Remember earlier this year when net neutrality got killed off and everybody said it wouldn't matter? Well, it seems it might have mattered after all.
Recently, three US Senators sent letters of inquiry to four wireless carriers. They are investigating allegations that the carriers have been throttling (slowing down) video services or Skype video calls.
As you probably heard, Microsoft's October update of Windows 10 was a bit of a disaster. Sure, it updated your OS, but unfortunately for many users, it also deleted a variety of files. This prompted outrage from the company's massive user base.
Things would have been bad enough if the calamitous October update had been an isolated mis-step.
If you own an iPhone X and have been experiencing problems with the touch responsiveness of your display, you're not alone. Apple has acknowledged that faulty components in an unspecified number of iPhone X's may cause the display module to fail. In response, they've launched a new program to replace affected screens for free.
The wheels of government bureaucracy turn slowly, but they do turn. Currently, the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) is slowly pressing forward with an expansion of the available spectrum, on a quest to increase bandwidth for connected devices.
Given how unpopular ads are, you wouldn't think that Microsoft would be experimenting with ways of displaying more of them. Unfortunately, that's the direction the company is headed.
Currently, members of the Windows Insiders test group can see ad banners in both the Mail and Calendar apps.
SailPoint has recently published some new research that will probably give you a headache, if you're a business owner.
It's been common knowledge for at least a few years now that employees are a company's weakest link when it comes to data security.
How long does it take from when hackers steal credit card data from a given company until it appears for sale on the Dark Web?
The answer varies from one hacker to the next, but the short answer is 'not very long.' The more precise answer, at least in the case of New Egg and British Airways, (both of whom were hacked recently) is, 'just over one week.
For more than a year, Facebook has been working on an important update to their Messenger service that will give users the ability to "unsend" messages in conversations you've had with others. This means permanently deleting them from both your record of the conversation and theirs.
Researchers from the Israeli security firm Armis have discovered a new security flaw in BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) chips that expose millions of access points and networking devices around the world. This opened the door to a new hack.
The flaw has been dubbed "BleedingBit" and is actually two separate vulnerabilities that could allow a hacker to execute code or take complete control over a vulnerable device without the need of a password.
Bots make up a shocking percentage of internet traffic. In fact, in some industries, there are far more bots trolling sites than there are humans. Keeping bots from interfering with a website's functionality and impacting human user experiences is an ongoing challenge that Google and many other companies are struggling to address.
