Enlarge / A monitor displaying a Verizon logo and share prices at the New York Stock Exchange on September 4, 2018. Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 57 with 42 posters participating, including story author Share this story Verizon today announced it has struck a deal to buy TracFone in a further consolidation of the ..
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Enlarge / Components manufactured by ARM Holdings Plc sit inside a demonstration ARMmbed parking meter on display on the second day of Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. A theme this year at the industry’s annual get-together, which runs through March 2, is the Internet of Things. Photographer: Pau ..
Enlarge / Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), listens during a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus. Redfield may be finding himself trapped between scientists and political appointees. reader comments 210 with 122 posters participating Share this story Covid-19 Coverage View more stories Political appointees in the Department of ..
Enlarge / BOSTON—A man wearing a QAnon vest held a flag during a No Mandatory Flu Shot Massachusetts rally held outside of the State House in Boston on Aug. 30, 2020, to demonstrate against Gov. Charlie Baker’s order for mandatory influenza vaccinations for all students under the age of 30, an effort to lower the ..
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images reader comments 139 with 52 posters participating, including story author Share this story For a feature last week, I talked to a number of election experts and computer security researchers who argued that secure Internet voting isn’t feasible today and probably won’t be for many years to come. A common response to this ..
reader comments 71 with 60 posters participating Share this story They’re back—attacks that use booby-trapped Web ads to install malware on the computers of unsuspecting visitors. So-called malvertising works by paying advertising networks to display banner ads on legitimate websites. Malicious code snuck into the ads then surreptitiously exploits vulnerabilities in browsers or browser plugins. ..
Aurich Lawson reader comments 52 with 39 posters participating Share this story With just over 50 days to go before the 2020 US presidential election, everything is—predictably—hitting the fan. Foreign interference is of course an ever present threat, with known actors both attempting to amplify social discord as well as literally hack campaigns. But good ..
Enlarge / Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former CEO of Theranos, arrives for motion hearing on Monday, November 4, 2019, at the U.S. District Court House in San Jose, California. reader comments 163 with 114 posters participating Share this story Elizabeth Holmes—the disgraced founder and ex-CEO of the now-defunct blood-testing startup, Theranos—may use a mental condition ..
Enlarge / Amazon’s orange-yellow logo wall. David Ryder/Getty Images reader comments 143 with 99 posters participating Share this story New reports released this week serve as a cautionary tale for consumers who shop at Amazon, by far the largest online retailer in the US. While complaints about Amazon’s third-party vendor marketplace are by now commonplace, ..
Enlarge / Vladimir Putin. reader comments 1 with 1 posters participating Share this story Fancy Bear—the Russian state hacking group that brought you the smash-and-leak attacks on the Democratic National Committee and World Anti-Doping Agency, the NotPetya worm that inflicted billions of dollars of damage worldwide, and the VPN Filter compromise of 500,000 routers—is targeting ..
