Microsoft detected most state-sponsored hacking in Russia over the past year with a 58% share. This mostly targeted government agencies and think tank in the United States. The UK, Ukraine and European NATO members were next, according to the...
Officials in New Zealand confirmed that Larry Page, Google's co-founder, has been granted residency. This raises questions about whether wealthy individuals can actually buy access to the South Pacific country.Immigration New Zealand stated that Page applied for residency under...
Amazon's audiobook service Audible, and apps for smartphones for reading the holy books in Islam and Christianity have been removed from the Apple Store in China. This is the latest example of China's stricter rules regarding internet companies.Friday's announcement...
The global outage that post, that Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp went dark "not by malicious activity but because of an error of our own making."This problem happened as engineers were working on Facebook's global backbone network. These include the computers,...
Apple unveiled plans to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse, drawing applause from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could be misused, including by governments looking to surveil their citizens.The "NeuralHash"...
China's most famous social media site has removed accounts that were created on LGBT topics by students and other non-government organizations. This raises concerns about the tightening of control by China's ruling Communist Party over gay and lesbian content.WeChat...
President Joe Biden signed Friday's executive order, which targeted anticompetitive practices within tech, health care, and other areas of the economy. He stated that it would strengthen America's ideal of "true capitalism depends upon fair and open competition."Biden stated...
The Colorado secretary of state sued Monday to remove a rural county's election clerk who is accused of allowing a security breach of voting equipment that the FBI also is investigating.According to Secretary of State Jena Griswold (a Democrat), an initial...
Nearly two years ago, Briceburg lost its only connection to the electric grid after a wildfire ravaged the area.Instead of rebuilding wires and poles on increasingly dry hillsides that could increase the risk of equipment setting off catastrophic fires,...
More than a year after the U.S. Interior Department grounded hundreds of Chinese-made drones it was having to track wildfires and track dams, volcanoes and wildlife, it is starting to seem like they will not be flying again any...