Internet

Google publishes national security letters for the first time

The letters offer a further glimpse into law enforcement demands for user information

What the mainstream media didn’t tell you about fake news

News reporting on fake news is fake news because the public now believes Macedonian teenagers organically promoted disinformation with a single hop onto Facebook

DNS provider ChangeIP cites MySQL database crash for days-long outage

Basic DNS service restored as of Tuesday, ChangeIP says, but database restore continues

Nearly half of all websites pose security risks

According to a new study of the top one million domains, 46 percent have security problems

Tech predictions for 2017: What I expect to happen

How well did I do predicting 2016, and what does next year look like? Let’s take a look.

AT&T to cough up $88M for ‘cramming’ mobile customer bills

Just one autonomous car will use 4,000 GB of data/day

Self-driving cars will soon create significantly more data than people—3 billion people’s worth of data, according to Intel

What were the best tech-themed songs of 2016?

Tacocat's "The Internet" is one contender

Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and YouTube will share terror content info

The move comes after concern that the companies weren’t taking down terrorist content fast enough

Microsoft’s chatbot is reborn as Zo

Hopefully they fixed this one so it can't be turned into a misanthrope