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Eliminate pop-ups, autoplay ads, and tracking on the web for just $30
54+ min ago (486+ words) TL; DR: Protect your web experience on up to 20 devices with a 5-year subscription to Ad Guard DNS Personalfor $29. 99 (MSRP $719. 64). Wish you could say goodbye to ads and malware? Protect yourself from irritation and harm with Ad Guard DNS, a…...
ICE paid $636, 500 for AI "bounty hunter" agents to track deportees, family, and friends
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (18+ words) ICE contracted AI Solutions 87 to build AI agents that map targets' "services, locations, friends, family, and associates."...
Webloc tracks 500 million phones for U. S. cops
2+ week, 20+ hour ago (20+ words) Webloc claims records from 500 million phones worldwide. Tucson cops used it to catch a cigarette thief. No warrant needed....
Anthropic's "too dangerous" AI was accessed by guessing the URL
1+ week, 4+ day ago (21+ words) The Linux bug Anthropic highlighted as proof? Found by their public model. The 271 Firefox bugs? None beat a human expert....
Apple patches bug that exposed deleted Signal messages
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (24+ words) i OS cached Signal notification text for up to a month after deletion. FBI used forensic tools to pull the stored messages. Apple patched it....
Firefox Indexed DB flaw exposed users to cross-site tracking
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (65+ words) Firefox Indexed DB sort quirk gave 44 bits of entropy. Survived Tor's New Identity. Fixed in Firefox 150....
How a retired technician handed EFF the proof of NSA mass spying
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (364+ words) Klein told EFF's executive director Shari Steele that he could prove the NSA was tapping the internet backbone at scale. Since 2003, he had run the seventh-floor room on Folsom Street where AT&T's fiber-optic backbone connected to the wider internet....
Keep your data safe while roaming online with this 3-year Surfshark subscription
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Microsoft plans to let you turn off Windows updates
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (268+ words) Given that Windows users haven't had a choice about updates for over a decade, this is fabulous news. If you're interested in what else Microsoft is doing to make us love them again, The Verge's Tom Warren put together a…...
Fed RAMP reviewer called Microsoft's federal cloud "a pile of shit"
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (373+ words) A reviewer at Fed RAMP " the federal program that certifies whether cloud services are secure enough for government use " described Microsoft's GCC High cloud product " used by the Justice Department, the Department of Energy, and defense contractors " as "a pile…...