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Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month  —  Privacy-focused messaging app Signal announced on Monday that it's introducing a feature that allows users to back up their text conversations …

In a September 5 filing in the US v. Google ad tech trial, Google said "the open web is already in rapid decline", contradicting Google's recent statements (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
In a September 5 filing in the US v. Google ad tech trial, Google said “the open web is already in rapid decline”, contradicting Google's recent statements  —  Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in May that web publishing is not dying. … But in a court document filed by Google …

Nepal police open fire on 'Gen Z' protests sparked by social media block (Andres Schipani/Financial Times)

Andres Schipani / Financial Times:
Nepal police open fire on ‘Gen Z’ protests sparked by social media block  —  At least 19 reportedly killed while demonstrating against ban on platforms including Facebook and Instagram  —  At least 19 people were reported killed in clashes between Nepalese police and protesters taking part …

The US Army awards a $159M contract to a partnership of Anduril and Meta and a $195M contract to Rivet, to produce competing prototypes of a new combat goggle (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)

Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
The US Army awards a $159M contract to a partnership of Anduril and Meta and a $195M contract to Rivet, to produce competing prototypes of a new combat goggle  —  The US Army awarded contracts to a partnership of Anduril Industries Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., and another led by Rivet Industries …

Aikido Security says attackers injected malware into 18 popular npm packages, including the debug package, with over 2.6B total weekly downloads (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Aikido Security says attackers injected malware into 18 popular npm packages, including the debug package, with over 2.6B total weekly downloads  —  In what is being called the largest supply chain attack in history, attackers have injected malware into NPM packages with over 2.6 billion weekly downloads …