Maryland bill would outlaw ransomware, keep researchers from reporting bugs
Enlarge / Sure, this will work.
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Remember last May, when Baltimore City was brought to a standstill by …
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Verizon brings 5G to the Super Bowl—for part of the stadium, anyway
Enlarge / A sign near the Fox Sports South Beach studio compound prior to Super Bowl LIV in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Verizon’s 5G hype train …
Mac users are getting bombarded by laughably unsophisticated malware
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Almost two years have passed since the appearance of Shlayer, a piece of Mac malware that gets installed by tricking targets into installing fake Adobe Flash updates. …
Time check: Examining the Doomsday Clock’s move to 100 seconds to midnight
Enlarge / The Doomsday Clock reads 100 seconds to midnight, a decision made by The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, during an announcement at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2020.
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CenturyLink, Frontier took FCC cash, failed to deploy all required broadband
Enlarge / A CenturyLink repair truck in Estes Park, Colorado, in 2018.
CenturyLink and Frontier Communications have apparently failed to meet broadband-deployment requirements in numerous states where …
Microsoft’s sneaky plan to switch Chrome searches from Google to Bing
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Stop trying to make Bing happen, Microsoft. It’s never going to happen.
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Office 365 users in these countries—or more accurately, with IP addresses geolocated to these countries—will
DirecTV races to decommission broken Boeing satellite before it explodes
Enlarge / Illustration—not the actual Boeing satellite used by DirecTV.
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DirecTV is scrambling to move a broken Boeing satellite out of its standard orbit in order …
FCC shuts New York out of $20B broadband fund, and senators are angry
Enlarge / Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrats from New York, during a news conference on the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund in Washington, DC, on Thursday, July 18, 2019.
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Google researchers find serious privacy risks in Safari’s anti-tracking protections
When Apple introduced powerful anti-tracking protections to Safari in 2017, advertisers banded together to say they were “deeply concerned” it would sabotage ad-supported content. Now, there’s new information showing …
Sonos sunsets several smart speakers’ software support, spurring storm
Enlarge / The Sonos Connect:Amp in what is soon to be its natural setting: a room filled with old stuff that may or may not work.
Sonos has been slinging …