Enlarge / Former Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes goes through security after arriving for court at the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building on September 17, 2021, in San Jose, California. reader comments 51 with 33 posters participating Share this story Theranos sent a major investor financial projections that were wildly optimistic—perhaps even deceptive—the jury ..
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Enlarge / FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Communications and Technology Subcommittee on December 05, 2019, in Washington, DC. Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla reader comments 23 with 19 posters participating Share this story President Biden finally made his picks for the Federal Communications Commission today, ending a baffling ..
Enlarge / Cybersecurity professor Shaji Khan of University of Missouri–St. Louis. reader comments 276 with 196 posters participating Share this story The cybersecurity professor who helped uncover the Missouri government’s failure to protect teachers’ Social Security numbers has demanded that the state cease its investigation into him and stop making “baseless accusations” that he committed ..
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 118 with 83 posters participating Share this story Facebook is battling its gravest crisis since the Cambridge Analytica scandal after a whistleblower accusing the company of placing “profit over safety” shed light on its inner workings through thousands of pages of leaked memos. The documents were disclosed to ..
Enlarge / Smoke billows from one of many chemical plants near Baton Rouge, La. ‘Cancer Alley’ is one of the most polluted areas of the US and lies along the once pristine Mississippi River that stretches some 80 miles from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, where a dense concentration of oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and ..
Aurich Lawson reader comments 100 with 74 posters participating Share this story Four days ago, the REvil ransomware gang’s leak site, known as the “Happy Blog,” went offline. Cybersecurity experts wondered aloud what might have caused the infamous group to go dark once more. One theory was that it was an inside job pulled by ..
reader comments 158 with 104 posters participating Share this story First it was toilet paper. Then it was processors and other silicon. Now it’s cardboard. (And there’s a whole lot of other stuff in between.) The latest kink in the planet’s ever-gnarled supply chain is one that is sending retailers, shippers, and consumers all scrambling. ..
Enlarge / People in Chile with Worldcoin’s “Orb” iris scanner. reader comments 184 with 103 posters participating, including story author Share this story More than 100,000 people have had their eyes scanned in return for a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin, as a project to distribute digital money more widely around the world accelerates. Worldcoin has distributed ..
reader comments 61 with 36 posters participating Share this story Covid-19 Coverage View more stories On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control’s expert advisory committee on vaccines met to vote on new guidelines for the use of boosters to sustain the immunity provided by the COVID-19 vaccines in use in the US. The day prior, ..
Enlarge / Tina Peters. reader comments 125 with 66 posters participating Share this story A Colorado judge on Wednesday barred Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters from supervising elections due to the leak of voting-system BIOS passwords to QAnon conspiracy theorist Ron Watkins. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold and Mesa County registered elector Heidi Jeanne ..
