Enlarge / Christopher Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images reader comments 332 with 185 posters participating Share this story President Donald Trump has fired Chris Krebs, the head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the president announced Tuesday on Twitter. Krebs’ firing has been ..
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Enlarge / A sign featuring the YouTube logo, outside the YouTube Space studios in London on June 4, 2019. reader comments 109 with 74 posters participating Share this story GitHub has reversed its decision to boot YouTube-dl, a popular tool for archiving YouTube videos, from its platform. The company restored repositories this week after “additional ..
Enlarge / Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer about to speak at an event in Southfield, Michigan, on October 16, 2020. reader comments 324 with 150 posters participating Share this story One of the Trump administration’s top coronavirus advisers called for Michigan residents to “rise up” against their state government to resist temporary coronavirus mitigation measures—barely one ..
Enlarge / These Trump allies are part of a group hunting for voter fraud. From left to right, Thomas Baptiste, Matthew Braynard, Camilo Sandoval, and Witold Chrabaszcz on November 14, 2020 in Vienna, Virginia. Getty Images | The Washington Post reader comments 257 with 113 posters participating Share this story The US government’s chief information ..
Enlarge / Around 44 percent of COVID-19 apps on iOS ask for access to the phone’s camera. 32 percent asked for access to photos. reader comments 74 with 49 posters participating Share this story When the notion of enlisting smartphones to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic first surfaced last spring, it sparked a months-long debate: ..
Getty Images reader comments 1 with 1 posters participating Share this story Hackers sponsored by the Russian and North Korean governments have been targeting companies directly involved in researching vaccines and treatments for COVID-19, and in some cases, the attacks have succeeded, Microsoft said on Friday. In all, there are seven prominent companies that have ..
Enlarge / President Donald Trump listens as Moncef Slaoui, the former head of GlaxoSmithKlines vaccines division, speaks about coronavirus vaccine development in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 15, 2020 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images reader comments 66 with 45 posters participating Share this story The head of Donald ..
Data cap cash. reader comments 101 with 81 posters participating Share this story The number of broadband “power users”—people who use 1TB or more per month—has doubled over the past year, ensuring that ISPs will be able to make more money from data caps. In Q3 2020, 8.8 percent of broadband subscribers used at least ..
reader comments 192 with 113 posters participating Share this story Elon Musk has tested positive for the coronavirus, he announced on Twitter. He also tested negative. “Was tested for covid four times today,” Musk wrote on Thursday evening. “Two tests came back negative, two came back positive.” Musk believes that “something extremely bogus is going ..
Enlarge / EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton talks to media during a press conference in June. Thierry Monasse | Getty Images reader comments 103 with 89 posters participating Share this story The chief executive of Google’s parent company Alphabet has apologized to Thierry Breton after an internal document laid out a plan to ..
