Tech giants Microsoft and Google enhance Markdown integration in their office suites, signaling wider adoption of plain text formats.

Austrian DPA rules that ORF's cookie banner design must be changed to ensure equal visual prominence of all consent options.

France's data protection authority penalizes Orange for displaying ads in users' email inboxes without consent and cookie violations.

Federal court orders WordPress founder to restore WPEngine's access in major ruling affecting open-source ecosystem.

EU Data Protection Supervisor rules Commission violated privacy laws in targeted chat control regulation campaign.

Privacy advocacy group noyb files complaint against BeReal over consent practices forcing users to accept data tracking or face daily popups.

New tool helps website owners monitor and block unauthorized AI bot access by enforcing robots.txt directives at the network level.

Meta enhances Threads API with advanced search capabilities and new metrics for developers to build improved integrations and tools.