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23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and CEO Anne Wojcicki has stepped down

Engadget

DNA testing company 23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy , following a tumultuous few years that included significant layoffs and a wide-ranging data breach. It plans to find a buyer and continue operations throughout the process, with the company's CEO, Anne Wojcicki, resigning to bid for the company independently.

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5 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Since then, our site has experienced zero downtime, no more bot email subscribers, and customer service is exceptional. The files on your computer(s), however, do require subscribing to a backup service, such as Carbonite or iDrive. We had to move to a premium website hosting company and upgraded to a $96 a month plan.

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File-sharing site Zippyshare to shut down after 17 years

TechSpot

File-sharing site Zippyshare has announced it will shut down at the end of this month. The site started in 2006 and quickly gained popularity among users as one of the preeminent cyber-locker services in the world. However, it also attracted scrutiny from law enforcement agencies for allegedly facilitating online piracy.

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“The girl should be calling men.” Leak exposes Black Basta’s influence tactics.

Ars Technica

The trove of records was first posted to file-sharing site MEGA. Last months leak coincided with the unexplained outage of the Black Basta site on the dark web, which has remained down ever since. The messages, which were sent from September 2023 to September 2024, were later posted to Telegram in February 2025.

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6 Ways to Strengthen Your Nonprofit’s WordPress Security

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Once inside your site, a hacker can delete pages, plugins, and themes without anyone knowing. Most nonprofits can’t afford to pay a $10,000 ransom every month because a hacker planted a virus on their site. How many months would you lose trying to rebuild your site? 1) Regularly update your plugins.

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Robot lawyer startup DoNotPay now lets you file FOIA requests

TechCrunch

In the early days of the pandemic, the startup helped its users file for unemployment, where many state benefit sites crashed. But ask anyone with experience in filing FOIAs (hello!) I asked the US government for my immigration file and all I got were these stupid photos. That’s where DoNotPay wants to help.

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Anonymous-linked group hacks Russian space research site, claims to leak mission files

The Verge

In the latest salvo from hacktivists working in support of Ukraine, an Anonymous-linked group has defaced a website belonging to Russia’s Space Research Institute (IKI) and leaked files that allegedly belong to the Russian space agency Roscosmos. site was inaccessible. At time of publication, the uv.ikiweb.ru Cosmonauts ??

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