The website of political news outlet Infowars has been hacked, with details of account holders being offered for sale on the dark web. The hacked data being offered up is said to have come directly from Prison Planet TV, a service offered by Infowars that gives users access to a variety of additional content, and ...

Google is set to compete with Uber Technologies, Inc. in the carpooling space, with the company said to expand its carpooling service to people in the San Francisco Bay area. According to The Wall Street Journal Google plans to open the program to all San Francisco-area users of the Google-owned Waze app in the fall. ...

In a severe blow to the sovereignty of the Republic of Ireland, the European Union (EU) has ordered that Apple pay €13 billion ($14.5 billion) in allegedly “unpaid” taxes after it ruled that Ireland’s tax treatment of the tech giant was illegal under EU state aid rules. The unsustainable supranational body made the ruling Tuesday, ...

Trending Adjective “widely mentioned or discussed on the Internet, especially on social media websites.”(Dictionary.com) Facebook’s decision to fire its biased Trending news team and replace it with algorithms has caused a backlash online, after a trending story (see definition above) that is alleged to have been fake managed to trend on Facebook. The story, from popular ...

A class action lawsuit filed with the U.S. District Court for Northern California is accusing Apple of fraud, negligent misrepresentation, breach of implied warranty, unjust enrichment, and breaking the Magnuson-Moss and Song-Beverly Warranty Acts due to faults in the company’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. The defect, referred to as “touch disease,” sees affected ...

Could the forthcoming Presidential election on November 8 be hacked? While the answer to that question remains, news has emerged that voting systems in two states have actually been hacked, including one instance of voting registration data being stolen. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a “flash alert” after it uncovered evidence that ...

Users of domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy, Inc. are being targeted by two new phishing scams that are attempting to gain access to their accounts. The main phishing scam is one where users are sent details that their domains have sold, while a second, lesser known scam involves users receiving notices that the ...

The son of a Russian lawmaker was convicted Thursday on 38 counts related to his hacking of point-of-sale computers to steal and sell credit card numbers on the dark net. Thirty two-year-old Roman Valerevich Seleznev, the son of Valery Seleznev, a member of the Russian Parliament, stood accused of 10 counts of wire fraud, eight ...

Facebook has fired all members of its Trending news team and has replaced moderation with an algorithm following allegations of systematic political bias first raised in May. According to Quartz, 15-18 workers were shown the door, and supervision over the news will now go to engineers who, unlike those they replaced, will not be interfering in ...

Philippine Bitcoin fintech startup Satoshi Citadel Industries (SCI) has acquired bitcoin investment app Keza for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2015, Keza allowed bitcoin users to invest in bitcoin or fixed income stocks in the United States or other international stock exchanges via a mobile app. The app allowed users to invest in three types of trading ...