Technology

Hundreds of Swedish supermarkets remained shut Tuesday after a major cyberattack that has crippled hundreds of companies worldwide for the past four days, with the perpetrators demanding $70 million in bitcoin to undo the damage.…
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WASHINGTON – The US Defence Department cancelled its US$10 billion (S$13 billion) Jedi cloud-computing project on Tuesday (July 6), pulling the Trump-era award to Microsoft and announcing a new contract that pits the big software firm…
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CALIFORNIA – Multiple users complained about an outage affecting Alphabet’s search engine Google as well as its streaming and email services late Monday (June 28) before services were restored, according to outage monitoring website…
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LONDON – UK regulator opened a formal investigation into Amazon and Google over concerns that the tech giants have not done enough to combat fake reviews on their sites. The Competition and Markets Authority said it will now gather further…
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LUXEMBOURG – Google’s YouTube won its latest copyright-infringement challenge after Europe’s top court said online platforms are not liable for users uploading unauthorised works unless the platforms failed to take quick action to remove…
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BRUSSELS – Europe two privacy watchdogs teamed up to call for a ban on the use of facial recognition in public spaces, going against draft European Union rules that would allow the technology to be used for public security reasons. The…
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LOS ANGELES – Nearly three dozen women have filed a lawsuit in California against adult video website Pornhub, accusing it and its parent company of knowingly profiting from footage depicting rape and sexual exploitation, including of…
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Snapchat has begun removing its “speed filter” feature after it was blamed for encouraging dangerous speeding by safety advocates and families of car crash victims. It’s not clear when Snap Inc. made the decision to remove the feature that…
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SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook scientists on Wednesday (June 16) said they developed artificial intelligence software to not only identify “deepfake” images but to figure out where they came from. Deepfakes are photos, videos or audio clips…
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HONG KONG – Alibaba Group Holding was the victim of a months-long web-scraping operation by a marketing consultant that siphoned up sensitive data including usernames and phone numbers, according to a court case that wrapped in June. A…
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