Stop Using WhatsApp If You Care About Your Privacy Russia is attacking the U.S. energy grid, nuclear facilities, water processing plants, aviation systems, and other critical infrastructure that millions of Americans rely on, according to a new joint analysis by the...
You Can’t Opt Out Of Sharing Your Data, Even If You Didn’t Opt In The Golden State Killer, who terrorized Californians from Sacramento to Orange County over the course of a decade, committed his last known murder in 1986, the same year that DNA profiling was used in a...
Standards Milestone Could Mark Beginning of End for Passwords A Web standards milestone announced Tuesday could point to the end of the road for pesky passwords. The new standard, WebAuthn, has won near-final approval from the World Wide Web Consortium, which...
Google Duplex will call salons, restaurants, and pretend to be human for you [Updated] Tuesday’s I/O keynote included a segment on Google Assistant with a slew of newly announced features, but none was as startling as its rollout of Google Duplex: a voice-powered...
Facebook shrinks fake news after warnings backfire First, rather than call more attention to fake news, Facebook wants to make it easier to miss these stories while scrolling. When Facebook’s third-party fact-checkers verify an article is inaccurate, Facebook will...