T-Mobile and Sprint end merger talks after being “unable to find mutually agreeable terms”
Companies put an end to the extensive speculation around a transaction — Bellevue, Washington and Overland Park, Kansas — November 4, 2017 — T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) and Sprint …
Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who holds large stakes in Twitter, Lyft, and Apple, arrested in apparent power consolidation
Saudi leadership in recent months has clamped down on any traces of dissent — Saudi authorities carried out a new wave of arrests targeting royals …
Researchers build real-world objects to fool neural nets into classifying them as different objects, trick Google classifier into thinking a toy turtle is a gun
New research shows how machine vision systems of all kinds can be tricked into misidentifying 3D objects
Inside story: How Russians hacked the Democrats' emails
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was just before noon in Moscow on March 10, 2016, when the first volley of malicious messages hit the Hillary Clinton campaign. The first 29 phishing emails were almost all misfi...
Sources: Broadcom is considering a bid to acquire Qualcomm for about $70 per share, or $100B+; bid is likely to be made in the coming days
Broadcom is exploring a deal to acquire Qualcomm, according to people familiar with the matter, in what could be the biggest ever takeover of a chipmaker …
ADT wins temporary injunction against video doorbell maker Ring, preventing it from selling Protect security system until trial ends
ADT, which was suing Ring after the video doorbell company hired away most of the employees of Zonoff, has won a temporary injunction against Ring.
Tor releasing next-gen onion services with improved cryptography and authentication, a project four years in the making
Hello friends! — We are hyped to present the next generation of onion services! We've been working on this project non-stop for the past 4 years and we officially launched …
Sources: hundreds of people at Twitter had access to tools to shut down accounts; account deletions similar to Trump happened before
Donald Trump wasn't the first account to suffer a ‘mic drop’ — Last night, a rogue Twitter employee celebrated their last day with the company by deactivating President Donald Trump's account.
Afghanistan bans WhatsApp, Telegram for 20 days for reasons as yet unclear; apps no longer work for gov't telecom users, but private telecoms have yet to comply
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TripAdvisor apologizes for removing user reports about rape and assault to keep its forums “family friendly” after Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation
I stopped writing for TripAdvisor … Tweets: @mikeisaac : This is disgusting. @TripAdvisor and whoever participated in this should be ashamed of themselves. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... http://tw...
Pew: 26% of US adults get news from two or more social media sites, up from 15% in 2013 and 18% in 2016; 50% of Facebook news users get news via Facebook alone
Americans are more likely than ever to get news from multiple social media sites, according to a recent Pew Research Center report.
At congressional grilling over Russian meddling, Google used its failures in social as cover from criticism targeted at companies like Facebook and Twitter
SAN FRANCISCO — After years of trying unsuccessfully to build a social network to rival Facebook, Google finally got something out of all of its failures: cover.
Twitter updates rules to clarify its enforcement approach on abusive behavior, self-harm, graphic violence, spam, and adult content
promises a further update on November 22 Steven Musil / CNET : Twitter overhauls rules on how it handles abusive behavior Samantha Cole / Motherboard : Porn Is Still Allowed On Twitter Dell Cameron / ...
Play-by-play account of how iFixit planned for and executed its iPhone X teardown
Tools Featured in this Teardown — Introduction Christian Zibreg / iDownloadBlog.com : Break the glass backing of your iPhone X and you'll be replacing the entire chassis Zoë Bernard / Business Insid...
The history of Forethought, the company which originally created PowerPoint for the Macintosh, before being bought by Microsoft in 1987 for $14M
Here's the surprising story behind the software that conquered the world, one slide at a time — Walking into the hall to deliver the speech was a … Tweets: @stevesi Tweets: @stevesi : Love this stor...
Sources: Marvell in advanced talks to merge with Cavium to create chipmaker worth ~$14B
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US court issues preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of a Canadian court order requiring Google to remove search results on a global basis
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A list of all the questions Facebook, Google, and Twitter told Congress they would answer later
Unanswered questions mean tech companies need to follow up — Lawmakers sought detailed information in Russia meddling probe — Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Twitter Inc. faced hours …
Microsoft is ending free Windows 10 upgrade “assistive technologies” exception on Dec. 31
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Internet Association, representing Facebook, Amazon, Google, others, says it now backs Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, after Congress made requested changes
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The underground story of the Cobra computer, an illicit and handmade ZX Spectrum clone built and sold in Romania in the 1980s
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Networking chip design company Aquantia raises $61M in its IPO, closes up 6% on its first day of trading
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Equifax special committee says the four senior executives who sold shares were not aware of data breach and didn't engage in insider trading
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