Lenovo High-Severity Bug Found in Pre-Installed Software
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Google introduced a new initiative that it hopes will fight shady online advertising practices such as digital fingerprinting.
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Security researchers worry that this weekend’s coordinated attacks on more than 20 Texas governments mark a change in how ransomware attacks will be launched in the future.
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