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Google acquires Firebase to help apps span Android, iOS, Web

Firebase Google has acquired Firebase, a company that offers developers a mechanism to write mobile and Web-based apps that stay in sync with each other. The Firebase employees will become part of Google’s cloud-computing team, Google said Tuesday. Firebase offers a service that lets apps running in browsers or on Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android mobile operating systems work in …

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AFP using site blocking laws to target malware

Image by Alexandre Normand, CC BY 2.0 The AFP has confirmed it made a number of requests to block websites suspected of distributing malware, under a sub-section of the Telecommunications Act traditionally reserved for blocking child pornography sites. The disclosure came in the Australian Federal Police’s submission to a Parliamentary inquiry on Section 313 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 — …

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