Google is upgrading the digital certificates used to secure its Gmail, Calendar, and Web search services. Beginning on August 1, the company will start upgrading the RSA keys used to ... (more)

Now they’re just messing with us. Physicists have long known that quantum mechanics allows for a subtle connection between quantum particles called entanglement, in which measuring ... (more)

The CIA offers an electronic search engine that lets you mine about 11 million agency documents that have been declassified over the years. It’s called CREST, short for CIA Records ... (more)

Television broadcasters are taking the fight over unauthorized streaming to the nation's capital. On Thursday night, Fox, NBCU, Disney/ABC, Allbritton Communications and Telemundo ... (more)

U.S. companies should be allowed to take aggressive countermeasures against hackers seeking to steal their intellectual property, contends the private Commission on the Theft of American ... (more)

Reprogramming the identification number of a cellphone could be punishable with a prison sentence of up to five years under the terms of a proposed law announced Friday. The Mobile ... (more)

A search to recover the very first web page has unearthed a relic from 1991. The page turned up after Cern launched a public appeal for files, hardware and software from the web's ... (more)

The European launch of the "Facebook phone" has been delayed following disappointing US sales and negative feedback. The HTC handset runs Facebook's enhanced Home software, designed ... (more)

Windows 8 haters, rejoice. Microsoft has heard your cries and has brought back the Start button. But you'll need to buy a new mouse to see it. Redmond today announced a pair of ... (more)

AT&T has introduced a new "Mobility Administrative Fee" to its postpaid contracts. The $0.61 monthly fee ($7.32 per year) is being categorized "below the line" alongside tax and fees ... (more)

Ohio lawmakers on Wednesday delivered a fatal blow to Internet cafes. The Senate voted in favor of House Bill 7, effectively banning Internet cafes in the state. Gov. John Kasich ... (more)

AF Holdings is one of several shell companies linked to Prenda Law, which threatened thousands of Internet users with lawsuits over downloading pornography. Now Prenda's on the ropes ... (more)

When Barry Diller unveiled Aereo in February 2012, he said the startup allowing consumers to watch network television on digital devices would break the chains of a “closed cable-broadcast-satellite ... (more)

Security researchers have identified multiple samples of the recently discovered "KitM" spyware for Mac OS X, including one dating back to December 2012 and targeting German-speaking ... (more)

A majority of consumer and small business Windows 8 PC users launch fewer than one "Modern" app a day, signaling that they're spending most of their time on the classic Windows 7-style ... (more)

A former college football player has scored a court victory against Electronic Arts. EA used Rutgers College quarterback Ryan Hart's likeness in several versions of its popular NCAA ... (more)

Out of nowhere, Kim Dotcom last night claimed to have invented a widely used and very important security technology known as two-factor authentication. Just after Twitter launched ... (more)

Yes, Virginia, there is a limit to what Verizon will let you do with FiOS' "unlimited" data plan. And a California man discovered that limit when he got a phone call from a Verizon ... (more)

In a bid to make JavaScript run ever faster, Mozilla has developed asm.js. It's a limited, stripped down subset of JavaScript that the company claims will offer performance that's within ... (more)

The Recording Industry Association of America gave up on its plan to sue piracy out of existence years ago. Instead of mass-copyright lawsuits, the group is embracing a mass-takedown ... (more)

Cable operator Virgin Media has today unleashed its “broadband sheriffs” to help broadband consumers identify which seemingly innocent household items can cause the most interference ... (more)

A survey of U.S. utilities shows many are facing frequent cyberattacks that could threaten a highly interdependent power grid supplying more than 300 million people, according to a ... (more)

Improvements to Nvidia's virtualization technology are aimed at turning graphics processors into a more important resource in data centers and could speed deployment of virtual desktops ... (more)

After a string of high-profile hacking incidents, Twitter has finally introduced a two-factor authentication system as a way for members to keep their accounts secure. Wednesday, ... (more)

An electrician and his wife had a shock when they received a mobile phone bill for £163,000, then fought for months to have the debt cleared. For 15 years, Alan and Carolyn Mazkouri, ... (more)

Microsoft faces a backlash from some gamers after it emerged the company may charge a fee to play pre-owned games on its new Xbox One console. It would also mean borrowing a game ... (more)

The four lawyers linked to the Prenda Law copyright-trolling organization were slapped with an $81,000 sanctions order, which as of today, they have missed the deadline to pay. They ... (more)

Google has updated the stable version of Chrome to version 27. On top of the usual bug and security flaw fixes, the new version is claimed to load webpages about 5 percent faster on ... (more)

Amazon plans to start selling fan-written fiction based on the works of other authors and franchise creators, according to a press release sent out on Wednesday. Kindle Worlds will ... (more)

The government will amend the Copyright Act in order to block foreign web sites that engage in "flagrant copyright violation" including many BitTorrent and FTP sites, officials said ... (more)