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Cops Serve VPN Maker Search Warrant for Data It Doesn’t Collect
The VPN provider Mullvad says that it was served with a search warrant by Swedish police demanding that the company turn over servers containing logs of user data. The only problem? Mullvad doesn’t collect such logs.
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Someone Has Been Mailing USB Drives to Journalists That Are Programmed to Explode
Everybody knows that you’re not supposed to plug a random USB stick into your computer. Worst case scenario, you’re typically looking at a desktop full of malware. However, it now appears that someone has come up with a much worse thing to load USBs with than malicious software: bombs.
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Plex Is Finally Rolling Out a Video Rental Marketplace
Video streamer Plex announced it is bringing its rental service to consumers after a three-year delay stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Too Many Servers Could Mean No New Homes in Parts of the UK
Data centres have caused skyrocketing power demand in parts of London. Now, new housing construction could be banned for a full decade in some neighbourhoods of the UK’s biggest city because the electricity grid is reaching capacity, according to a report from the Financial Times. The reason: too many data centres taking up electricity and fibre…