• France's VanityFair face a stiff fine over cookies. • GrapheneOS pulls out of France over coercion worries. • The EU adds to the pile-on over underage social media. • India mandates the tracking of all smartphones. • Apple says no. • India abandons its smartphone tracking mandate. • India requires all encrypted messaging to be SIM-tied. • Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters becomes “SLH”. • AI demand has driven RAM pricing sky high. • GRC's DNS Benchmark is finished and available. • Cisco may talk a good game, but they're still Cisco. • Browsers to ask users for local network access permission. • REACT: The worst remote code exploit in a LONG time.