• Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu: The app recommendations from Windows 10 are coming to Windows 11 soon.
• Covert Eavesdropping through Computer Mice: High-Performance Optical Sensors in Mice expose a critical vulnerability — one where confidential user speech can be leaked. Attackers can exploit these sensors’ ever-increasing polling rate and sensitivity to emulate a makeshift microphone and covertly eavesdrop on unsuspecting users.
• Here’s what your browser is telling everyone about you: Your browser sends a lot of information with each website you visit. That can be used to track you across the internet.
• How privacy can save your life by Carissa Véliz: Carissa Véliz is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI, and a Fellow at Hertford College at the University of Oxford.
• Satellites are leaking the world’s secrets - Calls, text, military and corportate data: With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.