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Fox Corporation has officially closed its twenty-two billion dollar acquisition of Roku, pulling the streaming platform out of Nasdaq and into the Murdoch family's media empire. It's a seismic shift in the streaming wars, combining Fox's content muscle with Roku's massive installed base of connected TV households.
Staying in the world of big tech moves, Tesla has confirmed the Cybertruck is headed for retirement. Elon Musk announced late Friday that production will wind down by mid twenty twenty seven, with factory floor space being redirected toward Cybercab manufacturing. The angular stainless steel truck, once billed as a revolution on wheels, will have lasted less than a decade.
And on the privacy front, IPVanish has passed its third independent no-logs audit conducted by Schellman Compliance, confirming the service stores no traffic, metadata, or session data. It's the second consecutive year of annual audits, and it arrives alongside a RAM-only server rollout and a network now spanning one hundred fifty locations worldwide. For users who treat privacy as a baseline rather than a bonus, that kind of consistent third-party verification matters.
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