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Cyberattacks Discovered on Vaccine Distribution Operations
IBM has found that companies and governments have been targeted by unknown attackers, prompting a warning from the Homeland Security Department.
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Job Interviews Without Interviewers, Products of the Pandemic
Video responses to set questions, online games that measure a person's traits and skills: The future of interviews is coming to a wider variety of professions in...
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Does Palantir See Too Much?
The tech giant helps governments and law enforcement decipher vast amounts of data — to mysterious and, some say, dangerous ends.
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The Police Can Probably Break Into Your Phone
Washington DC-based nonprofit Upturn found law enforcement officials regularly break into encrypted smartphones, and police in all U.S. states have phone-hacking...
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U.S. Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google
The Justice Department filed its long-awaited lawsuit against Google.
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Twitter Changes Course After Republicans Claim ‘Election Interference’
It had blocked an unsubstantiated New York Post article about the Bidens, but said late Thursday that it would allow similar content to be shared.
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Facebook Widens Ban on Political Ads as Alarm Rises Over Election
Political ads will be banned indefinitely after polls close on Nov. 3 and the company plans new steps to limit misinformation about the results.
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Apple and Google to Make It Easier to Opt In to Virus Tracing
The tech giants said states could soon send notices directly to smartphones asking people to opt in to the technology, which helps trace the coronavirus.
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The Lesson We’re Learning From TikTok? It’s All About Our Data
We should minimize how much we share with all of our favorite and not-so-favorite apps.
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England’s Flawed Virus Contact Tracing Will Be Revamped
After months of complaints about its centralized, privatized system, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government says resources will be diverted to local public health...
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Major Security Flaws Found in South Korea Quarantine App
Software engineer Frederic Rechtenstein found a South Korean mobile application designed to enforce pandemic quarantines contained major security flaws that could...
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Goodbye to the Wild Wild Web
The Internet is changing, and the freewheeling, anything-goes culture of social media is being replaced by something more accountable.
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Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans 'The_Donald' Subreddit
The influential pro-Trump community broke the rules on harassment and targeting, said Reddit, which also banned other groups.
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Britain Didn’t Want Silicon Valley’s Help on a Tracing App. Now It Does.
Months after other countries, Britain will now use technology provided by Apple and Google to build a contact-tracing app.
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Signal Downloads Are Way Up Since the Protests Began
Organizers and demonstrators say they feel safer communicating with end-to-end encryption.
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Don’t Kid Yourself: Online Lectures Are Here to Stay
The economic forces are too powerful for virtual instruction to go away after the pandemic. The important question is who will benefit financially, a Cornell economist...
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Publishers Sue Internet Archive Over Free E-Books
Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette, and Wiley accused the nonprofit of piracy for making over 1 million books free online.
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App Shows Promise in Tracking New Coronavirus Cases, Study Finds
The app, which allows people to record their symptoms, was remarkably effective in predicting infections. The most reliable indicators, researchers found, were...
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A Pandemic Benefit: The Expansion of Telemedicine
Medical practice over the Internet can result in faster diagnoses and treatments, increase the efficiency of care, and reduce patient stress.
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