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Elizabeth Holmes Trial: Closing Arguments Are Set to Begin
Jurors were asked to decide: Did Elizabeth Holmes intend to deceive her company’s investors and patients?
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Google Play app with 500,000 downloads sent user contacts to Russian server
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) An Android app with more than 500,000 downloads from Google Play has been caught hosting malware that surreptitiously sends users’ contacts to an attacker-controlled server and signs up users to pricey subscriptions, a security firm reported. The app, named Color Message, was still available on Google servers at the time this...
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Backdoor gives hackers complete control over federal agency network
Enlarge (credit: Jeremy Brooks / Flickr) A US federal agency has been hosting a backdoor that can provide total visibility into and complete control over the agency network, and the researchers who discovered it have been unable to engage with the administrators responsible, security firm Avast said on Thursday. The US Commission on International Religious...
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Comcast delays data caps in Northeast US for at least another year
Enlarge / Comcast’s xFi Advanced Gateway. (credit: Getty Images | Jeff Fusco ) Comcast says it won’t deploy data caps in the Northeast US in 2022, giving another year’s reprieve to 12 states and a few other areas where Comcast customers don’t face overage fees. “We don’t have plans to implement our data usage plan...
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Four Resolutions for a Healthier Tech Life in 2022
The tech world delivered many unpleasant surprises to us in the pandemic. We can learn from them.
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Patch fixing critical Log4J 0-day has its own vulnerability that’s under exploit
Enlarge (credit: Wikimedia Commons/Alex E. Proimos) Last Thursday, the world learned of an in-the-wild exploitation of a critical code-execution zero-day in Log4J, a logging utility used by just about every cloud service and enterprise network on the planet. Open-source developers quickly released an update that patched the flaw and urged all users to install it immediately....
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Masayuki Uemura, 78, Dies; Designed the First Nintendo Console
He developed the Nintendo Entertainment System in the 1980s, which laid the foundation for today’s enormous video game console market and franchises like Super Mario Brothers.
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Ajit Pai and Tom Wheeler agree: The FAA is behaving badly in battle against FCC
Enlarge / Then-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler (L) and FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai talk before testifying to the House Judiciary Committee on March 25, 2015 in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla ) Six former chairs of the Federal Communications Commission yesterday criticized the Federal Aviation Administration’s fight against a new 5G...
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YouTube TV warns it may lose all Disney-owned channels amid contract dispute
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Chris McGrath ) YouTube TV yesterday warned that it could lose all Disney-owned channels after Friday because of a contract dispute and said it will temporarily reduce its price by $15 a month if that happens. “We’re now in negotiations with Disney to continue distributing their content on YouTube TV...