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White House announces bipartisan deal to provide broadband access to tens of millions of Americans

The Biden administration has announced deals struck with 20 different internet service providers to offer broadband access for tens of millions of Americans, millions of these plans qualifying for a $30/month cap for unlimited data. The deal was reached through bipartisan support between the Democrats and the Republicans. The deal also stands in the face […]

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Apple reportedly spending more than $30 million per month on Amazon Web Services to aid Services efforts

Sometimes you need some extra servers on hand. Although Apple and Amazon are often viewed as competitors, it appears that Apple is spending more than $30 million per month using Amazon Web Services to power Apple services such as iCloud. Apple is reportedly spending more than $300 million per year via Amazon’s cloud services. Apple […]

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Apple, other tech firms, push back against encryption backdoor proposals suggested by law enforcement agencies, cite privacy concerns

The debate continues. Apple, along with other major technology companies, have formed the privacy-focused Reform Government Surveillance (RGS) coalition as part of an effort to fight government agencies pushing for the addition of encryption backdoors. The RGS offered the following statement on Wednesday: “Recent reports have described new proposals to engineer vulnerabilities into devices and […]

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Google Chrome updated to 23.0.1271.91

You can’t knock a bug fix. Late Monday, Google released a beta of version Google Chrome updated to 23.0.1271.91 of its Chrome web browser. The update, a 56.5 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – No audio from Flash content when speaker configuration is set to Quadraphonic (Issue: 159924). – Aw, Snap renderer […]