The revelations of a leak investigation started in the Trump administration are a reminder that Big Tech companies often hand over information about their users.
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Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit
Enlarge / Starlink satellite dish and equipment in the Idaho panhandle’s Coeur d’Alene National Forest. (credit: Wandering-coder) A Starlink beta user in Arizona said he lost Internet service for over seven hours yesterday when the satellite dish overheated, demonstrating one of the drawbacks of SpaceX’s broadband service. When the user’s Internet service was disrupted, the Starlink...
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Flying Car Makers Want to Build ‘Uber Meets Tesla in the Air’
Inside Silicon Valley’s 10-year quest to make soaring above a crowded city street as easy as calling an Uber.
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Bitcoin and Encryption: A Race Between Criminals and the F.B.I.
The F.B.I. scored two major victories, recovering a Bitcoin ransom and tricking lawbreakers with an encryption app. But criminals may still have the upper hand.
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In Leak Investigation, Tech Giants Are Caught Between Courts and Customers
Apple, under fire for turning over the data of two lawmakers to the Trump Justice Dept., said it did so unknowingly, while Google fought a request for New York Times data because it related to a corporate client.
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Lawmakers, Taking Aim at Big Tech, Push Sweeping Overhaul of Antitrust
A bipartisan group of House members introduced five bills targeting Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.
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Are Tech’s Wealthiest Men Worth Their Pay?
The mood about technology has soured more recently, but bosses’ paychecks have mostly remained unscathed.
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Justice Dept. Watchdog to Investigate Seizure of Democrats’ Data
Democrats denounced the Trump administration’s seizure of lawmakers’ data as an abuse of power and called on Republicans to back the congressional inquiry.
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CD Projekt Red does an about-face, says ransomware crooks are leaking data
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) CD Projekt Red, the maker of The Witcher series, Cyberpunk 2077, and other popular games, said on Friday that proprietary data taken in a ransomware attack disclosed four months ago is likely circulating online. “Today, we have learned new information regarding the breach and now have reason to believe that internal...