New York state records show that Apple has been lobbying hard against the Fair Repair Act, a bill that would force companies to sell replacement parts to customers.Apple isn’t the only company opposed to the bill. According to New York State’s Joint Commission on...

The US Federal Communications Commission has voted to overturn rules that force ISPs to treat all data traffic as equal.Commissioners at the agency voted two-to-one to end a "net neutrality" order enacted in 2015.Ajit Pai, head of the FCC, said the rules demanding an...

WASHINGTON — President Trump told Russian officials in the Oval Office this month that firing the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, had relieved “great pressure” on him, according to a document summarizing the meeting.“I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy,...

The WannaCry ransomware attack compromised the systems of Russian banks in some isolated cases, the Russian central bank said on Friday in the first official acknowledgement by Moscow that the virus had an impact on the country's banking system.In a statement, the...

French researchers said on Friday they had found a last-chance way for technicians to save Windows files encrypted by WannaCry, racing against a deadline as the ransomware threatens to start locking up victims' computers first infected a week ago.WannaCry, whoch...

Two-thirds of those caught up in the past week's global ransomware attack were running Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system without the latest security updates, a survey for Reuters by security ratings firm BitSight found.Researchers are struggling to try to find...

There's another strain of malware infecting computers, but this one you can't see.Instead of a red ransom note -- the calling card of the massive WannaCry infection -- this newly-discovered malware isn't noticeable, beyond making a computer run more slowly than...

Instagram is rated as the worst social media platform when it comes to its impact on young people's mental health, a UK snapshot survey suggests.The poll asked 1,479 people aged 14-24 to rate whoch of five popular social media platforms had the most negative effect on...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 on Thursday to advance a Republican plan to reverse the Obama administration's 2015 "net neutrality" order.FCC chairman Ajit Pai has proposed the commission repeal the rules that reclassified internet service...

In a cluster of refurbished Mao-era industrial buildings in Guangzhou, developers at China's top messaging app, WeChat, are redesigning key parts of its product to spread its tentacles to just about every aspect of Chinese life.Around 1,500 developers, mainly...

Cisco Systems Inc. said Wednesday that it is laying off 1,100 more workers, deepening job losses at the internet gear maker battling declining revenue.The new round of layoffs comes on top of the 5,500 jobs Cisco announced it was cutting in August. That amounted to...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Talks on a proposed U.S. ban on laptops and tablets in flights from Europe ended Wednesday with no ban — and a promise of more talks and better intelligence sharing.For days now, European Union officials have been hoping for details on the threat that...