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Meta halts routing via Deutsche Telekom over €20M peering fee

Meta announced that it’s ending its direct peering relationship with Deutsche Telekom following a court’s ruling earlier this year that would oblige the tech firm to pay the telecom €20,000,000 to continue using its network. Instead, Meta will now re-route traffic from its platforms and services (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) through third-party providers instead of directly […]

17 Sep

Cloudflare outage cuts off access to websites in some regions

A rolling Cloudflare outage is impacting access to web sites worldwide, including BleepingComputer, with sites working in some regions and not others. While Cloudflare says they are currently conducting scheduled maintenance in Sinagpore and Nashville, its status page does not indicate any problems. However, for many users worldwide, when attempting to access websites utilizing Cloudflare, […]

05 Sep

Microsoft removes revenge porn from Bing search using new tool

Microsoft announced today that it has partnered with StopNCII to proactively remove harmful intimate images and videos from Bing using digital hashes people create from their sensitive media. StopNCII is a project operated by the Revenge Porn Helpline that allows people to create digital hashes of their intimate pictures and videos without uploading the media from […]

27 Jul

X begins training Grok AI with your posts, here’s how to disable

X has quietly begun training its Grok AI chat platform using members’ public posts without first alerting anyone that it is doing it by default. As AI platforms war for dominance, they are constantly seeking data to train their large language models (LLMs). This makes your data very valuable. However, instead of asking for permission, most platforms use […]

08 Jul

Russia forces Apple to remove dozens of VPN apps from App Store

Apple has removed 25 virtual private network (VPN) apps from the Russian App Store at the request of Roskomnadzor, Russia’s telecommunications watchdog. […]

02 Jul

Xbox is down worldwide with users unable to login, play games

The Xbox Live service is currently down due to a major outage, impacting customers worldwide and preventing them from signing into their Xbox accounts and playing games. […]

13 Jun

YouTube tests harder-to-block server-side ad injection in videos

YouTube reportedly now injects ads directly into video streams to make it more difficult for ad blockers to block advertisements. […]

09 Jun

Brave says May 2024 was its biggest growth month ever

Brave browser experienced its most significant growth month ever in May 2024, now used by more than 78.95 million monthly users, up 7.3%. […]

03 Jun

Verizon users report blurry photos in Android messaging apps

Verizon customers using Android phones report that they receive blurry images through text messages on different services and apps, with no response from Verizon as to why. […]

19 May

Frustration grows over Google’s AI Overviews feature, how to disable

Since Google enabled its AI-powered search feature, many people have tried and failed to disable the often incorrect AI Overviews feature in regular search results. However, there are ways to turn it off using a new “Web” search mode, which we explain in this article.. […]

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