Enlarge / Christopher Krebs, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. reader comments 422 with 172 posters participating Share this story Update: After publication, the Elections Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council and the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees issued a joint statement in which they called the 2020 presidential election ..
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Enlarge / TikTok’s US fate is up in the air, but at least you can still download and patch it. reader comments 10 with 10 posters participating Share this story The Department of Commerce has put a stay on enforcing an executive order that would have forced popular short-form video app TikTok to suspend all ..
reader comments 263 with 130 posters participating, including story author Share this story Hundreds of millions of Americans—and our counterparts worldwide—watched the US election and its high-drama aftermath unfold on social media over the past week or so. Most of us were using Facebook or Twitter, but in the immediate wake of Election Day, a ..
Enlarge / Photo illustration of the Twitch logo on a smartphone. reader comments 5 with 5 posters participating Share this story Twitch today apologized to users for how it handled a copyright crackdown last month, but the site still told streamers that they will have to stop using copyrighted recordings to avoid further takedown notices. Twitch—the ..
reader comments 73 with 44 posters participating, including story author Share this story The renewed war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagoro-Karabakh region has captured the attention of military strategists worldwide, including the United States, because of the degree to which drones have changed the battlefield. While the wide-open, rugged terrain of the region ..
Enlarge / TikTok headquarters in Culver City, California. AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images reader comments 47 with 37 posters participating Share this story ByteDance on Tuesday appealed to a federal appellate court seeking to overturn a sweeping Trump administration order requiring the company to divest itself of its popular TikTok platform—at least in the United States. The order is ..
Enlarge / From left to right, Federal Communication Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and commissioners Michael O’Rielly, Brendan Carr, Jessica Rosenworcel, and Geoffrey Starks testify before the House Communications and Technology Subcommittee on December 05, 2019 in Washington, DC. Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla reader comments 102 with 70 posters participating Share this story Congressional Democrats ..
Enlarge / A sign outside an Amazon warehouse in Germany. reader comments 61 with 42 posters participating, including story author Share this story Europe’s top competition regulator filed charges today against Amazon, alleging that the company has abused its size, position, and access to data to gain an unfair advantage over the competition. The European ..
Enlarge / Two of San Diego’s camera-equipped smart streetlights at twilight in August, 2020. reader comments 70 with 57 posters participating Share this story Over the past few years, streetlights in the city of San Diego have become “smart,” equipped with a slate of cameras and sensors that report back data on the city and ..
Getty Images | numbeos reader comments 274 with 166 posters participating, including story author Share this story San Francisco voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure to impose an extra tax on any big company that pays its highest-paid employee over 100 times more than its median worker. The ballot question was approved Tuesday by 65 ..
