reader comments 20 with 20 posters participating Share this story Facebook said it has disrupted a hacking operation that used the social media platform to spread iOS and Android malware that spied on Uyghur people from the Xinjiang region of China. Malware for both mobile OSes had advanced capabilities that could steal just about anything ..
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Enlarge / Shadowy Slack usage. reader comments 108 with 77 posters participating, including story author Share this story Ubiquitous work-chat platform Slack this morning rolled out a new feature, Connect DM, that allows users to send direct messages to people they don’t work with. Hours later, the company is already saying “our bad” and promising ..
Enlarge / Richard Stallman speaks about free software in Athens, Greece at the Commons Fest in 2015. reader comments 415 with 142 posters participating Share this story Richard Stallman’s return to the Free Software Foundation’s board of directors has drawn condemnation from many people in the free software community. An open letter signed by hundreds ..
Enlarge / FCC member Jessica Rosenworcel speaks during a Senate Commerce Committee oversight hearing on June 24, 2020, in Washington, DC. reader comments 49 with 45 posters participating Share this story The Federal Communications Commission wants to hear from Internet users about their experiences trying to find good broadband service. The FCC announced yesterday that ..
reader comments 108 with 62 posters participating Share this story A judge has granted class-action status to a suit against Apple over its controversial, allegedly defective MacBook “butterfly” keyboard design, agreeing that owners of any affected model in seven states qualify for the class. Beginning in 2018, several MacBook owners in seven states filed suits ..
Enlarge / Richard Stallman, then-president of the Free Software Foundation, speaking in September 2015 in Turin, Italy, about GNU and the free software movement. Getty Images | Pacific Press reader comments 494 with 151 posters participating Share this story Richard Stallman has returned to the Free Software Foundation’s board of directors 18 months after his ..
Enlarge / The federal courthouse in Marshall, Texas. Photo by Mario Villafuerte/Bloomberg via Getty Images reader comments 103 with 66 posters participating, including story author Share this story A jury in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas has ordered Apple to pay $308.5 million to a small, privately held company for infringing a patent related ..
reader comments 223 with 108 posters participating Share this story New York City councilmember Ben Kallos says he “watched in horror” last month when city police responded to a hostage situation in the Bronx using Boston Dynamics‘ Digidog, a remotely operated robotic dog equipped with surveillance cameras. Pictures of the Digidog went viral on Twitter, ..
reader comments 127 with 65 posters participating Share this story Beginning in April, new iPhones and other iOS devices sold in Russia will include an extra setup step. Alongside questions about language preference and whether to enable Siri, users will see a screen that prompts them to install a list of apps from Russian developers. ..
Enlarge / Keep your Garamond out of your briefs! Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 152 with 119 posters participating, including story author Share this story Let me bury the lede for a moment to tell you a story. Long ago, in a magical realm called Academe, professors grew wise to the old student ..
