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Facebook on Thursday announced Privacy Basics, a set of interactive guides to answer the most commonly questions about how users can control their information on its site It also aired proposed updates to its terms, data policy and cookies policy; improvements to ads based on the apps and sites members use; and expansion of user control over ads....
Amazon and publisher Hachette on Thursday made peace after months of slugging it out toe to toe over e-book pricing, which split the authors' community and saw Amazon pulling some Hachette authors' books off its promo list and slowing delivery of others Neither company disclosed the specific terms of the deal....
Despite the publicity about Edward Snowden's controversial leaks, only 43 percent of 607 English-speaking adults surveyed in January had heard a lot about government surveillance efforts, and another 44 percent had heard a little, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Research Internet Project However, 80 percent of the respondents ag...
United States Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has responded to the White House's proposal for Net neutrality rules by reasserting his agency's independence in a meeting with executives of Google, Yahoo and other Internet companies following President Obama's Monday call to action The president urged the FCC to ensure Net neu...
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the Lumia 535 -- the first smartphone under its own brand since it completed its acquisition of Nokia in April Microsoft is marketing the 535 as its "5x5x5" smartphone package. It has a 5-inch screen and 5-MP front- and rear-facing cameras....
Researchers at FireEye on Monday made public the existence of the Masque Attack, which threatens iOS and Mac OS X operating systems Their report comes one week after Palo Alto Networks reported its discovery of WireLurker....
Hackers siphoned off data from United States Postal Service servers for more than eight months before being detected, the USPS said Personal data -- including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, beginning and end dates of employment, and emergency contact information -- was stolen....
President Obama on Monday leaped into the controversy surrounding Net neutrality, calling on the United States Federal Communications Commission to ensure and protect that neutrality ...
Europol on Friday announced that a team of agents from United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Eurojust have taken down more than 400 cybercrime services accessible via the Tor browser They include the dark market Silk Road 2.0. Its operator, San Francisco resident Blake Benthall, was arrested...
Amazon on Thursday announced Echo, a speaker with a built-in voice-activated personal digital assistant. Think of a cylindrical Bose SoundLink Mini married to Siri, Cortana or Google Voice -- or heck, living in sin with all three Echo can conduct Web searches, add items to your to-do list, let you play streaming music, and give you news and weather...
Microsoft on Thursday announced new Office apps for the iPhone, updated Office apps for the iPad, and a preview of Office apps for Android tablets (sample screen shot shown above) The company released separate Office for iPhone apps for Word, Excel and PowerPoint that it said would offer the iPad experience optimized for the iPhone....
The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Tuesday released its Secure Messaging Scorecard, which rates messaging app security based on seven capabilities. Only six of more than three dozen tools the organization audited met all seven security requirements They are ChatSecure, CryptoCat, Signal/Redphone, Silent Phone, Silent Text and TextSecure....
The Electronic Frontier Foundation this week renewed its protests against Verizon Wireless' and AT&T's use of supercookies that can't be deleted or disabled to track customers' mobile Web-browsing activities without their knowledge It's not as if the carriers' tracking is new -- Verizon has, by its own admission, been using these supercookies for t...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation this week renewed its protests against Verizon Wireless' and AT&T's use of supercookies that can't be deleted or disabled to track customers' mobile Web-browsing activities without their knowledge It's not as if the carriers' tracking is new -- Verizon has, by its own admission, been using these supercookies for t...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation this week renewed its protests against Verizon Wireless' and AT&T's use of supercookies that can't be deleted or disabled to track customers' mobile Web-browsing activities without their knowledge It's not as if the carriers' tracking is new -- Verizon has, by its own admission, been using these supercookies for t...
In the months leading up to Tuesday's mid-term elections, suspicions were rife about the possibility of Facebook influencing the outcome Facebook had joined Google, Twitter and other high-tech companies in urging people to vote, but skepticism about its motives ran high because in previous elections, it had turned its call to voters into sociologic...
Facebook recently announced that it was providing access directly over the Tor network Its purpose was to let users access Facebook without losing the cryptographic protections provided by the Tor cloud....
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a strategic partnership with Dropbox -- only eight days after announcing unlimited cloud storage for Office 365 subscribers in a move widely seen as a frontal attack on Dropbox and Google The companies will integrate their services forphones, tablets and the Internet, so that users can access and collaborate on Office...
Christopher Hart, acting chairman of the United States National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the crash last week of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo, on Monday delivered his final press briefing on the initial stage of the investigation ...
Over the 4th of July weekend, 82 people were shot in Chicago, and at least 14 of them died from their wounds. For the year, there were 63 homicides in Oakland as of late October. Philadelphians logged 47 homicides in the first 64 days of this year, two more than were killed in New York City during the same period Yet results of a Gallup poll relea...
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