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  • FTC’s Fight Against Microsoft/Activision Deal Is Back From the Dead

    FTC’s Fight Against Microsoft/Activision Deal Is Back From the Dead

    Shortly after a judge denied the Federal Trade Commission’s injunction to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard on Tuesday, the FTC has now turned to an appeals court to stop the $US69 billion deal once again. The FTC filed an appeal on Wednesday and an emergency motion on Thursday with the Ninth Circuit Court of…


  • Archive of Our Own Is Back Online After a Massive DDoS Attack

    Archive of Our Own Is Back Online After a Massive DDoS Attack

    The Archive of Our Own—the largest digital library for fanfiction currently operating, and one of the highest-trafficked sites in the world—was temporarily unavailable after it experienced a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack from a hacker group calling itself “Anonymous Sudan.” Ao3 reported the outage early on the morning of July 10 and had restored service…