Dodgy Bitcoin mining machine operation Butterfly Labs, Inc. has settled with the Federal Trade Commission over charges that they scammed thousands of users. The FTC took the company to court back in September 2014 over claims that the ASIC Bitcoin mining gear they were selling was either second hand, not as promised, delivered late or ...

Apple, Inc. has eaten some humble pie and apologized for the Error 53 issue while at the same time issuing a fix. If you’ve not been following the news, iPhone users who had the Touch ID sensor in their phones repaired by a third party, or even by themselves, found their iPhone’s bricked with an Error ...

Social networking giant Facebook, Inc. is planning to introduce advertising on its Messenger app, according to a report published Thursday. TechCrunch quotes from an alleged “leaked” document that details the plan, which will apparently see advertisers being able to send ads via the chat app, but of note only to users who have previously chatted ...

The Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center revealed Wednesday that it had decided to pay the ransom to hackers who had infected their computer system with ransomware. Although initial reports suggested that the ransom demanded was 9000 Bitcoin ($3.6 million), the amount paid by the hospital was only the significantly lower sum of 40 Bitcoin ($17,000). The ...

News that the United States Government is demanding that Apple, Inc. build a backdoor into the iPhone has prompted an unprecedented response, including the first of many rallies to come from concerned iPhone users and civil liberties supporters. The original news came via a message to customers from Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook, who ...

It’s well known that Yahoo, Inc.’s glory days are long behind it but one little-known fact is that its core products, search, mail, and its home page, have remained relatively strong… that is until now. According to internal data obtained by The Information, Yahoo’s core products may have entered a death spiral, with traffic down across ...

New research from cloud-based email management firm Mimecast, Inc. has found that a majority of global businesses are ill-equipped to defend against email-based cyberattacks. The study: Mimecast Business Email Threat Report 2016, Email Security Uncovered, surveyed 600 IT security professionals and found that while 64 percent consider email a serious security threat to businesses, some ...

Google Ideas, a think tank and lab that was perhaps best known for products such as ProjectShield and uProxy, has been spun off as Jigsaw and will now operate as a standalone entity under Google’s parent company Alphabet, Inc. Alphabet Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt made the announcement by a post on Medium (Blogger doesn’t cut ...

Another day, another doozy of a leak around Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd.’s Galaxy S7, and this one is a good one: an actual promotion video out of Indonesia. News of the video comes via Phone Probe, which discovered a promotion page for the new Galaxy phones available on Samsung’s Indonesian site titled “Galaxy Launch Pack;” ...

Animated GIF search engine Giphy, Inc. has raised $55 million Series C in a round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners that included General Catalyst Partners, RRE, Betaworks, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, CAA and other unnamed existing investors. According to reports, the round was raised on a $300 million valuation. Founded in 2013, Giphy’s primary offering includes ...