Apple is the only PC or smartphone vendor to have full control over the user experience it provides to its customers, thanks to its positioning as an integrated platform vendor. This is a key--often overlooked--advantage for the company that is driving customer...

There is a very specific — and dangerous — formula for manipulating the media and hijacking the Twitter/cable/conventional media industrial complex. Trump sets this formulaic trap increasingly often. And news organizations keep falling for it. Källa: Trump's...

THE UK GOVERNMENT has committed to pressing ahead with its proposed age verification system, despite acknowledging the mass of inherent flaws. The system dates back to July 2013, when then-Prime Minister David Cameron outlined plans to require adult websites to have...

PERSONAL DATA belonging to more than one billion Indians citizens, including thumbprints and retina scans, can be bought online for less than £6, according to an investigation by Indian newspaper Tribune. The data is stored in what may be the world's largest state-run...

With device searches at American border crossings reaching an all-time high, the US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) this week tightened its rules for when agents can pull data from phones and computers. The updated directive [PDF] amends the 2009 CBP border search...

Pupils starting secondary school face "avalanche of pressure", England's children's commissioner says. Källa: Children at 'significant' social media risk

Daniel Gruss didn't sleep much the night he hacked his own computer and exposed a flaw in most of the chips made in the past two decades by hardware giant Intel Corp (INTC.O). Källa: How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst' chip flaw

Troubles with snow and ice at Apple's North Mochigan store in Chicago were attributable to glitches in a rooftop warming system, rather than any inherently bad architecture, according to the company. Källa: Apple says Chicago store's snow problems are result of...

Netflix's Bright might not be a critical success, but it is a commercial success -- and that's all the streaming service needs to hear. After reportsthat a sequel was in the works, company has confirmed that Bright 2 is in development through a brief teaser clip...

President Trump announced he was disbanding his Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity Wednesday, citing a desire not to engage in “endless legal battles at taxpayer expense.” The genesis of the commission was the president’s baseless claim that...

The Android.Fakeapp Trojan has been infecting Google's mobile platform for ages in different forms, and one of its latest variants mimics Uber'sinterface. According to Symantec, whoch discovered the new variant after looking at several, the Trojan pops up on screen in...

Apple’s olive branch to iPhone owners affected by the CPU throttling saga could end up costing the company a small fortune. The firm promised to replace the batteries of iPhone 6 and later handsets for $29 instead of the usual out-of-warranty price of $79. At the...