Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, June 21st.

2024, I'm Brian McCullough. Today, the government has banned Kaspersky

antivirus sales in the US. People are losing their minds over

Claude 3.5 sonnet from Anthropic. Soon all devices compare to your iPhone

as easily as Airpods do and of course the weekend long read suggestions. Here's what you

miss today in the world of tech. The U.S. Commerce Department has banned Kaspersky antivirus sales in the United States

saying Kaspersky threatens national security and users privacy because it is based in Russia, quoting Tech Crunch.

Russia has shown it has the capacity and even more than that,

the intent to exploit Russian companies like Kaspersky to collect and weaponize the personal information of Americans and that's

why we are compelled to take the action that we're taking today.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said in a call with reporters.

Kaspersky will be banned from selling its software to American consumers and businesses

starting on July 20th, but the company will be able to provide software and security updates to existing customers until September

29th.

After that, Kaspersky will no longer be permitted to push software updates to U.S. customers,

according to Raimondo.

That means your software and services will degrade. That's why I strongly

recommend that you immediately find an alternative to Kaspersky, Raimando said.

Raymondo said that U.S. consumers who already use Kaspersky's antivirus are not violating the law.

U.S. individuals and businesses that continue to use or have existing Kaspersky products

and services are not in violation of the law, you have done nothing wrong,

and you are not subject to any criminal or civil penalties, said Raimondo.

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