The Ukrainian Security Service said on Tuesday that it shut down a bot farm that was spreading panic on social media and had also been used to send out bomb threats.

In a draft complaint, the group accuses researchers of nine Animal Welfare Act violations involving monkeys used in Neuralink brain-implant studies.

A new law taking aim at big platforms like Google and Facebook

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Best Buy wants a pound of flesh before it hands over a new Nvidia graphics card.

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository that includes information collected about Americans, two Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee said. While neither the agency nor lawmakers would disclose specifics about the data…

NASA explains concerns to FCC, urges more research and careful deployment by SpaceX.

We're shocked, shocked to find unjustified collection and access is going on in here

Amazon told staff a decline in COVID-19 cases across the US is a "positive sign we can return to the path to normal operations."

The production issues could impact SSD pricing.

It's a roundabout way to study what it takes to grow a human heart from scratch.

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On Wednesday, February 9, EFF sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee to strongly oppose S. 3538, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2022 (EARN IT

BestBuy Totaltech membership is a total disaster BestBuy made an “NFT move” in a  retailer space.  Bestbuy Totaltech membership, Source: BestBuy By introducing its $200/y premium membership program called Totaltech, customers have access to a special protection…

A new report from the Tech Oversight Project shows how tech giants have shifted their priorities under the threat of antitrust action.

After decades of enlisting gamers in the U.S. military, ‘America’s Army’ leaves a lasting legacy of video games as recruitment tools.

Numerous Monterey users say Zoom is leaving the microphone on after a meeting has ended.

Stephen Hart, 54, from Greenhill, Kent, showed off a large rock of cocaine in a picture shared via EncroChat, a dark web messaging service.

Facebook’s parent company declined to answer our questions about how it moderates content in VR, so we created a test Horizon World filled with content banned from Facebook and Instagram. Content moderators said the world was fine — until we told Meta’s PR…

Senator Richard Blumenthal has now admitted that EARN IT is targeting encryption, something he denied for two years, and then just out and said it. Since the very beginning many of us have pointed …