Russian security software maker Kaspersky Lab has filed antitrust complaints against Microsoft with the European Commission and the German federal cartel office, it said in a statement on Tuesday.Kaspersky Lab said Microsoft was abusing its dominance in the PC operating system market, creating obstacles for independent software security vendors by distributing its own Defender anti-virus software with the ubiquitous Windows operating system.Microsoft built the anti virus software into Windows, saying this protected users but Kaspersky said it was anti-competitive.Microsoft said in a statement on Tuesday that it had not violated any laws.“Microsoft’s primary objective is to keep customers protected,” the company said in an emailed statement. ”We are confident that the security features of Windows 10 comply with competition laws. And we will answer any questions regulators may have.”Kaspersky filed the complaints after the two companies failed to resolve their differences through private negotiations.

A free-speech institute on Tuesday sent a letter to President Donald Trump demanding the prolific tweeter unblock certain Twitter users on grounds the practice violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.Trump’s @realDonaldTrump account recently blocked a number of accounts that replied to his tweets with commentary that criticized, mocked or disagreed with his actions. Twitter users are unable to see or respond to tweets from accounts that block them.The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University in New York said in its letter that the blocking suppressed speech in a public forum protected by the Constitution.The White House did not respond to a request for comment. Twitter Inc said it had no comment.

Barely an hour after a news organization published an article about a Top Secret National Security Agency document on Russian hacking, the Justice Department announced charges against a 25-year-old government contractor who a senior federal official says was the leaker of the document.The May 5, 2017 intelligence document published by The Intercept, an online news organization, describes new details about Russian efforts to hack voting systems in the U.S a week prior to the 2016 presidential election. While the document doesn’t say the hacking changed any votes, it ”raises the possibility that Russian hacking may have breached at least some elements of the voting system, with disconcertingly uncertain results.”Play Facebook TwitterEmbed NSA Doc Reported by The Intercept Shows Russia Tried to Hack U.S. Voting Systems 2:00Even as the document was ricocheting around Washington, the Justice Department announced that a criminal complaint was filed in the Southern District of Georgia charging Reality Leigh Winner, 25, a federal contractor, with removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet.

Hundreds of businesses are banding together with cities and state leaders to support the goals of the Paris climate agreement.Apple (AAPL, Tech30), Amazon (AMZN, Tech30), Facebook (FB, Tech30), Google (GOOG), Gap (GPS), Adidas and many others signed on to an open letter Monday pledging to move forward with the United State’s earlier commitment to reducing carbon emissions.The move comes less than a week after President Trump announced plans to withdraw from the pact.”In the U.S., it is local and state governments, along with businesses, that are primarily responsible for the dramatic decrease in greenhouse gas emissions in recent years,” the coalition wrote on a dedicated website called We Are Still In.”Actions by each group will multiply and accelerate in the years ahead, no matter what policies Washington may adopt.”

Hundreds of businesses are banding together with cities and state leaders to support the goals of the Paris climate agreement.Apple (AAPL, Tech30), Amazon (AMZN, Tech30), Facebook (FB, Tech30), Google (GOOG), Gap (GPS), Adidas and many others signed on to an open letter Monday pledging to move forward with the United State’s earlier commitment to reducing carbon emissions.The move comes less than a week after President Trump announced plans to withdraw from the pact.”In the U.S., it is local and state governments, along with businesses, that are primarily responsible for the dramatic decrease in greenhouse gas emissions in recent years,” the coalition wrote on a dedicated website called We Are Still In.”Actions by each group will multiply and accelerate in the years ahead, no matter what policies Washington may adopt.”The effort was organized by more than a dozen groups, including the Center for American Progress and Mike Bloomberg’s Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Prime Minister Theresa May has said more must be done to tackle terror online.In a speech on Sunday, following the terrorist attack in London, she said the internet provided a ”safe space” for extremist ideology to breed.But technology companies and cyber-security experts have warned that tighter regulation of the internet will not solve this problem.Encryption:

The issueMessages sent online can be scrambled as they leave one device and they remain scrambled until they are deciphered by the recipient’s device.This is end-to-end encryption, and it stops messages being read by third parties – be it criminals or law enforcement – if they are intercepted.This adds valuable security to the messages we send online, whoch could contain private information, bank details and personal photographs.