Tech Executives Warn Full Extent of US Cyber Breach Still Unkown
U.S. lawmakers launched an investigation this week into the December 2020 SolarWinds hack that included a breach of many private...
ByteDance Agrees to $92 Million Privacy Settlement with US TikTok Users
ByteDance has agreed to a $92 million class-action settlement over data privacy claims from some U.S. TikTok users, according to...
Australia Approves Law to Make Facebook and Google Pay to Carry News Content
Australia has become the world’s first nation to make digital companies such as Facebook and Google pay domestic news outlets...
Facebook Pledges $1B In News Investments Over 3 Years
Facebook on Wednesday pledged to invest at least $1 billion to support journalism over the next three years as the...
Facebook’s Oversight Board Has Received Appeal From ‘User’ in Trump Ban Case
Facebook Inc.’s oversight board has received a “user statement” for the case it is deciding about whether the social media...
Growing Digital Economy Offers New Opportunities – and Challenges
The latest International Labor Organization FILE – Travelers request an Uber ride at Los Angeles International Airport’s LAX-it pick up...
Nigeria Rape Reporting App Helps Survivors Avoid Stigma
Nigeria’s reported rapes tripled during COVID-19 pandemic to a few thousand, but the U.N. Children’s fund says one in four...
Facebook to Lift Block on Australian News Content after Agreement with Canberra
The Australian government says Facebook has agreed to allow Australians to resume viewing or sharing news content after the two...
COVID Conspiracy Disinformation Campaign Has Had Vast Reach, Study Finds
It took just three months for the rumor that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was engineered as a bioweapon to...
Google Fires 2nd AI Ethics Leader as Dispute Over Research, Diversity Grows
Alphabet Inc.’s Google fired staff scientist Margaret Mitchell on Friday, they both said, a move that fanned company divisions on...
Suspected Russian Hack Fuels New US Action on Cybersecurity
Jolted by a sweeping hack that may have revealed government and corporate secrets to Russia, U.S. officials are scrambling to...
China Blocked Clubhouse App Fearing Uncontrolled Public Discourse
For a brief time before Beijing banned the audio chat app Clubhouse, tech-savvy Chinese joined global discussions on taboo topics...
Facebook Dubbed ‘Bully’ as Backlash Grows over Dispute with Australia
An international backlash was growing Thursday to Facebook blocking users of its platform in Australia from viewing or sharing links...
Facebook Bans Australian Users From Sharing News in Dispute Over New Law
Facebook is blocking Australian users from sharing or viewing news content amid a dispute over a proposed law. Australia wants...
Explainer: What’s Up Between Google, Facebook and Australia?
For two decades, global news outlets have complained internet companies are getting rich at their expense, selling advertising linked to...
Facebook Blocks Australians from Viewing, Sharing News Content
Facebook has blocked Australian account holders from viewing or sharing all news content over a dispute with a government proposal...
Three North Koreans Indicted in Sony Hack
The U.S. Justice Department has indicted three North Korean computer programmers for trying to extort and steal more than $1.3...
Robotic Toys Teach Language, Science Skills
A slew of attractive toy robots on the market today are teaching children important language and science, technology, engineering and...
Google to Pay Australia Media Company to Host News Material
The information technology giant Google has agreed to pay an Australian media company to host news material ahead of a planned mandatory...
Parler, Controversial Social Media Service, Comes Back Online
Parler, a social media service popular with American right-wing users that virtually vanished shortly after the U.S. Capitol riot, relaunched...
NASA Rover Faces ‘7 Minutes of Terror’ Before Landing on Mars
When NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, a robotic astrobiology lab packed inside a space capsule, hits the final stretch of its...
Microsoft Backs Search Engines Paying for News Worldwide
Microsoft on Thursday lobbied for other countries to follow Australia’s lead in calling for news outlets to be paid for...
