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CEO told to hand back 757,000 fraudulently obtained IP addresses
A company accused of fraudulently obtaining 757,000 IPv4 addresses
has been ordered to hand them back.
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Brave browser concerned that Client Hints could be abused for tracking
Privacy-focused browser Brave has criticised an industry proposal it
says would make browser fingerprinting easier.
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Facebook bans accounts of fake news firm
It's not clear who paid Archimedes Group for its reality-warping
campaigns, but it's clear disinformation is now a global scourge.
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Bots rigged Russian finale of "The Voice Kids" talent show
It turns out that robo-dialed calls accounted for 56.5% of the phone-in
vote for the millionaire's daughter.
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Monday review - the hot 20 stories of the week
It was a week of patches - from a severe Linux kernel flaw to a
new 'wormable' Windows bug, here's a roundup of the week's top
stories.
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