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Alphabet’s Starlink competitor Taara is spinning off into an independent company

Engadget

Alphabet is letting its laser-based internet company Taara fly and be free, according to reporting by Financial Times. Googles parent company is spinning off the service from X, its moonshot incubator system (not to be confused with X the social network.) The tech works by firing beams of light to and from various terminals.

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Windows 11 is deleting Internet Explorer

The Verge

internet explorer 9 logo. At one point in Windows 10’s lifetime, you could have had Internet Explorer, the legacy version of Microsoft Edge, and the new Chromium-powered Edge all installed. Microsoft revealed yesterday that Internet Explorer will be “disabled” in Windows 11. That bundling led to the infamous United States v.

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‘Extremely bad’ vulnerability found in widely used logging system

The Verge

Security teams at companies large and small are scrambling to patch a previously unknown vulnerability called Log4Shell, which has the potential to let hackers compromise millions of devices across the internet. The vulnerability is found in log4j, an open-source logging library used by apps and services across the internet.

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Ditch ads and stay safer online with this lifetime AdGuard Family Plan, now over $150 off

Mashable Tech

AdGuard can offer a more peaceful internet experience thanks to their sophisticated ad-blocking solution. It employs three core features — an ad-blocking module, a privacy protection tool, and a parental control system , all ready to keep your family safe and smiling while using the internet. 169.99) with code FAMPLAN.

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Why Nonprofits Should Pay Attention to Web3 and the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Web3 is a new version of the internet that uses blockchain (IE a secure but transparent record keeping system) to decentralize the management of the internet, thus reducing the control of prominent companies such as Google or Meta. Web3 draws its name as the third iteration of the internet. What is Web3?

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Russia is willing to spend some $660 million to bolster internet censorship

TechSpot

Russia's Ministry of Digital Development plans to allocate a significant sum to upgrade the country's internet censorship system, known as Technical Measures to Combat Threats (TSPU). Read Entire Article

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says Starlink internet service leaving beta in October

The Verge

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted Friday that the company’s Starlink satellite internet network would come out of its open beta phase next month. The Starlink system calls for a constellation of nearly 12,000 satellites in low-Earth orbits that will beam continuous broadband internet service.

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