Getty Images | Thomas Jackson reader comments 40 with 36 posters participating Share this story Major browser makers are blocking the use of a root certificate that Kazakhstan’s government has used to intercept Internet traffic. Mozilla and Google issued a joint announcement today saying that “the companies deployed technical solutions within Firefox and Chrome to ..
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Enlarge / Your local police might like to interest you in this product. reader comments 168 with 93 posters participating Share this story Amazon’s Ring line of consumer home surveillance products enjoys an extensive partnership with local police departments all over the country. Cops receive free product, extensive coaching, and pre-approved marketing lines, and Amazon ..
reader comments 92 with 74 posters participating Share this story Following years of accusations that it stifles right-wing speech, Facebook has published an audit failing to show any particular anti-conservative bias, and some conservatives are furious. Law firm Covington & Burling LLP conducted the audit under the auspices of former Sen. John Kyl, a Republican ..
reader comments 60 with 46 posters participating, including story author Share this story CenturyLink’s nationwide, 37-hour outage in December 2018 disrupted 911 service for millions of Americans and prevented completion of at least 886 calls to 911, a new Federal Communications Commission report said. Back in December, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai called the outage on ..
Getty Images | Leon Neal reader comments 78 with 64 posters participating Share this story Amazon’s biggest asset can also be a headache for its customers. The so-called “everything store” really does sell almost any item consumers might want, but it’s often cumbersome and time-consuming to sort through them all. To avoid “choice overload,” the ..
Enlarge / The Uber ride-sharing app is seen on a mobile phone on February 12, 2018. reader comments 84 with 55 posters participating Share this story Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who took the helm of the controversial company back in 2017, is known for being pretty unflappable. He was even upbeat during the company’s second ..
Enlarge / An image from Apple’s lawsuit shows a real iPhone X and Corellium’s service running a virtual iPhone X. reader comments 60 with 47 posters participating Share this story Apple yesterday sued Corellium, a company that sells access to virtual machines that run copies of the operating system used in iPhones and iPads. Corellium ..
Enlarge / An election official holds an electronic voting machine memory card following the Georgia primary runoff elections at a polling location in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Tuesday, July 24, 2018. Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images reader comments 181 with 102 posters participating, including story author Share this story Election security advocates scored a major ..
Enlarge / Here they come, all together in a streaming bundle. Disney / Sam Machkovech reader comments 158 with 115 posters participating Share this story Ars Guide to Online Security View more stories Disney and Charter Communications are teaming up to fight account sharing in an attempt to prevent multiple people from using a single ..
Enlarge / Paige Thompson, 33, a former Seattle technology company software engineer, was arrested after she boasted about a massive data theft from Capital One on GitHub. She is now accused of 30 other data thefts. reader comments 59 with 38 posters participating Share this story In a petition filed on August 13 in federal ..
