Gizmodo

APRIL 5, 2022

NSO Group, the creepy spyware firm known for selling its services to authoritarian governments throughout the world, is in trouble again. A new report shows that the company’s most notorious malware, Pegasus, was used to hack the iPhone of a Jordanian journalist in December. The hack occurred several weeks after… Read more.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Sources told Bloomberg that the company’s cumbersome mixture of unpaid debts and growing international scrutiny have made NSO a bloated pariah and is forcing its leadership to consider shutting down its Pegasus spyware unit. S… Read more.

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Gizmodo

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Earlier this week, the Department of Justice revealed that three former U.S. intelligence operatives were facing federal charges in connection with their work for BlackMatter, a foreign cybersecurity company based in the United Arab Emirates. Read more.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 22, 2021

For years, the Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group has sparked fear and fascination throughout the international community via its hacking tools—the likes of which have been sold to authoritarian governments throughout the world and used against journalists, activists, politicians, and anybody else unfortunate enough to… Read more.

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The Verge

APRIL 28, 2021

Next week, Epic Games and Apple will appear in court for a long-anticipated legal battle. Epic argues that Apple unfairly kicked its hit game Fortnite off the App Store last year, exercising an illegal monopoly over the ubiquitous iOS platform. Apple and Epic both filed revised tentative witness lists on April 26th.

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Vox

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Some say Apple’s App Store is a monopoly. Apple says it’s just giving customers what they want. Over the next few weeks, we’ll cover what’s happening with Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. Apple is facing growing scrutiny for the tight control it has over so much of the mobile-first, app-centric world it created.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

The US government sued Microsoft for bundling its Internet Explorer browser with Windows out of fears that doing so would permanently entrench its monopoly in personal computers. When I wrote about it here last year , it was in the context of a new European internet emerging alongside the American and Sino-Russian authoritarian ones.

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