Enlarge / Investors in GameStop and AMC briefly saw red as the WallStreetBets subreddit went private… StockSnap The WallStreetBets subreddit (WSB), widely credited with kickstarting GameStop’s epic stock run in recent weeks, was briefly taken private by moderators Wednesday night amid a tsunami of “so many comments and submissions that we can’t possibly even read […]
Enlarge Hinterhaus Productions | Getty Images Despite over 82 million cases and over 1.75 million deaths due to COVID-19, many people are bound and determined to carry on with normal life. For some, that includes attending Saturday night ragers, just like they did in the Before Times. Reports of yet another secret party being broken […]
Twitter has confirmed hackers made use of tools that were supposed to have only been available to its own staff to carry off Wednesday’s hack attack. The breach saw the accounts of Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Kanye West and Bill Gates among other celebrities used to tweet a Bitcoin scam. Twitter also revealed the perpetrators […]
A private equity firm will not gain control of dot-org, the digital real estate that is home to millions of nonprofits, nongovernmental organizations and community groups. The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees the internet naming system, decided on Thursday night to veto the sale of the rights to […]
A private healthcare clinic in London has defended its decision to charge £375 ($ 434) for a coronavirus test. The Private Harley Street Clinic said the price reflected “the costs of these logistic and clinical services that we provide” and added that it was offering free tests for NHS staff. It followed newspaper reports that […]
Enlarge / An Apple Watch Nike+ Series 4. Getty Images | Wachiwit Apple will stop storing voice recordings captured by Siri-enabled devices except in cases when users intentionally opt in to the practice. “[B]y default, we will no longer retain audio recordings of Siri interactions,” Apple said in an announcement yesterday. “We will continue to use […]
Take-Two Interactive’s Private Division and V1 Interactive today announced Disintegration, an upcoming sci-fi, first-person shooter video game. The companies will reveal the title next month at the Gamescom 2019 convention in Cologne, Germany (where I’ll be speaking at the Devcom business event). Disintegration is the debut title from V1 Interactive, the independent development studio co-founded […]
[embedded content] Troubled spaceflight company Interstellar Technologies had a success this week, when it was finally able to launch its MOMO-3 rocket into space. The Japanese company attempted its first launch in July 2017, but one minute after launch, communications with the rocket were lost and the emergency engine shutdown was triggered, causing the rocket […]
Sealed documents, obtained as part of a trial between the two tech giants, offer a rare window into the decision-making process of one of the most secretive and powerful companies on the planet During the roughly two years Apple was locked in a legal battle with one of its suppliers, Qualcomm, the iPhone maker publicly […]
Google Maps AR, in action. The Wall Street Journal It’s a camera feed with 3D navigation arrows positioned in the real world. The Wall Street Journal The camera feed actually helps with your precise location and orientation. Google calls the system “VPS” or “Visual Positioning System.” The Wall Street Journal When you reach your destination, […]
Private tweets sent by users of Twitter’s Android app could have been exposed publicly for years. Twitter said it had discovered a security flaw which meant “protected” tweets became public when some changes were made to accounts. Anyone who updated the email address linked to their account between November 2014 and January 2019 could have […]
Supported by Facebook Says Bug Opened Access to Private Photos ImageMark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, has pledged to do a better job protecting user data.CreditCreditJason Henry for The New York Times By Mike Isaac and Natasha Singer Dec. 14, 2018 SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook announced on Friday that it had discovered a bug that allowed […]
Supported by Tech We’re Using You Don’t Have to Be a Journalist to Want to Keep Chats Private It’s easy to leave behind digital evidence when talking to sources — or to friends. Here’s how Kate Conger, a tech reporter, reduces that exposure. ImageKate Conger, a technology reporter in San Francisco, sending a friend a […]
REUTERS/Elijah NouvelageMarissa Mayer Marissa Mayer has laid out a proposal to turn a former funeral home into a facility that serves women and families in the community. In the past, the ex-CEO of Yahoo has used the building to throw wild Halloween parties. Residents in the area were not happy when Mayer threw the parties, […]