Enlarge / A 2014 Tesla Model S driving on Autopilot rear-ended a Culver City fire truck that was parked in the high-occupancy vehicle lane on Interstate 405. (credit: Culver City Firefighters Local 1927 / Facebook ) US government regulators are opening an investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot system after cars using the feature crashed into stopped […]
Enlarge / Pretty Good Phone Privacy wants to minimize how much your wireless provider knows about your location. (credit: Noam Galai | Getty Images) Location data sharing from wireless carriers has been a major privacy issue in recent years. Marketers, salespeople, and even bounty hunters were able to pay shadowy third-party companies to track where […]
Enlarge / A healthcare worker receives a Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at Jackson Memorial Hospital on December 15, 2020 in Miami, Florida. (credit: Getty Images | Joe Raedle ) Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett yesterday rejected a request to block Indiana University’s requirement that students be vaccinated against COVID-19. “The case, Klaassen v. Trustees of […]
Enlarge / Apple executive Craig Federighi speaks during the 2018 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, California. (credit: Getty Images | Justin Sullivan) Apple’s decision to have iPhones and other Apple company devices scan photos for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has sparked criticism from security experts and privacy advocates—and from some Apple […]
Enlarge (credit: Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images) The hacker who breached the Poly Network crypto platform says the theft was just “for fun: )” and that the hacker is now returning the stolen coins. The hacker also claimed that the tokens had been transferred to the hacker’s own wallets to “keep it safe. ” Poly […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) Apple and Google seem to be worried about legislation that would force iOS and Android to be more open to third-party app shops and sideloaded apps. US Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn. ), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn. ), and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn. ) introduced their Open App Markets Act yesterday. […]
Enlarge / An aerial view of the NSA. (credit: nsa.gov) Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been named the winner of a $10 billion cloud computing contract, called “WildandStormy,” for the National Security Agency. But Microsoft, no doubt still salty about Amazon’s successful challenge of Redmond’s $10 billion JEDI contract with the Pentagon, filed a formal […]
Enlarge / The CMA said Facebook could deny other platforms access to GIFs because of the tie-up. (credit: Anadolu Agency | Getty Images) The UK competition regulator has called for Facebook to sell online image platform Giphy, which it bought for $400 million last year, after provisionally finding competition concerns following an in-depth investigation. The […]
Enlarge / Sensitive BIOS passwords leaked by QAnon figure Ron Watkins have been linked to a Colorado County office run by a clerk who promotes “Stop the Steal” messaging. (credit: JJ Gouin / Getty Images) Last week, Ron Watkins—conspiracy theorist, QAnon enthusiast, and former 8chan site admin—released photocopies of an installation manual for Dominion voting […]
Enlarge (credit: RobertAx | Getty Images) A decentralized financial network has claimed hackers absconded with about $600 million worth of cryptocurrencies in one of the largest heists to target the growing digital asset industry. Poly Network, which links some of the world’s most widely used digital ledgers, said on Tuesday that attackers had exploited a […]