Business
Machines and the internet are woven into the fabric of our society. A growing number of users, devices and applications work together to produce what we now call "big data". And this data helps drive many of the everyday ...
Oct 22, 2019
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Security
Headlines about cybersecurity breaches and data theft from government agencies and companies such as Caribou Coffee, Target and Medtronic in recent years can inspire fear of bad guys exploiting the internet from dark places ...
Oct 9, 2019
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Security
Almost the entire population of Ecuador had their personal data leaked online in a major security breach, officials and security experts said Monday.
Sep 16, 2019
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Business
Big tech companies have long rebuffed attempts by the U.S. federal government to scrutinize or scale back their market power. Now they face a scrappy new coalition as well: prosecutors from nearly all 50 states.
Sep 10, 2019
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Other
Data are generated every time we make a purchase or receive other services such as health care. This has always been the case, but over the past 20 years, data collection has become increasingly automated, with data collected ...
Aug 1, 2019
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Business
Facebook's planned global digital coin Libra has run into a wall of opposition in Washington that could prevent its launch as envisioned, but analysts say cryptocurrencies are likely to make gains around the world nonetheless.
Jul 18, 2019
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Internet
A scathing British parliamentary report on Monday branded Facebook "digital gangsters" who failed to fight the spread of fake news and violated data privacy.
Feb 18, 2019
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Internet
DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg is among the digital prophets warning us how Google, the Goliath he's been challenging for 10 years with his Paoli-based non-tracking search engine, and other giants of information are ...
Mar 7, 2018
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Business
When President Joe Biden signed a US$95 billion foreign aid bill into law on April 24, 2024, it started the clock on a nine-month window for TikTok's China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app. The president can ...
Apr 25, 2024
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Security
Online services at some Swedish government agencies and shops have been disrupted in a ransomware attack believed to have been carried out by a Russian hacker group, IT consultancy Tietoevry said.
Jan 23, 2024
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