Hitachi to invest ¥300 billion in Internet-connected projects
Hitachi Ltd. plans to invest about ¥300 billion ($2.8 billion) over the next three years in its "Internet of things" platform as the maker of power plants, bullet trains and elevators bets the technology will drive sales. The money will be used for acquisitions, research ...
Dating site matches Americans fleeing Trump presidency with Canadians
A dating website is pledging to match Americans who can't live with a Donald Trump presidency to Canadians looking for love, facilitating the pledge often made by U.S. voters to move to Canada if the real estate billionaire is elected. "Maple Match makes it easy ...
Following cyberheist, SWIFT technicians accused of leaving Bangladesh Bank exposed to hackers
Bangladesh's central bank became more vulnerable to hackers when technicians from SWIFT, the global financial network, connected a new bank transaction system to SWIFT messaging three months before a $81 million cyberheist, Bangladeshi police and a bank official alleged. The technicians introduced the vulnerabilities when ...
Forbidden fruit: China bans 'erotic' banana-eating live streams
Bananas may be China's new forbidden fruit — at least online. As part of the government's crackdown on "inappropriate" content online, Chinese live-streaming video services have banned people from filming themselves while eating bananas "erotically," state media has reported. New regulations mean hosts of live-streaming services ...
Expert sees Japan's high level of digital rights offset by public disinclined to curb Big Brother
Japan’s restrictions on freedom of expression are growing but its sleepy public might not wake up before it’s too late, a U.N. special rapporteur warns.
Facebook loses first round in lawsuit over storing biometric data
Facebook lost the first round in a court fight against some of its users who sued the social networking company, alleging it unlawfully collected and stored users' biometric data derived from their faces in photographs. The judge presiding over the case in a California federal ...
U.S. Supreme Court approves expansion of FBI's hacking power
The Supreme Court on Thursday approved a rule change that would allow U.S. judges to issue search warrants for access to computers located in any jurisdiction when their location is unknown, despite opposition from civil liberties groups who say it will greatly expand the ...
G-7 information and communication technology envoys vow an open Internet at Takamatsu meeting
G-7 ICT ministers agreed Saturday to seek private-sector involvement in policymaking to ensure an open Internet, a move apparently aimed at countering government-led online restrictions.
ICTs, broadband key to sustainable development
To achieve global connectivity for all people and communities, governments and industry need to come together in ever more innovative public-private partnerships.
Email privacy bill involving search warrants unanimously passes U.S. House
The U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously on Wednesday to require law enforcement authorities to get a search warrant before asking technology companies to hand over old emails. The bill's prospects in the Senate remain unclear, though the 419-0 vote in the House was likely ...
FBI to gain new hacking power if Supreme Court approves search warrant rule change
U.S. judges would be able to issue search warrants giving law enforcement agents power to access computers in any jurisdiction — potentially even overseas — under a controversial rule change likely to be approved by the Supreme Court by Sunday. Magistrate judges can normally only ...
The attackers who stole $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank probably hacked into software from the SWIFT financial platform that is at the heart of the global financial system, said security researchers at British defense contractor BAE Systems. SWIFT, a cooperative owned by 3,000 ...
