Technology

Facebook’s headaches just keep piling up following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The company’s stock price is dropping, and governments on both sides of the Atlantic are opening investigations. Now, Mozilla is pausing its advertising relationship with Facebook because, in its words, Mozilla wants what’s “good for the web and for …

Facebook is currently dealing with a scandal over using its information by British political research study company Cambridge Analytica. It didn’t get the data through a hack, however apparently through a Facebook app which gave a researcher user information — and likewise the data of their friends. The majority of …

Huawei managed to squeak past Apple last year to become the world’s second largest smartphone maker, thanks to huge success in Asia and Europe. However, the US market remains a tough nut to crack. After ATT and Verizon backed out of deals to sell the company’s Mate 10 Pro flagship …

Microsoft is putting the final touches on the latest update for Window 10 known as the Spring Creators Update. The new version (known more formally as build 1803) should start hitting PCs next month, and it includes a ton of functional changes. So many, in fact that it can be …

There has been plenty of speculation about how it was possible for a high-tech autonomous vehicle to plow into, and kill, a woman pushing a bicycle. Much of the early coverage has been framed by some early comments from the Tempe Police that the woman had apparently jumped out in …

Jigsaw, the Alphabet-owned firm formerly known as Google Ideas, has announced a new free VPN (virtual private network) software package called Outline. The new open source VPN serves as a way to protect journalists, activists, and others who need a secure service to protect sensitive data or vulnerable individuals, though …

Twitch’s extensions – the tools that allows streamers to customize their channel pages with interactive experiences, including leaderboards, polls, schedules, and more – are now available on mobile. The game streaming company announced this highly requested feature at the Game Developers Conference this week, along with the launch of a …

Microsoft has announced that Windows Server 2019 is now available in preview, with general availability expected in the back half of the year (despite the name, Windows Server 2019 is launching in 2018). This version of Windows will also receive an LTSC (Long Term Service Channel) release, which means it’ll …

Like the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back, some four-year-old data that wasn’t destroyed when it was supposed to be maybe what finally starts to bring internet giant Facebook under the scrutiny of legislators and a previously complacent public. It’s helpful to look back at what happened, and at …

Last week, a heretofore unknown security company, CTS Labs, published bombshell allegations of what it declared were 13 critical security flaws that impacted AMD’s Ryzen CPUs and chipsets. It quickly became clear the entire disclosure process was unusual, to put it mildly, and there’s good reason to think the entire …