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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

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

How to Submit Your Claim for Apple’s $95 Million Siri Eavesdropping Settlement

The settlement comes from a 2021 lawsuit, with consumers alleging the voice assistant unintentionally activated and recorded private or confidential conversations, then shared those discussions with third-party businesses that then were used in targeted ads in Apple search and Safari web browser. “Apple denies all of the allegations made in the lawsuit and denies that...

By Jackie Leavitt — 02 Jun'25 Last Updated: 02 Jun'25

Texas Becomes the Second State to Implement Age-Verification Laws for App Stores

Despite opposition from Apple and Google, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the SB 2420 bill into law on May 27, 2025. This makes Texas the second U.S. state, after Utah, to enact age-verification laws in the effort to protect minors online. The Texan law would require app stores to verify the age of Texan users,...

By Jackie Leavitt — 29 May'25 Last Updated: 29 May'25

Google AI Mode Merges With AI Overviews in Search Amid Publishing and Privacy Concerns

This Google I/O ‘25 Keynote announcement comes roughly one year after Google announced the launch of its AI Overviews in 2024. Google began testing AI Mode with a small group of real-world users at the beginning of May 2025, replacing the “I’m feeling lucky” button and bringing AI Mode into AI overviews. The Future of...

By Jackie Leavitt — 23 May'25 Last Updated: 23 May'25

Huge Backlash After VPNSecure Cancels All VPN Lifetime Plans

Thousands of VPNSecure accounts were deactivated, with users being notified by an email that included a renewal offer. According to the email, VPNSecure’s current owner purchased the VPN two years ago in May 2023 and claims the previous owner didn’t disclose thousands of lifetime users. The new owners discovered these users a couple months after...

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

DOJ Proposes Selling Off Google Ad Empire, Trial Set for September

In Google’s ad tech monopoly trial, the judge ruled in favor of the DOJ on two counts, agreeing that Google intentionally engaged in anti-competitive monopolistic behavior with its publisher ad server, Double Click for Publishers (DFP) and Google Ad Exchange (AdX). Now the court has received proposals from both the DOJ and Google about how...

By Jackie Leavitt — 08 May'25 Last Updated: 08 May'25

GenAI Causes Cyber Security Fears Among Experts

A recent paper published last month by researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) found that AI-generated code has a significant tendency to hallucinate package libraries that do not exist. Analyzing over 500,000 code samples generated by 16 different AI models, the study concludes that at least 5.2% of package dependencies in...

By Aleksander Hougen — 01 May'25 Last Updated: 01 May'25

OpenAI Rolls Out ‘Shopping Features’ for ChatGPT, Causing Immediate Backlash

In a post on OpenAI’s website on Monday, OpenAI announced a new range of “shopping features” that enables ChatGPT to recommend products and services, including reviews and direct purchase links. In its post, the company states that these recommendations are not ads, and the company does not receive any sort of commission for its recommendations:...

By Aleksander Hougen — 01 May'25 Last Updated: 01 May'25

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