Latest articles by Rene Ritchie
Apple, Google, Microsoft increasingly defying U.S. government, informing customers of data demands
Mozilla, Google, and Apple block Kazakhstan's spy-certificate
Mozilla, Google, and Apple are blocking a root certificate Kazakhstan ISPs were forced to install to spy on citizens.
Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram — down, down, down
All of Facebook — including Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp — appear to be having major server problems at the moment. So no, you're not alone!
Twitter finally details new API, screws third-party apps — again
Twitter has finally announced details for it’s new Account Activity API, which replaces the Streaming API third-party clients have relied on up until now — and the news isn’t good.
Favstar Destroyer: Twitter API hostility claims another service
Favstar, a popular service for seeing which of your tweets were the most loved and discovering other popular tweets, will be shutting down on June 19, 2018. Because, Twitter.
#EFAIL vulnerability: What PGP and S/MIME users need to do right now
Security researchers will be publishing what they claim are critical vulnerabilities in PGP/GPG and S/MIME email encryption on May 15. In the meantime, EFF advises you disable PGP email clients. GPUPG offers different advice.
Uber covered up a hack that compromised 57 million accounts
Uber was hacked. 50 million rider accounts were accessed. 7 million driver accounts as well. And Uber paid $100,000 to cover it all up.
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are down. Are you affected?
Facebook and its related networks, Instagram and Whatsapp, experienced an outage that prevented some users from accessing either the entire service or some functionality within the service.
Slack planning voice and video chat, upping threat to Hangouts, Skype
Slack plans to roll out voice and video chat this year, making the popular messaging company even more competitive with incumbents like Microsoft's Skype and Google's Hangouts.
