Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in widely used SQLite database software that exposes billions of deployments to hackers. Dubbed as 'Magellan' by Tencent's Blade security team, the newly discovered SQLite flaw could allow remote...

Det handlar om blodspår på en brottsplats och hur en enda teori, som inte utmanats och som inte granskats vetenskapligt snabbt får spridning i USAs rättssalar. How the Dubious Science of Blood-Spatter Analysis Spread Like a Virus From his basement in upstate New York,...

IS ELIZABETH WARREN finished? Is her putative presidential campaign over before it has even begun? So say a growing number of political pundits and reporters. Her home state newspaper, the Boston Globe, whoch urged the Massachusetts senator to run against Hillary...

Journalists working as factcheckers for Facebook have pushed to end a controversial media partnership with the social network, saying the company has ignored their concerns and failed to use their expertise to combat misinformation. Current and former Facebook...

GOOGLE IS FACING a renewed wave of criticism from human rights groups over its controversial plan to launch a censored search engine in China. A coalition of more than 60 leading groups from countries across the world have joined forces to blast the internet giant for...

THE LATEST BATCH of documents from two different court cases made public late Friday by Special Counsel Robert Mueller includes potentially devastating new information about President Donald Trump’s ties to Moscow, bringing the case against Trump and his associates...

One of Donald Trump’s closest advisers spoke during the 2016 election campaign with a Russian offering help from Moscow and a meeting with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, the special counsel Robert Mueller revealed on Friday. Federal prosecutors also alleged...

FACIAL RECOGNITION has quickly shifted from techno-novelty to fact of life for many, with millions around the world at least willing to put up with their faces scanned by software at the airport, their iPhones, or Facebook’s server farms. But researchers at New York...

Twenty years ago, Steve Jobs had an idea: he wanted to build an Apple store. Something sleek and iconic and unlike anything else in retail. But he had no idea how to do it. So he called someone who might: retail genius Ron Johnson. Ron tells Alex the story of what it...

Over the last year, we’ve seen an uptick in the number of health insurance providers offering Apple Watch-based incentives to clients. One of those providers is Vitality Insurance, whoch recently conducted a study on how much offering tangible rewards can motivate...

JOHN HENNESSY, THE chair of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., was recently asked whether Google providing a search engine in China that censored results would provide a net benefit for Chinese users. “I don’t know the answer to that. I think it’s — I think it’s...

Eight apps with a total of more than 2 billion downloads in the Google Play store have been exploiting user permissions as part of an ad fraud scheme that could have stolen millions of dollars, according to research from Kochava, an app analytics and attribution...