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Google revives talks to acquire Wiz at higher valuation

Google’s parent company Alphabet is again in advanced talks to acquire cloud cybersecurity startup Wiz, a person familiar with the deal told TechCrunch....

European tech industry coalition calls for radical action on digital sovereignty starting with buying local

A broad coalition drawn from across the ranks of Europe’s tech industry is calling for “radical action” from European Union lawmakers to shrink...

US lawmakers urge UK spy court to hold Apple backdoor secret hearing in public

A group of bipartisan U.S. lawmakers are urging the head of the U.K.’s surveillance court to hold an open hearing into Apple’s anticipated...

FTC says Americans lost $12.5B to scams last year social media, AI and crypto didnt help

You’re not the only one getting voicemails about your car’s extended warranty. According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), about 2.6...

Anthropics Claude Code tool had a bug that bricked some systems

The launch of Anthropic’s coding tool, Claude Code, is off to a rocky start. According to reports on GitHub, Claude Code’s auto-update...

UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites

The U.K. government appears to have quietly scrubbed encryption advice from government web pages, just weeks after demanding backdoor access to encrypted data...

Researchers uncover unknown Android flaws used to hack into a students phone

Amnesty International said that Google fixed previously unknown flaws in Android that allowed authorities to unlock phones using forensic tools. On Friday,...

Cellebrite suspends Serbia as customer after claims police used firms tech to plant spyware

Cellebrite announced on Tuesday that it stopped Serbia from using its technology, following allegations that Serbian police and intelligence used Cellebrite’s technology to...

IDF Involvement Drops as Ultra-Orthodox Youth Embrace Yeshiva Life

Enlistment amongst ultra-Orthodox guys in the...

DOGEs HR email is getting the Bee Movie spam treatment

Over the weekend, Elon Musk surveyed his followers on X — the platform he spent $44 billion to buy — asking whether federal...

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