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🛰️ Satellites are leaking unencrypted military and personal data

🛡️ Instagram adds PG-13 content restrictions for teens

🙈 Google now lets you hide ads in search

👦 California passes first US law protecting kids from AI chatbots

🎨 Microsoft debuts its first in-house AI image generator

💼 Facebook brings back its job search feature

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• Using an $800 off-the-shelf satellite receiver system, researchers intercepted completely unencrypted data like T-Mobile customer calls, in-flight Wi-Fi browsing, and sensitive US military and law enforcement communications.
• The team was surprised to discover the satellite link was completely unprotected, with security seemingly based on the simple assumption that no one would ever think to check the signals.
• After being notified, T-Mobile encrypted its satellite links used by remote cell towers, but the researchers' narrow geographic coverage suggests the true global scale of exposed data is much greater.

• Instagram will now default teen accounts to view only material that meets PG-13 movie ratings, blocking themes like graphic drug use unless a parent gives their explicit approval to change settings.
• A new, stricter content filter called Limited Content is also being introduced, which prevents teenagers from seeing and posting comments on posts that have the new setting turned on.
• The PG-13 content rules are already active in conversations with AI bots, and Instagram plans to add more chat restrictions for teens using the Limited Content filter next year.

• Google now groups all sponsored results into a single collapsable section at the top of the page, which has a larger label that stays visible as you scroll.
• A button at the bottom of this block of ads allows you to hide them, but you must first navigate past every single paid result to reach the option.
• Tapping the control collapses the results under their "sponsored" heading, and this feature is currently rolling out for all users on both desktop and mobile Google search.

• A new California law requires companion chatbot developers to issue a clear and conspicuous notification if a reasonable person could be misled into believing they are interacting with a human.
• Beginning next year, certain chatbot operators must submit annual reports to the Office of Suicide Prevention about safeguards they have put in place to respond to suicidal ideation by users.
• Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 243 as part of a wider effort to improve online safety for children, stating that such emerging technology must have real guardrails.

• Microsoft has debuted its first in-house text-to-image generator, called MAI-Image-1, which is part of the company's recent push to develop its own family of AI models.
• The company claims the new model creates photorealistic imagery faster than larger systems and has already ranked in the top 10 of LMArena, a benchmark where humans vote on outputs.
• MAI-Image-1 joins other internal AI projects like MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, signaling a significant investment in training Microsoft's own models alongside its partnerships with other companies.

• Facebook is bringing back its job listings to Marketplace for US users on Android and iOS, more than two years after the social network shut the feature down.
• The company is aiming the revived board at young adults, helping them find local entry-level job opportunities and part-time gigs in the trade and service industry from small businesses.
• Users can directly contact employers through Messenger to ask questions or schedule interviews and will also get personalized recommendations for openings based on their browsing history.

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