Twitch Has Become a Haven for Live Sports Piracy
As Liverpool soccer player Roberto Firmino clutched out the only goal of the club’s December 21 FIFA Club World Cup match before […]
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The Mandalorian Is the Only Smart Soldier in the Star Wars Galaxy
After nine Star Wars movies, two Star Wars stories, and countless TV show episodes, The Mandalorian has finally given us something utterly […]
Cut Undersea Cable Plunges Yemen Into Days-Long Internet Outage
Last week, the internet went dark for Yemen and its 28 million citizens. It’s still not fully back today. In fact, the […]
The FBI Wants Apple to Unlock iPhones Again
After anxious days awaiting Iran’s response to the US assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the country sent missiles flying at two Iraqi military […]
This Government-Subsidized Phone Comes With Malware
An Android phone subsidized by the US government for low-income users comes preinstalled with malware that can’t be removed without making the […]
Facebook Says Encrypting Messenger by Default Will Take Years
In March of last year, Mark Zuckerberg made a dramatic pledge: Facebook would apply end-to-end encryption to user communications across all of […]
Amazon Takes a Swipe at PayPal’s $4 Billion Acquisition
“We only use data in ways that directly benefit Honey members—helping people save money and time—and in ways they would expect. Our […]
Russia Takes a Big Step Toward Internet Isolation
Over the holidays, the Russian government said it had completed a multi-day test of a national, internal internet known as RuNet, a […]
The Army Bans TikTok
Happy New Year! Well, it was for a day or two, anyway. But after the US assassinated Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani […]
The Most Dangerous People on the Internet This Decade
In the meantime, Facebook has been used again and again to spread mass disinformation, from hate speech that fueled the massacre of […]