Enlarge / Dan Ball, host of One America News show Real America . (credit: One America News) One America News might have to shut down because of DirecTV’s decision to drop the right-wing network from its channel lineup, OAN said in a lawsuit against DirecTV and its owner AT& T. DirecTV recently said it will […]
Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto | Getty Images) Big banks fear that Swift faces a growing threat of Russian cyberattacks after seven of the country’s lenders were kicked off the global payments messaging system over the weekend. VTB, Russia’s second-biggest bank, and Promsvyazbank, which finances Russia’s war machine, were among the lenders removed on Saturday from Swift […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Vertigo3d) VPN operator TorGuard has agreed to block BitTorrent traffic on its US-based servers to settle a piracy lawsuit filed by a variety of companies that own movie copyrights. “Pursuant to a confidential settlement agreement, Plaintiffs have requested, and Defendant has agreed to use commercially reasonable efforts to block BitTorrent […]
Enlarge Google is being sued by a Florida restaurant group alleging that the tech company} has been setting up unauthorized pages to capture food orders rather than directing them to the restaurant’s own site. Google uses “bait-and-switch” tactics to get customers to place takeout or pickup orders through “new, unauthorized, and deceptively branded webpages, ” […]
Enlarge (credit: Nikolai Vinokurov | Getty Images) René has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine. The 34-year-old lives more than 1, 000 km away in Nuremberg, Germany. He has no family there, and he’s never been to the country. But when Russia invaded, he wanted to help. So on the dating app Tinder, […]
Enlarge For decades now, Vladimir Putin has slowly, carefully, and stealthily curated online and offline networks of influence. These efforts have borne lucrative fruit, helping Russia become far more influential than a country so corrupt and institutionally fragile had any right to be. The Kremlin and its proxies had economic holdings across Europe and Africa […]
Enlarge / Smoke rises from a Russian tank destroyed by Ukrainian forces in the Luhansk region on February 26, 2022. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov / AFP via Getty Images) (credit: Anatolii Stepanov / AFP) As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grinds on, Meta is temporarily changing its policies to allow users on Facebook and Instagram to […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Jill Ferry Photography) Consumer Reports wants the Federal Communications Commission to take a closer look at whether Internet service providers are complying with a US law that prohibits them from charging hardware rental fees when customers use their own equipment. In a filing submitted to the FCC this week, Consumer Reports […]
Enlarge (credit: Sefa Karacan / Anadolu Agency) Twitter has launched a new Tor onion service, a move that has been in the works for years but debuts as Russian President Vladimir Putin has clamped down on protests and independent media following his stalled invasion of Ukraine. “On behalf of @Twitter, I am delighted to announce […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | MirageC) President Joe Biden today issued an executive order that could lead to the US creating a digital currency. “My Administration places the highest urgency on research and development efforts into the potential design and deployment options of a United States CBDC [Central Bank Digital Currency],” the executive order said. […]