Facebook users will receive payouts from a $725 million privacy settlement following allegations of improper data sharing. Payouts started on September 3. Facebook users will soon receive their ...

Streaming giant Plex is urging its customers to change their passwords after it disclosed a data breach of one of its user databases. The company said in a post on Monday that it was aware of a ...

In a quest to bolster a long-running claim from President Trump concerning undocumented immigrants illegally voting, the Justice Department is seeking detailed voter roll data from over 30 states. By ...

The French data protection authority has fined Google €325 million ($378 million) for violating cookie regulations and displaying ads between Gmail users' emails without their consent. During several ...

The law, Senate Bill 6, targets operations using at least 75 megawatts (MW) — enough power for some 19,000 homes — and requires them to be curtailment-ready as a condition of connecting to the grid.

AI chatbots might not be fully ready to respond to questions from people at high risk of suicide Chatbots provided appropriate responses to high-risk and low-risk questions related to suicide But ...

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It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi crime thriller, but the latest major cyberhack is real. Google revealed that a cybercriminal group known as the ShinyHunters hacked a database of their accounts ...

Austria's data protection authority said Friday that it has ordered YouTube to comply with EU regulations and respond to requests by users for access to data that it holds on them. In 2019, prominent ...

UPDATE (September 2, 2025): Google has decided to issue a statement regarding these reports, as it seems like they’re false. The company says that “Gmail’s protections are strong and effective”, and ...

A 41-year-old College Place man was arrested in Walla Walla after allegedly displaying a gun and using bear spray in a fight with several people on Wednesday, Aug. 20, according to a Walla Walla ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter who has covered the pandemic-era economy in hundreds of stories over the past two years. He's written hundreds of stories breaking down ...