The Justice Department has recovered the majority of a multimillion-dollar ransom payment to hackers after a cyberattack that caused the operator of the nation's largest fuel pipeline to halt its operations last month, officials said Monday. The operation to recover the cryptocu … | Continue reading
Prolific CEO Katia Damer and Dark CEO Paul Biggar said they were kicked out for criticizing misogyny and members' efforts to skip COVID-19 vaccine lines. | Continue reading
Apple employees sent a letter objecting to a policy that will require them to return to offices in September, arguing that they should be allowed to work remotely unless necessary. | Continue reading
In his decision, Judge Roger T. Benitez praised the AR-15 as a "home defense weapon." | Continue reading
Posts containing the emojis showed up blank on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, the country's equivalent of Twitter. | Continue reading
US troops charged with guarding nuclear weapons in Europe used popular education websites to create flash cards, exposing their exact locations and top-secret security protocols, according to the investigative site Bellingcat Friday. | Continue reading
Get essential education news and commentary delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. As debates over masks in schools reach a fever pitch — with Texas, Iowa and Utah late last week banning face covering mandates outright — over half of all U.S … | Continue reading
First he loved them, then he doubted them, but is he manipulating them? Tesla boss Elon Musk's tweets about cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are annoying their devotees and raising eyebrows among market watchers. | Continue reading
The post office’s law enforcement arm has faced intense scrutiny in recent weeks over its Internet Covert Operations Program, which tracks social media posts of Americans and shares that information with other law enforcement agencies. | Continue reading
Imagery comes back from the six-wheeled robot that landed successfully at the weekend. | Continue reading
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky breaks down the company's first quarter results. | Continue reading
A major cyclone packing ferocious winds and threatening a destructive storm made landfall in western India on Monday, disrupting the country's response to its devastating Covid-19 outbreak. | Continue reading
A major cyclone packing ferocious winds and threatening a destructive storm surge bore down on India on Monday, disrupting the country's response to its devastating Covid-19 outbreak. | Continue reading
May 10—After a weekend in the Burleigh County, North Dakota, detention center last summer, Dustin Gawrylow was relieved when the state's attorney decided not to press charges against him. Gawrylow, 38, had been in a fistfight with his brother—a "brotherly scuffle," he called it—a … | Continue reading
Get essential education news and commentary delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. March marked an all-time monthly high in solo youth crossings at the U.S. southern border. Those children and teenagers could be an unexpected boon for native … | Continue reading
Washington DC Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone lamented the ‘indifference’ he’s felt after he and his colleagues battled a horde of MAGA rioters trying to storm the Capitol | Continue reading
The Texas Senate on Wednesday voted to allow most Texans to carry handguns without any sort of permit or training, sending the legislation to a conference committee with the House, which already passed a similar measure. Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said last week he will sign the bill. … | Continue reading
As the pandemic continues to devastate, one Asian island has emerged as the best place to ride it out. | Continue reading
A growing list of more than 450 former 'Jeopardy' contestants are calling for action after a recent winner allegedly flashed a hand gesture that has become associated with white supremacist hate groups. | Continue reading
Twitter's stock was down nearly 10% in after-hours trading on Thursday, after the company issued weak second quarter guidance on revenue growth. The tech giant also reported user growth just shy of Wall Street expectations. Yes, but: Twitter still reported strong ad sales growth, … | Continue reading
The American Civil Liberties Union is raising eyebrows after updating its privacy policy to note that it is sharing data with Facebook, one of the companies whose policies it often criticizes.Why it matters: The move shows that even many organizations that don't like Facebook non … | Continue reading
Thailand is building one of the world’s biggest floating hydro-solar farms.Location: Ubon Ratchathani Province, ThailandThe 300-acre venture marks a significant shift towards a greener future for the Southeast Asian country...after years of criticism over its heavy reliance on fo … | Continue reading
The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News. | Continue reading
Foreign-based actors, principally in China and Russia, are helping fuel a movement that has become a mounting domestic terrorism threat, according to a report provided to Yahoo News. | Continue reading
