Own a Revolv smart home device? The bad news is that you are completely and utterly screwed with news Monday that the Alphabet, Inc. (the company formerly known as Google) owned Nest isn’t just discontinuing Revolv device support, but actually disabling every single Revolv at the same time. According to Business Insider, the decision was ...

Caribbean-based Blockchain cryptocurrency startup Bitt, Inc. has raised $4 million Series A from Overstock.com, Inc. Founded in 2016, Bitt offers a digital asset exchange whose core focus is on providing access to cryptocurrencies in emerging markets with a high-frequency trading platform that is claimed to offer the highest levels of access, security, customer service, transparency, ...

Could ransomware be legal if it’s used to enforce copyright infringements? That’s a question that will soon need to be answered with a proposal floated by U.K. copyright enforcement group Rightscorp Ltd. that would see browser access denied to users accused of illegally downloading copyrighted material until such time they paid a fine to regain ...

All is not well at the Facebook, Inc. owned virtual reality headset making company Oculus Rift with the company forced to refund shipping fees to users who had pre-ordered the device due to shipping delays, which perhaps worse still are being blamed on component shortages. The much-hyped virtual reality headset started shipping March 28 but ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed in a memo Friday that its method to crack an iPhone in the San Bernadino terrorism case was applicable to other phones, and they we’re willing to help State and Local law enforcement agencies in doing so. According to the memo, obtained by Reuters, the Bureau said it ...

Jay Z appears to be a very unhappy musician with reports Thursday that he was taking legal action against the people he purchased streaming music service Tidal from over allegedly inflated subscriber numbers. The legal action itself is being taken Project Panther Bidco, Jay Z’s holding company and is seeking compensation, claiming that the purchase ...

How can you confirm something that has happened when by law you legally can’t? The answer is a warrant canary, a phrase or paragraph that is purposely omitted, and that’s exactly what popular forum Reddit, Inc. did Thursday when it published its annual transparency report. Each year Reddit publishes its transparency report and details regular ...

Altcoin provider Syscoin has released its final 2.0 beta version in a final step toward the release of its main net release in April. Syscoin bills itself as a “revolutionary cryptocurrency” that allows low-cost financial transactions, like Bitcoin, while additionally providing an all-in-one decentralized infrastructure enabling trading goods, digital certificates, aliases, encrypted messaging, the first ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is asking businesses and software security experts for emergency assistance in its investigation into a new strain of ransomware called MSIL/Samas. A confidential advisory was released Friday to security companies (obtained via Reuters) and describes MSIL/Samas are being a far more nefarious form of ransomware in that it tries to ...

AOL, Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong has grand plans to turn parent company Verizon, Inc. into an ad powerhouse, and acquiring Yahoo, Inc. may be a part of that plan, according to a new report Wednesday. According to The Wall Street Journal, by 2020 Armstrong wants AOL to grow from its current 700 million users ...