Enlarge / ATM in the Indian city of Jaipur. reader comments 10 with 9 posters participating Share this story Hackers widely believed to work for North Korea’s hermit government have developed a new strain of malware that steals data used at automatic teller machines in India, researchers from Kaspersky Lab said on Monday. One piece ..
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Enlarge / Mark Zuckerberg testifying before Congress in April, 2018. reader comments 66 with 43 posters participating Share this story Facebook is only 15 years old, yet in that time it has become the world’s dominant social media platform, boasting more than 2.4 billion users. It has also become the world’s second-largest digital advertising platform, ..
Enlarge / A Yahoo logo on a smartphone. Getty Images | SOPA Images reader comments 60 with 44 posters participating Share this story People who had Yahoo accounts between 2012 and 2016 can now apply for a cash payment of $100, but the final amount you receive could be more or less than $100 depending ..
reader comments 54 with 45 posters participating Share this story Facebook—the social media company that has been under intense public criticism for not adequately safeguarding the personal information of its 2 billion users—has suspended tens of thousands of apps for a variety of violations, including improperly sharing private data. In a post published on Friday, ..
Enlarge / The Amazon logo at the entrance of a logistics center in France, July 2019. reader comments 31 with 31 posters participating Share this story It’s no secret that retailers who compete with Amazon for consumer dollars want regulators to take a closer look at the way their titanic, globe-spanning rival works. They’ve openly ..
Getty Images | SOPA Images reader comments 34 with 27 posters participating Share this story AT&T is trying to force customers into arbitration in order to avoid a class-action complaint over the telecom’s former practice of selling users’ real-time location data. In a motion to compel arbitration filed last week, AT&T said that plaintiffs agreed ..
Enlarge / A Comcast sign at the Comcast offices in Philadelphia. reader comments 47 with 40 posters participating Share this story Comcast offered customers in Utah a “lifetime” price guarantee in order to compete against Google Fiber, then later violated the lifetime promise by raising those customers’ prices, according to a lawsuit pending in a ..
Enlarge / Elon Musk in 2015. reader comments 352 with 173 posters participating Share this story Elon Musk spent more than $50,000 digging into the personal life of British expat and Thai caver Vern Unsworth in summer 2018 in an effort to substantiate the claim that he was a “pedo guy.” Musk revealed the spending ..
reader comments 302 with 149 posters participating Share this story The New York Times reports that the Trump administration will use a meeting at the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday to announce the revocation of California’s ability to set its own air pollution standards. The state’s authority was granted by a waiver that allows it ..
reader comments 13 with 12 posters participating Share this story SITREP: The RKV has been cancelled, meaning multi-target ballistic missile interceptors are even further off. With North Korea throwing missiles around again and Iran continuing to depart from the nuclear framework after President Donald Trump exited the deal and re-imposed sanctions, there is as much ..
