Month: December 2020
Cloudflare and Apple made a new DNS protocol to protect your data from ISPs
Cloudflare is proposing a new DNS standard it developed with Apple that’s designed to help close a blindspot in my (and I’m sure many others’) internet privacy measures (via TechCrunch). The protocol is called Oblivious DNS over HTTPS (ODoH), and it’s meant to help anonymize the information that’s sent before…
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FTC sues to block P&G’s acquisition of Billie, a razor startup for women
The Federal Trade Commission has sued to block Procter & Gamble’s acquisition of Billie, a NY-based startup that sells razors and body wash. In the notice, the FTC alleged that the merger would “eliminate innovative nascent competitors for wet shave razors” to the loss of consumers. Billie was founded in…
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Millions of IoT devices could be vulnerable to these unfixable security bugs IoT devices
IoT devices may in fact end up being the asbestos of the future after all as new research from Forescout has revealed that there are 33 new memory-corrupting vulnerabilities which affect millions of connected devices around the world. These flaws impact four open source TCP/IP stacks (uIP, PicoTCP, FNET, and…
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Covid, the US election and crumpets: Google reveals Australia’s top searches for 2020 Google
Google has released Australia’s top trending searches of 2020, and the data shows how Australians navigated our way through a year unlike any other. The overall searches reveal our collective worries about the world, with ‘US election’ overtaking ‘coronavirus’ as the top search term in 2020. Still, the pandemic was…
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Halo Infinite now scheduled for release in ‘Fall 2021’
We already knew that Halo Infinite was delayed until next year. Initially intended to launch alongside the new Xboxes, Microsoft announced back in August that it would instead ship in 2021. Exactly when in 2021, though, was still anyone’s guess. A new blog post from 343 Industries narrows it down…
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Halo Infinite is officially launching fall 2021
Halo Infinite, the next game in Microsoft’s iconic franchise, will officially launch in fall 2021, developer 343 Industries announced in a blog post on Tuesday. The game was originally supposed to launch alongside the Xbox Series X / S in November, but it was delayed to 2021 in August due…
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