Enlarge (credit: Suebsiri Srithanyarat / EyeEm / Getty Images) A ransomware attack on the Los Angeles Unified School District in the first week of September crippled digital operations across the system, which includes more than 1,000 schools and serves roughly 600,000 students. Two weeks after the initial attack, as the district worked to recover and...
Ahead of the midterm elections, the proliferation of alternative social media sites has helped cement false and misleading information as a defining feature of American politics.
The maker of Snapchat has been struggling with a sharp slowdown in its advertising business.
Ken Paxton, the state attorney general, said products like Google Photos and the Nest camera had violated Texans’ privacy rights.
Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto | Getty Images) Google Play has given the boot to 16 apps with more than 20 million combined installations after researchers detected malicious activity that could cause the Android devices they ran on to drain batteries faster and use more data than normal. The apps provided legitimate functions, including flashlight, camera, QR...
Enlarge / US court (not pictured) rules that software cannot be registered as a patent “inventor.” (credit: Ars Technica) The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that AI software cannot be a registered inventor of a US patent, Reuters reports, though the issue could be subject to further appeal. The legal...
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft is facing criticism for the way it disclosed a recent security lapse that exposed what a security company said was 2.4 terabytes of data that included signed invoices and contracts, contact information, and emails of 65,000 current or prospective customers spanning five years. The data, according to a disclosure published...
Enlarge / Project Blink can edit video using text search and word processing techniques. (credit: Adobe) Yesterday, Adobe announced Project Blink, an AI-powered web app that can recognize objects, people, sounds, and words spoken in videos to help edit them faster. It uses text editing to make the process of editing a video similar to...
(Black PR Wire) MIAMI – Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) is among the sponsors of the Black Men Talk Tech’s Pitch Competition, which is part of the 4th Annual Unicorn Ambition Conference. The Conference takes place on Oct. 20 &ndas
It’s not what Mark Zuckerberg promises.