Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A few months ago, my G Suite-enabled Gmail account reached a grim milestone: with no warning, the “block [email address]” feature—available from the menu with the three vertical dots in the upper left of the Gmail screen—stopped working because I had maxed out the total number of addresses Google allows to...
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Locked out of “God mode,” runners are hacking their treadmills
Enlarge / NordicTrack owners aren’t giving up the fight just yet. (credit: Sam Whitney | Getty Images) JD Howard just wanted to watch cloud security tutorials. Howard, a construction industry worker on sabbatical, spent $4,000 on a NordicTrack X32i treadmill, lured in by its 32-inch HD screen and the opportunity to exercise body and mind....
DuckDuckGo wants to stop apps tracking you on Android
Enlarge / Gabriel Weinberg, creator of DuckDuckGo. (credit: Washington Post | Getty Images) At the end of April, Apple’s introduction of App Tracking Transparency tools shook the advertising industry to its core. iPhone and iPad owners could now stop apps from tracking their behavior and using their data for personalized advertising. Since the new privacy controls...
Elizabeth Holmes Begins Her Defense in Fraud Trial
The U.S. rested its case after 11 weeks, and Ms. Holmes, the founder of the blood testing start-up Theranos, took the stand.
Can a Machine Learn Morality?
Researchers at a Seattle A.I. lab say they have built a system that makes ethical judgments. But its judgments can be as confusing as those of humans.
Why Crypto.com Is Putting Its Name on the Staples Center
What’s Crypto.com, which is paying $700 million for the naming rights to the sports venue?
Instagram Faces Investigation Over Mental Health Impact on Teens
The states were examining whether the actions of Facebook, now called Meta, violated state consumer protection laws and put the public at risk.
Ken Griffin Bested ConstitutionDAO in Auction for Constitution
A group of cryptocurrency fans known as ConstitutionDAO had also bid on the document, setting off a frenzy of memes and pledges.
Malware downloaded from PyPI 41,000 times was surprisingly stealthy
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) PyPI—the open source repository that both large and small organizations use to download code libraries—was hosting 11 malicious packages that were downloaded more than 41,000 times in one of the latest reported such incidents threatening the software supply chain. JFrog, a security firm that monitors PyPI and other repositories for malware,...
How Elizabeth Holmes Soured the Media on Silicon Valley
Testimony in the fraud trial of Ms. Holmes, the founder of the blood testing start-up Theranos, shows how much coverage of the tech industry has changed over the years.








