- WhatsApp wins reprieve in India over sharing user data with Meta: An Indian tribunal on Thursday suspended restrictions that would have barred WhatsApp from sharing user data with its parent company Meta, delivering a significant victory for Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire in its largest market by users.
- OpenAI says it may store deleted Operator data for up to 90 days: OpenAI says that it might store chats and associated screenshots from customers who use Operator, the company’s AI “agent” tool, for up to 90 days — even after a user manually deletes them.
- Cloudflare Issue Can Leak Chat App Users’ Broad Location: A security researcher made a tool that let them quickly check which of Cloudflare’s data centers had cached an image, which allowed them to figure out what city a Discord, Signal, or Twitter/X user might be in.
- Apple Intelligence, previously opt-in by default, enabled automatically in iOS 18.3: New Apple OS updates enable all of the AI-powered Apple Intelligence features by default during setup. When Apple Intelligence was initially released in iOS 18.1, the features were off by default, unless users chose to opt-in and enable them.
- Subaru Security Flaws Exposed Its System for Tracking Millions of Cars: Now-fixed web bugs allowed hackers to remotely unlock and start any of millions of Subarus. More disturbingly, they could also access at least a year of cars’ location histories—and Subaru employees still can.
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