Standards Milestone Could Mark Beginning of End for Passwords
Standards Milestone Could Mark Beginning of End for Passwords A Web standards milestone announced Tuesday could point to the end of the road for pesky passwords. The new standard, WebAuthn, has won near-final approval from the World Wide Web Consortium, which...
You Can’t Opt Out Of Sharing Your Data, Even If You Didn’t Opt In
You Can’t Opt Out Of Sharing Your Data, Even If You Didn’t Opt In The Golden State Killer, who terrorized Californians from Sacramento to Orange County over the course of a decade, committed his last known murder in 1986, the same year that DNA profiling was used in a...
Pentagon Orders Military To Halt Sale Of Chinese Phones Citing Security Threats
Pentagon Orders Military To Halt Sale Of Chinese Phones Citing Security Threats The U.S. Department of Defense has ordered retail stores on military bases to stop the sale of products made by Chinese telecom companies Huawei and ZTE for security reasons, including...
A Criminal Gang Used a Drone Swarm To Obstruct an FBI Hostage Raid
A Criminal Gang Used a Drone Swarm To Obstruct an FBI Hostage Raid Last winter, on the outskirts of a large U.S.city, an FBI hostage rescue team set up an elevated observation post to assess an unfolding situation. Soon they heard the buzz of small drones — and then...
Failure to Launch: New Mexico’s Gamble on Spaceport America
Failure to Launch: New Mexico's Gamble on Spaceport America The sun-bleached stretch of the New Mexico desert known as the Jornada del Muerto — the journey of the dead man — is an unlikely spot for Earth’s premier portal to another world. Yet this high desert outpost,...
Huawei and ZTE Hit Hard as U.S. Moves Against Chinese Tech Firms
Huawei and ZTE Hit Hard as U.S. Moves Against Chinese Tech Firms The United States undercut China’s technology ambitions on Tuesday, advancing a new rule that would limit the ability of Chinese telecommunications companies to sell their products in this country. The...
Facebook shrinks fake news after warnings backfire
Facebook shrinks fake news after warnings backfire First, rather than call more attention to fake news, Facebook wants to make it easier to miss these stories while scrolling. When Facebook’s third-party fact-checkers verify an article is inaccurate, Facebook will...
Microsoft’s next Windows 10 update aims to shield us from notifications
Microsoft’s next Windows 10 update aims to shield us from notifications Notifications are both one of the most revolutionary inventions of the mobile age, and one of the most hated features on our devices. The little nudges typically appear as a number sitting atop an...
Bitcoin is the greatest scam in history
Bitcoin is the greatest scam in history I’m tired of saying, “Be careful, it’s speculative.” Then, “Be careful, it’s gambling.” Then, “Be careful, it’s a bubble.” Okay, I’ll say it: Bitcoin is a scam. In my opinion, it’s a colossal pump-and-dump scheme, the likes of...
Google’s Best Security Feature Is used By Less Than 10% Of Users
Google's Best Security Feature Is used By Less Than 10% Of Users We all know that passwords are a terrible way to secure valuable services. The fact is that we're all lazy, reuse passwords and perhaps rely on easy-to-remember logins that don't protect us, but are less...