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Daily Deal: The Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows + Windows 11 Pro Bundle

January 22, 2025

Microsoft Office 2021 Professional is the perfect choice for any professional who needs to handle data and documents. It comes with many new features that will make you more productive…

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Sixth Circuit Rolls Back Injunction Against Tennessee’s Unconstitutional Age Verification Law

January 22, 2025

Well, that didn’t take long. A short-lived win for civil liberties and the Free Speech Coalition has been undone by the Sixth Circuit Appeals court. The reasoning behind the roll…

Cybersecurity

Trump Terminates DHS Advisory Committee Memberships, Disrupting Cybersecurity Review

January 22, 2025

The new Trump administration has terminated all memberships of advisory committees that report to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “In alignment with the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) commitment…

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Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht pardoned by Trump 10 years into life sentence

January 22, 2025

The self-declared “pro-crypto president” Donald Trump pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht on Tuesday. Ulbricht, 40, was about 10 years into his life sentence for helming an online black market…

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The Internet is (once again) awash with IoT botnets delivering record DDoSes

January 22, 2025

We’re only three weeks into 2025, and it’s already shaping up to be the year of Internet of Things-driven DDoSes. Reports are rolling in of threat actors infecting thousands of…

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Trump announces $500B “Stargate” AI infrastructure project with AGI aims

January 22, 2025

On Tuesday, OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX announced plans to form Stargate, a new company that will invest $500 billion in AI computing infrastructure across the United States over four…

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Google increases investment in Anthropic by another $1 billion

January 22, 2025

Google is making a fresh investment of more than $1 billion into OpenAI rival Anthropic, boosting its position in the start-up as Silicon Valley titans rush to develop cutting-edge artificial…

Cybersecurity

Hackers Exploit Zero-Day in cnPilot Routers to Deploy AIRASHI DDoS Botnet

January 22, 2025

Threat actors are exploiting an unspecified zero-day vulnerability in Cambium Networks cnPilot routers to deploy a variant of the AISURU botnet called AIRASHI to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.…

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Paramount And CBS Willing To Kiss Trump’s Ass In Exchange For Merger Approvals

January 22, 2025

For years many press outlets (and contrarian engagement pundits like Matt Stoller) tried to argue that the Trump GOP was now “serious about antitrust reform,” “reining in corporate power,” or…

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All the things Nintendo didn’t tell us about the Switch 2

January 22, 2025

After literal years of speculation and leaks, it was nice to get an actual glimpse of the Switch 2 hardware (and its increased size) last week. But even with the…

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