reader comments 111 with 64 posters participating Share this story An Ars reader this week drew our attention to a news story out of Southern California. The case involved a man wanted on suspicion of attempted murder and other alleged crimes. He fled from one county to another, but according to the article, sheriff’s deputies ..
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reader comments 70 with 47 posters participating, including story author Share this story In a move that may signal another high-stakes clash over encryption, the FBI is asking Apple for help decrypting two iPhones believed to have belonged to Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, the man suspected of carrying out a shooting attack that killed three people ..
reader comments 23 with 20 posters participating Share this story Iran has over the past decade built up its own organic hacking and cyberwarfare capabilities. But the groups associated with orchestrating Iran’s various cyberwarfare and cyber-espionage activities have also relied significantly on mining the work of others—and in at least one case, they have tried ..
Enlarge / A young child watches a laptop computer. reader comments 63 with 46 posters participating Share this story Congratulations, you’re a child again! Or at least you will be one as far as YouTube is concerned any time you happen to see a video designated as being “for kids.” YouTube announced that change in ..
reader comments 79 with 55 posters participating Share this story AT&T, Frontier, Windstream, and their industry lobby group are fighting against higher Internet speeds in a US subsidy program for rural areas without good broadband access. The Federal Communications Commission’s plan for the next version of its rural-broadband fund sets 25Mbps download and 3Mbps upload ..
Enlarge / Expect to see an “e” tacked onto this logo somewhere in the near future, as an additional 1200MHz of spectrum becomes available to Wi-Fi 6 in the USA. reader comments 93 with 41 posters participating, including story author Share this story On Friday, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced a new branding for the expansion ..
reader comments 44 with 30 posters participating Share this story Researchers have found more malicious Google Play apps, one of which exploits a serious Android rooting vulnerability so the app can take screenshots and collect other types of sensitive user information. Camero exploits CVE-2019-2215, a potent vulnerability discovered in October by Google’s Project Zero vulnerability ..
Anca Gabriela Rafan / EyeEm / Getty reader comments 84 with 55 posters participating, including story author Share this story The operators of the popular GirlsDoPorn website owe nearly $13 million to 22 young women who were tricked and coerced into shooting pornographic videos, a California judge ruled on Thursday. It took Judge Kevin Enright ..
Enlarge / An image from Apple’s lawsuit shows a real iPhone X and Corellium’s service running a virtual iPhone X. reader comments 48 with 33 posters participating Share this story Apple has expanded a lawsuit against an iOS virtualization company, claiming that its actions facilitate jailbreaking and violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) prohibition ..
Enlarge / An Oracle building in the San Francisco Bay Area. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images reader comments 177 with 63 posters participating Share this story Charles Duan is the Director of Technology and Innovation Policy at the R Street Institute, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, DC . He has authored several amicus curiae briefs ..
