Beyond writing a check, Google is committing to clearer language in its Play Store terms about what data gets collected passively — even when you're not actively using your phone. It will also fully cut off data collection when users switch off background data usage, something that wasn't guaranteed before. Follow Tom's Guide on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our up-to-date news, analysis, and reviews in your feeds. Subscribe to Tom's Guide on YouTube and follow us on TikTok.
Google settles Android class action lawsuit for $135 million with payouts to 100 million users — here's how to claim your share…name a video game, Joshua can rant about it—that's a guarantee. Sign in to your GameRant account Steam users can currently claim 8 total PC games, worth a grand total…
…Now, a rumored leak claims to know what is coming after this batch of freebies on June 18. Related Epic Games Store Users Have Until June 14 to Claim Surprise Extra Game…
…users,” Ho wrote. “It has already fooled people—including tech media—into believing this is an official release. To be crystal clear: Notepad++ has never released a macOS version. Anyone claiming otherwise…
…Another Russian and English post presented “professional stress testing” while claiming Cloudflare and DDoS-Guard bypasses, high concurrency, and long attack durations. Sellers are possibly exaggerating about their capabilities. However, the consistency…
Signups, silence, and a suspicious text: users joined GTFOICE.org to protest ICE and woke up to messages claiming their data was sent to federal agencies. Just four days ago, Project Salt Box’s Michael Wriston and Defian…
Dirty Frag is the recent Linux local privilege escalation PoC around page-cache write primitives. The upstream project describes two paths: xfrm/ESP and RxRPC. The Kubernetes question I wanted to answer was narrower than…
Update: Dashlane has just comfirmed on X that no data has been compromised. Atleast thats what people mention under my posts. I can’t find this post on X whatsoever. People also claim to have recieved an email about this…
Interesting new research you may have heard of on attacking large audio language models. The attack is called AudioHijack and the part worth paying attention to is that adversarial clips built against open models transfe…
I co-founded a successful security company close to the Mythos ecosystem and have spoken with participants in the know and I am deeply concerned. We, collectively, have answers for some but not all of the problems ahead …
…In March, a Santa Fe jury determined that Meta committed 75,000 violations of the state’s Unfair Practices Act, finding it misled users about the safety of its products for teens…
It’s the numbers, too, according to a new Wall Street Journal report, which echoes The Information’s claim earlier this month that CFO Sarah Friar has expressed concern about its IPO…
…When OpenAI withdrew its GPT-4o model, there was significant backlash from users who related to the model’s “personality.” GPT-4o affirmed users’ choices frequently and that made them feel a…
…This functionality only applies to systems attempting to use DMA cheat devices, and players who are not using DMA-based cheat setups are not affected.” X users were already talking about a…
…on publicly available information and context that the user chooses to put into the platform," Wood said. "Google deeply cares about protecting user information. We're looking carefully at how we integrate…
Sign in to your Polygon.com account The Epic Games Store is offering two free PC games this week for Epic users. You can claim a unique puzzle adventure and a cozy…
