Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone At the Border - Slashdot
On Wednesday, Judge Nina Morrison ruled that cellphone searches at the border are "nonroutine" and require...
Data From Deleted GitHub Repos May Not Actually Be Deleted, Researchers Claim - Slashdot
Thomas Claburn reports via The Register: Researchers at Truffle Security have found, or arguably rediscovered, that...
Automakers Sold Driver Data For Pennies, Senators Say - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: If you drive a car...
California Supreme Court Upholds Gig Worker Law In a Win For Ride-Hail Companies - Slashdot
In a major victory for ride-hail companies, California Supreme Court upheld a law classifying gig workers...
ServiceNow Embroiled In DOJ Probe of Government Contract Award - Slashdot
snydeq shares a report from CIO.com: ServiceNow has reported potential compliance issues to the US Department...
Secure Boot Is Completely Broken On 200+ Models From 5 Big Device Makers - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by Dan Goodin: On Thursday, researchers...
Lawsuit: T-Mobile Must Pay For Breaking Lifetime Price Guarantee - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Angry T-Mobile customers have filed a class...
Hackers Leak Documents From Pentagon IT Services Provider Leidos - Slashdot
According to Bloomberg, hackers have leaked internal documents stolen from Leidos Holdings, one of the largest...
The Kremlin Jails the Father of Russia's Internet - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA): Alexey Soldatov,...
House Committee Calls On CrowdStrike CEO To Testify On Global Outage - Slashdot
According to the Washington Post (paywalled), the House Homeland Security Committee has called on the CrowdStrike...
Switzerland Now Requires All Government Software To Be Open Source - Slashdot
Switzerland has enacted the "Federal Law on the Use of Electronic Means for the Fulfillment of...
Telegram Zero-Day for Android Allowed Malicious Files To Masquerade as Videos - Slashdot
Researchers have identified a zero-day exploit for the Telegram messaging app on Android devices that could...
Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed Its Robotaxis - Slashdot
Waymo, a subsidiary of Google's parent Alphabet, has taken legal action against alleged vandals targeting its...
Paramount+ Documentary: an Origin Story For Music Piracy - and Its Human Side - Slashdot
Re-visiting the Napster era, Stephen Witt's book How Music Got Free has been adapted into a...
Ransomware Attack Takes Down Computer System for America's Largest Trial Court - Slashdot
A ransomware attack has taken down the computer system of America's largest trial court, reports the...
Former Anonymous Spokesperson's Memoir Called 'Deranged, Hyperbolic, and True' - Slashdot
Slashdot covered Barrett Brown back in 2011 and 2012. The New York Times calls him "an...
CNN Investigates 'Airbnb's Hidden Camera Problem' - Slashdot
2017 Slashdot headline: "People Keep Finding Hidden Cameras in Their Airbnbs." Nearly seven years later, CNN...
In SolarWinds Case, US Judge Rejects SEC Oversight of Cybersecurity Controls - Slashdot
SolarWinds still faces some legal action over its infamous 2020 breach, reports NextGov.com. But a U.S....
Firefox 128 Criticized for Including Small Test of 'Privacy-Preserving' Ad Tech by Default - Slashdot
"Many people over the past few days have been lashing out at Mozilla," writes the blog...
Nigeria Fines Meta $220 Million For Violating Consumer, Data Laws - Slashdot
Nigeria fined Meta for $220 million on Friday, alleging the tech giant violated the country's local...
FCC Blasts T-Mobile's 365-Day Phone Locking, Proposes 60-Day Unlock Rule - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Citing frustration with mobile carriers enforcing different...
OpenAI Dropped From First Ever AI Programming Copyright Lawsuit - Slashdot
OpenAI escaped a copyright lawsuit from a group of open-source programmers after they voluntarily dismissed their...
Oracle Reaches $115 Million Consumer Privacy Settlement - Slashdot
Oracle agreed to pay $115 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the database software and cloud...
Little-Known Tool Is Giving Instant Access To Vast Amounts of Homebuyer Data - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record: When Florida real estate professional Susan Hicks...
