If the tech industry is drawing one lesson from the latest WikiLeaks disclosures…
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Julian Assange says WikiLeaks will share CIA hacking tools with tech companies
WikiLeaks will provide technology companies with exclusive access to CIA hacking tools…
Apple working to close remaining CIA exploits exposed by WikiLeaks, but difficulties remain
Just after 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning, mobile phones belonging to executives on Apple…
Mossberg: Tech’s ruling class casts a big shadow
What we have now in consumer tech, in 2017, is an oligopoly, at least superficially similar…
WikiLeaks raises prospect of teaming with tech giants, including Apple, to thwart CIA hacker-spies
The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks raised the prospect Wednesday of sharing sensitive details…
FBI’s James Comey: ‘There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America’
All of us have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our homes, in our cars, and in our devices. But…
Apple: Many of the iOS vulnerabilities in Wikileaks’ CIA data dump are already patched
Wikileaks today published a trove of documents, allegedly taken from the CIA..
FBI Director James Comey cancels SXSW 2017 appearance
FBI Director James Comey will be unable to attend SXSW due to “scheduling conflicts” that…
WikiLeaks reveals CIA’s global covert hacking program targeting Apple iPhone, Google Android, Microsoft Windows and even Samsung TVs
Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency…
How to delete your online existence, while saving your data
Sick of Snapchat? Tired of Twitter? Fed up with Facebook?
Apple’s Siri has a huge language advantage
We live on an international planet….
News organizations ask judge to force FBI to reveal how much it paid to unlock San Bernadino Islamic terrorist’s iPhone
Last year, the battle between Apple and the FBI dominated headlines…
Why Apple’s Mac is dramatically infiltrating the enterprise
Mac shipments to businesses grew 43.8 percent in the second quarter of this year…
Proving Apple’s assertion that there are no good backdoors, hacker dumps iOS cracking tools allegedly stolen from Cellebrite
The hacker responsible has publicly released a cache of files allegedly stolen from Cellebrite…
A hacker just proved that Apple was right to worry about creating a backdoor to the iPhone
Last year, when the F.B.I procured a court order forcing Apple to unlock an iPhone belonging…
Employees sue Microsoft over PTSD after company required them to watch child porn and murder
Two Microsoft employees who had to watch ‘horrific images’ of murder, child pornography and bestiality…
What Apple got right but Amazon is getting wrong
Law and technology frequently operate at cross purposes….
Microsoft’s Surface Studio boondoggle
Amazon’s Echo is a success after selling a few million units., but Apple Watch…
Tim Cook explains to Apple employees why he met with President-elect Trump
In a series of answers to questions posted on Apple’s internal employee info service Apple Web today…
U.S. to disclose estimate of number of American citizens under surveillance
The U.S. intelligence community will soon disclose an estimate of the number of Americans whose electronic communications have been…
President-elect Trump meets privately with Apple CEO Cook, tells tech leaders: ‘I’m here to help you folks do well’
Ringed by tech’s elite, President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday promised to…
President-elect Trump to meet with Apple CEO Cook, other tech leaders today
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who has made no secret of his disdain for the titans of Silicon Valley…
Tim Cook, other tech elite attend tech summit with President-elect Trump at Trump Tower in Manhattan
Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg are among the small group…
New Apple Report suggests governments everywhere are demanding customer data
Apple has published the latest edition of its biannual report on Government Information Requests…
As Microsoft and Qualcomm work on ARM-based PCs, the stage is set for Apple A-series Macs
Qualcomm today announced that it is working with Microsoft to bring support for Windows 10…
Fallen smartphone brand Nokia looks to challenge Apple
Nokia smartphones are poised for a comeback after former managers at the Finnish company licensed…
Microsoft is bringing Visual Studio to Apple’s Mac
Microsoft has announced it’s launching its primary coding interface, Visual Studio…
Steve Ballmer still doesn’t understand why Apple’s iPhone succeeded
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is right about one thing: Microsoft waited way too long…
Facebook wants to start selling TV ads via Apple TV and Roku boxes
Next week, Facebook will start delivering video ads on apps that run on set-top boxes like Apple TV and Roku…
Zero day Microsoft Windows flaw lets hackers take full control of Windows PCs
Google has revealed a critical bug in Microsoft Windows software that could give hackers full control…
Apple’s Craig Federighi explains why there is no touchscreen Mac
We certainly explored the topic deeply many years ago and had working models…
Apple has missed the plot in myriad ways or something
This reminds me a bit of when Steve Jobs was hawking DVD drives on iMacs when everyone wanted to rip and burn CDs…
Microsoft vs. Apple: A tale of two keynotes
It was a pretty cool week. We saw product introductions from Microsoft and Apple…
New England Patriots coach Belichick on Microsoft Surface tablets: ‘They’re just too undependable for me’
Belichick said he ‘can’t take it anymore’ with Microsoft’s wannabe iPads…
Five years on, why doesn’t Apple’s Siri work better than it does?
There are some fundamental differences between Apple and Google when it comes to privacy…
Mossberg: Why does Apple’s Siri seem so dumb?
In addition to the iPhone, Siri is now on the iPad, and was recently added to the Mac…
FBI wants to get into locked Apple iPhone of Minnesota Islamic terrorist Dahir Adan
When the FBI asked a court to force Apple to help crack the encrypted iPhone 5c of San Bernardino shooter…
British PM Theresa May launches thinly veiled attacks on Apple and Facebook
Theresa May launched a thinly veiled attack on Apple and Facebook…
Apple Watch has blood on its hands: ‘Microsoft Band’ wearable is dead
Microsoft has removed all references to its Band devices from its Microsoft Store…
Deloitte: Apple products ‘essential to the modern workforce’
This week’s big enterprise story is Apple’s new partnership with Deloitte in which the companies…
10 reasons why Apple is winning the enterprise
Apple under Tim Cook is dramatically extending its reach…
Hardware hack bypasses iPhone passcode security
The work contradicts a claim made by the FBI earlier this year that this approach would not work….
