Scanning Microsoft cloud services for malware by peeking into users’ zip files, even if they are password protected, several users reported on Mastodon on Monday.… Read More »Microsoft scans the inside of password-protected zip files for malware
Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $1 billion to settle a class action lawsuit accusing the bank of exaggerating the progress it has made in… Read More »Wells Fargo pays $1 billion to settle shareholder lawsuit
Hundreds of thousands of people began repairing or rebuilding their homes and livelihoods on Monday after a deadly cyclone hit Myanmar and Bangladesh over the… Read More »Cyclone Mocha leaves thousands homeless in Bangladesh and Myanmar
Microsoft’s reluctant $69 billion bid to buy video game company Activision Blizzard received a glimmer of hope Monday when European Union regulators agreed to what… Read More »EU approves Microsoft’s $69 billion deal for Activision
The news A federal appeals court on Monday temporarily blocked a lower court decision that overturned the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that all health plans… Read More »Appeals court suspends ruling that threatened free preventive health care
Enlarge / Packets of Equal and Splenda at a New York coffee shop in 2016. People trying to shed pounds often cut calories by consuming… Read More »Diet sodas aren’t really good for your diet, the WHO guideline suggests
Elmore says the goal is to force reform. “We can’t bring back the victims of this lawsuit, but we can make sure that other families… Read More »Families of Buffalo Mass Shooting Victims Sue Meta, Reddit, Amazon
As a proof of concept in one of their experiments, the researchers scooped a soda can-sized water sample from a creek in St. Augustine, Fla.… Read More »Your DNA can now be pulled out of thin air. Privacy experts are concerned.
Here’s a familiar restaurant scene: dinner is over, the plates are cleared, and the server discreetly drops the bill on the table. But there’s something… Read More »What are restaurant service charges for?
Enlarge / Apple’s M2 Pro chip. Unsurprisingly, Apple is already testing its replacement. Apple Many Apple Silicon Macs still haven’t made the jump from the… Read More »Apple’s M3 will reportedly continue to add CPU and GPU cores to improve performance
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has drawn attention to the relationship between the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, which oversaw the lender’s safety… Read More »San Francisco Fed ties to SVB chief draw attention to age-old setup
Vice Media filed for bankruptcy on Monday, interrupting a year-long descent from a new-media darling to a cautionary tale about the problems facing the digital… Read More »Vice media files for bankruptcy
WASHINGTON — The United States and its allies have dismantled a major cyber-espionage system that Russian intelligence said it had used for years to spy… Read More »US says it has dismantled Russia’s ‘most advanced’ malware network
Last August, Oleg Patsulya, a Russian citizen living near Miami, emailed a Russian airline cut off from Western technology and materials with a tempting offer.… Read More »US-made technology flows to sanctioned Russian airlines
Enlarge / The arc of thin, distorted objects around the center of this image is a clear indication of gravitational lensing. Anyone who has ever… Read More »Gravitational lensing gives us a third estimate of the expansion of the universe
