The state-backed Russian cyber spies supporting the SolarWinds hacking effort started a targeted spear-phishing attack on U.S. and overseas government agencies and think tanks that this week working with an email advertising account of this U.S. Agency for International...
Google appeals a 500 million Euro ($591 Million) fine imposed by French regulators for its handling of negotiations between publishers in dispute over copyright.This dispute is part of a wider battle by European authorities to force Google and other...
A recent data breach exposed the names, Social Security numbers, and other identification information of just over 40,000,000 people who applied to T-Mobile credit, the company announced Wednesday.It appears that the same data was stolen from approximately 7.8 million...
Federal regulators intensified their antitrust attacks on Facebook. A revised complaint was filed Thursday by federal regulators. They claim that Facebook used a laser-focused strategy in order to "buy or burrow" competitors to suppress competition.The Federal Trade Commission made...
Apple has relaxed some of its long-standing restrictions over the past week, which helped to make the App Store a huge moneymaker. Apple has required app developers for years to pay large commissions on both the sale of paid apps...
The European Commission said on Friday it's given the Chinese-owned video program TikTok a month to reply complaints from some European user group within its commercial clinics.The EU's executive arm said it's begun talks involving the social networking platform...
After witnessing a discrimination case almost erupting his college basketball team, he came up with the idea. He then wondered why no one had taken action sooner.Ten years later, the player developed the idea into an important tool to...
It all began with Rihanna's February tweet. This sparked widespread criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s handling of large farmer protests close to the capital. This strained an already difficult relationship between Twitter and the government.Officials issued multiple injunctions...
A religious publication used data from a smartphone to determine the sexual orientation of a Roman Catholic official. This revealed a problem beyond the debate about church doctrine and priestly celibacy.There are few restrictions in the U.S. on what...
A chubby robin sporting a very small metallic backpack having a antenna jumps around a suburban lawn at Takoma Park, then plucks a cicada in the floor to get a bite.Ecologist Emily Williams watches from behind a bush. With...