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Meta Opens Quest OS To Third Parties, Including ASUS and Lenovo 24
Ex-White House Cyber Policy Director: Microsoft is a National Security Risk 112
Lying to Investors? Co-Founder of Startup 'HeadSpin' Gets 18-Month Prison Sentence for Fraud 28
EU: Meta Cannot Rely On 'Pay Or Okay' 108
Insufficient Redundancy? Light-Pole Installation Cut Fiber Line, Triggered Three-State 911 Outage 87
US Passes Bill Reauthorizing 'FISA' Surveillance for Two More Years 45
Sell or Be Banned: Anti-TikTok Bill Passed by US Representatives 96
Two Major ISPs Threaten They'll Stop Complying With US FISA Orders 34
Dutch Privacy Watchdog Recommends Government Organizations Stop Using Facebook 18
Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules 145
Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data 15
Crypto Trader Eisenberg Convicted of Fraud in $110 Million Mango Markets Scheme 9
Hackers Are Threatening To Publish a Huge Stolen Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist 29
House Passes Bill Requiring Warrant To Purchase Data From Third Parties 54
Google Workers Arrested After Nine-Hour Protest In Cloud Chief's Office 307
Escobar Brother Barred by EU Court From Trademarking Family Name 17
A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users' Messages 49
Telegram Founder Accuses Google and Apple of Censorship Threat 35
SEC Targets Its Own Staff's Texting, Nixes WhatsApp On Work Phones 15
Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government 507
Apple's iOS 18 AI Will Be On-Device Preserving Privacy, and Not Server-Side 58
Judge Refuses To Ctrl-Z Divorce Order Made By a Misclick 196
US Senate To Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call 'Stasi-Like' 55
Justice Department To File Antitrust Suit Against Ticketmaster-Parent Live Nation 48
The IRS's New Tax Software: Rave Reviews, But Low Turnout 90
Roku Makes 2FA Mandatory For All After Nearly 600K Accounts Pwned 26
America's Legal System May Be 'Closing In' on Regulating Cryptocurrencies 45
Stop 'Harmful 5G Fast Lanes', Legal Scholar Warns America's FCC 41
Data Collected by the US Justice Department Exposed in Consultant's Breach 9
US Government Says Recent Microsoft Breach Exposed Federal Agencies to Hacking 15
Should the US Ban Chinese EVs? 282
House Votes To Extend -- and Expand -- a Major US Spy Program 85
96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Info With Meta, Google, Data Brokers 21
Your Anonymous OpenTable Reviews Will Soon Display Your First Name 34
We Never Agreed To Only Buy HP Ink, Say Printer Owners 116
Google Is Killing Its VPN Service 30
Amazon Owes $525 Million In Cloud-Storage Patent Fight, US Jury Says 38
Hackable Intel and Lenovo Hardware That Went Undetected For 5 Years Won't Ever Be Fixed 62
US Lawmaker Proposes a Public Database of All AI Training Material 30
Apple Will Open the iPhone To Repair With Used Parts 23
DuckDuckGo Launches Privacy Pro: A 3-in-1 Service That Includes a VPN 34
UK Considers Banning Smartphone Sales To Children Under 16 108
Microsoft Employees Exposed Internal Passwords In Security Lapse 24
Biden Considering Request To Drop Assange Charges 146
MPA Has Big Plans To Crack Down on Movie Piracy Again 88
Proton Acquires Standard Notes 10
Cox Plans To Take Piracy Liability Battle To the Supreme Court 70
A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress 27
Insurers Are Spying on Your Home From the Sky 104
Crypto Scam Criminal Trial Tests 'Code Is Law' Claim by Trader 87
NIST Blames 'Growing Backlog of Vulnerabilities' Requiring Analysis on Lack of Support 22
