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Chinese company Beijing Kunlun Tech has sold its subsidiary Grindr, a gay dating app. This after the American Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States had requested it. The new owner does have ties with China.Kunlun owns…

The latest test version of browser Vivaldi has been given the ability to block trackers. The software uses a blocklist from search engine maker DuckDuckGo for this. It was already possible to block trackers via an extension.The browser…

Security researcher Troy Hunt isn't selling Have I Been Pwned after all. He continues to maintain the data leak search engine himself. Last year, Hunt started looking for a buyer because it took him a lot of time. There was almost a…

Malwarebytes has released AdwCleaner version 8.0.3. This program aims to remove malware, such as toolbars added to web browsers and so-called hijackers, which modify the homepage and search engine, among other things. Support is…

Waterfox, an open source privacy web browser, appears to have been acquired by System1, a US-based advertising company. Earlier, a division of that company took over the privacy-friendly search engine Startpage. According to the creator…

Microsoft has abandoned its plan to make Bing the default search engine in Chrome for Office 365 ProPlus users. The decision was widely criticized. Microsoft is going to make the Bing browser extension, but it will now be an…

Office 365 ProPlus will make Bing the default search engine in Chrome starting next month, unless administrators actively prevent it. Initially, this will not happen in the Benelux, but according to Microsoft, it will probably happen with…

Google has been fined 150 million euros by the French trade watchdog. The internet company is said to have set unclear conditions about the advertising platform and arbitrarily disadvantaged companies.The fine was imposed by the Autorité…

Malwarebytes has released AdwCleaner version 8.0.1. This program aims to remove malware, such as toolbars added to web browsers and so-called hijackers, which modify the homepage and search engine, among other things. Support is…

Google has informed its partners in Turkey that they will no longer work together on new Android devices for the Turkish market for the time being. The announcement follows an imminent fine in the country for infringement of competition…