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Friday, May 29, 2026

Pay Tel's unprotected server exposed 300K driver's licenses; 23andMe faces lawsuit over 7M users affected in 2023 breach. Separately, adversaries are exploiting commercial location data to track U.S. troops in war zones—a threat the Pentagon knew about for years but failed to address.

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The AI governance imperative you can’t afford to ignore
Snowflake to acquire MCP-focused Natoma to boost governance for AI agents
AI sticker shock hits corporate America
Letter: US Central Command says it received "threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data" to target US personnel in war zones (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
Sources: at WWDC, Apple is likely to showcase how 15 years of designing custom silicon chips gives it an advantage in local AI, using a distilled Gemini model (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
U.S. says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’
The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are
A security lapse at prison pay phone service Pay Tel publicly exposed over 300K callers’ driver’s licenses
FBI says Google engineer used internal search data to win $1.2M on Polymarket
LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they're false
California AG Rob Bonta sues 23andMe, alleging it failed to protect sensitive user data in a 2023 breach that affected ~7M people across the US (Jaimie Ding/Associated Press)
GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits

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