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Emma Roth

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    SEC drops its Ripple Labs appeal.

    The agency will no longer fight the 2023 ruling that was mostly a victory for Ripple Labs, as it determined it didn’t break the law by listing its XRP token on public exchanges. XRP is one of the tokens that will be included in the government’s crypto stockpile.

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    Emma Roth
    Paragon spyware could have ties to governments around the world.

    The Citizen Lab just published its investigation into Paragon Solutions, an “ethical” cyber defense company recently linked to a spyware campaign targeting journalists on WhatsApp. Along with the Canadian Ontario Provincial Police, researchers found that governments in Australia, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore may also be potential Paragon customers.

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    Emma Roth
    Alphabet is reportedly betting $3.2 billion on a successful Wiz acquisition.

    That’s how much Google’s parent company will pay if its $32 billion acquisition of the cloud security startup falls apart, sources tell the Financial Times. The deal reportedly wouldn’t have proceeded without such a high termination fee, which the FT calls “among the largest of all time.”

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    Emma Roth
    LinkedIn has a new puzzle game: Zip.

    As you connect numbered dots across a grid, Zip challenges you to fill in each square along the way. It joins LinkedIn’s wider lineup of daily games, which are, admittedly, pretty fun.