US Energy Department Announces 'Blueprint' for Slashing Emissions From Buildings and Reducing Energy Use 76
In America, A Complex Patchwork of State AI Regulations Has Already Arrived 13
Four Baseball Teams Now Let Ticket-Holders Enter Using AI-Powered 'Facial Authentication' 42
US Invests $20 Billion More to Finance Clean-Energy Projects 86
Is The US About To Pass a Landmark Online Privacy Bill? 35
Biden Takes Aim At SpaceX's Tax-Free Ride In American Airspace 222
Trudeau Pushes 3D-Printed Homes To Solve Canada Housing Crisis 174
Academics Probe Apple's Privacy Settings and Get Lost and Confused 24
Terraform Labs and Founder Do Kwon Found Liable In US Civil Fraud Trial 12
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia Names and Shames Customers Over Bank Glitch Money 26
Roku's New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game 119
Plex Asks GitHub to Take Down 'Reshare' Repository Over Piracy Fears 60
Feds Finally Decide To Do Something About Years-Old SS7 Spy Holes In Phone Networks 32
George Carlin Estate Forces 'AI Carlin' Off the Internet For Good 31
Missouri County Declares State of Emergency Amid Suspected Ransomware Attack 41
UK and US Sign Landmark Agreement On AI Safety 6
'Russia Might Have Caused Havana Syndrome' 188
FCC To Vote To Restore Net Neutrality Rules 60
New XZ Backdoor Scanner Detects Implants In Any Linux Binary 33
The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent Is Now 20 Years Old 15
Google Pledges To Destroy Browsing Data To Settle 'Incognito' Lawsuit 35
Arizona's Governor Signs Bill Making Pluto the Official State Planet 118
America's FDA Forced to Settle 'Groundless' Lawsuit Over Its Ivermectin Warnings 350
AT&T Says Data From 73 Million Customers Has Leaked Onto the Dark Web 21
Do Age Verification Laws Drag Us Back to the Dark Ages of the Internet? 159
Can Apps Turn Us Into Unpaid Lobbyists? 73
More AI Safeguards Coming, Including Right to Refuse Face-Recognition Scans at US Airports 23
America's DHS Is Expected to Stop Buying Access to Your Phone Movements 49
Are State Governments Slowing the Build-Out of America's EV Charging Stations? 120
Congress Bans Staff Use of Microsoft's AI Copilot 32
NYC's Government Chatbot Is Lying About City Laws and Regulations 57
Apple Sues Former Employee For Leaking Journal App, Vision Pro Details 47
Cloud Server Host Vultr Rips User Data Ownership Clause From ToS After Web Outage 28
Biden Orders Every US Agency To Appoint a Chief AI Officer 48
Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced To 25 Years in Prison 143
Nigerian Woman Faces Jail Time For Facebook Review of Tomato Sauce 72
Oregon Governor Signs Nation's First Right-To-Repair Bill That Bans Parts Pairing 139
TikTok Is Under Investigation By the FTC Over Data Practices 11
'Operation 404' Results In First Prison Sentence For Pirate IPTV Operator 14
UK Court Denies Bid To Extradite Assange To the US 151
Florida Braces For Lawsuits Over Law Banning Kids From Social Media 168
Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone To Wiretap Snapchat 58
Portugal Orders Altman's Worldcoin To Halt Data Collection 24
Telegram's Peer-to-Peer Login System is a Risky Way To Save $5 a Month 32
Binance Executive Detained In Nigeria Escapes Custody 19
US, UK Announce Sanctions Over China-Linked Election Hacks 29
SWAT Team Raids Innocent Family Over Stolen AirPods, Inaccurate 'FindMy' App Tracking 164
Tennessee Becomes First State To Protect Musicians, Other Artists Against AI 23
Consumers Sue Apple, Taking Page From Justice Department Lawsuit 116
DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Says Apple Is Causing Android Users 'Social Stigma' 237
Judge Orders YouTube to Reveal Everyone Who Viewed A Video 169
Steve Wozniak Decries Tracking's Effect on Privacy, Calls Out 'Hypocrisy' of Only Banning TikTok 137
Could a Guilty Plea Free Julian Assange From Jail? 94
Database For UK Nurse Registration 'Completely Unacceptable' 42
General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers 34
Dutch Court Orders ISP To Block 'Anna's Archive' and 'LibGen' 26
DOT Wants To Know How Big Airlines Use Passenger Data 11
Texas Sues xHamster and Chaturbate 292
Hackers Found a Way To Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks In Seconds 33
UN Adopts First Global Artificial Intelligence Resolution 12
Epic, Spotify, Others Back DOJ Lawsuit Against Apple 68
EPA Sets Strict New Limits On Tailpipe Emissions That Could Boost EV Sector 282
Woman With $2.5 Billion In Bitcoin Convicted of Money Laundering 70
India Will Fact-Check Online Posts About Government Matters 32
Users Ditch Glassdoor, Stunned By Site Adding Real Names Without Consent 101
'Disabling Cyberattacks' Are Hitting Critical US Water Systems, White House Warns 77
AT&T Says Leaked Data of 70 Million People Is Not From Its Systems 25
Nokia Tells Reddit It Infringes Some Patents in Lead-Up To IPO 33
C++ Creator Rebuts White House Warning 258
EPA Bans Chrysotile Asbestos 98
BitTorrent Is No Longer the 'King' of Upstream Internet Traffic 37
32-Hour Workweek for America Proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders 390
Why Oregon's Drug Decriminalization Failed 194
EFF Opposes America's Proposed TikTok Ban 67
TikTok is Banned in China, Notes X User Community - Along With Most US Social Media 148
Amazon Violated Rights of Workers Trying to Unionize, Labor Regulators Find 24
What Happened to Other China-Owned Social Media Apps? 73
Florida Man Sues G.M. and LexisNexis Over Sale of His Cadillac Data 125
India Drops Plan To Require Approval For AI Model Launches 2
Sam Bankman-Fried Deserves 40-50 Years in Prison For FTX Fraud, Prosecutors Say 85
Apple, Investors Reach $490 Million Settlement in Fraud Case 5
Supreme Court Tosses Rulings on Public Officials' Social Media Blockings 58
CIA Used Chinese Social Media In Covert Influence Operation Against Xi Jinping's Government 114
FTC and DOJ Think McDonald's Ice Cream Machines Should Be Legal To Fix 66
Court Docs Reveal Epic CEO's Anger At Steam's 30% Fees 109
Record Breach of French Government Exposes Up To 43 Million People's Data 11
Bitcoin Fog Crypto Mixer Found Guilty of Money Laundering, Jury Finds 15
Stanford University Failed To Detect Ransomware Intruders For 4 Months 22
America's Last Top Models 17
US House Passes Bill To Force ByteDance To Divest TikTok or Face Ban 233
New York Times Denies OpenAI's 'Hacking' Claim In Copyright Fight 25
Over 15,000 Roku Accounts Sold To Buy Streaming Subscriptions, Devices 25
EU's Use of Microsoft 365 Found To Breach Data Protection Rules 46
Worldcoin Fails To Get Injunction Against Spain's Privacy Suspension 9
US Must Move 'Decisively' To Avert 'Extinction-Level' Threat From AI, Gov't-Commissioned Report Says 139
Airbnb is Banning Indoor Security Cameras 103
US Intelligence Officer Explains Roswell, UFO Sightings 43
Canada's 'Online Harms' Bill Would Be an Assault On Free Speech, Civil Liberties Groups Say 200
California State Legislator Proposes Ending Daylight Saving Time 186
New US Defense Department Report Found 'No Evidence' of Alien Technology 66
PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' To Officially Be Removed from Food Packaging, FDA Says 39
