High school media and tech firm PlayOn Sports has been ordered by the California Privacy Protection Agency to pay a $1.1 million fine for allegedly requiring students and parents to allow personal data tracking to access high school event ticketing services, reports Government Technology.
FedScoop reports that the Internal Revenue Service was noted by its CEO Frank Bisignano to be conducting a "thorough" cybersecurity review as Democratic lawmakers question the agency about its data-sharing agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and broader protections for taxpayer information.
Researchers from IMDEA Networks Institute discovered that the radio signals broadcast by TPMS sensors, found in millions of cars from brands like Toyota, Mercedes, Renault, and Hyundai, are unencrypted.
Free browser add-ons for tools like ad blocking or VPN access could be overriding a browser's XMLHttpRequest () and fetch() features, allowing them to copy every question and answer users exchanged with AI chatbots such as DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, according to The Register.
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