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US and China Reach ‘Framework Deal’ for TikTok

Both the U.S. and Chinese governments have confirmed a “framework deal” has been reached, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that the U.S. business would be 80% controlled by a consortium including Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz. Joining the consortium are existing ByteDance investors, including Susquehanna International, KKR and General Atlantic. Although details are...

By Jackie Leavitt — 17 Sep'25 Last Updated: 17 Sep'25

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Google Avoids Harshest Measures In Landmark Antitrust Case, Dodging Forced Sell-Off of Key Products

In August 2024, Judge Amit Mehta found Google violated section two of the Sherman Act, a U.S. antitrust law, and that the company was operating as a monopoly over search services and advertising. In his 223-page remedies ruling on Sept. 2, 2025, Judge Mehta mostly agreed with Google’s proposed remedies, submitted back in May.  Judge...

By Aleksander Hougen — 04 Sep'25 Last Updated: 04 Sep'25

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UK Government Urged to Restrict Access to VPNs for Minors to Prevent Circumvention of Controversial Online Safety Act

VPNs became the most downloaded applications in the U.K. last month following the implementation of the Online Safety Act. In response, the children’s commissioner for England, Rachel de Souza, urged the government to extend the age verifications to apply to VPN apps, telling BBC Newsnight that VPNs are “absolutely a loophole that needs closing.” The...

By Aleksander Hougen — 20 Aug'25 Last Updated: 20 Aug'25

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Perplexity Makes Bid to Purchase Chrome for $34.5 Billion Amid Antitrust Woes for Google

In a stunning announcement, AI company Perplexity announced this week that it’s prepared to purchase the Google Chrome browser for $34.5 billion dollars. Perplexity isn’t the first company to express interest in getting its hands on the world’s most popular browser, with other interested parties like OpenAI and Yahoo likely to throw their hats in...

By Aleksander Hougen — 16 Aug'25 Last Updated: 16 Aug'25

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Yes, the World Needs Another Streaming Service: Say Hello to Howdy, Roku’s $3 Ad-Free Alternative

In a world already full of Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Peacock, Disney Plus, HBO Max and countless other streaming services, do users need another option?  Quite possibly, yes. Enter Howdy, Roku’s new streaming service. Rather than Roku being content serving up other streaming services’ shows, the company just launched Howdy. This new streaming service is...

By Jackie Leavitt — 07 Aug'25 Last Updated: 07 Aug'25

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Gen 7 SonicWall Firewall Users: Disable SSLVPN Services Now

Last week, cybersecurity researchers from Arctic Wolf, Huntress and Google Mandiant warned of increased internal and external cyber incidents with Gen 7 SonicWall firewalls with SSLVPN enabled. Although SonicWall does not yet admit that it’s a zero-day vulnerability, those researches indicate that it is likely. “While credential access through brute force, dictionary attacks, and credential...

By Jackie Leavitt — 06 Aug'25 Last Updated: 06 Aug'25

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A Conversation with Fran Villalba Segarra: Building a Private Digital Future with Internxt

As personal data has become one of the world’s most valuable commodities, the call for digital privacy has never been louder. While tech giants like Google, Microsoft and Amazon dominate the cloud landscape, a new wave of privacy-focused companies is emerging to offer users a genuine alternative.  Enter Internxt, a European cloud provider dedicated to...

By Aleksander Hougen — 29 Jul'25 Last Updated: 29 Jul'25

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Continued Microsoft SharePoint Server Fallout

Microsoft has identified multiple Chinese nation-state actors in exploiting the SharePoint on-premise server vulnerability, including Linen Typhoon, Violet Typhoon and Storm-2603.  The latest reporting indicates at least 400 organizations, agencies and businesses — largely based in the U.S. — have been affected, with many also dealing with ransomware. (The most common reason for ransomware attacks...

By Jackie Leavitt — 28 Jul'25 Last Updated: 28 Jul'25

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Proton Launches Lumo, a Private AI Chat Tool

Proton announced Lumo’s release as an antidote to Big Tech’s tendencies of “turning people into products — and using AI to accelerate the surveillance-capitalism business model built on advertising, data harvesting, and exploitation.” Many large language models (LLMs) have used any data possible to train their models, including scraping any available content online, incorporating private...

By Jackie Leavitt — 26 Jul'25 Last Updated: 26 Jul'25

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Cryptomator Will Provide Quantum-Resistant Encryption Protection to Any Cloud Provider

Skymatic GmbH, the developer of Cryptomator, announced today its plan to incorporate post-quantum cryptography into Cryptomator’s encryption protection so that it can secure data against both quantum and classical computers. Security experts have increasingly voiced concerns about the threat quantum computing poses to widely used encryption algorithms, such as RSA and Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH)....

By Jackie Leavitt — 24 Jul'25 Last Updated: 24 Jul'25

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