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The highly competitive tech giants Apple, Google and Amazon have announced they are teaming up in an effort to make smart home tech easier to use. The firms, along with the Zigbee Alliance, will work together so that smart home products…

A former Jet2 IT contractor with a grudge has been jailed for a cyber-attack on the company. Scott Burns, 27, of Queen Street in Morley, Leeds, was jailed for 10 months for his actions, which cost the company £165,000. The attack shut…

YouTube, one of the most popular social media platforms for video sharing, has aggressively started deleting cryptocurrency-related content from some of the biggest influencers in the industry. Based on Twitter and Reddit threads, YouTube…

Originally published on Medium This year is coming to end and this year we have seen how much front-end techs have grown during the last few years. We have been trying to catch up on all new frameworks, libraries, or new tools in this…

Today, high-speed internet is central to the basic functions of families, students, and businesses. Small businesses often cannot exist without it. Access to health care often depends on it. Yet across the country, huge swaths of the…

If your ambition is to fly into space - and you've got plenty of spare cash - then 2020 could be an exciting year. If space travel is not really your thing, but you would like a much bigger screen on your mobile phone, then 2020 might…

The Arkansas Department of Education announced a new cybersecurity education initiative last week which aims to help better prepare the state’s high school students for careers in cybersecurity. The free cybersecurity curriculum and…

Facebook says it will soon stop its practice of using phone numbers provided to the company as part of its two-factor authentication (2FA) security tool to power a friend suggestion feature, Reuters reported on Thursday. According to the…

Dating app Plenty of Fish has pushed out a fix for its app after a security researcher found it was leaking information that users had set to “private” on their profiles. The app was always silently returning users’ first names and postal…

Every day, millions of people rely on independent websites that are mostly created by regular people, weren't designed as mobile apps, connect deeply to culture, and aren't run by the giant tech companies. These are a vision of not just…

In 2018, British bank TSB was stuck in the aftermath of an ugly divorce. Though it had been two years since the financial institution had split from Lloyds Banking Group (the two had originally merged in 1995), TSB was still symbiotically…

Media playback is unsupported on your device Motorola has announced that it is delaying the launch of the new Razr - an updated version of its 2005 hit clamshell phone which boasts a vertical folding screen. The device, with a launch…

Facebook is to stop using members' phone numbers in its friends recommendation system in 2020 following concern about privacy implications. Users can choose to have a code sent to their mobile phones when logging in to make access harder…

Mozilla announced today that NextDNS would be joining Cloudflare as the second DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) provider inside Firefox. The browser maker says NextDNS passed the conditions imposed by its Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) program, and…

LifeLabs paid an undisclosed sum to retrieve the data, the company said on Tuesday, and also hired cybersecurity experts to asses the damage. LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services, Canada’s largest lab testing company, has paid a…

Update: Google has released an official statement: The M79 update to Chrome and WebView on Android devices was suspended after detecting an issue in WebView where some users’ app data was not visible within those apps. This app data was not…

Some 38,000 students in Germany have been asked to queue in person for a new email password, after their university was hit by a cyber-attack. The students at Justus Liebig University (JLU) Giessen have been asked to provide proof of…

The UK should consider tougher rules for online giants such as Google and Facebook, a UK competition regulator has said. The firms' dominance in digital advertising is squeezing publications and newspapers, the Competition and Markets…

Trolls targeted people with epilepsy on Twitter with seizure-inducing videos, according to the Epilepsy Foundation. The US charity said the perpetrators had posted flashing and strobing Gifs and videos in November. The Epilepsy…

Self-professed “ethical hacker and reverse engineer” Vitali Kremez has discovered a new trojan, dubbed ‘Socelars’, which could be used to hack Facebook Ad Manager accounts, further endangering advertising on the platform. Security…

The U.S. Department of Education is calling on the edtech community to improve information-sharing on threat intelligence, best practices and cybersecurity challenges to help higher education institutions safeguard student data,…

MozillaDecember 17, 2019 NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver Program Committing to Data Retention and Transparency Requirements that Respect User Privacy Firefox announced a new partnership with NextDNS to provide…

Cars have become the most sophisticated computers many of us own, filled with hundreds of sensors. Even older models know an awful lot about you. Many copy over personal data as soon as you plug in a smartphone. But for the thousands…

Artists have told the BBC how their artwork is being stolen from social media and sold for profit online. They claim malicious individuals are finding their art, often with the aid of an automated system known as a bot, and uploading it…

Google has written several whitepapers explaining projects developed internally that help improve security. BeyondProd purposefully calls back to the concepts of BeyondCorp一just as a perimeter security model no longer works for end users,…

Thank god for Jim Sterling, a game critic whose recent YouTube antics forced YouTube’s copyright system to eat itself alive. Here’s how he did it. As you may already know, YouTube has something called “Content ID,” which is a system that…

At Cliqz we aim for content personalization and increased relevance of displayed news results without collecting private data, profiling or compromising our users’ privacy. Cliqz started as a news recommendation product in 2008. During…

Share via: Tech tycoon and billionaire Jack Dorsey is moving soon to Africa next year. The CEO of Twitter and Square tweeted his intentions last month, after spending several weeks in Africa meeting with entrepreneurs. Africa will…

From combining emoji marks and astral planes, Unicode is under appreciated and poorly understood. The importance of understanding Unicode extends beyond localization and diversity. Failing to understand Unicode may lead to vulnerabilities…

A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate on Monday would order the Department of Homeland Security to undertake a thorough review of the cybersecurity policies of public school systems across the country and enact a set of guidelines and tools…