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Pegasus spyware used to target phones of journalists and activists, investigation finds

The Verge

A sweeping investigation by 17 media outlets found that NSO Group’s Pegasus software was used in hacking attempts on 37 smartphones belonging to human rights activists and journalists, The Washington Post reported. It’s not the first time NSO’s Pegasus spyware has been accused of being part of a larger surveillance campaign.

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NSO Group Placed on U.S. Blacklist

SecureWorld News

The infamous Israel-based NSO Group, known for its hacking spyware Pegasus, was placed on the United States Government's Entity List for engaging in malicious cyber activities, along with three other foreign companies, Candiru, Computer Security Initiative Consultancy PTE (COSEINC), and Positive Technologies.

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The vibe shift in Silicon Valley

The Verge

In particular, I’ve been working on how to apply it to my chosen field: tech journalism, which is driven as much by social wavelengths as any other part of our culture. In short, some kinds of tech journalism have come to feel dated to me; some stories feel like they are beginning to come to their conclusion.

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Antitrust investigations aren’t the biggest threat to Facebook’s future

The Verge

And then Google made Chrome, and Microsoft just kept making Internet Explorer, and Microsoft made a series of really bad mobile phones, and Apple made a good one, and within a few years Microsoft was an enterprise software company with a video game console division and it was hard to remember what the whole fuss had been about in the first place.