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Country legend Merle Haggard, often called “the Poet of the Common Man,” whose music reflected his hardscrabble roots and hard-living ways as well as a tenderness that made him ... (more)
Katy Perry, Steven Tyler and Lionel Richie are just a few of hundreds of artists, songwriters and others in the music industry who are calling on Washington to reform the Digital Millennium ... (more)
It's that time of year again when tech journalists everywhere fear to write anything in case it turns out to be an elaborate prank. Did a product-discovery website really buy a struggling ... (more)
The teenager who grabbed headlines earlier this week for hacking a fake game listing on to Valve's Steam store says there are "definitely" more vulnerabilities to be found in the popular ... (more)
A record company has filed a lawsuit alleging that a listener torrented their work in violation of copyright laws.
Rotten Records Inc. filed a lawsuit on March 21 in the U.S. District ... (more)
An association of major publishing and broadcasting companies said Thursday that piracy of movies, music, manga and other content made in Japan caused a total of 930 billion yen, or ... (more)
CloudFlare is tweaking its systems to make it easier for legitimate Tor users to access websites that use its network to deliver content.
Tor users have complained that CloudFlare-powered ... (more)
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has taken a major step toward new regulations requiring ISPs to get customer permission before using or sharing their Web-surfing history ... (more)
Google has removed an April Fool's Gmail button, which sent a comical animation to recipients, after reports of people getting into trouble at work.
The button appeared beside Gmail's ... (more)
Reddit has removed the warrant canary posted on its website, suggesting that the company may have been served with some sort of secret court order or document for user information.
At ... (more)
On Thursday, the US Department of Defense announced the launch of a pilot bug-bounty program for DOD's public-facing websites. Called "Hack the Pentagon," the bounty program will be ... (more)
The FBI has offered to unlock another iPhone for police after revealing it could access the handset used by San Bernardino killer Syed Farook.
Police in Arkansas wish to unlock an ... (more)
Apple today released an update to iOS 9 to fix an issue that made some apps like Safari and Mail unresponsive, and in some cases crashed them entirely, when trying to open links. The ... (more)
Volvo's North American CEO, Lex Kerssemakers, lost his cool as the automaker's semi-autonomous prototype sporadically refused to drive itself during a press event at the Los Angeles ... (more)
An award-winning design for Manhattan envisions a hive-like tower for unmanned aerial drones. The building would allow drones to dock legally, away from no-fly zones.
The Hive skyscraper ... (more)
Toshiba is recalling over 100,000 laptop batteries due to a risk that they can overheat and melt.
The recall covers 39 models of Toshiba Portege, Satellite, and Tecra laptops fitted ... (more)
On Wednesday, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals published a legal opinion finding that state police must not only obtain a warrant before deploying a cell-site simulator, but are ... (more)
Building botnets made up of routers, modems, wireless access points and other networking devices doesn't require sophisticated exploits. Remaiten, a new worm that infects embedded systems, ... (more)
Microsoft wants people to have more intelligent conversations with their computers.
The giant software company is promoting new tools for software developers to build intelligent ... (more)
The FBI is asking businesses and software security experts for emergency assistance in its investigation into a pernicious new type of "ransomware" virus used by hackers for extortion.
"We ... (more)
At a court hearing earlier this month, the UK's National Crime Authority (NCA) demanded that Lauri Love, a British computer scientist who allegedly broke into US government networks ... (more)
One of the biggest hassles of having desktop hard drives is the mess of wiring involved. Not only do you need a cable to connect the drive to a PC, but you also need a power wire. Well, ... (more)
Some things can’t be blamed on human error. Computers make mistakes, too.
Roughly 30% of requests to takedown copyrights material are of questionable validity, according to a new ... (more)
Investigators showed up to a swap meet in Fontana expecting to bust someone selling counterfeit purses. Instead, they say, they nabbed a man who was offering more than $860,000 worth ... (more)
A woman in Oklahoma has pleaded guilty to a lewdness charge after being caught on camera by a local "drone vigilante".
Brian Bates used a drone to film Amanda Zolicoffer during a ... (more)
A new type of malware has been described, one that takes crypto-extortion to a new level. While most cryptographic ransomware variants are selective about what they encrypt - leaving ... (more)
For anyone in the U.S. who wants better cell coverage, an auction that began late Tuesday may be the start of a brighter future.
It will end with some TV channels reassigned to ... (more)
Spotify has raised $1 billion (695 million pounds) in convertible debt from private equity firm TPG Capital and hedge fund Dragoneer Investment Group, a spokeswoman for the music streaming ... (more)
MasterCard plans to introduce a new "selfie pay" security system in more than a dozen countries this summer.
The technology is simple: Instead of typing in a password into your phone ... (more)
The FBI is resisting calls to reveal how it identified people who used a child pornography site on the Tor anonymising network.
The agency was ordered to share details by a Judge ... (more)