TV makers answer questions on microphones, ACR, and data sharing
Amazon, Apple, Google, LG, Roku, Samsung, and TCL replied; Hisense, Panasonic, and Sony did not.
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Firefox reduces browser fingerprint uniqueness after large user study
Protections in Firefox 145, measured with nearly 25 million users, cut unique fingerprints; a CCS 2026 paper documents the method.
Sleep wearable firms trained AI on customer brainwaves without clear consent
Investigators found tens of millions of hours of EEG; Interaxon trained a model on about 50,000 hours.
Ring plans January 27, 2027 launch of $249.99 AI indoor drone camera
The 165-gram Drone Cam needs Wi-Fi to fly, films only while airborne, and still awaits FCC certification.
Lake County schools sue parent to destroy mistaken student-record upload
An employee sent eight unredacted files with education and disability data on about 47,000 students.
Firefox free VPN drops its 50GB monthly cap until January 31
Signed-in desktop and Android users in supported regions get unlimited in-browser VPN traffic through that date.
MOAI speeds non-interactive homomorphic transformer inference
It cuts BERT-base evaluation time 52.8% versus THOR and reports 2.36 minutes amortized per input on one GPU.
Troy Hunt says platforms, not parents, must enforce kids' social media bans
His weekly update argues imperfect platform enforcement can still shift norms for teens near the age cutoff.
UAV-assisted framework encrypts wireless computation with CKKS FHE
The design separates key distribution from encrypted aggregation, matrix multiplication, and decision-tree inference.
Spectral unlearning applies matrix-structured updates to transformers
Applied atop existing objectives, it narrows most of the gap to a retain-trained reference on memorization, privacy, and utility.
One-shot federated clustering proposed for non-IID biomedical data
Institutions send prototypes once; a server fuses clusterlets to recover global structure while limiting computation and privacy exposure.
Zero-knowledge admission proposed for private swarm learning
Authors say the design holds 94% of clean CIFAR-100 accuracy under a gradient-scaling attack that drops FedAvg to 2.1%.
Carousel scores a billion encrypted vectors without client index state
On BIGANN SIFT1B it reports recall@100 of 0.9715; 100 million vectors take 3.735 seconds on one GPU.
Every Mac since 2022 includes undocumented family classifier
Apple Intelligence builds a personal knowledge graph on Macs including family relationships from device data like contacts and photos.
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arXiv proposes differentially private framework for GraphRAG
RelGuard is the first differentially private framework for GraphRAG providing formal privacy guarantees.
arXiv shows gradient inversion attacks on federated LoRA ViTs
LoRA-adapted Vision Transformers weaken gradient signals allowing private data reconstruction.
Big Tech sues California over kids’ scrolling restrictions
Google, Meta, and TikTok filed federal lawsuits challenging California’s AB 1709, which bans autoplay and personalized feeds for under-16s starting in 2027.
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Commentary asks if breach counsel can be sued by affected people
The cited Texas class action concerns the law firm's own alleged breach, not a client's incident.
Claude Code sends your email address to websites
Users report the AI tool Claude Code sending their email addresses to websites it visits.
Kagi Search opens to everyone without account
Kagi Search now allows unlimited free searches for new users without requiring an account, with additional search credits upon registration and Android app updates including voice search and image search.
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Apple to Scan Publicly Shared iCloud Photos in iOS 17.3
Apple will scan iCloud photos and files shared publicly for harmful content in iOS 17.3.
North Korean Defectors Adapt Security Behaviors Under Surveillance
Interviews with 19 defectors identify adaptive and erosive habituation amid transnational threats and identity-linked infrastructure.
DuckDuckGo pitches to schools amid Google AI backlash
DuckDuckGo targets schools after Google allows turning off Gemini while keeping other AI features.
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Amazon Bee Frontier raises privacy concerns
Therapist advised the author to discard the Amazon Bee Frontier wearable after AI summaries misidentified personal events.