Enlarge (credit: Wired | Getty Images) For years, Russia’s cybercrime groups have acted with relative impunity. The Kremlin and local law enforcement have largely turned a blind eye to disruptive ransomware attacks as long as they didn’t target Russian companies. Despite direct pressure on Vladimir Putin to tackle ransomware groups, they’re still intimately tied to...
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(BPRW) 12th Annual Women Mean Business International Conference
(Black PR Wire) MIAMI, Florida – M. Gill & Associates, Inc., in collaboration with the Florida MBDA Export Center, the Miami MBDA Business Center, and the MBDA Cares Act Florida operated by M. Gill & Associates, will present the 12th Annual
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Lawsuit Accuses Google of Bias Against Black Employees
The lawsuit echoes many of the complaints Black employees have expressed over the years about working at the company.
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D.C. Suit Accusing Amazon of Controlling Prices Is Thrown Out
The attorney general for the District of Columbia said Amazon made merchants on its site sell at the lowest price they charged on the web, resulting in higher prices overall.
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Brazil Bans Telegram Over Disinformation Concerns
The Brazilian Supreme Court has vowed to fight disinformation ahead of this year’s presidential elections. Banning the popular messaging app is its most drastic step yet.
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Mark Zuckerberg Won’t Be Named in Meta Privacy Suit, Judge Says
D.C.’s attorney general had waited too long to add Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant in the suit against Meta, the judge said.
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How the War in Ukraine Could Slow the Sales of Electric Cars
The price of nickel, an essential ingredient in most batteries, has soared because of fear that Russian supplies could be cut off.
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Sabotage: Code added to popular NPM package wiped files in Russia and Belarus
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A developer has been caught adding malicious code to a popular open-source package that wiped files on computers located in Russia and Belarus as part of a protest that has enraged many users and raised concerns about the safety of free and open source software. The application, node-ipc, adds remote interprocess...
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Uber, Lyft Drivers Struggle With High Gas Prices
Some drivers say they find it hard to justify spending hours on the road for Uber or Lyft as fuel costs continue to tick upward.
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Some of the Tech Magic Is Gone
The bubble hasn’t exactly burst, but we’re no longer seeing a fantastical belief in the power of technology.