In this episode, Ray Cochrane leads with Mozilla shipping Firefox 150 with 271 patched bugs found by Anthropic’s Mythos system, the first major real-world deployment of the AlphaGo-Moment cybersecurity tooling. He also covers a 9-year dormant Linux kernel…
The Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally found Facebook’s merger with Giphy will harm competition between social media platforms and remove a potential challenger in the display advertising market. CMA stated: The merger brings together Facebook, the largest provider of…
Facebook said it has removed a network of accounts from Russia that the company linked to a marketing firm which aimed to enlist influencers to push anti-vaccine content about the COVID-19 vaccines, Reuters reported. According to Reuters, Facebook said it…
Google announced they are adding protections for kids and teenagers who are under the age of 18. Google posted this information on The Keyword. According to Google, they already provide a range of removal options for people using Google Search.…
Amazon announced that they are extending their A-to-z Guarantee to protect customers in the unlikely event a defective product sold through Amazon causes property damage or personal injury – regardless of who sells it. Amazon stated in a post on…
Apple has decided to go backward in end-to-end encryption by deploying image and message scanning in an attempt to detect naughty pictures sent by minors and to catch predators and those that exploit children. Even the EFF has come out…
Beijing prosecutors initiated a civil public-interest lawsuit against a Tencent subsidiary on Friday, saying the “youth mode” on the company’s popular social messaging app WeChat does not comply with laws protecting minors, Reuters reported. The Verge explained that the lawsuit…
Apple provided an explanation about its expanded protections for children. This comes after information about it has spread across the internet, that may or may not be factual. Here is some of the information Apple provided: Apple is introducing new…