Facebook overrides fact-checks when climate science is “opinion”

Enlarge / Facebook's election "War Room" on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. (credit: David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Image...

Apple has finally embraced key-based 2FA. So should you

Enlarge / An Ars-branded Yubikey. (credit: Steven Klein) Almost three years ago, Google introduced its Advanced Protection Program (A...

Iranian state hackers caught with their pants down in intercepted videos

Enlarge / The flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iranian state hackers got caught with their pants down recently when researchers u...

Russia-linked hackers accused of targeting COVID-19 vaccine developers

Enlarge / Test doses of another potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. (credit: MLADEN ANTONOV / Getty Images ) Hackers backed by the Russian ...

Twitter lost control of its internal systems to Bitcoin-scamming hackers

Enlarge / A Twitter logo displayed on a smartphone. (credit: Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images/LightRocket | Getty Images ) Twitter lost c...

Musk, Obama, Biden, Bezos, Gates—bitcoin scam hits Twitter in coordinated blitz

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images ) Twitter accounts of the rich and famous—including Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, an...

Verizon’s 5G network is tiny—Verizon ads “falsely implied” it’s nationwide

Enlarge / A Verizon booth at Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles in September 2018. (credit: Verizon ) Verizon has reluctant...

UK bans Huawei from 5G networks in “victory for the Trump administration”

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images ) The UK government today announced a ban on Huawei equipment in 5G wireless networks, alon...

IBM has a problem with Google’s Open Usage Commons

Enlarge / Nobody from IBM is proposing any lawsuits over Google's addition of Istio to its new Open Usage Commons foundation. But the...

Charter’s hidden “Broadcast TV” fee now adds $197 a year to cable bills

(credit: Getty Images | DonNichols) Charter Communications is raising the "Broadcast TV" fee it imposes on cable plans from $1...

Frontier misled subscribers about Internet speeds and prices, AG finds

Enlarge / A Frontier Communications service van. (credit: Mike Mozart / Flickr ) Frontier Communications misled thousands of customers...

Google Play apps with 500,000 downloads subscribe users to costly services

Enlarge (credit: portal gda / Flickr ) Hackers and Google Play have been caught up in a tense dance over the past decade. The hackers ...

Microsoft neuters Office 365 account attacks that used clever ruse

Enlarge (credit: Emerson Alecrim / Flickr ) Microsoft has neutered a large-scale fraud campaign that used knock-off domains and malicio...

The rise and fall of Adobe Flash

Soon, Adobe itself will remove Flash Player from computers, too. Few technologies have yielded such divisive and widespread passion as F...

New Mac ransomware is even more sinister than it appears

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) The threat of ransomware may seem ubiquitous, but there haven't been too many strains tailored spec...

House OKs $100B broadband plan with $50 monthly discounts for poor people

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bonilla1879 ) The US House of Representatives yesterday approved $100 billion worth of broadband fundin...