Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Policy

House of Representatives bans TikTok ahead of likely ban on all government devices

By Duncan Riley Dec 28, 2022

The U.S. House of Representatives has banned TikTok on all House-issued mobile phones as the U.S. government moves towards a ban across all government devices. NBC News reported late Tuesday that a memo sent by…

Apps

iPhone 14 car crash detection is now being triggered by people skiing

By Duncan Riley Dec 27, 2022

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…

Security

Data of 400M Twitter users offered for sale on hacking forum

By Duncan Riley Dec 27, 2022

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…

Apps

Microsoft Notepad may get support for tabs in Windows 11

By Duncan Riley Dec 26, 2022

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…

Apps

Ahead of its release next year, more details leak on Samsung’s S23 lineup

By Duncan Riley Dec 26, 2022

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…

Policy

Biden administration officials push for sale of TikTok’s US operations

By Duncan Riley Dec 26, 2022

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…

Apps

Apple and other companies face disruption amid massive COVID outbreak in China

By Duncan Riley Dec 25, 2022

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

Microsoft responds to FTC lawsuit that seeks to block its takeover of Activision Blizzard

By Duncan Riley Dec 22, 2022

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…

Security

Zerobot botnet upgrade targets unpatched Apache servers

By Duncan Riley Dec 22, 2022

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…

Emerging Tech

Self-driving truck company TuSimple lays off 25% of staff days before Christmas

By Duncan Riley Dec 22, 2022

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…

Duncan Riley

House of Representatives bans TikTok ahead of likely ban on all government devices

iPhone 14 car crash detection is now being triggered by people skiing

Data of 400M Twitter users offered for sale on hacking forum

Microsoft Notepad may get support for tabs in Windows 11

Ahead of its release next year, more details leak on Samsung’s S23 lineup

Biden administration officials push for sale of TikTok’s US operations

Apple and other companies face disruption amid massive COVID outbreak in China

Microsoft responds to FTC lawsuit that seeks to block its takeover of Activision Blizzard

Zerobot botnet upgrade targets unpatched Apache servers

Self-driving truck company TuSimple lays off 25% of staff days before Christmas

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