A whole industry of data brokers buys up vast quantities of electronic information from cell phone apps and web browsers and sells it to advertisers who use that data to target ads. The same industry ...

A new study published in Big Earth Data introduces Geo-Disasters, a new database designed to improve the usability of global disaster records for climate risk research and policy planning. Climate ...

Google Cloud API keys, normally used as simple billing identifiers for APIs such as Maps or YouTube, could be scraped from websites to give access to private Gemini AI project data, researchers from ...

Google API keys for services like Maps embedded in accessible client-side code could be used to authenticate to the Gemini AI assistant and access private data. Researchers found nearly 3,000 such ...

The exterior of the Treasury Department is seen in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 15, 2025. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) The Treasury Department bureau in charge of fighting financial ...

New entrance data enables arrival guidance to within five meters of the correct door for over 100 million U.S. addresses. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Mapbox today announced the public ...

A self-styled social networking platform built for AI agents contained a misconfigured database which allowed full read and write access to all data, security researchers have revealed. Moltbook was ...

Google released v23 of the Google Ads API, the first update of 2026. It marks the start of a faster release cadence. What’s new. The update adds deeper Performance Max reporting, more granular ...

Cybersecurity researchers have raised red flags about a new artificial intelligence personal assistant called Clawdbot, warning it could inadvertently expose personal data and API keys to the public.

The Fourth Amendment generally requires the government to get a warrant before searching your private information, but government agencies are circumventing the intent of the Constitution by simply ...