A U.S. District Court judge today overruled a ban placed by the Department of Justice against AT&T Inc.’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc., with the combined company set to create a powerhouse that will challenge online streaming giants Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. The deal is the largest media and telecommunications deal of its kind. ...

Weight loss company Weight Watchers International Inc. is claiming that the chances that hackers have stolen data from its servers are slim after it was discovered that the company failed to password-protect a cloud instance used for managing application containers. For something different in the age of seemingly never–ending Amazon Web Services’ S3 instance exposures, the Weight ...

U.S. authorities today said they helped in the arrest of 74 people on three continents for hijacking bank transfers using email fraud. The takedown, part of a global crackdown on email scammers, was coordinated under the name of “Operation Wire Wire.” It included cooperation from Interpol, national police forces in Malaysia, Poland, Canada, Mauritius, Nigeria and ...

Apple Inc. has declared that it’s not a fan of cryptomining by banning the practice via apps outright even when a user wishes to approve of the process. The policy change was delivered at the same time as the recent Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, but it was buried in fine print and only noticed today. ...

Troubled electric-car maker Tesla may be set to deliver new, fully autonomous vehicle features later this summer. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk tweeted Sunday that the company would release a new version of its software with “full self-driving features” in August. The tweet came days after the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary ...

Cryptocurrencies have plunged across the board after South Korean exchange Coinrail disclosed it had been hacked on Sunday. Bitcoin led the pack, dropping as much as 12 percent to a three-month low of $6,673.08 before recovering slightly to $6,781.20 as of 10:25 p.m. EDT. Other leading cryptocurrencies all dropped by similar levels, with Ethereum down ...

Yahoo, now a division of Oath Inc., is finally shutting down its Messenger service despite an attempt to resurrect the service a few years back. Launched on March 9, 1998, Yahoo Messenger competed with the likes of MSN Messenger, AIM and ICQ, the last its original target. Along with Yahoo itself, the service rode the same ...

Microsoft Corp. is tapping into its Azure cloud infrastructure team to develop a new game streaming service that will deliver XBox-quality games to a range of other devices. The announcement Sunday of the as-yet unnamed service was made by Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s executive director of gaming, at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles and ...

The first alleged pictures of Google Inc.’s forthcoming Pixel 3 XL smartphone have found their way online and, once again per previous reports, it seems it will come with an iPhone X-style notch. The images, which first appeared on the XDA-Developers forum on Wednesday, show the notch along with a bezel known as a chin at the ...

A ransomware attack that crippled the City of Atlanta in March was far worse than initially thought and could end up costing the city an additional $9.5 million, despite a ransom demand of only $51,000 to provide all the keys for affected systems given at the time. The attack affected one-third of 424 programs used by city ...