Russia accounted for most state-sponsored hacking detected by Microsoft over the past year, with a 58% share, mostly targeting government agencies and think tanks in the United States, followed by Ukraine, Britain and European NATO members, the company said. The devastating effectiveness of the long-undetected SolarWinds hack — it mainly breached information technology businesses including […]
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A company that asked Nevada to let it form its own local government on its vast land holdings in the desert no longer plans to build the experimental smart city that they said could transform Nevada into a global hub for emerging technology. Blockchains, a Nevada-based technology company, had for months lobbied state lawmakers to […]
Camera lights glare. Outrage thunders from elected representatives. A brave industry whistleblower stands alone and takes the oath behind a table ringed by a photographers’ mosh pit. The former Facebook product manager who has accused the social network giant of threatening children’s safety — and the integrity of democracy — is urging Congress to take […]
After a whistleblower uncovered to the U.S. Congress Facebook’s misleading workflow, the European Parliament will fortify regulations on key players in the tech league, with global forces joining the operation. The EU’s proposal will aim at European companies alongside the Big Tech giants, Facebook, Alphabet Inc. entity Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft. One of the […]
Deleting an application off your phone takes mere seconds to do. It’s as easy as clicking a button, literally. However, deleting your application’s account is a hassle, one that is about to change. Apple will require developers that offer a way to create accounts in their apps to also make the option of deleting the […]
Searching for flights on Google just got “greener.” A new search feature rolled out Wednesday tells users which flights have lower carbon emissions, giving them the ability to choose flights based on carbon emissions just as they would price or the number of layovers. A basic search for flights will give an estimate of how […]
The World Health Organization on Wednesday endorsed the world’s first malaria vaccine and said it should be given to children across Africa in the hope that it will spur stalled efforts to curb the spread of the parasitic disease. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called it “a historic moment” after a meeting in which two […]
It’s one of the downsides of apps that make things like ordering food or buying stocks and cryptocurrencies easier: What happens when something goes wrong? It’s often a frustrating chase, tapping through menu after menu in hopes of reaching a person to fix the problem. It’s also something that upstart companies upending the investment and […]
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is breaking his silence in a public note to Facebook employees addressing recent claims made by whistleblower Frances Haugen about the platform’s harmful tactics. “We care deeply about issues like safety, wellbeing, and mental health. It’s difficult to see coverage that misrepresents our work and our motives. At the most basic level, I think most of us just don’t recognize the […]
The six-hour outage at Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp was a headache for many casual users but far more serious for the millions of people worldwide who rely on the social media sites to run their businesses or communicate with relatives, fellow parents, teachers or neighbors. When all three services went dark Monday, it was a […]