FCC Closes 'Final Loopholes' That Keep Prison Phone Prices Exorbitantly High - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission today voted to...
USPS Shared Customers Postal Addresses With Meta, LinkedIn and Snap - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The U.S. Postal Service was sharing the postal...
The Biggest Data Breaches In 2024: 1 Billion Stolen Records and Rising - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes an excerpt from TechCrunch, written by Zack Whittaker: We're over halfway through...
Leaked Docs Show What Phones Cellebrite Can and Can't Unlock - Slashdot
Cellebrite, the well-known mobile forensics company, was unable to unlock a sizable chunk of modern iPhones...
Puerto Rico Files $1 Billion Suit Against Fossil Fuel Companies - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Puerto Rico filed suit against fossil fuel...
Rite Aid Says Breach Exposes Sensitive Details of 2.2 Million Customers - Slashdot
Rite Aid, the third-largest U.S. drug store chain, reported it a ransomware attack that compromised the...
Craig Wright Faces Perjury Investigation Over Claims He Created Bitcoin - Slashdot
A judge in the UK High Court has directed prosecutors to consider bringing criminal charges against...
Senate Introduces Bill To Setup Legal Framework For Ethical AI Development - Slashdot
Last week, the U.S. Senate introduced a new bill to outlaw the unethical use of AI-generated...
Record Labels Sue Verizon After ISP 'Buried Head In Sand' Over Subscribers' Piracy - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Just before the weekend, dozens of record labels...
Gemini AI Platform Accused of Scanning Google Drive Files Without User Permission - Slashdot
Last week, Senior Advisor on AI Governance at the Center for Democracy & Technology, Kevin Bankston,...
Federal Court Blocks Net Neutrality Rules - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A federal appeals court has agreed to...
AT&T Paid $370,000 For the Deletion of Stolen Phone Call Records - Slashdot
AT&T paid more than $300,000 to a member of the team that stole call records for...
California Prohibited From Enforcing PI Licensing Law Against Anti-Spam Crusader - Slashdot
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from non-profit libertarian law firm, the Institute for Justice:...
Admiral Grace Hopper's Landmark Lecture Is Found, But the NSA Won't Release It - Slashdot
MuckRock is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) non-profit collaborative news site to "request, analyze and share government documents,"...
Apple Watch Is Cleared By the CBP of Infringing On the ECG Patent - Slashdot
Slashdot reader Kirschey writes: The U.S. Customs and Border Protection determined that the redesigned Apple Watch...
CISA Broke Into a US Federal Agency, No One Noticed For a Full 5 Months - Slashdot
A 2023 red team exercise by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at an...
American Hacker In Turkey Linked To Massive AT&T Breach - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: John Binns, a U.S. citizen who has...
AT&T Says Criminals Stole Phone Records of 'Nearly All' Customers in New Data Breach - Slashdot
U.S. phone giant AT&T confirmed Friday it will begin notifying millions of consumers about a fresh...
Data Breach Exposes Millions of mSpy Spyware Customers - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A data breach at the phone surveillance operation...
Python GitHub Token Leak Shows Binary Files Can Burn Developers Too - Slashdot
snydeq shares a report from CSO Online, written by Lucian Constantin: A personal GitHub access token...
Senators Strike Bipartisan Deal For a Ban On Stock Trading By Members of Congress - Slashdot
A bipartisan group of senators reached a new agreement on legislation that would ban members of...
Hidden Camera Concerns Plague Short-Term Rental Industry - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shares a report: A CNN investigation found the use of hidden cameras is...
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Over GitHub Copilot AI Coding Assistant - Slashdot
A US District Court judge in San Francisco has largely dismissed a class-action lawsuit against GitHub,...
Oregon County Seeks To Hold Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable For Extreme Heat - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Northwest Oregon had never seen anything like...
British Boarding School Bans Smartphones, Hands Out Nokia Phones Instead - Slashdot
Eton College, Britain's elite boarding school with alumni that includes Princes William and Harry, as well...
Spain Sentences 15 Schoolchildren Over AI-Generated Naked Images - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A court in south-west Spain has sentenced...