reader comments 121 with 101 posters participating Share this story Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million criminal fine after admitting its employees repeatedly used stolen passwords and other means to hack a rival ticket sales company. The fine, which is part of a deferred prosecution agreement Ticketmaster entered with federal prosecutors, resolves criminal ..
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Enlarge / Supporters of Julian Assange protest in front of the US Embassy in Rome, Italy on September 7, 2020. Getty Images | Stefano Montesi – Corbis reader comments 139 with 89 posters participating Share this story A British judge today rejected the US’ request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying that Assange would ..
Enlarge / Exterior view of a Googleplex building, the corporate headquarters of Google and parent company Alphabet, May 2018. reader comments 151 with 90 posters participating, including story author Share this story More than 225 workers at Google have formally launched a company-wide union membership drive, following an increasing drive toward organization inside the company ..
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin. reader comments 142 with 77 posters participating, including story author Share this story Ether, the native currency of the Ethereum network and the second most valuable cryptocurrency, has soared above $1,000 for the first time since 2018. The rise is part of a broad cryptocurrency boom inspired by the continued rise ..
Ted Horowitz | Getty Images reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating Share this story One of the astonishing aspects of the human response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been how quickly scientists pivoted to studying every facet of the virus in order to mitigate the loss of life and plan for a return to ..
Enlarge / Just some of the iDevice types that Corellium didn’t break one law—but may still have broken another—by emulating. reader comments 1 with 1 posters participating Share this story Security firm Corellium, which develops software that researchers can use to analyze Apple products, has been handed a partial victory in Apple’s lawsuit against it, ..
Enlarge / Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), has thrown a wrench into the expected Congressional over-ride of President Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act. Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images reader comments 223 with 112 posters participating Share this story Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has thrown a wrench into Congressional approval ..
Enlarge / Depending where you live and work, you may need at least this many devices to sort your tax situation out this spring. reader comments 94 with 70 posters participating, including story author Share this story The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a trend that was already well underway: employers letting their workers perform their jobs ..
Hinterhaus Productions | Getty Images reader comments 98 with 60 posters participating Share this story Despite over 82 million cases and over 1.75 million deaths due to COVID-19, many people are bound and determined to carry on with normal life. For some, that includes attending Saturday night ragers, just like they did in the Before ..
Enlarge / Our $24 drone. You can see the missing propeller on the right. Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica reader comments 261 with 184 posters participating, including story author Share this story Like thousands of other parents, I decided to get my kids a cheap drone for Christmas. I spent $24 for a plastic ..
