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Jun 24, 2022 • 8min
Brave Now Lets You Customize Search Results—for Better or Worse
The privacy-focused company's new Goggles tool allows users to weed out the noise—whatever that might mean.
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Jun 23, 2022 • 8min
The January 6 Hearing Was a Warning
The House committee's televised hearings interrogate the Capitol attack with damning new evidence. Whether it's enough to prevent another attack is uncertain.
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Jun 22, 2022 • 8min
Shanghai’s Censors Can’t Hide Stories of the Dead
Many people reportedly died after struggling to access medical care during a brutal lockdown. The families want to make sure these deaths are counted.
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Jun 21, 2022 • 11min
Russia Is Taking Over Ukraine’s Internet
In occupied Ukraine, people’s internet is being routed to Russia—and subjected to its powerful censorship and surveillance machine.
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Jun 20, 2022 • 10min
Police Linked to Hacking Campaign to Frame Indian Activists
New details connect police in India to a plot to plant evidence on victims' computers that led to their arrest.
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Jun 17, 2022 • 8min
How a Saxophonist Tricked the KBG by Encrypting Secrets in Music
Using a custom encryption scheme based on musical notation, US musicians smuggled information into and out of the USSR.
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Jun 16, 2022 • 11min
Conti's Attack Against Costa Rica Sparks a New Ransomware Era
A pair of ransomware attacks crippled parts of the country—and rewrote the rules of cybercrime.
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Jun 15, 2022 • 7min
A Long-Awaited Defense Against Data Leaks May Have Just Arrived
MongoDB claims its new “Queryable Encryption” lets users search their databases while sensitive data stays encrypted. Oh, and its cryptography is open source.
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Jun 14, 2022 • 6min
Fertility and Period Apps Can Be Weaponized in a Post-Roe World
Apps collect sensitive data that could be subpoenaed by law enforcement or sold by data brokers, putting women seeking abortions at risk.
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Jun 13, 2022 • 7min
Disinfo and Hate Speech Flood TikTok Ahead of Kenya’s Elections
Dozens of accounts shared videos that racked up millions of views before the platform took action.
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