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According to a study by UK cybersecurity hardware and software company Zobi, 30% of all smart home devices are hacked, with 1.8 billion passwords available on the dark web. It's all sobering statistics that show that much of our lives are…

An industry group representing America's largest internet companies warned the Hong Kong government that changes to the city's privacy laws could affect companies' ability to provide services in the city.The June 25 letter questioning…

The giant tech companies, with their power-hungry, soccer field-sized data centers, are not the environmental villains they are sometimes portrayed as on social media and elsewhere.Turning off your zoom camera or throttling your Netflix…

All over the world, legislators are writing the new rules for the internet. Laws are being proposed in Europe, India, Australia, the UK and other countries to regulate everything from privacy and content to the size and competitiveness of…

Critics of government regulations warned that it is not just tech companies who have to maneuver through the patchwork of rules. "This creates confusion for consumers," said Daniel Castro, vice president of the Information Technology &…

Millions of low-income Americans are entitled to an emergency discount on high-speed Internet services and devices to get online on Wednesday. This is intended to help families who struggled during the pandemic as school, work, and health…

Internet service providers funded an action that delivered millions of fake comments supporting the Federal Communications Commission's repeal of so-called net neutrality rules in 2017, the New York attorney general said Thursday.Internet…

Mr. Vixie asked Mr. Kaminsky if he had a solution in mind. "He said," We're going to get all DNS software vendors to coordinate a fix, implement it at the same time, and keep it secret until I present my results to Black Hat, "Vixie said,…

SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell wants what SpaceX is doing to "revitalize the industry" while "getting young children back to thinking about being back in the space industry".Kimberly White | Vanity Fair | Getty ImagesSpaceX…

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on weekdays.America, our internet stinks. And it's time to try a different approach to correcting the problem.Millions of Americans do not have modern…