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X started training its AI chatbot Grok on the content published by users. The platform didn't inform the users and even surprised authorities in the EU where it might violate European laws.
The Overture Maps Foundation, a collaboration between Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and TomTom, has released the general availability of its global open map datasets. Developers can access it for free.
The company cooperates with the authorities to investigate the massive security breach. Data was stolen from a third-party cloud platform, and at least one person was already apprehended.
AT&T has launched a new privileged plan, which a customer can purchase for some extra bucks to get a data boost to run high-performance apps such as games, video calling apps, etc. on the go.
T-Mobile has silently introduced a new profiling toggle which is spotted to be turned on by default. It allows the carrier to collect personal data to better predict user behavior.
After AI companies hit the wall to gather high-quality data to train their AI models, companies like OpenAI are alleged to have transcribed a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4.
Widely-used social media data tool CrowdTangle will officially shut down just weeks before U.S. Presidential election. Meta claims it created an even more powerful successor, but can we believe it?
Google has updated Chrome Canary's Incognito mode to help users identify which data is protected through that browser mode. It comes after Google faced a huge lawsuit to do with data collection.
Following the massive leak of Insomniac Games internal files, X-Men fans are disappointed to learn they won't be able to play as a Wolverine on their Xbox consoles for over a decade.
Meta has announced that it will be introducing a new feature, called the accounts center, which will give users the ability to stop the company from tracking activity across its various apps.
Twitter has written a letter to Microsoft to review its use of Twitter data and to complain that the company hasn't paid for access. It wants a report back from the company by next month.
Although some European countries are rushing to ban ChatGPT and related technologies, Ireland is taking a more measured approach where it wants to fully understand the benefits and risks of AI.
You have until August 25 to file a claim for the big data privacy settlement from Facebook that was approved in December 2022, if you were a Facebook member between May 24, 2007 and December 22, 2022.
Microsoft has announced three new Azure CLX programme tracks that are focused on Data and AI skills. You'll earn certificates and a 50 per cent discount off the Microsoft Azure Certification Exam.
People lose data on a daily basis, whether it's from a stolen device, accidental deletion of a file, or a hard drive crash. Today's the day we remind everyone that backups are really important.
Ofcom is planning to unlock more mmWave bands to help improve mobile data speeds in congested areas. It will also help networks handle upcoming, data-heavy technologies such as virtual reality.
Healthcare startup Cerebral announced this week that it shared the sensitive data of more than 3.1 million users in the U.S. with advertisers and social media companies like Meta, Google, and TikTok.
An official complaint has been filed against YouTube in the UK for collecting locations, viewing habits, and preferences of up to 5 million children, in violation of the UK Children's Code.
Two engineers at Google revealed insights on the after-effects of the lay-offs on the existing staff at the company. They shared that losing 12,000 employees has been overwhelming for many.
Bvckup is software for making backup copies of files and directories. It is light and simple. It is also incredibly fast.
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Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running lawsuit concerning the data harvesting Cambridge Analytica scandal of 2018. However, it has not admitted to any wrongdoing.
NordVPN's study shows millions of people globally were hit by data theft in the past four years. Data stolen and then sold on bot markets included user logins, cookies, digital fingerprints, and more.
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Password management company LastPass has confirmed another cybersecurity incident following the August hack. However, unlike the previous instance, customer data has been accessed this time.
Half a billion phone numbers of WhatsApp users is reportedly up for sale on a well-known hacking community. The dataset contains user data from 84 countries, with over 32 million numbers from the US.
TikTok is currently in talks to lease a new office near its HQ in the Farringdon district of London. The office has an area of 134,000 square foot and is bigger than the company's UK HQ.
Samsung has introduced a new feature in its smartphones called Maintenance Mode. This feature will protect a user's personal data when they send their device in for repair to the service center.
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Microsoft has published an advisory about a misconfiguration that led to its own, customer, and partner data being exposed. It has also called out security researchers for mishandling the disclosure.
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Meta and Google have collectively been fined $72 million in South Korea for not clearly informing users prior to collecting their data to analyze their interests and behaviors to display custom ads.
Responding to a ruling issued last year, Google has agreed to pay a $60 million fine in Australia for misleading customers about its data collection practices when it comes to your location history.
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Microsoft has announced that it is sunsetting its Windows Information Protection (WIP) solution in favor of Purview, which it says is a more advanced implementation that meets current customer needs.
The UK and Republic of Korea have signed a data adequacy agreement that will allow the two countries to transfer data between each other. The countries also agreed for the protection of this data.
India has delayed its new regulations which require VPN and cloud service providers to store customer information and provide it to the government. The delay allows firms to adapt or exit the country.
After analyzing the full breadth of the 2021 data and surveying security executives anonymously, Zimperium gleaned unique insights on the state of mobile security in this Global Mobile Threat Report.
Physicists at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have successfully teleported data with the help of something called "quantum entanglement" between three nodes set at a distance.
Representatives from Google, Microsoft, Mastercard, IBM, and more are meeting with the UK government today to advise on how to remove international data transfer barriers following Brexit.
Google has highlighted the urgent need for a robust EU-US data transfer framework in light of the recent ruling against the use of Google Analytics issued by Austrian data protection authorities.
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Security researchers have publicly detailed a Safari API bug which can potentially leak your personal data and unique identifiers to every website you visit with Safari. A fix is still not available.
Microsoft has detailed a new open-source framework called EzPC, which enables AI model validation without requiring involved parties to share data with each other. It is built on top of MPC.
Microsoft's latest cloud vertical, Cloud for Retail, will hit general availability on February 1. The company has also highlighted some opportunities that retailers should be targeting.
