Enlarge / Pretty Good Phone Privacy wants to minimize how much your wireless provider knows about your location. Noam Galai | Getty Images reader comments 56 with 43 posters participating Share this story Location data sharing from wireless carriers has been a major privacy issue in recent years. Marketers, salespeople, and even bounty hunters were ..
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Enlarge / A healthcare worker receives a Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at Jackson Memorial Hospital on December 15, 2020 in Miami, Florida. Getty Images | Joe Raedle reader comments 227 with 113 posters participating Share this story Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett yesterday rejected a request to block Indiana University’s requirement that students be vaccinated ..
Enlarge / Apple executive Craig Federighi speaks during the 2018 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, California. Getty Images | Justin Sullivan reader comments 365 with 196 posters participating Share this story Apple’s decision to have iPhones and other Apple devices scan photos for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has sparked criticism from ..
Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images reader comments 75 with 55 posters participating Share this story The hacker who breached the Poly Network crypto platform says the theft was just “for fun :)” and that the hacker is now returning the stolen coins. The hacker also claimed that the tokens had been transferred to the hacker’s ..
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 224 with 123 posters participating Share this story Apple and Google seem to be worried about legislation that would force iOS and Android to be more open to third-party app stores and sideloaded apps. US Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) introduced their Open ..
Enlarge / An aerial view of the NSA. reader comments 55 with 44 posters participating Share this story Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been named the winner of a $10 billion cloud computing contract, called “WildandStormy,” for the National Security Agency. But Microsoft, no doubt still salty about Amazon’s successful challenge of Redmond’s $10 billion ..
Enlarge / Sensitive BIOS passwords leaked by QAnon figure Ron Watkins have been linked to a Colorado County office run by a clerk who promotes “Stop the Steal” messaging. reader comments 142 with 75 posters participating, including story author Share this story Last week, Ron Watkins—conspiracy theorist, QAnon enthusiast, and former 8chan site admin—released photocopies ..
reader comments 36 with 33 posters participating Share this story A decentralized financial network has claimed hackers absconded with about $600 million worth of cryptocurrencies in one of the largest heists to target the growing digital asset industry. Poly Network, which links some of the world’s most widely used digital ledgers, said on Tuesday that ..
Getty Images (Tom Williams / Drew Angerer) reader comments 216 with 112 posters participating Share this story Two lawmakers have received temporary account suspensions from YouTube and Twitter over their repeated posting of COVID-19 disinformation, yet videos from both espousing similar disinformation remain on Facebook. On Tuesday, YouTube removed a video posted by Sen. Rand ..
Getty Images | Jorge Villalba reader comments 47 with 44 posters participating Share this story Amazon today announced a new policy in which it will pay customers up to nearly $1,000 when a third-party product causes property damage or personal injury. Payments of any amount less than $1,000 will be made at no cost to ..
