2017-02-06 18:38
TV maker Vizio pays $2.2M to settle complaint that it spied on users
Popular smart TV maker Vizio will pay US $2.2 million to settle complaints that it violated customers' privacy by continuously monitoring their viewing habits without their knowledge.
2017-02-06 18:26
Malware distributors are switching to less suspicious file types
After aggressively using JavaScript email attachments to distribute malware for the past year, attackers are now switching to less suspicious file types to trick users.
2017-02-06 17:50
Intel brought 300 drones to the Super Bowl
It wasn’t live, but Intel’s 300 drones in the sky behind Lady Gaga at the start of the Super Bowl Halftime Show were impressive nonetheless. What started out as a sea of floating lights came together by the end of the bit to form an American flag.
2017-02-06 17:00
Why Intel's Unite software survived last year's brutal product purge
At first glance, Intel's Unite software comes across as an anomaly. What future does the collaboration software have in the chipmaker's future?
2017-02-06 16:26
Hacker hijacks thousands of publicly exposed printers to warn owners
Following recent research that showed many printer models are vulnerable to attacks, a hacker decided to prove the point and forced thousands of publicly exposed printers to spew out rogue messages.
2017-02-06 15:29
Stratoscale buys Tesora to bolster hybrid cloud database capability
Cloud service provider Stratoscale has snapped up database-as-a-service vendor Tesora to beef up its hybrid cloud offering.
2017-02-06 12:08
French to fight fake news with backing from Google, Facebook
News organizations operating in France will open up a new fact-checking service, CrossCheck, at the end of this month. Their initial focus will be on covering the forthcoming French elections, but with a number of international organizations participat
2017-02-06 12:07
Google ordered by US court to produce emails stored abroad
Google has been ordered by a federal court in Pennsylvania to comply with search warrants and produce customer emails stored abroad, in a decision that is in sharp contrast to that of an appeals court in a similar case involving Microsoft.
2017-02-06 12:00
Upstart JavaScript framework dreams of challenging Angular, React
Mithril, an open source JavaScript framework for single-page applications, is looking to best Facebook's React, Google's Angular, and Vue JavaScript tools in performance and ease of use. It reached the 1.0.0 release stage last week.
2017-02-06 08:43
Key tech companies oppose Trump immigration order in court
Google, Facebook, Intel, Netflix, Microsoft, Apple and Twitter are among a large group of companies that have filed a brief in opposition to an immigration order by U.S. President Donald Trump, citing the benefits to industry from liberal immigration r