In this installment of what we’re listening to, Reviews Editor Cherlynn Low dives into new releases from Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande, and explores what music means to us when songs are consumed more like books and journal entries. Cherlynn Low, Deputy Editor, Reviews April 19 should have been declared a global holiday. It was, … Read more
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a warning that hackers are attempting to target the helpdesks of hospitals in order to gain access to critical hospital systems. The hackers have been observed contacting hospital IT help desks using local area code phone numbers and then pretending to be a hospital … Read more
On March 21, the United States Justice Department sued Apple for antitrust violations, concluding a multi-year investigation into Apple’s business practices. The U.S. government is also pursuing antitrust cases against Google, Amazon, and Meta, as part of an expansive look into the practices of major tech companies. Apple plans to “vigorously defend” against the DoJ’s … Read more
The Department of Justice and more than a dozen states have filed a lawsuit against Apple in the US federal court, accusing the company of violating antitrust laws. It says Apple’s hardware and software products are largely inaccessible to competitors, making it difficult for rivals to compete and for customers to switch to other companies’ … Read more
The U.S. Department of Justice today filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of having an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market with the iPhone and its ecosystem, as reported by The Verge. In a statement shared with MacRumors, Apple said the lawsuit is “wrong” and that it will “vigorously defend” against it: … Read more
The US Department of Defense (DoD) passed the significant milestone of logging more than 50,000 vulnerabilities through its vulnerability disclosure program (VDP). The VDP was launched in November 2016 by the DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3), and logged the 50,000th bug bounty on the March 15 2024. The DC3 VDP program incentivises white-hat hackers to … Read more
One person posted a picture of late U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, who died in the Benghazi terror attack along with three other Americans.This week, when the official State Department picture of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was shown, people on social media made fun of it. Several well-known accounts on X made fun … Read more
The Dallas Police Department has released body camera footage of the shootout and apprehension of an illegal immigrant suspected of killing his roommate in broad daylight and injuring a police officer. Officers Derek Williams and Christopher Mazin allegedly witnessed the suspect, later identified as 45-year-old Juan Vicente Zavala Lopez, firing at a man in a … Read more