US Cybersecurity Agency Forced to Take Two Systems Offline Last Month After Ivanti Compromise 4
How $138B in US Student Loans Were Cancelled - Roughly One-Third of Planned Amount 162
NYTimes Files Copyright Takedown Against Hundreds of Wordle Clones 39
Should an Emoji Count As Confirmation of a Contract? 89
US Lost Record $12.5 Billion To Online Crime In 2023, Says FBI 33
Bipartisan Bill Could Force ByteDance To Divest TikTok 49
Former Google Engineer Indicted For Stealing AI Secrets To Aid Chinese Companies 28
Man Charged With Smuggling Greenhouse Gases Into US 94
Signal's New Usernames Help Keep Cops Out of Your Data 39
Oregon OKs Right-To-Repair Bill That Bans the Blocking of Aftermarket Parts 75
Microsoft Accuses the New York Times of Doom-Mongering in OpenAI Lawsuit 55
In Indonesia, Women Pirate More Music and Movies Than Men 36
San Francisco Police Make Arrest In Waymo Chinatown Arson Case 8
Discord Leaker Jack Teixeira Pleads Guilty, Seeks Light 11-Year Sentence 50
Roku Disables Devices Until Users Agree To New Arbitration Rules 147
Nintendo Switch Emulator Yuzu To Shut Down, Pay $2.4 Million To Settle Lawsuit 62
Decades-Old Missing Person Mystery Solved After Relative Uploads DNA To GEDMatch 30
French Court Issues Damages Award For Violation of GPL 52
Boeing Now Also Ordered to Fix Anti-Ice System on 737 Max, 787 Jets 47
TurboTax and H&R Block Want 'Permission to Blab Your Money Secrets' 29
Ransomware Attack Hampers Prescription Drug Sales at 90% of US Pharmacies 81
Police Now Need Warrant For IP Addresses, Canada's Top Court Rules 36
A Leaky Database Spilled 2FA Codes For the World's Tech Giants 11
How the Pentagon Learned To Use Targeted Ads To Find Its Targets 55
Government Watchdog Hacked US Federal Agency To Stress-Test Its Cloud Security 21
ExxonMobil Is Suing Investors Who Want Faster Climate Action 110
Court Orders Maker of Pegasus Spyware To Hand Over Code To WhatsApp 53
The FBI Is Using Push Notifications To Catch Sexual Predators 34
BC Lawyer Reprimanded For Citing Fake Cases Invented By ChatGPT 42
Cheap Doorbell Cameras Can Be Easily Hijacked, Says Consumer Reports 23
The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet Sue OpenAI and Microsoft 58
SBF Asks For 5-Year Prison Sentence, Calls 100-Year Recommendation 'Grotesque' 189
EU Lawmakers Back Draft Rules on Patents for Connected Cars, Telecom Equipment 3
White House Looks To Curb Foreign Powers' Ability To Buy Americans' Sensitive Personal Data With Executive Order 117
Nintendo Suing Makers of Open-Source Switch Emulator Yuzu 107
Hackers Backed By Russia and China Are Infecting SOHO Routers Like Yours, FBI Warns 36
Apple Sues To Win Trademarks For Augmented-Reality Software 28
Meta Will Start Collecting 'Anonymized' Data About Quest Headset Usage 31
Tumblr and Wordpress Are Preparing To Sell User Data To OpenAI and Midjourney, Report Says 42
OpenAI Says New York Times 'Hacked' ChatGPT To Build Copyright Lawsuit 32
Nevada Sues To Deny Kids Access To Meta's Messenger Encryption 79
US Leading Global Alliance To Counter Foreign Government Disinformation 122
Open Source Movie Streaming Project 'Movie-Web' Shut Down By Hollywood Complaint 21
Are Corporate Interests Holding Back US Electrical Grid Expansion? 133
The Companies Helping Governments Hack Citizens' Phones: a 'Thriving' Industry 8
Oklahoma Man Hacked US Government Site To Buy Cars At Auction For $1 38
License Plate-Scanning Company Violates Privacy of Millions of California Drivers, Argues Class Action 49
US Court Stalls Energy Dept Demand For Cryptocurrency Mining Data 103
