Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is once again being targeted by U.S. lawmakers with a new bill introduced to the Senate Thursday that would ban the company from buying or selling U.S. patents. Sponsored by Senators Marco Rubio and John Cornyn, the bill seeks to enable the federal government to block companies on the U.S. government trade ...

Facebook Inc.-owned Instagram has started removing the “like” counts in some countries in an apparent attempt to assist with mental health and bullying — but some worry that the decision could fundamentally undermine the app’s user ecosystem. Announced at Facebook’s annual developer conference in April, the removal of the like count was first tried out ...

The second episode of the new reality show “Libra goes to Washington” aired Wednesday, but there wasn’t much suspense: Facebook Inc.’s planned new cryptocurrency did not find a friendly audience. David Marcus, the head of Facebook Inc.’s Calibra division testified before the House Financial Services Committee and got a similarly negative reception to his Senate hearing ...

Updated with Trump confirmation and letter from Republicans to Trump: U.S. President Donald Trump today confirmed a Bloomberg report that he will take a look at the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure project, the $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract that has been shortlisted to Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. The president’s interest in the ...

More than 800,000 systems remain vulnerable to BlueKeep, a vulnerability found in older versions of Microsoft Corp.’s Remote Desktop Protocol, according to a newly published report. Detailed today by cybersecurity ratings company BitSight Technologies Inc., the number of exposed public-facing machines with the vulnerability dropped 17% between May 31 and July 2 but not far ...

FaceApp, an viral application that uses artificial intelligence to allow users to edit their photos to make themselves look old among other features is raising privacy concerns. The new version of FaceApp, the original having been launched in 2017, comes with a privacy policy that gives the creators of the app an unlimited license to ...

The price of bitcoin plummeted Tuesday after a Senate hearing that questioned a Facebook Inc. executive on Libra, the company’s proposed cryptocurrency. Bitcoin fell 12% today to a 24-hour low of $9,266.56 as of 10:45 p.m EDT before recovering slightly, to $9,402.28, an hour later. The decline means bitcoin hit its lowest level in a month, ...

Another day, another misconfigured cloud instance exposing data, and the latest comes from AavGo, a cloud-based software provider for the hotel industry. The latest case involves a misconfigured Elasticsearch database revealed today by security researcher Daniel Brown. The database in question, now offline, included hotel guest information, including booking and personally identifiable information, internal hotel memos, admin login details, ...

Alphabet Inc.’s drone subsidiary Wing Aviation LLC has unveiled a new app designed to help manage air traffic control for drones. Called OpenSky, the app, available for both iOS and Android, has first launched in Australia where it has gained government approval for air traffic compliance. The app helps drone operators comply with aviation rules ...

U.S. telecommunications company Sprint Corp. has been hacked with an unknown number of accounts compromised, but in a twist, the company is blaming Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for the data breach. Affected customers were informed of the hack via email today, weeks after the hack was detected June 22. Data stolen in the hack included phone number, ...