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Google and Apple are painting a pearl-clutching apocalyptic picture of the ramifications of the Open App Markets Act. They’re quick to say their walled-garden app stores are necessary for our safety and privacy. But the reality is, they’re greedy, monopolistic rent-seekers, terrified at the prospect of being forced to open their platforms, and more crucially, at parting with some billions of dollars of pure profit.

Most people don’t realize that Apple and Google co

Horry County, South Carolina, officials were in for a shock earlier this year, when they discovered their cyber insurance premium would be spiking from $70,000 last year to about $210,000.

And if they couldn’t satisfy the insurance company’s requirements and prove they had the robust controls needed to protect and defend themselves against cyberattacks, they learned, they wouldn’t be able to get their $5 million policy renewed at all.

“The insurance c

It’s been 50 years since humans last visited the Moon, and even robotic missions have been few and far between. But the Earth’s only natural satellite is about to get crowded.

At least six countries and a flurry of private companies have publicly announced more than 250 missions to the Moon to

The Israeli marketing security firm CHEQ says that at least 15% of Chinese Twitter accounts are likely to be bots.

CHEQ’s security platform identifies and filters out invalid traffic (such as bots) visiting the websites of its marketer customers. So it can

Duolingo’s long-awaited new math app is being unveiled—in beta—at the company’s annual Duocon conference Friday.

Duolingo Math, which already has a waitlist for its beta testing on iOS devices, uses the same game-like interface as its

Every Time Zone is a free website that does exactly what it says on the box, displaying the current time in every major time zone. By moving the time zone slider around, you can quickly look for potential meeting times with folks in other parts of the country or world.

The site also offers a “Customize” button to control which time zones appear in the list. Just sign in with a Google a

Instacart is on a mission to broaden its appeal beyond being a transactional platform. The company announced on Thursday the addition of shoppable carts: essentially, bundles of products recommended by retailers, celebrities, and creators.

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It’s been a tough week for quite a few big-name stocks. (Here’s looking at you Zoom and AMC.) Unfortunately, the trend continued on Thursday—this tim

Data privacy in the U.S. is, in many ways, a legal void. While there are limited protections for health and financial data, the cradle of the world’s largest tech companies, like Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta (Facebook), lacks any comprehensive federal data privacy law. This leaves U.S. citizens with minimal&#x

The beginning of the Great Adpocalypse can be traced back to April 2021, when Apple released its iOS 14.5 update and began enforcing a policy called App Tracking Transparency, which prevents apps like Facebook from tracking iPhone users across other apps and the