October 20, 2021 The U.S. Senate will hold a hearing on October 26 with tech companies Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube on the impact of their platforms on young users, a panel announced on Tuesday. "TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube more...
October 19, 2021 Gartner analysts on Monday listed flexible work, partnerships, and a willingness to let go of the "way we've always done it," as some of the top priorities for CIOs and technology leaders to actively realize more...
October 19, 2021 Researchers have recently demonstrated that concealing the PIN pass with the other hand is not a sufficient method to defend it against deep learning-based attacks. This was demonstrated by an experiment with a special deep-learning more...
October 19, 2021 Around a dozen U.S. senators across all political parties officially introduced a bill on Monday aimed at preventing big tech platforms such as Amazon and Google from favoring their products and services. Senators Amy Klobuchar more...
October 19, 2021 A cross-party group of US lawmakers has accused Amazon of misleading an antitrust committee after various reports revealed that the company had used third-party data to copy products while supporting its own products over others more...
October 18, 2021 The U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has identified $5.2 billion in outgoing Bitcoin transactions linked to some of the most commonly reported ransomware payments, based on a blockchain analysis of transactions involving more...
October 18, 2021 In a recent joint statement, senior officials from 31 countries and the EU announced that their government would take the necessary measures to put an end to the cryptocurrency payment channels used by ransomware gangs more...
October 18, 2021 Facebook's vice president of integrity Guy Rosen called the report that the technology the company uses to fight hate speech "inadequate" and "deliberately misrepresents its progress." In his response to the allegations made by the more...
October 18, 2021 China's Industry Minister said in an interview Sunday that it will continue its strict regulation of the Internet sector, including eliminating processes such as blocking Web site links by competing platforms and ensuring that smaller more...
October 18, 2021 A feature currently in development in Chromium's open-source code review tools would give Chromebook users the ability to answer phone calls on their Chromebook through its Phone Hub feature. Although Phone Hub supports phones running more...
October 18, 2021 El Salvador's head of the hydroelectric commission told reporters on Friday that the nation's current experiment as a first-time adopter of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin could be increasingly invigorated by new streams of renewable energy. Last more...
October 18, 2021 Open-source software generates £43.15 billion ($59 billion) annually to the UK's gross domestic product (GDP) and has an estimated £46.5 billion of "potential value" to UK businesses in 2020. This data is part of a more...