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Zoom Has Biggest Rally in a Year After Strong Forecast

August 22, 2025

Zoom Communications Inc. shares soared after the company delivered a stronger-than-expected forecast, suggesting that customers are buying more of its expanded line of software products.

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MoQ: Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack

August 22, 2025

Cloudflare is launching the first Media over QUIC (MoQ) relay network, running on every Cloudflare server in datacenters in 330+ cities.

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I'm Still Not Over How Microsoft Destroyed Skype

August 19, 2025

[Opinion] Skype has been around for more than half of my life, and for a long time, to make a video call was to "Skype" someone. But now, Skype is officially dead and gone, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.

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Global video conferencing market set to reach $21 bn by 2029

August 11, 2025

The global video conferencing market grew 5 percent in 2024 to reach $18 billion in revenue and is expected to grow to $21 billion by 2029, driven by AI, hybrid work, and growth in Asia.

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Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked

August 9, 2025

Encryption methods standardized by ETSI for radio communication may be easily cracked, even when employing recommended the end-to-end encryption algorithm.

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Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video, AI customer contact solutions rolled out

July 30, 2025

Atlassian CEO and co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes sent the video titled “Restructuring the CSS Team: A Difficult Decision for Our Future” to staff informing them that 150 staff had been made redundant.

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AES Crypt
AES Crypt
VoIP / Videoconferencing
Security

The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030

July 4, 2025

EU law enforcement bodies could be capable of decrypting your private data by 2030. This is one of the ambitious goals the EU Commission presented in its Roadmap on June 24, 2025. A plan on how the bloc intends to ensure police officers' "lawful and effective" access to citizens' data.

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Over 64M T-Mobile records leaked online, hackers claim

June 13, 2025

The unconfirmed dataset, supposedly consisting of details taken from America’s second-largest mobile carrier, T-Mobile, includes device IDs and phone numbers. Meanwhile, T-Mobile says that the data in the does not relate to T-Mobile or its customers.

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AES Crypt 4.3 Released

May 20, 2025

AES Crypt 4.3 was released and now available on all supported platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, and FreeBSD. Some of the key enhancements in this release include performance improvements, user interface enhancements, security enhancements to the produced code, new support for Arch Linux, and published signature files to make it easier for users to verify authenticity of Linux and FreeBSD files.

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Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands

February 21, 2025

Apple has withdrawn its Advanced Data Protection iCloud feature from the United Kingdom following government demands for backdoor access to encrypted user data.

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U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts

February 7, 2025

Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud.

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Cloud Computing

Nearly all AT&T subscribers’ call records stolen in Snowflake cloud hack

July 12, 2024

AT&T said a breach on a third-party cloud platform exposed the call and text records of nearly all its cellular customers. The leaked data is said to include phone numbers that AT&T subscribers communicated with, but not names.

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Bitbucket artifact files can leak plaintext authentication secrets

May 21, 2024

Threat actors were found breaching AWS accounts using authentication secrets leaked as plaintext in Atlassian Bitbucket artifact objects. The issue was discovered by Mandiant, who was investigating a recent exposure of Amazon Web Services (AWS) secrets that threat actors used to gain access to AWS.

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Mobile

Apple is reportedly considering the acquisition of Perplexity AI

June 21, 2025

Apple's executives are reportedly thinking of acquiring Perplexity AI both to get more talent and to be able to offer an AI-based search engine in the future.

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Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here's why

March 26, 2025

Android OS development will now fully happen behind closed doors, but Google says it's committed to releasing source code.

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CISA, FBI urge Americans to use encrypted messaging apps to combat Chinese telco hackers

December 4, 2024

U.S. government officials said that the China-backed hacking group dubbed Salt Typhoon are still inside some of the networks of America’s largest phone and internet providers, weeks after the long-running hacking campaign first came to light.

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T-Mobile Hacked in Massive Chinese Breach of Telecom Networks

November 15, 2024

T-Mobile’s network was among the systems hacked in a damaging Chinese cyber-espionage operation that successfully gained entry into multiple U.S. and international telecommunications companies.

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Other News

Apple will end support for Intel Macs in 2026

June 9, 2025

Apple announced that macOS 26 Tahoe will be the last release of macOS that supports Intel. After that, major new versions of Apple’s desktop operating system will only run on Apple Silicon Macs.

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NVIDIA to Manufacture American-Made AI Supercomputers in US for First Time

April 14, 2025

NVIDIA is working with its manufacturing partners to design and build factories that, for the first time, will produce NVIDIA AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S.

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Pirate Bay financier and far-right activist Carl Lundström dies in plane crash

March 14, 2025

One of the initial backers of infamous torrenting site The Pirate Bay, Carl Lundström, has died after crashing his aircraft in bad weather. He took off in his Mooney M20 propeller plane from Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, en route to Zürich in Switzerland, but local media reports that he crashed into a cabin on Slovenia's Velika Planina mountain, splitting the hut in two.

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Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic

February 28, 2025

Firefox maker Mozilla deleted a promise to never sell its users' personal data and is trying to assure worried users that its approach to privacy hasn't fundamentally changed. Until recently, a Firefox FAQ promised that the browser maker never has and never will sell its users' personal data.

