Mozilla reports a large-scale study of browser fingerprinting based on telemetry from almost 25 million Firefox users. The work says fingerprintability is driven by a small number of high-impact characteristics, and that Firefox 143’s protections reduce the share of uniquely identifiable users from 75% to 46%.

It is a rare, data-backed look at what actually makes browsers trackable, and what mitigations help.

The article follows a developer trying to improve Linux support for a DisplayLink dock with LLM assistance, then running into patent infringement claims from Synaptics instead of technical help. It describes the patch series, the unanswered requests for guidance, and the legal response that told him to stop work.

It is a detailed example of how hardware support work can get tangled in legal and vendor-control issues.

VulnCheck reviews seven months of Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and says the program has produced many findings but relatively few public fixes. It also notes that most reported issues remain unpublished, while duplicates and withdrawals make the headline numbers harder to interpret.

It gives a skeptical, numbers-first check on a prominent AI vulnerability-finding effort.

French police raided the Ritz hotel in Paris and other properties linked to Mohamed Al Fayed as part of a wider investigation into alleged sexual abuse, trafficking, and pimping. The article says British investigators were present, survivors were interviewed, and digital evidence seized in the searches is now being analysed.

A significant new development in a long-running abuse case, with cross-border investigative action and survivor responses.