Google removed nearly 600 ‘disruptive’ Android apps from the Play Store
Google is perpetually on a mission to clean up its Play Store, taking down dodgy apps as best it can, and the latest sting by the tech giant has seen...
Former congressman confirms he offered to broker pardon for Assange
Enlarge / Rep. Dana Rohrabacher on November 6, 2018, in Costa Mesa, California, just before he learned he had lost his seat to a Democratic challenger. Rohrabacher, the most Putin-friendly...
Organizations remain highly vulnerable to IoT-based attacks
New research from Extreme Networks has revealed that more IoT devices are making their way to the enterprise but organizations still remain highly vulnerable to IoT-based attacks.The firm surveyed 540...
A US gas pipeline operator was infected by malware—your questions answered
Tuesday’s news that a ransomware infection shut down a US pipeline operator for two days has generated no shortage of questions, not to mention a near-endless stream of tweets. Some...
Google to evaluate Android apps requesting background location data
Google will introduce one-time permissions for location data in the upcoming release of Android 11 but the search giant also plans to roll out a new Google Play policy which...
As satellite TV tanks, Dish says merger with DirectTV is “inevitable”
Aurich Lawson / Getty Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen yesterday said a merger with the AT&T-owned DirecTV is "probably inevitable." Dish, the second biggest satellite TV company behind DirecTV, lost 194,000...
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With the constant need to stay secure online and bypass geo-restrictions to watch events like Fury vs Wilder 2, it's no surprise that VPNs are more popular than ever.Well, Surfshark...
Ars Technicast special edition, part 2: Spotting bad actors inside a company
Enlarge / Artist's impression of an insider threat stealing your stuff.D-Keine / Getty Images In the second of our series of podcasts on artificial intelligence produced in association with Darktrace,...
Etsy confirms completion of two-year migration to Google Cloud
Peer-to-peer online marketplace Etsy has shifted 2,000 on-premise servers and 5.5PB (petabytes) of data to the Google Cloud Platform as part of a wider, two-year business transformation. The site provides...
Did your Samsung Galaxy get a strange notification? It happened around the world
Did you find your Samsung phone recently received a notification that said the number one without any context? It seems it was sent out to Galaxy phones around the world...