Big tech fails to opt-out users requesting not to be tracked much of the time, new research says
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A collection of security and privacy news: a webXray audit of California traffic found 194 advertising services routinely ignore legally defined opt-out signals, undermining user privacy; NIST announced it will limit adding details to CVE records amid a surge in submissions, changing its longtime role in cataloging vulnerabilities; a 16‑year‑old was arrested in Northern Ireland after a cyberattack disrupted school networks used by potentially hundreds of thousands of students; the UK government urged businesses to bolster cyber defenses following concerns about new AI risks after Anthropic’s “
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