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Apple's plan to release its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy enhancement feature in early spring has set the ad industry on its ear and triggered a war with Facebook ...

An international group of scientists is demanding scientific journals demand more transparency from researchers in computer-related areas when accepting their reports for publication ...

More than 80 percent of 650 cybersecurity and IT professionals surveyed by Check Point Software Technologies in July said their traditional security solutions either do not work at all, or only provide limited functions in the cloud ...

Illinois consumer Matthew Hufnus says that on September 26, he received a number of text messages on his cellphone from a company named DoNotPay, Inc., attempting to solicit his business ...

Cybersecurity firm FireEye, which has been prominent in the fight against nation-state cyberthreats, has been itself attacked by "a highly sophisticated threat actor, one whose discipline, operational security, and techniques," company CEO Kevin Mandia announced Tuesday ...

Service outage detection website Downdetector on Nov. 19 reported that the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Internet infrastructure service, which many websites and apps use as a backbone, was having problems ...

CRM giant Salesforce on Tuesday signed a definitive agreement to purchase enterprise communications platform Slack, as widely expected ...

The demand for smart home devices is projected to grow steadily over the next few years. Nonetheless, consumers should think carefully before making a purchase due to a trend of manufacturers phasing out "smart" products ...

Hackers hit German enterprise integration and IoT platform Software AG with ransomware twice this month. ...

Healthcare records were digitized to help prevent medical errors such as misdiagnoses and mistakes with medication, but electronic health records (EHR) have made it easier for bad actors to steal patients' highly personal information ...

CEOs of three of the five "Big Tech" firms -- Facebook, Twitter, and Google's parent company, Alphabet -- are expected to testify on Oct. 28 at a Senate hearing on their control over hate speech and misinformation ...

When Amazon first proposed using drones to deliver packages back in 2013, it kicked off a firestorm. Google in 2014 disclosed it had been working on a secret drone delivery project, and NASA in 2015 announced it was working on a cloud-based unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) traffic management system ...

The United States Defense Innovation Board (DIB) has recommended that the Pentagon hire civilians to work from home who can handle classified information as a way of attracting people with technical expertise ...

Although software patches can be inconvenient and cumbersome for both enterprises and individual users, these fixes serve an important role in protecting computer systems, which are now vital to everyday life ...

It's hard to beat being able to tell your sound system to select and play a particular song, order something online using just your voice, have your refrigerator tell you when you're running short of food, or have your office printer diagnose itself and demand service automatically from the vendor ...

Computer systems design and related services added 13,000 jobs, according to the U.S. Department of Labor's August jobs report ...

Corporate cybersecurity has been increasingly compromised since businesses and organizations began implementing work-from-home (WFH) policies in March as the pandemic continued its spread. ...

Data breaches were rampant in 2019, occurring at an unprecedented pace. However, the first half of this year has seen a reduction in the number of reported events. Reported being the operative word ...

Municipalities throughout the United States have been switching from diesel- and natural gas-powered vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs), to cut costs and reduce damage to the environment, but the COVID-19 pandemic might slow that trend ...

Who can forget Princess Leia's hologram asking for Obi-Wan Kenobi's help in the movie Star Wars? That was perhaps the best-known hologram of the many used in the Star Wars franchise movies, but the power and promise of holographic technology have been depicted in science fiction stories for years ...