Consent manager registration under Rule 4 starts November 13, 2026, yet no member sits to approve applicants. A Kerala court wants the Board live by December.

Bank and Poste Italiane named each other data processors for BancoPosta loan data; Garante says both are controllers. What must the rewritten notice disclose?

Payment data of 41,359 customers leaked after fake tech-support calls and 2 million API requests. Wind Tre was given 30 days to report how it closed the gaps.

Deletion request sent in June 2024 to an e-commerce inbox went unanswered while promo texts kept coming. What the Garante says each marketing SMS must carry.

Kokott says judges wrongly demanded contract-by-contract checks on Google's AdSense deals with publishers. Why the fine must shrink even if the Court agrees.

Health, beliefs or sexual orientation inferred by AI get sensitive-data rules, a test for audience profiling. Can 29 non-binding pages change regional practice?

Opt-out zeroes the last IPv4 octet for Ads, DV360, SA360 and CM360 tags; Analytics-only containers are unaffected. What happens to requests without consent?

220 advertisers invoiced in 2026 and a mid double-digit EBITDA margin, as group sales guidance rises to about 15%. Can pharmacy data pull health budgets off TV?

Global iOS users rose 20% in October, and publishers' pages can now be compressed on Opera's servers. UK growth eased to 32% from Q2's 93%: is it slowing down?

UK video buyers now find 44% of Netflix's 18.3m homes on its ad plan, up from 41%, while HBO Max debuts at 3.1m. Why total SVOD homes rose by just 290,000.

Four sponsored placements appeared in one AI Mode answer for retail shoppers, two weeks after Google said AI Mode earns less. Can more ads lift Q4 Search sales?

CFO Colette Kress becomes interim CEO and keeps the finance job, five days before Nvidia reports Q3 results. Why did the release skip the board's own probe?

Campaigns no longer face a blanket Claude ban on personalized vote targeting, and journalism exits the high-risk list. What else changes for brands from today?

AI referrals versus Google is a fair comparison of two streams feeding a smaller pool, and agents that complete the purchase are where the offset starts.

Bing is showing third-party website ratings, including ratings sourced from Bizrate, within its sponsored search results.

Microsoft Advertising announces UI improvements addressing advertiser feedback, including easier navigation, expanded reporting, sign-in troubleshooting, and account access management.

Data shows visits to the world's top million websites declined from an earlier peak, visits going to sites outside the top 100 barely changed.

Agent plugins are installable bundles of skills, connectors, commands, subagents and hooks that extend AI agents such as Claude Code, Cowork and OpenAI's Codex.

Agent skills are folders of instructions, scripts and files, built around a SKILL.md file, that AI agents load only when a task needs specialised know-how.

A system prompt is the standing instruction set a developer gives a language model before any user speaks. How it works, why it leaks, and its role in AI ads.