reader comments 116 with 83 posters participating Share this story After years of building political pressure for antitrust scrutiny of major tech companies, this month Congress and the US government delivered. The House Antitrust Subcommittee released a report accusing Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook of monopolistic behavior. The Department of Justice filed a complaint against ..
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Enlarge / Visitors visit the booth of Douyin (TikTok) at the 2019 smart expo in Hangzhou, China, Oct. 18, 2019. reader comments 134 with 58 posters participating Share this story A federal judge in Pennsylvania has blocked a Trump administration order that would have banned TikTok from operating inside the United States as of November ..
Getty Images reader comments 98 with 66 posters participating Share this story Russian hackers are targeting hundreds of US hospitals and healthcare providers just as the coronavirus is making a comeback and the US presidential election is in its final stretch, officials from three government agencies and the private sector are warning. The hackers typically ..
Enlarge / Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) at a Senate hearing on The State of Broadband Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic, on Wednesday, May 13, 2020. reader comments 123 with 76 posters participating Share this story The decimation of local media is by now a sad, familiar tale experienced by tens of millions of Americans all over ..
Enlarge / FCC Republican members (L-R) Brendan Carr, Michael O’Rielly, and Chairman Ajit Pai participate in a discussion during the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 23, 2018, in Maryland. reader comments 80 with 55 posters participating Share this story The Republican-majority Federal Communications Commission took another vote against net neutrality rules today in its ..
reader comments 92 with 64 posters participating Share this story Link previews are a ubiquitous feature found in just about every chat and messaging app, and with good reason. They make online conversations easier by providing images and text associated with the file that’s being linked. Unfortunately, they can also leak our sensitive data, consume ..
reader comments 162 with 109 posters participating Share this story A popular tool used for archiving YouTube videos, YouTube-dl, is gone from GitHub after the Recording Industry Association of America filed a claim arguing that the code is inherently illegal under copyright law. GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft, removed 18 projects on Friday that ..
reader comments 55 with 39 posters participating Share this story The all-wheel-drive Lamborghini Huracán Evo was determined to be too drama-free, so now Lamborghini has made a $214,366 rear-wheel-drive version. Which is a lot, but it’s a massive $50,000 cheaper than the all-wheel-drive version we tested in 2019. It also comes as a Spyder, which ..
Enlarge / Oil and gas industry and sunrise at a refinery in Fujian Getty Images reader comments 72 with 43 posters participating Share this story Russian state nationals accused of wielding life-threatening malware specifically designed to tamper with critical safety mechanisms at a petrochemical plant are now under sanction by the US Treasury Department. The ..
Enlarge / T-Mobile advertisement in New York City’s Times Square on October 15, 2020. Getty Images | SOPA Images reader comments 40 with 36 posters participating Share this story The Federal Communications Commission has finished investigating T-Mobile for a network outage that Chairman Ajit Pai called “unacceptable.” But instead of punishing the mobile carrier, the ..
