Enlarge (credit: Apple) There’s a bug in iOS that disables Wi-Fi connectivity when devices join a network that uses a booby-trapped name, a researcher disclosed over the weekend. By connecting to a Wi-Fi network that uses the SSID “%p%s%s%s%s%n” (quotation marks not included), iPhones and iPads lose the ability to join that network or any...
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(BPRW) Procter & Gamble & Tribeca Studios Announce Widen the Screen Film Program Premiere at Tribeca Festival
(Black PR Wire) NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Procter & Gamble once again comes together with Tribeca Studios and its partners to give a platform to Black creators at Tribeca Festival as part of its Juneteenth program. This year, the festival will
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Ukraine arrests ransomware gang in global cybercriminal crackdown
Enlarge / A Colonial Pipeline facility in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Hackers last month disrupted the pipeline supplying petroleum to much of the East Coast. (credit: Michael M. Santiago, Getty Images) Ukrainian police have arrested members of a notorious ransomware gang that recently targeted American universities, as pressure mounts on global law enforcement to crack down...
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He Warned Apple About the Risks in China. Then They Became Reality.
Doug Guthrie, once one of America’s leading China bulls, rang the alarm on doing business there. He spoke about his time at Apple.
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Lina Khan Was One of Big Tech’s Biggest Critics. Now She’s Its Regulator.
Lina Khan is the most progressive chair of the Federal Trade Commission in at least a generation.
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F.C.C. Proposes More Restrictions on Chinese Telecom Equipment
The agency’s actions are a sign of bipartisan opposition to China’s providers of cutting-edge technology like Huawei and ZTE.
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Mattel Joins the NFT Frenzy With Hot Wheels Digital Art
“We need to be on top of current conversations,” Mattel’s president said.
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Newly discovered Vigilante malware outs software pirates and blocks them
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A researcher has uncovered one of the more unusual finds in the annals of malware: booby-trapped files that rat out downloaders and try to prevent unauthorized downloading in the future. The files are available on sites frequented by software pirates. Vigilante, as SophosLabs Principal Researcher Andrew Brandt is calling the malware,...
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(BPRW) NEW SENSE 2 CENTS APP BRINGS MONEY MANAGEMENT TO THE WHOLE FAMILY!
(Black PR Wire) SAVANNAH, GEORGIA—Managing money well is a science of careful calculation, forward-looking budgeting, and penny-wise prudence. Once a complicated, time-consuming process, modern technology has brought forth a revolutionary new app th