Vending Machine Error Reveals Secret Face Image Database of College Students 100
Florida Lawmakers Pass Ban On Social Media For Kids 114
US Man Accused of Making $1.8 Million From Listening In On Wife's Remote Work Calls 107
Leisure Firm in UK Told Scanning Staff Faces is Illegal 17
Snapchat Isn't Liable For Connecting 12-Year-Old To Convicted Sex Offenders 59
Study Finds Anti-Piracy Messages Backfire, Especially For Men 106
Leaked Hacking Files Show Chinese Spying On Citizens and Foreigners Alike 18
Frozen Embryos Are 'Children,' According To Alabama's Supreme Court 557
Cox Communications Wins Order Overturning $1 Billion US Copyright Verdict 17
Vietnam To Collect Biometrics For New ID Cards 33
Wyze Says Camera Breach Let 13,000 Customers Briefly See Into Other People's Homes 26
US Cities Try Changing Their Zoning Rules to Allow More Housing 191
Zeus, IcedID Malware Kingpin Faces 40 Years In Prison 39
California Bill Wants To Scrap Environmental Reviews To Save Downtown San Francisco 177
Scientists Propose AI Apocalypse Kill Switches 104
New Bill Would Let Defendants Inspect Algorithms Used Against Them In Court 47
New 'Gold Pickaxe' Android, iOS Malware Steals Your Face For Fraud 13
RFK Jr. Wins Deferred Injunction In Vax Social Media Suit 323
Air Canada Found Liable For Chatbot's Bad Advice On Plane Tickets 72
Leaked Emails Show Hugo Awards Self-Censoring To Appease China 89
AMC To Pay $8 Million For Allegedly Sharing Subscribers' Viewing History With Tech Companies 20
Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show 135
NYC Sues Social Media Companies Over Youth Mental Health Crisis 63
US Military Notifies 20,000 of Data Breach After Cloud Email Leak 11
Amazon Sued Over Prime Video Ads 68
US Patent Office Confirms AI Can't Hold Patents 44
Backdoors That Let Cops Decrypt Messages Violate Human Rights, EU Court Says 30
Apple Pulls Popular Movie Piracy App Kimi From the App Store 25
Wi-Fi Jamming To Knock Out Cameras Suspected In Nine Minnesota Burglaries 174
OpenAI Gets Some of Sarah Silverman's Suit Cut in Mixed Ruling 64
Cloudflare Defeats Another Patent Troll With Crowd-Sourced Prior-Art Army 23
Amazon Hides Cheaper Items With Faster Delivery, Lawsuit Alleges 23
WhatsApp Image Sender Becomes First Convicted Cyber-Flasher 24
The US Government Makes a $42 Million Bet On Open Cell Networks 26
'World's Biggest Casino' App Exposed Customers' Personal Data 10
Google Shareholders to Receive $350 Million in Lawsuit Settlement 39
Oversight of Boeing 'is Not Delivering Safe Aircraft', Says America's Top Aviation Regulator 99
Apple Is Settling Chip Secrets Theft Case Against Startup Rivos, Former Employees 5
In Big Tech's Backyard, a California State Lawmaker Unveils a Landmark AI Bill 50
Will FTX Customers Fully Recoup Their Money? 27
EFF Challenges 'Legal Bullying' of Sites Reporting on Alleged Appin 'Hacking-for-Hire' 16
California Bill Would Ban All Plastic Shopping Bags At Grocery Stores 276
Security Flaw In a Popular Smart Helmet Allowed Silent Location Tracking 3
Reddit Doesn't Have To Share IP-Addresses of Piracy Commenters, Court Rules 22
Apple Is Lobbying Against Right To Repair Six Months After Supporting Right To Repair 27
Amazon Steers Consumers To Higher-Priced Items, Lawsuit Claims 50
London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools To Spot Crime 31
Jury Awards Climate Scientist $1 Million In Defamation Lawsuit 153
Pakistan Cuts Off Phone and Internet Services On Election Day 36
Thieves Steal 200ft Tower From Alabama Radio Station 142

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