July 16, 2024 Just two days after the attempted assassination at a Trump rally, the FBI announced it had gained access to the shooter's phone. The speed and efficiency of this access highlight the growing capabilities of phone-hacking more...
May 27, 2024 Steven Kramer, a 54-year-old political consultant from New Orleans, has been indicted on multiple felony charges for orchestrating a deepfake robocall campaign aimed at suppressing voter turnout during the New Hampshire Democratic primary. The call, more...
May 20, 2024 Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has addressed concerns regarding the company's exit agreements, which reportedly included nondisparagement clauses that could threaten vested equity for departing employees. The issue came to light following the high-profile departures more...
May 16, 2024 Two MIT students have been implicated in a highly sophisticated cryptocurrency heist, where they reportedly exploited a vulnerability in the Ethereum blockchain to steal $25 million within seconds. The US Department of Justice announced the more...
May 6, 2024 In the final day of arguments in the Google anti-trust case, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused the tech giant of destroying crucial internal chat logs that may have contained evidence of anticompetitive more...
April 29, 2024 In a major crackdown on cryptocurrency-related crimes, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has announced charges against Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill, founders of the cryptocurrency mixing service Samourai more...
April 22, 2024 In a significant shake-up in Silicon Valley, Manish Lachwani, co-founder and former CEO of the mobile app-testing company HeadSpin, which was once valued over $1 billion, is set to serve time as a federal inmate. more...
March 1, 2024 How private is your internet address? Very, says the Supreme Court of Canada. Police can’t just walk into a company and demand a suspect’s IP address by saying a Canadian resident doesn’t have an expectation more...
February 21, 2024 The $1 billion copyright infringement verdict against Cox Communications was overturned by a federal appeals court, which ruled that Cox did not directly profit from its users' piracy. This decision calls for a new damages more...
January 29, 2024 A US Senator, Ron Wyden, has raised concerns about the National Security Agency (NSA) purchasing Americans' personal data, including their internet browsing habits, from data brokers. In a letter to US Director of National Intelligence more...
