reader comments 33 with 27 posters participating Share this story The last time Western sanctions hit Russia after it annexed Crimea, President Vladimir Putin turned to Huawei to rebuild and upgrade the territory’s communication infrastructure. Now, the controversial Chinese technology company is positioned to aid the Putin regime on a much larger scale, despite the ..
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Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto reader comments 136 with 95 posters participating Share this story If you can’t beat ’em, smear ’em. That appears to be Facebook’s approach when it comes to countering the threat from TikTok, according to a new report in The Washington Post. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has hired Targeted Victory, a large Republican consulting ..
Enlarge / A Deepmind Health webpage sits displayed on the screen of an Apple Inc. iPhone in this arranged photograph in London, U.K. on Monday, Nov. 26, 2018. Three years ago, artificial intelligence company DeepMind Technologies Ltd. embarked on a landmark effort to transform health care in the U.K. Now plans by owner Alphabet Inc. to wrap ..
reader comments 88 with 67 posters participating, including story author Share this story Bungie slammed YouTube’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) process in a lawsuit against 10 John Doe defendants accused of sending fraudulent takedown notices against Destiny 2 videos. “Doe Defendants were able to do this because of a hole in YouTube’s DMCA-process security, ..
Enlarge / Critical infrastructure sites such as this oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, rely on safety systems. reader comments 23 with 18 posters participating Share this story For years, the hackers behind the malware known as Triton or Trisis have stood out as a uniquely dangerous threat to critical infrastructure: a group of digital ..
Getty Images | SimpleImages reader comments 199 with 109 posters participating Share this story European regulators have agreed on a Digital Markets Act that would impose a variety of new requirements on Big Tech companies classified as “gatekeepers.” Final votes on the legislation are still pending. “The text provisionally agreed by Parliament and Council negotiators ..
Enlarge / The sun sets beyond an oil pumping unit, also known as a pumping jack, at a drilling site operated by Tatneft OAO near Almetyevsk, Russia. Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg reader comments 232 with 115 posters participating Share this story Russia’s economy is in shambles, and the value of the ruble has plummeted as the country ..
reader comments 123 with 84 posters participating Share this story Facebook, which turned 18 last month, has developed something of a reputation for being the social network for older Americans. That reputation is not unearned—according to a Pew Research Center survey, nearly 72 million Americans over the age of 50 use Facebook. And while the platform ..
Enlarge / Koch Industries Inc. headquarters in Wichita, Kansas. Larry W. Smith/Bloomberg reader comments 81 with 56 posters participating Share this story Koch Industries—the conglomerate owned by Charles Koch and the heirs of David Koch, men who donated heavily to groups that helped politicize the science of climate change—is reportedly investing hundreds of millions of ..
Enlarge / Google CEO Sundar Pichai uses his phone during the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 12, 2018, in Sun Valley, Idaho. reader comments 131 with 92 posters participating Share this story The US Department of Justice and 14 state attorneys general yesterday asked a federal judge to sanction Google for misusing ..
