Enlarge / Rep. Ken Buck (R-Co.) and Microsoft president Brad Smith at a House hearing on regulation and competition in the news media industry on March 12, 2021. reader comments 67 with 52 posters participating Share this story A group of US lawmakers is proposing new legislation that would allow media organizations to set terms ..
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Enlarge / The keyboard on the 2016 Touch Bar MacBook Pro. reader comments 81 with 49 posters participating, including story author Share this story Apple sued a former employee on Thursday, alleging that he leaked trade secrets to a reporter and sought favors from the reporter in exchange. The lawsuit was filed against Simon Lancaster ..
Jackie Niam | Getty Images reader comments 72 with 49 posters participating, including story author Share this story Last week, Arizona’s House of Representatives approved legislation to prohibit platform owners like Apple and Google from locking app makers into their own payment systems. The bill passed only narrowly, and it must be approved by the ..
reader comments 48 with 41 posters participating Share this story The Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities that allow hackers to take over Microsoft Exchange servers are under attack by no fewer than 10 advanced hacking groups, six of which began exploiting them before Microsoft released a patch, researchers reported Wednesday. That raises a vexing question: how did ..
reader comments 241 with 90 posters participating Share this story Twitter is suing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, alleging that a probe Paxton launched into its business is an act of retaliation against the platform’s choice to ban the account of former US President Donald Trump. The suit (PDF) accuses Paxton of using his office ..
reader comments 31 with 27 posters participating Share this story Microsoft has patched a critical zero-day vulnerability that North Korean hackers were using to target security researchers with malware. The in-the-wild attacks came to light in January in posts from Google and Microsoft. Hackers backed by the North Korean government, both posts said, spent weeks ..
Enlarge / The logo of Deutsche Telekom, owner of T-Mobile, seen at Mobile World Congress in February 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 93 with 78 posters participating Share this story T-Mobile next month will start a new program that gives customers’ web-browsing and device-usage data to advertisers unless customers opt ..
Enlarge / Sunset, over the Google empire. reader comments 152 with 86 posters participating, including story author Share this story A new report alleges that Google employees who report experiencing gender or racial harassment or discrimination routinely are told to take “medical leave” and seek mental health treatment—only to be shoved aside when they try ..
reader comments 167 with 96 posters participating Share this story Unemployment in the US remains stubbornly high at 6.3 percent. Job growth has stalled, with 9.6 million fewer jobs in January than the same month a year earlier. But gig companies say they’re having trouble finding people to drive, pick up, and deliver for them. ..
Enlarge / John McAfee on his yacht off the coast of Cuba in 2019. Adalberto ROQUE / AFP / Getty reader comments 120 with 78 posters participating Share this story Federal prosecutors have indicted noted cybersecurity eccentric John McAfee for securities and wire fraud for misleading investors at the peak of the last cryptocurrency boom. ..
