Ukrainians are about to celebrate Christmas for the first time since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24. But which Christmas, exactly? Earlier this year, the Orthodox Church in Ukraine (OCU), which represents tens of millions of worshipers, announced that member churches would be free to…

​Comcast Xfinity customers report their accounts being hacked in widespread attacks that bypass two-factor authentication. These compromised accounts are then used to reset passwords for other service

Password manager giant LastPass has confirmed that cybercriminals stole its customers’ encrypted password vaults, which store its customers’ passwords and other secrets, in a data breach earlier this

Enlarge / Founder Eugen Rochko said Mastodon would not "turn into everything you hate about Twitter." NurPhoto via Getty Images Twitter rival Mastodon has rejected more than five investment offers fro

Elon Musk has reduced the company to a bare-bones operation, and employees are under a “zero-based budgeting” mandate to justify any spending. By Kate Conger, Ryan Mac and Mike Isaac Kate Conger, Ryan Mac and Mike Isaac have reported on Elon Musk and Twitter since early this year. Elon Musk’s orders…

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The company’s internal investigation showed that workers also obtained data on a small number of other U.S. users. The results of ByteDance’s internal investigation acknowledge the privacy and security risks that U.S. officials have been concerned about for two years. Credit...Thomas Suen/Reuters By…

ByEmily Baker-White, Forbes Staff. An internal investigation by ByteDance, the parent company of video-sharing platform TikTok, found that employees tracked multiple journalists covering the company, improperly gaining access to their IP addresses and user data in an attempt to identify whether they…

Image Credit: hareluya/Shutterstock Cybersecurity is a high-stakes game. With the average data breach costing $4.35 million, security analysts are under constant pressure to protect critical data asse

It's a great time to be a candlemaker in Germany. "Candle demand is very strong right now," says Stefan Thomann, Technical Director of the European Candle Manufacturers Association. The candle boom be

A recent incident at Radio City Music Hall involving the mother of a Girl Scout is shedding light on the growing controversy of facial recognition, as critics claim it is being used to target perceive

Image: puhhha/Shutterstock Almost three-quarters (74%) of developers are actively looking for new roles or are open to fresh opportunities, according to research. Younger developers are more likely to

Large, traditional business networking events are a time-honored institution. They have been a staple of aspiring and successful professionals for so long that most networking advice focuses not on wh

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Enlarge Getty Images | NurPhoto A lawsuit says Twitter failed to pay a $1,092,000 invoice in a software contract that doesn't expire until late 2024, and that the Elon Musk-led company apparently inte

Update: After this article was published, Twitter banned half a dozen prominent journalists who had covered Musk and were critical of him on the platform. On Wednesday, Twitter chief Elon Musk banned

Workers on visas, many of them waiting years for green cards, now face having to leave the country unless they get hired within 60 days. Abhi Jain was laid off from his job as a software engineer at M

Subscriber-only Newsletter Well My Family Got Covid. So Why Did We Test Negative? The key to this household mystery may lie in our vaccination status, experts say. Credit... Delcan & Co. By Published

I’ve been writing for most of my adult life. It helps me think. Joan Didion, a noted writer, had a similar take: "I write … to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, … and what it means”. Th

Knowing that COVID-19 has not gone away, some people are not yet prepared to let their guard down, according to a working paper distributed by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Some 13% of U.S

The sex of human and other mammal babies is decided by a male-determining gene on the Y chromosome. But the human Y chromosome is degenerating and may disappear in a few million years, leading to our

A few weeks ago, it seemed like everyone in the tech industry was glued to Mudge’s congressional testimony. Not only is he one of the most irreproachable people in the security space, the drama around

I had to split this article into two parts. Part one describes what I think is wrong and part two, which is coming next week, is a proposed architecture to improve it. Discussions and comments for thi

A week ago I published a short form post on Linkedin about the sheer number of security companies, the corresponding number of security tools and how the economic climate is going to create a train crash. This is the long form version of that post, cross posted to my Linkedin page for comments. The…

Who is to blame for inflation? Some say greedy corporations are the culprits. Peter Ruck/BIPs/Getty Images Everyone agrees inflation is happening. What they don't agree on is whodunit. The most recent

The thawing of the permafrost due to climate change may expose a vast store of ancient viruses, according to a team of European researchers, who say they have found 13 previously unknown pathogens that had been trapped in the previously frozen ground of Russia’s vast Siberian region. The scientists…

The 8086 microprocessor was a groundbreaking processor introduced by Intel in 1978.It led to the x86 architecture that still dominatesdesktop and server computing.While reverse-engineering the 8086 fr

A HackerOne employee stole vulnerability reports submitted through the bug bounty platform and disclosed them to affected customers to claim financial rewards. The rogue worker had contacted about hal

Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcast s or PodcastOne . The Army is exploring how to use Software Bills of Mat

Elon Musk plans to reinstate nearly all previously banned Twitter accounts — to the alarm of activists and online trust and safety experts. After posting a Twitter poll asking, “Should Twitter offer a

Your weekly dose of Seriously Risky Business news is written by Tom Uren , edited by Patrick Gray with help from Catalin Cimpanu . It's supported by the Cyber Initiative at the Hewlett Foundation and

The empty assembly line at the Duralex glassware factory in Orléans, France, on Nov. 15. Eleanor Beardsley/NPR ORLÉANS, France — The assembly line at the Duralex glassware factory sits idle, its massi

Guest Essay I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It. Nov. 18, 2022 Credit... Justin Lane/EPA, via Shutterstock By Mr. Roth is a former head of trust and safety a

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I recently discovered “Hot Ones” on YouTube. If you haven’t seen any of the episodes, you should (because they really are fantastic). This isn’t really a controversial opinion: their YouTube channel h

This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here to get it every week . The tech industry seems to be

SAN FRANCISCO — New owner Elon Musk struggled Friday to harness the chaos he’s unleashed at Twitter, summoning the remaining engineers to the San Francisco headquarters and issuing new edicts on conte

Published 19 November 2022 Share page About sharing Image source, James Gallagher By James Gallagher Inside Health presenter, BBC Radio 4 Mention deadly cold and I think of polar explorers with icicle