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Oracle Health Breach Nears 20 Million People

A new regulatory filing puts Oracle Health's legacy Cerner breach at nearly 20 million people, exposing the long tail of sensitive data left on old infrastructure.

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Norway Plans Targeted Ban on AI Glasses

Norway will seek a temporary ban on AI glasses in selected public and privacy-sensitive places while an expert group develops permanent rules.

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Denmark's CPR Breach Hits 8.8 Million Records

Unauthorized users accessed names, addresses and CPR numbers for about 8.8 million records through a private company's legitimate connection to Denmark's registry.

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DTU Breach Puts Decades of Identity Records at Risk

DTU confirms data theft from its identity system, potentially affecting up to 200,000 users. The precise scope remains unknown, including for former users.

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Tech in 5: Permissions, Papers and Proof

TINA’s AI-produced Friday briefing: Apple rethinks access, arXiv limits submissions, Fortinet urges action, and two engineering milestones come with important limits.

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Apple Plans Tighter Rules for Full Disk Access

Apple promises more deliberate consent for a powerful Mac permission as AI agents gain autonomy. The implementation and rollout date remain unspecified.

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France’s Tax Breach Outlasted a Password Reset

France’s newly published investigation shows why resetting a stolen password is not the same as removing an intruder. An active session kept the data flowing.

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Meta’s Muse Zero-Day Hands Malware the Keys

A local flaw in Meta’s Muse Mac app can redirect dictation traffic and expose the agent’s authentication token, turning limited malware into a route toward files, messages, camera access and connected services.

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Google’s €403 Million Fine Took Six Years

Ireland’s privacy regulator found unlawful, unfair, opaque and overlong handling across three Google location systems. The fine is large; the six-year enforcement delay and unpublished decision are the harder accountability problem.

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A BYD Pickup Let Researchers Control the Cabin

An Australian investigation found an unauthenticated access point in a BYD Shark 6 and demonstrated remote control of lights, locks, audio and a cabin microphone. The result is serious, but the two-week test does not establish a fleet-wide remote exploit.

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OpenAI’s Ad Pixel Takes a ChatGPT Cookie With It

A fresh traffic analysis found OpenAI’s one-year __obi identifier traveling from ChatGPT to its ad endpoints on unrelated retailer sites. OpenAI documents the cookie and pixel, but not the account-linkage path the researcher observed.

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