for allegedly scraping content and bypassing paywalls. Despite this deal, Meta apparently still opposes compensating publishers for news links in social media posts.