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Elon Musk-led group proposes buying OpenAI for $97.4 billion

February 10, 2025

A group of investors led by Elon Musk is offering about $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit behind OpenAI, escalating a dispute with the artificial intelligence company that Musk helped found a decade ago.

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FCC allows T-Mobile and SpaceX to launch satellite service in Helene-hit areas

October 6, 2024

In an effort to assist those in area damaged by the recent hurricane and mass flooding, the FCC has granted Starlink a temporary license to offer satellite to phone services in affected areas.

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FCC chair wants more competition to SpaceX's Starlink unit

September 11, 2024

Federal Communications Commission chair Jessica Rosenworcel said she wants to see more competition to SpaceX's internet satellite constellation Starlink and that "Our economy doesn't benefit from monopolies". This, after the same woman said in 2022 the FCC was denying SpaceX funding for rural broadband because, she said, "We cannot afford to subsidize ventures that are not delivering the promised speeds or are not likely to meet program requirements."

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AES Crypt 4 Released

August 31, 2024

One of the most popular file encryption software products on the Internet is AES Crypt. This project was supported by Packetizer, but has now been transitioned from Packetizer to Terrapane where the original author continues development and support. The latest version was just released, bringing with it many improvements ranging from user interaction to security.

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NIST Releases First 3 Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards

August 13, 2024

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finalized its principal set of encryption algorithms designed to withstand cyberattacks from a quantum computer.

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Personal Data of 3 Billion People Stolen in Hack, Suit Says

August 2, 2024

Jerico Pictures Inc., a background-check company doing business as National Public Data, exposed the personal information of nearly 3 billion individuals in an April data breach, a proposed class action says.

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Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers

July 25, 2024

Researchers from security firm Binarly revealed that Secure Boot is completely compromised on more than 200 device models sold by Acer, Dell, Gigabyte, Intel, and Supermicro.

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CrowdStrike update crashes Windows systems, causes outages worldwide

July 19, 2024

A faulty component in a CrowdStrike Falcon update is crashed Windows systems, impacting various organizations and services across the world, including airports, TV stations, and hospitals.

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FCC blasts T-Mobile’s 365-day phone locking, proposes 60-day unlock rule

July 19, 2024

Citing frustration with mobile carriers enforcing different phone-unlocking policies that are bad for consumers, the Federal Communications Commission is proposing a 60-day unlocking requirement that would apply to all wireless providers.

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Amazon launches its fourth-generation Graviton4 chip as competition intensifies

July 9, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching its fourth-generation Graviton processor, the Graviton4 chip that promises to deliver substantial improvements in performance and efficiency, including three times the compute power and memory of its predecessor, 75% more memory bandwidth, and 30% better performance.

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Starlink Mini Dish Release Appears to Be Imminent as New Images Surface

June 17, 2024

Starlink is one step closer to launching the Starlink Mini dish. SpaceX updated its app over the weekend and with the update came some official images of the dish itself, which will start rolling out to select areas as soon as next month.

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T-Mobile to buy almost all of U.S Cellular in deal worth $4.4 billion with debt

May 28, 2024

T-Mobile is buying U.S. Cellular’s wireless operations and certain spectrum assets in a deal valued at $4.4 billion, and further consolidating the industry.

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Android 15, Google Play Protect get new anti-malware and anti-fraud features

May 15, 2024

Google announced new security features coming to Android 15 and Google Play Protect that will help block scams, fraud, and malware apps on users' devices.

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Rumble sues Google over digital advertising practices

May 13, 2024

Video sharing platform Rumble said it has sued Google, arguing the tech giant has engaged in anticompetitive practices across its digital advertising products and sought damages in excess of $1 billion.

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Leaked FBI email stresses need for warrantless surveillance of Americans

May 9, 2024

A Federal Bureau of Investigation official recently urged employees to "look for ways" to conduct warrantless surveillance on US residents, an internal email shows. Security measures need to be further tightened, both in the consumer and enterprise spaces.

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Maximum-severity GitLab flaw allowing account hijacking under active exploitation

May 2, 2024

A maximum severity vulnerability that allows hackers to hijack GitLab accounts with no user interaction required is now under active exploitation, federal government officials warned as data showed that thousands of users had yet to install a patch released in January.

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US FCC approves T-Mobile deal to buy budget provider Mint Mobile

April 25, 2024

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said it will approve the T-Mobile US deal to buy Ka'ena Corp, the owner of budget service provider Mint Mobile, for up to $1.35 billion.

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Cisco says hackers subverted its security devices to spy on governments

April 24, 2024

Cisco Systems said that hackers have subverted some of its digital security devices to break into government networks globally.

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Meta Stock Drops 15% on "Disappointing Q2 Forecast"

April 24, 2024

Meta reported its first quarter earnings, and while it beat analysts' expectations on the top and bottom lines, a disappointing Q2 forecast sent shares of the social media giant plummeting more than 15%. Zuckerberg said the company is "scaling capex and energy expenses for AI."

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