WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps
Meanwhile, Julia Weis, a spokesperson for the Swiss messaging app Threema, says that while WhatsApp did approach it to discuss its interoperability plans, the proposed…
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2054, Part II: Next Big Thing
A bloody Sunday followed. In Tucson, a Border Patrol officer fired a rubber bullet that struck a Truther protester in the eye, killing her. When…
2054, Part I: Death of a President
“But do you understand what you did wrong?” She struggled to look him directly in the eye. Her gaze instead fell over his shoulder, where…
China’s Hackers Keep Targeting US Water and Electricity Supplies
An indictment from the US Department of Justice may have solved the mystery of how disgraced cryptocurrency exchange FTX lost over $400 million in crypto.…
The Mystery of the $400 Million FTX Heist May Have Been Solved
When more than $400 million worth of crypto was mysteriously pulled out of the coffers of what was once the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, FTX,…
A Startup Allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then Came the Censorship—and Now the Backlash
Even so, a little more than two weeks after publishing its investigation into Appin Technology, on December 5, Reuters complied with the Indian court’s injunction,…
YouTube, Discord, and ‘Lord of the Rings’ Led Police to a Teen Accused of a US Swatting Spree
A California teenager prosecutors say is responsible for hundreds of swatting attacks around the United States was exposed after law enforcement pieced together a digital…
Apple and Google Just Patched Their First Zero-Day Flaws of the Year
Later in January, Google released Chrome 121 to the stable channel, fixing 17 security issues, three of which are rated as having a high impact.…
Robots Are Fighting Robots in Russia’s War in Ukraine
Near the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, a boxy robot zips along the rocky, cracked road. Snaking from side to side, the robot—a four-wheeled machine, around…
US Lawmakers Tell DOJ to Quit Blindly Funding ‘Predictive’ Police Tools
The United States Department of Justice has failed to convince a group of US lawmakers that state and local police agencies aren’t awarded federal grants…
23andMe Failed to Detect Account Intrusions for Months
Police took a digital rendering of a suspect’s face, generated using DNA evidence, and ran it through a facial recognition system in a troubling incident…
Police Arrest Teen Said to Be Linked to Hundreds of Swatting Attacks
For more than a year, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has been hunting the person whom experts say is one of the most…