“There was no one in the driver’s seat," Sgt. Cinthya Umanzor of the Harris County Constable Precinct 4 said. The 2019 Tesla Model S was traveling at a high rate of speed, when it failed to negotiate a curve and went off the roadway, crashing to a tree and bursting into flames, … | Continue reading
Global food prices have been rising for months, putting additional pressure on the world's poorest people.Why it matters: Past spikes in the price of food staples have been connected to periods of social unrest, including the Arab Spring. If prices continue to rise — on top of th … | Continue reading
NEW YORK — First came the virus, which John Chan said cost his restaurant hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost sales. Then came the surge in anti-Asian hate crimes, which has made some people jittery and kept them at home and away from the restaurant, further hurting business … | Continue reading
(Reuters) -Google research manager Samy Bengio on Tuesday said he is resigning, according to an internal email seen by Reuters, in a blow to the Alphabet Inc unit after the firings of his colleagues who questioned paper review and diversity practices. Though at least two Google … | Continue reading
The plan, drawn up in 1963, would have carved the canal through the Negev desert but did not take into account "political feasibility." | Continue reading
Over the past few years, there's been a spate of Tesla solar panels catching fire - from residential homes to Walmart and Amazon locations. | Continue reading
If you want to stop Google from providing your personal information to authorities who have issued an administrative subpoena, you need to act fast. | Continue reading
Pony Ma, the founder of Tencent Holdings, China's biggest social media and video games company, met with antitrust watchdog officials this month to discuss compliance at his group, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said. The meeting is the most concrete indication … | Continue reading
Throngs of revelers flocking to Miami Beach, Florida for spring break have become so uncontrollable that authorities imposed a curfew Saturday they hope will spoil the party. | Continue reading
The findings confirm previous research into the deleterious emotional and physical effects of keeping children out of school. | Continue reading
Engineers have carried out a major engine test of Nasa's Space Launch System. | Continue reading
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday charged the co-founders of uBiome Inc, a San Francisco biotechnology startup, with defrauding investors about its ability to expand clinical tests to monitor gut health and obtain reimbursements from insurers. Zachary Apte and Jessica Richman were ac … | Continue reading
SpaceX was down to its last rocket, which was flying aboard a C-17 jet over the Pacific. When it began to crumple, Zach Dunn dove in headfirst. | Continue reading
After years of staff cuts, shrinking budgets and declining readership, the Baltimore Sun finally has some good news to report about itself: a deal for a new nonprofit group to take over, and potentially revive the struggling newspaper. | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- A digital artwork by Beeple set auction records Thursday when it sold at Christie’s for a mind-bending $69 million. Twitter Inc. co-founder Jack Dorsey is auctioning the non-fungible token for the first tweet ever, “just setting up my twttr,” with the highest bid c … | Continue reading
Hoping for a green light, vaccinated Americans got a flashing yellow instead. Worried that packed airplanes and concert halls could threaten the gains made throughout the last several months, the CDC is still waiting for “ironclad data” about vaccination before issuing a more det … | Continue reading
The buyer of a landmark work by the digital artist Beeple, which sold for $69.3 million, is a leading collector of new technologies who operates under the pseudonym Metakovan, the auction house Christie's announced Friday. | Continue reading
Google has told customers that it will raise the rates for advertisements on its French and Spanish platforms by two percent from May to help offset the impact of a digital tax on profits. | Continue reading
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told her G20 colleagues Friday that Washington is dropping a push for a controversial provision in a global digital tax, opening the door to a likely agreement. | Continue reading
Eight Russian diplomats and family members -- the youngest of them a three-year-old girl -- have arrived home from North Korea on a hand-pushed rail trolley due to Pyongyang's coronavirus restrictions. | Continue reading
“Divisions in Oregon are getting dangerous, so we see the relocation of the border as a way to keep the peace,” the group’s president said. | Continue reading
The United States on Monday passed a grim milestone that would have seemed unimaginable a year ago when the coronavirus pandemic began. | Continue reading
Facebook executives "took steps to conceal the problem" with its inflated Potential Reach metric, the unredacted court document says. | Continue reading
Nautical, mystical and the de facto shade of several social networks, blue is a color that has deep cultural cachet, while being nearly impossible to find in nature. The blues that abound in nature — a butterfly, a navy beetle, even blue eyes — are not natively blue, according to … | Continue reading