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YouTube can’t track kids online anymore without their parents’ permission, says the FTC, as it fined the Google-subsidiary $170m. Continue reading YouTube fined $170m for covertly tracking kids online
Mozilla has told developers not to fret – it won’t follow Google in tweaking its browser to be unfriendly to ad blocking software. Continue reading Firefox won’t follow Chrome’s anti-ad-blocker changes, says Mozilla
When is a security update not a security update? When it’s patching flaws in a version of an OS nobody beyond developers is yet running. Continue reading Android gets September update as price of flaws soars
Production systems aren’t supposed to have the ADB turned on, but some set-top boxes do. Continue reading Botnet targets set-top boxes using Android OS
Google is patching a serious bug in the desktop version of its Chrome browser that could let an attacker take over a computer simply by luring them to a website. Continue reading Google warns of system-controlling Chrome bug
With iOS 13 nearing release, Apple users perhaps thought they were done with iOS 12 updates for good. If so, they were wrong. Continue reading Emergency iOS patch fixes jailbreaking flaw for second time
GitHub is the latest company to support WebAuthn, a new standard that makes logging into online services using a browser more secure. Continue reading GitHub joins WebAuthn club
Microsoft may have been caught red-handed letting contractors listen to sensitive conversations with its AI, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to stop. Continue reading Microsoft won’t shift on AI recordings policy
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday brought some bad news yesterday: more wormable RDP vulnerabilities, this time affecting Windows 10 users. Continue reading Patch time! Microsoft warns of new worm-ready RDP bugs
Remember that Chrome update that stopped websites from detecting Incognito mode? Well, researchers claim to have found a way around it. Continue reading Chrome Incognito mode detection fix busted by researchers