Apple Inc.’s iPhone 14 crash detection feature is falsely reporting car crashes again, this time by people skiing. In October, it was reported that emergency services workers were being called to the Kings Island amusement park in Ohio when iPhone 14 users were on rollercoasters and similar false alerts were also triggered at another park ...

A hacker is offering data from some 400 million Twitter accounts for sale that is said to have been scraped via an application programming interface vulnerability. The hacker goes by the name of Ryushi on BreachForums, the successor site to the now-shuttered RaidForums. The hacker claims that the data includes the email addresses and phone numbers of celebrities, ...

Notepad, Microsoft Corp.’s arguably most underrated app, may soon get an upgrade in Windows 11 after a senior product manager tweeted that the app is about to get tab support. Simple yet functional at its core, Notepad, known initially as Multi-Tool Notepad, made its debut in 1983 as a standalone app before being included in ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s annual launch of its flagship S range of phones is expected early next year, and ahead of the release various leaks have provided an idea of what to expect. The S23 range, which has a reported launch date of Feb. 1, is expected to see only minor upgrades. Among the changes ...

Some two years after a push by the Trump administration for ByteDance Ltd. to sell the U.S. operations of TikTok, all that is old is new again with a report that the Biden administration is now pushing for the same thing. The Wall Street Journal reported today that administration officials are pushing for the sale to ...

Tech companies with manufacturing facilities in mainland China, including Apple Inc., are facing a months-long disruption amid a massive outbreak of COVID-19 in the Middle Kingdom after the Chinese Communist Party dropped its zero-COVID policy. COVID disrupting Western tech companies in the country is nothing new. Apple faced delays in manufacturing as early as February ...

Microsoft Corp. today filed a response to a lawsuit from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that seeks to block its $68.7 billion takeover of computer games maker Activision Blizzard Inc., the biggest ever in the technology business. Microsoft announced that it had entered an agreement to acquire Activitision in January, and antitrust concerns emerged not ...

Zerobot, an “internet of things” botnet discovered earlier this year, has been updated with additional features, including the ability to target vulnerabilities on unpatched Apache servers. As detailed Wednesday by researchers at Microsoft Corp.’s Security Threat Intelligence team, Zerobot is a Go-based botnet that primarily spreads through IoT and web application vulnerabilities. Zerobot is offered as ...

It won’t be a Merry Christmas for many employees of self-driving truck company TuSimple Holdings Inc. this year, as the company announced Wednesday that it’s laying off 25% of its staff in a restructuring plan. The move affects about 350 employees, with 80% of the company’s remaining 1,100 employees now undertaking research and development functions. Onetime restructuring costs are ...

Password manager LastPass US LP today revealed that a hacker who gained access to their systems last month copied data from a backup that contained customer account information. LastPass revealed the attack on Dec. 1, saying at the time that a hacker had gained access to a third-party cloud storage service used by the company and affiliate ...