Italian court upholds a ban against Cloudflare resolving DNS queries for three torrent sites, after Cloudflare appealed saying it would result in a global ban (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
An analysis of Pornhub’s transparency reports shows the site removed 8,547 pieces of content in 2021, down 98% YoY, after adding an uploader verification tool  —  Pornhub is without a doubt one of the most visited adult entertainment outlets on the Internet.

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
Quentin Tarantino and Miramax settle their copyright infringement lawsuit over Pulp Fiction NFTs and say they may collaborate on more NFTs  —  Quentin Tarantino and Miramax have settled their copyright infringement lawsuit over the “Pulp Fiction” NFT project.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Cloudflare announces Zero Trust SIM, a US-only, device-specific eSIM for iOS and Android that uses VPNs and DNS filtering, and Zero Trust for Mobile Operators  —  Are smartphones ever entirely secure?  It depends on one’s definition of “secure,” particularly when dealing with corporate environments.

Joe Schneider / Bloomberg:
A US federal appeals court upholds the Texas social media content moderation law, lifting an injunction that blocked it and remanding it back to the lower court  —  A federal appeals court upheld the validity of a Texas social-media law that companies like Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc …

Reuters:
A document shows an Italian administrative court scrapped a €200M fine for Apple and Amazon from 2021 over alleged collusion in selling Apple and Beats products  —  An Italian administrative court scrapped a fine imposed by the country’s antitrust authority on U.S. tech giants Apple …

Washington Post:
Cloudflare says it has blocked Kiwi Farms, citing “an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life” after a recent rise in targeted threats  —  — Reversing course under growing public pressure, major tech security company Cloudflare Inc. announced Saturday …