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Team Behind ExpressVPN Launches EventVPN, a Private, Free VPN With Ads

The new free VPN EventVPN — launched by the ExpressVPN team on Sept. 18, 2025 — offers unlimited data, 35 server locations and critical privacy VPN features, including a kill-switch, RAM-only servers (which wipe all data with each server rest), a no-logs policy, post-quantum WireGuard encryption and a built-in private browser. ExpressVPN has long been...

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

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

Proposed EU Chat Control Regulation Loses Key German Support

On Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, EU member states indicated their support or opposition on the proposed “Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse” regulation — also called “Chat Control.” The regulation would have allowed scanning of encrypted messages to fight the spread of online child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Chat Control was first proposed...

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

ExpressVPN Embraces Tiered Pricing for VPN Services

In ExpressVPN’s announcement of the pricing changes, it explained the decision came from how internet privacy has become more complex, and that some users want basic VPN protection while others need more advanced features. “Now, with tiered plans, we’re addressing another reality: that privacy itself has become more complex. Some of you want the same...

By Jackie Leavitt — 05 Sep'25 Last Updated: 05 Sep'25

World’s Largest Illegal Sports Streaming Site StreamEast Taken Down

StreamEast and its more than 80 related domains were taken offline after Egyptian police tracked down and arrested two men allegedly responsible for running the sites over the past 15 years. StreamEast is by far the largest illegal sports streaming website in the world, generating 136 million monthly visitors on average, with the largest share...

By Jackie Leavitt — 05 Sep'25 Last Updated: 05 Sep'25

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

A Conversation With Tunio Zafer: How pCloud Balances Innovation & AI With Privacy & Security

When it comes to cloud storage, pCloud has carved out a unique place in a market dominated by tech giants. Founded with a focus on privacy, security and user control, pCloud has a loyal user base and offers a credible alternative to larger competitors. To understand how pCloud sees the future of cloud storage, Cloudwards...

By Jackie Leavitt — 31 Aug'25 Last Updated: 31 Aug'25

FreeVPNOne Spying: Free VPN Allegedly Takes Chrome Screenshots of Users

The Koi Research team recently revealed in its investigation into FreeVPNOne that the free VPN is allegedly taking secret screenshots and sending it back to the developer. How Koi explains the screen capture works is that 1.1 seconds after a page loads, a background trigger takes a screenshot and sends it to the developer with...

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

AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Lead Q2 2025 Cloud Market Earnings Bolstered by AI Development

Following the global earnings reports of 2025 Q2, AWS has 30% of the cloud market, followed by Azure at 20%, and Google Cloud at 13%. Other cloud computing services that take a small sliver of the pie include Alibaba Cloud at 4%, Oracle at 3%, and Salesforce, IBM Cloud and Tencent Cloud at 2% each....

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

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

NordVPN Announces the End of Meshnet

Meshnet allowed users to set up an encrypted tunnel between devices for sharing files, gaming and working on projects together. The peer-to-peer connections didn’t require connecting to an internet service provider or even to a NordVPN server, allowing for more privacy. Our guide on NordVPN Meshnet has more details. Since the tool’s launch in 2022,...

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

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

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