• US Appeals Court Reverses Tornado Cash Sanctions (US Appeals Court Reverses Tornado Cash Sanctions): A U.S. federal appeals court ruled U.S. Department of Treasury exceeded its authority by sanctioning Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixing service used by North Korean hackers to launder more than $455 million.
• Google Play Store App Deletion—Android Is Now More Like iPhone (Google Play Store App Deletion—Android Is Now More Like iPhone): Google’s mission to make Android more like iPhone continues, at least when it comes to security and privacy, narrowing the gap. Android 15 moves the bar significantly, with a raft of updates including AI-based live detection of malicious apps and even cellular network defense. But there are also huge changes coming to Play Store.
• No, Microsoft isn’t using your Office docs to train its AI (No, Microsoft isn’t using your Office docs to train its AI - The Verge): But people are right to be worried about companies scraping user data without permission.
• Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World (Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World): Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a “Large Geospatial Model” that can navigate the real world and power robots. [paywalled]
• US senators propose law to require bare minimum security standards (US senators propose law to require bare minimum security standards • The Register): American hospitals and healthcare organizations would be required to adopt multi-factor authentication (MFA) and other minimum cybersecurity standards under new legislation proposed by a bipartisan group of US senators.