OpenAI has moved from a limited ad test in February to a full‑scale ChatGPT Ads platform after the GPT‑5.5 Instant release, detailing how it infers user interest through memory, separates ad slots from answers, sets premium pricing, and balances free‑user controls with privacy safeguards.
A recent breach at the US‑based online vocational training platform 360training exposed personal, payment, and credential data of 24,594 customers, highlighting systemic security gaps in the online education sector and prompting detailed recommendations for both platform operators and users to mitigate identity‑theft and trust risks.
The article examines how major tech companies use addictive algorithmic designs and massive data collection to turn users into commodities, highlighting the ethical concerns raised by former insiders, documentaries, and scholars about the societal impact of surveillance capitalism.
A recent investigation revealed that an unsecured server containing more than 6.5 TB of user data from Bing’s iOS, iPadOS, and Android apps was exposed, allowing attackers to harvest nearly 100 million records and launch destructive “Meow” attacks that nearly wiped the Elasticsearch database.
A massive breach exposed over 6.5 TB of Bing mobile app data—including search queries, location coordinates, device identifiers, and URLs—on an unsecured Elasticsearch server, putting iOS and Android users at risk of fraud, phishing, and physical threats, while highlighting common causes of such leaks.
This article explains the history, browser support, and practical front‑end implementation of the Do Not Track API, showing how to enable it, interpret its return values across browsers, and apply it to respect user privacy in web applications.
