With midterm elections approaching, a vote taken on Thursday could be the first of several that Congress takes on bills aimed at the industry.
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What to Wear in the Metaverse
Dressing for a virtual world is going to be both enormously liberating and potentially very, very messy.
Why Microsoft Wants Activision
Activision has a lot of popular games that fit into Microsoft’s plans to build a vast library of titles that can be played on all sorts of devices. The metaverse can wait.
Tech Start-Ups Reach a New Peak of Froth
There’s more money and more bubbly behavior. Investors insist it’s rational.
How 5G Clashed With an Aviation Device Invented in the 1920s
The potential for interference between 5G signals and the radio altimeters long used by pilots has divided the telecom and aviation industries.
Facebook’s Unglamorous Mistakes
Facebook’s little mistakes have big consequences, too. (But only for us.)
In Sewage, Clues to Omicron’s Surge
Tracking the virus in wastewater is helping some cities and hospitals respond to the most recent wave of the coronavirus, but a more coordinated national effort is needed, experts say.
Red Cross implores hackers not to leak data for 515k “highly vulnerable people”
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The Red Cross on Wednesday pleaded with the threat actors behind a cyberattack that stole the personal data of about 515,000 people who used a program that works to reunite family members separated by conflict, disaster or migration. “While we don’t know who is responsible for this attack, or why they...
If you like the data on your WD My Cloud OS 3 device, patch it now
Enlarge (credit: Western Digital) Western Digital has patched three critical vulnerabilities—one with a severity rating of 9.8 and another with a 9.0—that make it possible for hackers to steal data or remotely hijack storage devices running version 3 of the company’s My Cloud OS. CVE-2021-40438, as one of the vulnerabilities is tracked, allows remote attackers...
FAA clears Boeing 777 and other planes after 5G warning halted some flights
Enlarge / A Boeing 777. (credit: Boeing) The Federal Aviation Administration today said it has cleared 62 percent of US commercial airplanes to perform low-visibility landings at airports where AT&T and Verizon are deploying 5G on C-band spectrum this week. Several international airlines previously canceled some flights to the US after Boeing issued a recommendation...









