Google this week announced a new set of Play policy updates to strengthen user privacy and protect businesses against fraud, even as it revealed it blocked or removed over 8.3 billion ads globally and suspended 24.9 million accounts in 2025.
The new policy updates relate to contact and location permissions in Android, allowing third-party apps to access the contact lists and a user’s location in a more privacy-friendly manner. This includes a new Contact Picker, which offers a standardized, secure, and searchable interface for contact selection.
“This feature allows users to grant apps access only to the specific contacts they choose, aligning with Android’s commitment to data transparency and minimized permission footprints,” Google said.
The software industry is quietly moving through a massive psychological shift. For the last decade, the B2B tech playbook was comfortably monotonous: build a walled garden, lock users into expensive recurring subscriptions, and force them to navigate a sprawling labyrinth of features just to access
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A new malicious kit called EvilTokens integrates device code phishing capabilities, allowing attackers to hijack Microsoft accounts and provide advanced features for business email compromise attacks.
The kit is sold to cybercriminals over Telegram and is under continuous development, its author stating that they plan to extend support for Gmail and Okta phishing pages.
Device code phishing attacks abuse the OAuth 2.0 device authorization flow, in which attackers gain access to a victim account by tricking the owner into authorizing a malicious device.
Despite this reality, an excessive number of organizations, notably small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), lack designated leadership in this crucial domain.
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By Chuck Brooks.
Cybersecurity is no longer an IT concern; it has become a fundamental business requirement. Viability, survivability, and ultimately commercial success are dependent on securing the devices and network for any business in the evolving digital era.
Threat actors are targeting TikTok for Business accounts in a phishing campaign that prevents security bots from analyzing malicious pages.
TikTok Business accounts may be targeted due to their high potential for abuse in malvertising campaigns, ad fraud, and the distribution of malicious content.
Browser threat detection and response company Push Security links the campaign to one documented last year, which targeted Google Ad Manager accounts.
On the Lex Fridman podcast, NVIDIA’s CEO was asked about his mortality and whether he fears dying in his current state. Jensen offered a rather interesting response, saying that his company is currently in the midst of a technological revolution and that, if he died in the meantime, it might not be the best-case scenario for him.
“The most important thing you should do today, if you care about the future of your company, post you, is to pass on knowledge, information, insight, skills, experience as often and continuously as you can. Which is the reason why I continuously reason about everything in front of my team.”
NVIDIA has become the largest business entity and the driving force in the AI world, yet CEO Jensen Huang has no succession plans in sight.
Humans excel at transmitting ideas, skills, and knowledge across generations, and at building on those competencies in a cumulative manner. James Rilling, Professor of Psychology at Emory University, explores how the transmission of our cumulative culture is assumed to depend on both language and mental perspective-taking, or theory of mind. If humans have specialized abilities in these domains, we must have neurobiological specializations to support them. Our research has used comparative primate neuroimaging to attempt to identify such specializations. The arcuate fasciculus is a white matter fiber tract that links Wernicke’s and Broca’s language areas. It is known to be involved in multiple, high level linguistic functions such as lexical semantics, complex syntax, and speech fluency. Using diffusion weighted imaging and tractography, we have demonstrated human specializations in the size and trajectory of the arcuate fasciculus that may partially explain human linguistic abilities. Theory of Mind depends on a set of cortical regions that belong to a neural network known as the default mode network that is functionally connected, highly active at rest, and deactivated by attention-demanding cognitive tasks. We and others have used functional neuroimaging to show that chimpanzees and other primates appear to have a default mode network that is similar to that of humans. However, the non-human primate default mode network seems to have weaker connectivity between certain key nodes, suggesting that these connections could play a role in human theory of mind specializations. Recorded on 02/27/2026. [3/2026] [Show ID: 41329]
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