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Apple is changing its syringe emoji to remove the dripping blood, as it becomes widely used to talk about the Covid-19 vaccine. Apple's new version has nothing inside the needle. "This makes the emoji more…

This headline from the NY Times caught my eye: Clubhouse, a Tiny Audio Chat App, Breaks Through The 11-month-old app has exploded in popularity, even as it grapples with harassment, misinformation and privacy issues. I understand that…

Google’s current enterprise communications strategy is centered around Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. A new report today reveals that Google Cloud is working on a unified messaging app for businesses. According to the Information…

Police involvement in a private landlord's facial recognition trial has led a regulator to call for government intervention. BBC Radio 4's File on 4 has learned that South Yorkshire Police shared three photos of serious offenders and one…

LONDON — Britain said on Tuesday that it would not ban equipment made by the Chinese technology giant Huawei from being used in its new high-speed 5G wireless network, the starkest sign that an American campaign against the…

Whether to allow Huawei to help build the UK's 5G network is one of the most consequential and difficult national security decisions government has faced. It involves balancing complex technical risks with geopolitics and costs to the…

Two cybersecurity leaders are combining their expertise to offer a continuous approach to improve the security posture of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and larger organisations. Companies in Switzerland and Europe have been affected…

Nearly two years on from the revelation of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal, you’d hope that Facebook has taken steps to stop bad actors from exploiting data that we share online. While Facebook has taken some of these steps,…

CHICO — Enloe Medical Center in Chico was attacked in a ransomware incident Thursday evening, according to a press release from the hospital. A ransomware attack is a type of computer virus, also known as malware, that threatens to publish…

When Apple introduced powerful anti-tracking protections to Safari in 2017, advertisers banded together to say they were “deeply concerned” it would sabotage ad-supported content. Now, there’s new information showing that Safari users had…

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) said it will remove deepfakes and other manipulated videos from its platform if they have been edited, but not content that is parody or satire, in a move aimed at curbing misinformation ahead of the U.S.…

Amazon-owned home security camera company Ring has fired employees for improperly accessing Ring users' video data, according to a letter the company wrote to Senators and obtained by Motherboard. The news highlights a risk across many…

A data breach incurs serious consequences no matter whether a company is big or small. Staff get fired, executives issue apologies, and entire systems are overhauled to ensure that it doesn’t happen again. They instill doubt in consumers,…

Hackers are holding foreign exchange company Travelex to ransom after a cyber-attack forced the firm to turn off all computer systems and resort to using pen and paper across its thousands of sites. On New Year's Eve, hackers launched…

After a ransomware attack, winter break at Richmond Community Schools in Michigan was extended through the end of the week as district personal work to remedy the issue and bring all services back online, officials announced Thursday. The…

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…

Cases of burnout have been increasing at an alarming rate in recent years among millennials and Gen Zers. It's a growing problem in today's workplace because of trends like rising workloads, limited staff and resources and long hours.…

U.S. software development forum GitHub is mulling plans to build a presence in China, a move that would allow Chinese developers to retain access to technologies the website hosts in face of escalating American export restrictions. The…

Amazon's bid to buy stake in food delivery firm Deliveroo is thrown into doubt as competition watchdog reveals 'serious concerns' and says in-depth probe may be needed Official watchdog fears deal could damage competition in online food…

Discontinued Privacy: Personal Data Leaks in Apple Bluetooth-Low-Energy Continuity Protocols We found that Apple devices are leaking sensitive information in the BLE wireless signals they emit. Those issues are associated with the…

Beijing has ordered all government offices and public institutions to remove foreign computer equipment and software within three years, in a potential blow to the likes of HP, Dell and Microsoft. The directive is the first publicly known…

Forbes and Business Insider are both well-known news sites. So is forbesbusinessinsider.com a new spin-off? No. It has nothing to do with either Forbes or Business Insider. In fact, it's a site that copies and pastes entire articles from…

A website selling hacking tools that let attackers take over victims' computers has been closed down after an international investigation. The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) said 14,500 people had bought spying tools from the Imminent…