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Roku Announces New Tiny Models of Streaming Stick and Streaming Stick Plus

Max Account Sharing Crackdown: Streaming Service Starts Charging Extra

Google to Let Users Pick Preferred News Sources, Allowing for Personal Customization of Search Results

Initially announced as an experiment that required users to opt in via Google Labs, the preferred sources feature has now been rolled out to all users in the U.S. and India. When users search for a query in English that triggers the “top stories” block at the top of the results page, they can now...

By Aleksander Hougen — 17 Aug'25 Last Updated: 17 Aug'25

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

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

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

YouTube to Introduce AI-Powered Age Verification in the US

With more and more U.S. states implementing age verification laws for social media and sites with adult content, YouTube is angling to get ahead of a potential federal law by implementing an AI-powered age verification system. The system will look at factors like watch history and account age to determine whether the account holder is...

By Aleksander Hougen — 02 Aug'25 Last Updated: 02 Aug'25

Dropbox Discontinues Dropbox Passwords, Telling Users to Find an Alternative Within Three Months

Dropbox, which is widely considered the pioneer of consumer cloud storage, first launched its password manager browser extension and mobile app in 2020. Now, after five years of service, the company has decided to quickly phase out the product, citing a desire to shift focus to its core cloud storage product. As part of the...

By Aleksander Hougen — 31 Jul'25 Last Updated: 31 Jul'25

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

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

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

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

Microsoft Issues Patches for SharePoint Server Zero-Day Vulnerability; “Critical” to Rotate Server Keys

Services affected by the high-severity vulnerability include Microsoft SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016. Microsoft’s cloud-hosted SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365 are not affected. The vulnerability has a severity rating of 9.8 out of a possible 10. Researches said any customer running on-premises SharePoint servers should assume their...

By Jackie Leavitt — 22 Jul'25 Last Updated: 22 Jul'25

BulletVPN Shuts Down: ‘End of Life’ Ends Lifetime Plans

Not all VPN services can survive in today’s competitive market, and another one just bit the bullet. BulletVPN suddenly updated its website to announce its “end of life,” with reasons “including shifts in market demand, evolving technology requirements, and sustainability of operations.” To soften the blow to BulletVPN users with active subscriptions, the company is...

By Jackie Leavitt — 15 Jul'25 Last Updated: 15 Jul'25

ExpressVPN Finishes Major Expansion With VPN Servers in all 50 U.S. States

The expansion will improve VPN performance and stability, as users can access more server options, allowing more consistent speeds and reliable connections. It will also allow travelers outside their states to keep connected to local content, including regional news, websites and sports coverage. Conversely, if sports fans are frustrated by blackouts, they can now utilize...

By Jackie Leavitt — 13 Jul'25 Last Updated: 13 Jul'25

The Race for Agentic AI Browsing: Perplexity Launches Comet AI Browser; OpenAI Browser Coming Soon

AI continues to shake up the browser status quo. In May, Google integrated AI overviews into Search, starting in the U.S. and expanding to over 200 countries and territories. In June, The Browser Company launched the Dia Browser for Arc members; non-members can join the waitlist. Now in July, Perplexity Max users can access the...

By Jackie Leavitt — 10 Jul'25 Last Updated: 10 Jul'25

Microsoft Discontinuing Authenticator: Save Your Passwords to an Alternative Before August

In June, Microsoft removed the ability to add or import new passwords to the Authenticator app, and in July the autofill function will be disabled and all payment information will be deleted. Although any saved passwords won’t be available in Authenticator as of August, they are synced to users Microsoft account so users can still...

By Jackie Leavitt — 04 Jul'25 Last Updated: 04 Jul'25

Supreme Court Upholds Texas Age-Verification Laws Ruling; Pornhub Blocked In South Dakota

On June 30, 2025, South Dakota became the latest state to pass an age-verification law for adult-content sites, which will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2026. The move came just days after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ruling in favor of Texas, allowing states to require pornography websites to verify the ages of...

By Jackie Leavitt — 01 Jul'25 Last Updated: 01 Jul'25

Judge Sides With Anthropic in Fair Use of Copyrighted Books, But Not Pirating

However, Federal judge William Alsup also ruled that there would be a trial held to evaluate damages for the online pirating of those books. According to the Northern California U.S. District Court ruling, Anthropic’s LLM, the company pirated millions of copyrighted books and also purchased physical books, “tore off the bindings, scanned every page, and...

By Jackie Leavitt — 25 Jun'25 Last Updated: 25 Jun'25

Prime Deals Already Live Ahead of 2025’s 96-Hour Prime “Day”

In much the same way Black Friday has expanded beyond the singular Friday into a full week of Christmas sales, Amazon announced that Amazon Prime Day will not be a single day, but four days of savings across 35 categories, running from July 8-11. Deals will run in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil,...

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

Amazon Prime Video Users Face Doubled Ad Time, Frustration

When Amazon started including ads on all Prime Video streaming accounts in January 2024, it reportedly aimed to have far fewer ads than rivals, roughly two to three-and-a-half minutes per hour. Now according to AdWeek, the streaming service has quietly doubled that to range between four and six minutes per hour. All this comes as...

By Jackie Leavitt — 19 Jun'25 Last Updated: 19 Jun'25

OpenAI Forced to Retain Chat Logs Indefinitely To Comply With Court Order

The lawsuit, which was filed in December 2023, alleges that OpenAI used copyrighted material from The New York Times and other publications to train its large language model, and that ChatGPT can produce verbatim copies of published articles. The lawsuit also alleges that the chatbot allows users to circumvent the publication’s paywalls by prompting the...

By Aleksander Hougen — 12 Jun'25 Last Updated: 18 Jun'25

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