reader comments 161 with 98 posters participating, including story author Share this story France’s competition authority says that Google must go back to the bargaining table to negotiate a rate that the search giant will pay to link to articles on French news sites. So far, Google has flatly refused to pay fees to link ..
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Enlarge / A Frontier Communications van. reader comments 67 with 53 posters participating Share this story Frontier Communications needs a lesson in how to redact documents. Frontier is trying to hide large portions of an audit report from the public, claiming that details about the ISP’s broadband-network problems are trade secrets. But when Frontier made ..
Enlarge / A drive-through COVID-19 testing site operated by Omni Healthcare in Melbourne, Fla. on April 8. reader comments 601 with 204 posters participating Share this story One of the biggest challenges hampering US institutional response to the COVID-19 crisis is testing: when you can’t identify who has the disease, you can’t tell who might ..
reader comments 75 with 48 posters participating Share this story The US Senate has become the latest organization to tell its members not to use Zoom because of concerns about data security on the video conferencing platform that has boomed in popularity during the coronavirus crisis. The Senate sergeant at arms has warned all senators ..
Enlarge / Security and privacy protip: Don’t do your videoconference in the middle of an airport. reader comments 33 with 24 posters participating Share this story Zoom’s meteoric rise to prominence as the go-to teleconference tool of the COVID-19 pandemic has shined a spotlight on every single design flaw, privacy issue, or vulnerability the platform ..
Sethanan Saengsawang / EyeEm / Getty reader comments 10 with 9 posters participating, including story author Share this story The coronavirus crisis has forced the closure of libraries around the world, depriving the public of access to millions of printed books. Books old enough to be in the public domain may be available for free ..
Charlotte Nation / Getty reader comments 73 with 48 posters participating Share this story Coronavirus-related social distancing measures have given a big popularity boost to Zoom, a video conferencing platform that’s known for its ease of use but not necessarily strong security or privacy protections. Internet trolls and other troublemakers have responded with “Zoombombing”: joining ..
pengpeng/Getty Images reader comments 266 with 158 posters participating Share this story Minnesota manufacturing giant 3M warned Friday that a Trump administration order reserving US-made N95 masks for the US market could backfire. Demand for these masks, also known as respirators, has surged in recent weeks because they help protect health care workers from contracting ..
Enlarge / The reports are all public, but the nifty magnifying glass effect is not actually included. reader comments 86 with 65 posters participating Share this story The entire world is scrambling to mitigate the novel coronavirus pandemic. By now, a majority of US states are under some kind of stay-at-home order, with governors nationwide ..
Enlarge / President Donald Trump speaks as Jared Kushner, senior White House adviser, listens during a Coronavirus Task Force news conference at the White House on Thursday, April 2, 2020. Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 270 with 130 posters participating Share this story The Trump administration changed the Strategic National Stockpile website’s description of ..
