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AliExpress Runs a Silent WebAudio Fingerprint: In Firefox It Collapses to Three Values
A developer trying to find out why their multipoint Bluetooth headphones would not hand back to their phone traced the…
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ChatGPT for Teens Rolls Out: Placement Happens by Default
OpenAI moved ChatGPT for Teens out of a filter applied to accounts and into a named, global product on Tuesday,…
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Germany Makes Apple’s ATT Commitments Binding: No Fine, Four-Month Redesign
Germany’s Bundeskartellamt announced on 17 August 2026 that it had declared Apple’s commitments on App Tracking Transparency binding, closing a…
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Claude Begins Watermarking AI Text Worldwide: Contact, Not Authorship
Anthropic says Claude has begun marking the content it generates, worldwide, not only for EU users. Coverage applies to Claude…
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Apple ATT Study Finds Almost No Shift to Paid Apps: Surviving Apps Doubled Linked-Data Disclosure
A revised academic paper is complicating the price story around Apple’s App Tracking Transparency. Economist Reinhold Kesler posted an updated…
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IP-Based Ad Personalization Goes Live in the EEA: What Publishers Must Configure
Google is switching on IP-based ad personalization across the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland starting today, August…
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Granola Lawsuit Alleges Secret AI Meeting Recording
A proposed class action filed July 30, 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, docketed…
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Claude Shared Chats Indexed by Google: Disallow Blocked the Noindex
Shared Claude conversations and Artifacts turned up in Google and Bing search results over the weekend of July 25–26, 2026,…
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Meta Off-Site Activity Data Reaches Feed and AI: One Privacy Control Removed
Meta announced on June 9, 2026 that it will use off-site activity data (purchases, games played, and website visits gathered…
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EU Strips the Cookie-Banner Fix: Consent Pop-ups Stay
The EU provision that was supposed to end the cookie-banner grind is gone from the Council’s text. In its June…