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Several of the market's favorite technology stocks tanked as investors grew concerned over the companies' growth markets following new developments Tuesday.

You'll want to install the March update. Like right now if you can avoid broken networking Microsoft's January and February security fixes for Intel's Meltdown processor vulnerability opened up an even worse security hole on Windows 7 PCs and

Apple boss Tim Cook pulled no punches when he was asked about Facebook's ongoing privacy scandal. Cook was in Chicago on Wednesday to debut Apple's newest iPad.

You might have noticed and deleted an email from Microsoft this morning, informing you of a change in their Services Agreement with you. Fortunately someone over at The Inquirer actually read the update and noticed a particularly egregious update, if you

Facebook labels users as either moderate, liberal or conservative. The social media platform's users can also be 'very liberal' or 'very conservative'. Here's how to find out how it labeled you.

In the last two years, censorship on the internet has been brought to an all-time high, thanks to "fake news" hysteria and a consistent campaign from the mainstream media to silence dissenting voices during times of tragedy when the official story

U.S. officials are discouraging U.S. telephone and internet companies from purchasing Chinese technology that could be used for surveillance, Federal Communications Commissioner Ajit Pai announced Monday.

Mozilla released on Monday the second point release of its latest Firefox 59 "Quantum" web browser for all supported platforms, fixing quite a bunch of issues and adding various improvements.The Firefox 59.0.2 maintenance release is here to addres

QR codereader apps with malicious code inside of them were downloaded up to 500,000 times, according to a new report from SophosLabs. The report noes that the apps were able to hide in plain sight by appearing to be standard Android app code.

A recent investigation into 115 of the world's most popular VPN services revealed that many are antithetical to their stated claims. To build trust, providers make promises not to track users through logs or other identifying information. But as a pop

The social media site will start banning cryptocurrency ads from Tuesday, including initial coin offerings and token sales.

An experiment conducted deep underground in an old South Dakota gold mine has given scientists hope that a future detector could help solve one of physics' biggest puzzles: why the universe exists at all. Put another way, the puzzle has to do with the

Facebook stock has tumbled as rising criticism about violations of users' privacy has led to investigations and raised the possibility governments will regulate Facebook more strictly.

It's probably fair to say that Facebook is in full-on damage control mode right about now. Still reeling from the revelation that Cambridge Analytica stealthily acquired information about mil...

Julian Assange fired off a tweet Friday afternoon reminding people of the time Mark Zuckerberg called his users "Dumb fucks" because they trusted him with their private information. Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck:

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA/AP) — Elon Musk is lending his considerable social media voice to the “#DeleteFacebook” campaign. The SpaceX and Tesla founder deleted the Facebook pages for both companies in an apparent response to mounting criticism of the platform’s partnership with a data mining firm facing

Within three years, the Pentagon expects to launch new technology for a "direct energy weapon" that can create spooky voices and visual illusions, according to...

The browser maker takes issue with Facebook's default privacy settings.

Big Internet companies and small software developers alike are now likely to face scrutiny over how they share customer information.

Two leading phones, two of the best camera experiences available today.We've compared the broad strokes of how Samsung and Google take very different approaches to making a top-end smartphone. The processes are different, but the end results are very