Why China’s tech clampdown is good for the U. S.

Why lawmakers are so interested in Apple’s and Google’s “rents”

Enlarge / Maybe this textbook is from the Ma Bell era? #ThanksStockGettyImages (credit: designer491 / Getty Images) Josh Hawley had some questions about how Apple came up with the money to buy back $58 billion in stock over the past year. “I just want to focus on one major source of that income,” the Republican […]

Computer intruder tried to poison drinking water for a small Florida city

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Someone broke into the computer system of a water treatment plant in Florida and tried to poison drinking water for a municipality’s more than 13,000 residents, officials said on Monday. The intrusion occurred on Friday evening, when an unknown person remotely accessed the computer interface used to adjust the chemicals that […]

NASCAR ditches decades of tradition for its Next Gen race car

On May 5, NASCAR unveiled its seventh-generation race car at its tech center in Charlotte, North Carolina. [credit: Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images ] Big changes are coming to NASCAR. On Wednesday afternoon, the sport formally unveiled its new race car, called the Next Gen. It makes its racing debut in 2022, and it’s a radical […]