reader comments 23 with 21 posters participating Share this story A thriving online bazaar selling stolen payment card data has been hacked in a heist that leaked the records for more than 26 million cards, KrebsOnSecurity reported on Tuesday. The 26 million figure isn’t significant only to the legitimate consumers and businesses who own the ..
Tag : Policy
Enlarge / Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating Share this story Uber is laying off another 350 workers, the company announced on Monday. Uber Eats and Uber’s self-driving car team are among the divisions hit by job losses. TechCrunch obtained a copy of an email CEO Dara Khosrowshahi sent to ..
Enlarge / An AT&T store in Chicago. reader comments 60 with 49 posters participating Share this story AT&T charged customers in Portland, Oregon for a corporate tax that AT&T doesn’t actually have to pay. AT&T has agreed to provide refunds to customers who were wrongly charged the tax over the past few months, but it’s ..
Enlarge / An artist’s rendering of Sikorsky’s proposed Raider X attack-scout helicopter. reader comments 32 with 18 posters participating, including story author Share this story As the Association of the US Army (AUSA) kicks off its annual Washington, DC meeting—a combination of Army conference and land-warfare trade show—Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky unit has unveiled the company’s ..
Getty / Aurich Lawson reader comments 44 with 38 posters participating Share this story Facebook’s embattled Libra project suffered a major blow on Friday as four payment processors—Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, and Mercado Pago—withdrew from participation in the Libra Association, the Geneva-based group Facebook created to develop the virtual currency. eBay also announced its resignation Friday. ..
reader comments 12 with 10 posters participating Share this story Mobile phones of two prominent human rights activists were repeatedly targeted with Pegasus, the highly advanced spyware made by Israel-based NSO, researchers from Amnesty International reported this week. The Moroccan human rights defenders received SMS text messages containing links to malicious sites. If clicked, the ..
Getty Images | Aurich reader comments 205 with 134 posters participating Share this story Telecom companies like AT&T love creating new fees to tack on customer bills, and they really love raising those fees after customers sign contracts that are supposed to lock in a consistent price. It’s a win-win for the company, but not ..
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica reader comments 59 with 33 posters participating, including story author Share this story RESTON, VIRGINIA—A Boston-based startup called Optimus Ride has launched a new self-driving vehicle service in the Washington, DC suburb of Reston, Virginia. On Monday, I traveled to the site, a 45-minute drive from my home in ..
reader comments 221 with 80 posters participating, including story author Share this story Federal prosecutors have charged three men and a woman with sex trafficking charges for operating the popular porn site GirlsDoPorn. At least 22 women featured on the site have sued the site’s owners, charging that the pornographers used lies and coercion to ..
Getty Images | SOPA Images reader comments 4 with 4 posters participating Share this story Adobe has reversed itself on a curious decision that would have denied refunds to customers in Venezuela whose accounts are being canceled through no fault of their own. Adobe announced Monday that it is deactivating all user accounts in Venezuela ..
