The Federal Trade Commission will allow Amazon to continue its $13.7 billion deal to acquire Whole Foods. The FTC conducted an investigation to gauge whether the merger would decrease competition under federal regulations, Bruce Hoffman, acting director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, said in a statement. It ultimately decided not to pursue the matter further.
The U.S. Department of Justice is rescinding its request for IP logs that would have revealed visitors to a website used to plan a protest during Donald Trump’s inauguration. DreamHost, the web hosting provider that was hit with the request, has been fighting back against what it characterized as an over-broad warrant that would have forced the company to hand over “all information available to us about this website, its owner, and, more importantly, its visitors.”
Some of the most popular industrial and consumer robots are dangerously easy to hack and could be turned into bugging devices or weapons, IOActive Inc. said. The Seattle-based cybersecurity firm found major security flaws in industrial models sold by Universal Robots, a division of U.S. technology company Teradyne Inc.
Microsoft’s Windows Store has been full of junk apps for years, but a new problem has emerged with apps providing access to pirated movies and TV shows. Torrent Freak reports that some apps run across PCs, mobile, and even Xbox One, and provide quick access to movies that aren’t even on legal streaming platforms. There’s also a range of pirated music apps that stream songs and albums.
Hackers have discovered that one of the most central elements of online security — the mobile phone number — is also one of the easiest to steal.In a growing number of online attacks, hackers have been calling up Verizon, T-Mobile U.S., Sprint and AT&T and asking them to transfer control of a victim’s phone number to a device under the control of the hackers.
For the past five months, a group of litigants has been trying to hold Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, to account for some of his actions. It has not been easy. A team of four people hired by the nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center to serve Mr. Anglin with notice of a lawsuit accusing him of leading a “troll army” have failed.
Tech companies -- including Google, Facebook and Amazon -- that were previously lauded as innovators are facing increased scrutiny over their size, their hiring practices and whether online news feeds skew liberal. The shift in tone comes as Congress and the Trump administration consider changing tax, energy and immigration policies important to Silicon Valley.
Conservative Canadian website The Rebel said its domain provider cut its internet registration, making the site inaccessible to some users around the world as the company scrambled to get back online using a second provider. The move comes after GoDaddy Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google and other technology firms last week pushed the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer offline by terminating services of the online publication that helped organize the violent rally in Virginia on Aug. 12.
The United States formally launched an investigation into China's alleged theft of U.S. intellectual property, a widely expected move following a call from President Donald Trump to determine whether a probe was needed. The probe is the administration's first direct measure against Chinese trade practices, which the White House and U.S. business groups say are bruising American industry.
A group affiliated with the online activist group known as Anonymous posted what it says are the private cellphone numbers and email addresses for 22 Republican members of Congress in a bid to push for President Trump's impeachment, reigniting the use of hacked information in U.S. political battles. Rob Pfeiffer, chief editor of online publication The Anon Journal, told The Washington Post that the move was spurred by Trump's contentious reaction to violent clashes in Charlottesville over the weekend.
A Missouri lawmaker is under mounting pressure to resign after she said on social media she hopes President Trump is assassinated, following his response to violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. Democratic state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal went on her personal Facebook page to vent two days after the president blamed “both sides” for the brutality.
The Ukrainian central bank said it had warned state-owned and private lenders of the appearance of new malware as security services said Ukraine faced cyber attacks like those that knocked out global systems in June. The June 27 attack, dubbed NotPetya, took down many Ukrainian government agencies and businesses, before spreading rapidly through corporate networks of multinationals with operations or suppliers in eastern Europe.
President Trump announced he is boosting U.S. Cyber Command to a full combatant command, triggering a review of whether it should separate from the National Security Agency. Speculation has swirled for months that Trump could elevate the command, a move that was also considered by the Obama administration.
China has launched a digital "cyber-court" to help deal with a rise in the number of internet-related claims, according to state media. The Hangzhou Internet Court heard its first case -- a copyright infringement dispute between an online writer and a web company in a trial that lasted 20 minutes.
A digital rights group based in San Francisco criticized several internet companies for removing neo-Nazi groups from servers and services, saying the actions were "dangerous" and threatened free expression online. "We strongly believe that what GoDaddy, Google, and Cloudflare did here was dangerous," Cindy Cohn, executive director of Electronic Frontier Foundation, wrote in a blog post along with two other staffers.
A federal court ruled that the often lengthy online agreements customers face when registering for sites and apps are binding, even if customers don’t fully understand or take the time to read them, giving a boost to companies seeking to avoid class-action lawsuits. The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals found that Uber Technologies Inc. customers sign over their rights to sue in court when they click to agree to the ride-hailing company’s terms of service, which include a provision requiring arbitration.
Music-streaming service Spotify announced it would remove "hate music," music by white supremacists, from its vast streaming library. The move comes after a music news blog, Digital Music News, published a story identifying 37 white supremacist bands that could still be found on Spotify.
China’s top cyberspace regulators have warned Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and other online services against carrying illicit content, substances and tools to help users circumvent the nation’s internet content barriers. The Cyberspace Administration of China singled out five services, including Alibaba’s Taobao internet bazaar, for criticism and ordered them to rectify their problems immediately.
Twitter Inc. suspended accounts linked to the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, keeping up pressure from Silicon Valley on white supremacists after weekend violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Twitter said it would not discuss individual accounts, but at least three accounts affiliated with the Daily Stormer led to pages saying "account suspended."
PayPal, the popular online payment platform, announced that it would bar users from accepting donations to promote hate, violence and intolerance after revelations that the company played a key role in raising money for a white supremacist rally that turned deadly. The company, in a lengthy blog post, outlined its long-standing policy of not allowing its services to be used to accept payments or donations to organizations that advocate racist views. PayPal singled out the Ku Klux Klan, white supremacist groups or Nazi groups — all three of whom were involved in last weekend’s Charlottesville rally.
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