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The best VPNs for staying anonymous and secure on the web

Mashable Tech

Aside from the few countries that have restricted or outright banned them (including Belarus, China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Oman, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and the United Arab Emirates), VPNs are perfectly legal in most of the world. Bonus points if that policy's been verified by a third party audit.) Split tunneling.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS success stats, leveraging ad tech chaos, 2022 layoff trends

TechCrunch

And it was presaged by falling public markets that, we presume, allowed some private companies to conserve cash in anticipation of, say, a more conservative funding market.” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed that, however. ” Today’s startup layoffs have nothing on the 2020 correction.

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

and thats a conservative estimate. The boreal forests of Canada, Alaska, and Russia will be especially vulnerable. Since then, new government policies, and the meteoric rise of renewable energy, seem to have made a dent. Still, heat-related deaths will continue to rise to 20,000 annually in the U.S., will become more common.

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How Trump calculated the new tariff rates and why they differ by country

Fast Company Tech

sanctions for example, Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine , as well as Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Belarus and Venezuela will not face the new, 10% global base tariff. His administration has said the president is always ready to make deals, a sign the new tariffs may prove to be more bargaining chip than permanent policy. priorities.

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This didn’t start with DOGE

Recode by Vox

The current portrayal of civil servants as deep state bureaucrats pushing far-left ideology draws from the same playbook conservatives have long deployed against the 5.4 million Americans who teach in K-12 public schools. A nation that devalues its public servants ultimately devalues its own future.

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Social networks solved their 2016 election problems, but their 2020 problems are bigger

The Verge

A surge of misinformation on social networks, led by President Trump and his family , has challenged social networks’ content policies and drawn fresh attention to their enforcement capabilities. We cannot say this time that Russia, Iran or China interfered in a significant way. That’s the good news.

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The US declared war on TikTok because it can’t handle the truth

The Verge

For years, Russia has sought to emphasize and even exacerbate existing tensions in the United States, presumably because it believes this is in Russia’s own interest. And neither is the old foreign policy equivalent to the new. Now it is openly engaged in information-nationalism.